Monday, February 24, 2020
Cousins in Ontario related to Betty on the side of Mathew Brown, her grandfather, send condolences. Betty was a charming and interesting character.
Several of us have visited Betty over the years and exchanged Brown family history (Doreen and Jim Pate's family, Betty and Andy McRae's family and more). We admired Betty for her dogged determination to track down and sort out so many branches of her history, and for keeping up with so many of the far-flung relatives, whose acquaintance she made during her research trips.
She was particularly interested in accomplishments in business and industry of many ancestors who helped to build Canada from the 1850s to the 1950s,
Anyone tracking the Brown history could contact me, Ann McRae (eam53@yahoo.com) .
Within the past decade, Betty mistakenly shipped a quantity of non-Brown history documents to Ontario to the Pates. We do not recognize any of the names, so we assume it belongs to a different side of Betty's family tree. Contact me if your material is not found among Betty's papers, and you are curious.
Ann McRae
