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(Written by Margaret E. Browes Hubbard herself)
"I was born November 7, 1847 in the city of Norwich, Norfork, England. My father's name was James Walter Browes; he died at the age of 22, on the 7th of May, the day I was a year and six months old. He is buried in Lakenham church yard, in the suburb of Norwich. My mother, Fanny Rachel Spratt, was also born in Norwich and died at the age of 64. She is interred in Kensa? Green cemetery, London, England.
"The Spratts are a very old family coming from France in 1093. Thomas Spratt, uncle to my grandmother, was Bishop of Rochester and later Dean of Westminister; he is buried on the south side of St. Nicholas chapel.
"When I was six years old the next of kin of my fathers was advertized for. An uncle of my father's had died; he had bought the land that the city of Kingston, Jamaica, was built on. He purchased the land when it was very low in price. My grandmother, Emma Spratt, commenced to get registers, but my uncle William (mother's brother) who always disliked my father, put a stop to her doing so, so they took me to her lawyer, Mr. Ling and he promised her he would see that the case was taken care of when I was older. Pointing to a box, he said to me, "There are papers which will make you a rich girl."
"When I was 15 I was married and came to Ancaster, Canada. After about eight years I went back to Norwich. My grandmother was dead so I thought I would see Mr. Ling. He was dead, I was told, and Mayor Tillet had taken his practice. I had known him well when a child, so knew he would help me. But he had died and his son told me no one had taken his practice.
"A few years back and ad was published in a Hamilton, Ontario, Canada paper for the next of kin of James Browes. I went and saw a man by the name of Campbell who advertized to take up claims of missing heirs. I told him all I knew and shortly afterwards he left Hamilton and I never heard anything more from him."
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Recollections of Margaret Emma Hubbard
Monday evening, Oct. 25th, 1926
"My eldest daughter, Emma (Mrs. Philip Goetzman) has asked me several times to write down what I remember of my family. Although I know it will be very uninteresting, I will try and do my best.
"My mother's name was Fanny B. Spratt and when I was a child about ten, and old gentleman, a cousin of my grandmother's came and called on her, he had a book with him, I think the largest I ever saw, the pages were of parchment, and covered with writing, he asked if she knew when the Spratt's came to England, as he said he had an exact account in this book, she said she knew they were a very old family, but did not remember the date, at that he commenced to read.
"The Spratts were French refugees, coming to England in A.D. 1093. I watched him turning the pages and reading, had I been older, should have been more interested, and could have learned a great deal about the family. The next I remember is hearing my grandmother telling about her own family.
"Her father and five brothers were all millers and owned every mill on the Schotsom Stream in Norfolk, England, in those days all the flour mills were operated by water. My grandmother was the only girl, and her mother died when she was quite a young girl, she kept house for her father. When she was twenty-one, she married one, William Spratt, he was very much older than she, however, he was quite well off, having a large factory, show-room and residence on Chaple Field in the city of Norwich. Norwich is a very old city, and has a beautiful Cathedral.
"By this marriage, she had six children, William, Emma, Louisa, Andrew, Fanny and Margaret. I don't know the maiden name of Uncle William's wife. By her, he had six children, four boys and two girls.
"The oldest boy, Albert, he was a very clever boy and won the scholarship at the King Edward School in Norwich, this entitled him to go to Cambridge University also ninety-five pounds a year, here he passed third highest or third wrangler in his final exams, after a few years, he became professor of mathematics at Cambridge University.
"The next boy, William, was also a very bright young man, but became very downhearted when the girl he loved married another man. He went to India as school Master of the regiment he had enlisted in, after being in India a few months, died of fever.
"The other two boys were in business in Norwich.
"Bessie, the eldest girl never married and Emma died when she was about seven.
"Aunt Emma married a very rich man, Jon Waite. They had one son, he owned and lived at Martham Hall. Uncle Waite's hobby was raising flowers, he had a beautiful home at Catton, kept three gardens, had a very large hot-house, used to take a great number of prizes at the horticulture shows, the prizes were always pieces of silver, the value of which he gave to the head gardener. After living at Catton a number of years, he built a new home (on property that grandmother had owned) at Bramerton about eight miles from Norwich, here they lived until they died, leaving the estate to their son, John and his two daughters.
"Louisa married a Mr. Woolsey who owned and lived at Kirby Hall. Aunt Woolsey had five children, two girls and three boys, the eldest boy, Jerry was heir to the Hall and the land around it, about one-hundred acres. When Uncle died, he left the others twenty thousand pounds each, they all married except Monsey, who died when he was twenty-four. The others all died when they were quite young.
"Andrew, the youngest son of Grandma's never could get along with his brother, William, at least they quarreled and he ran away and was not heard of for years. He settled at the Cape of Good Hope.
"The next was Fanny, (my mother) and Margaret, her younger sister. My grandfather died while they were quite young. William was made executor, also their guardian. Grandfather had only been dead a short time, when William wanted the home, so Grandma and the girls took a house and the girls kept on at school. Things went on nicely until Mother was sixteen, when she was asked to a party. The party was given for a young man just home from Sea, he was very handsome, dark, tall six feet, two inches. Fanny, my mother was small, being only five feet, one inch, quite a pretty girl and very full of fun, it seems to have been a case of love at first sight for after a few weeks he had a position and they got married. Uncle William was furious and did everything to make them unhappy. After a year, I was born and Father said he would go back to Sea again for a time, leaving mother and me in the care of Grandma. He went on a long voyage and on the way home, the ship was caught in a dreadful storm. Father was on watch when he saw a little lad crying, he was only about twelve and was so frightened at the storm and was told to go up a mast to do some job, Father told him not to cry and he would do it for him, when a sail caught him and he was picked up insensible, however, he lived to get into Port, and was sent to his mother's home, where mother used to take me to see him.
"The day I was a year and a half old, the seventh of May, I was left sitting on the floor in Father's room, they thought he was unconcious and were so surprised and frightened when they returned to his room to find him holding me in his arms and showing me the full moon and telling me to think of him. Of course, I was too young to understand, but mother told me, when I was old enough to understand, that they took me from him and almost as soon as he reached the bed, died. I had almost forgotten to say that father's name was James Walter Browes, he was buried in New Lakenham Church yard and on his stone gives his age as twenty-two. His father was a Cornish man and his mother was a direct decendent of Lord George Gordon, he had two brothers, Robert and Teddy, also two sisters. The eldest married a chemist who lived in London. Pamela, the youngest sister was not married when I last saw her. Mother was a widow at eighteen, so Grandma and she took a larger house and we went to live with her and Aunt Margaret. Margaret at this time was quite a young girl, being eighteen months younger than mother. My Grandma thought so much of me, I was to her the dearest thing on earth, and I loved her just as much. She was such a dear old lady with her white lace cap, trimmed with lavender ribbon and her low neck lavender dress with white kerchief folded across her breast, she looked like an old-fashioned picture. After a while, mother and Margaret went to parties, she would then take me out of bed and sit in front of the grate and tell me stories. I think the only thing she had against me, I looked, with my dark curly hair and brown eyes like the Browes, instead of the Spratts.
"At six, a relation by the name of Spratt, kept a small private school, so Aunt Margaret and Mother thought it would be best for me to start going to school, so I did and a young girl was to bring me home, but one day she took me home with her, and her brother made me some little chairs and tables. I was so delighted that I did not notice it had got dark. When I did, I asked her to take me home, she took me in sight of the house and I ran as fast as possible, when who should I see at the gate but Mother. She was not only frightened, but mad, she took me in, administered a good whipping and sent me to bed, this ended my first school days, so Aunt Margaret went on teaching me. It was about this time that Grandma, came into my room and showed me an advertisement in a magazine called "Manns Almanac", for the next kin, she told me my father was one of the heirs and as he was dead, I should inherit the property coming to my father. Although so young, I could read well, and remember the ad so well. Grandma started getting the registers, but Uncle William made a great fuss about her spending the money. So she took me to her lawyer, Mr. King, and he told her not to worry as I was well taken care of and pointing to a box on a shelf, said he would see I got what was rightly mine when I was older. So Grandma left everything in his care.
"Then, when I was eight, Aunt Waite asked mother to bring me to Catton to visit for a few days, I remember feeling quite proud, riding in a carriage with a coachman in livery and a pair of fine horses. Uncle Waite took a great fancy to me and took me thru his hot-houses and over the beautiful grounds. I liked him very much and they would have liked me to stay, but it was decided I should go to a Ladies School on Unthanks Road kept by a Miss Howard, she took thirty-five pupils. I was a day pupil and as we lived quite near, the holidays I spent at the Waite's. It was a lonesome life for a child, as Aunt was an invalid, but Uncle and I used to have a good time of an evening. He was quite bald, but had quite a fringe of hair, one evening I did it up in curl papers, had just got it all done up, when the door bell rang, and the maid announced, Sir John Henry Gurney, he was our next neighbor. Poor Uncle, he just caught those curl papers in his hands, taking quite a little hair with them. Of course, Sir John could not help seeing some of them and I often wondered if he thought Uncle put up his hair up in curl papers as it did curl a little. However, that ended my fun for a long time, for Uncle was quite peeved.
"When I was twelve, Miss Clark who was head English teacher at Miss Howard's died. Miss Howard felt so badly that she closed her school. There were only two other first class schools in Norwich. Mrs. Sheppard's, where my cousin Fanny Woolsey went and Miss Philip's. This is where they wanted me to go but as she only took twelve pupils, I was to wait until there was a vacancy, in the mean time my Aunt Margaret had an invitation to take me with her to the Scarfs who lived at Tahdenfield Hall. So, just around Christmas time, we went, she only stayed a few days; but as they had no children, asked her to let me stay with them for a while, so I stayed, but did not like it all, I was so homesick. At last, after being there six weeks, there was a vacancy at Miss Philips so they took me home. The next day I was introduced to Miss Philips and started going to school at once. So with music, French and other studies was kept busy but my usual bad school luck kept up. One of her sisters died and another got married, so as she had never had to teach, her father being a silk merchant, she closed up her school.
"I was now almost fourteen. Then a month before I was fourteen, mother married again and moved to London. I stayed with the Waite's and also at the Woolsey's but my real home was with Grandma. Aunt Margaret had married a Mr. Paynter, so Grandma and I were alone, and they could not decide where I should go to school.
"At this time, came an invitation for me from Mrs. Taylor, my father's oldest sister who lived in London, her husband Uncle Edward as I called him, a chemist. I liked him very much and he was very kind to me, took me all over to the different theatres, Crystal Palace, etc. However, I soon found out I did not like my Aunt. She was handsome, dressed beautifully, but was so different to my own people. So mother who knew I did not like being there took me home with her, but that was so different, too. The man she had married had three boys, and I know I was jealous to think when they called her "Mother", when it seemed to me I was the only one who should call her that. But, my step-father was very nice and when the boys and I quarrled, would take my part, they were dear children and of course younger than I. And, one day I went with Mother to visit some cousins of her's that lived in another part of London, had a large carriage shop on Sloan Square. Her cousin Sarah asked me to come and spend the day with her. She took me to several places of interest, so I had a very pleasant time. I also went with mother to several places and among them, one I went to Westminister Abby, very near the door going, I think, into the Chapel is a monument to a Spratt. A relation of mother's, had I been older, I should have paid more attention and remembered what dignitary he held.
"After staying in London a few weeks, I went back home to Grandma's and it was about decided I should go to school in Utrecht at a Madam Hundas. It was my cousin Bessie's last year there so I thought it would not be so lonesome being with her.
"At this time, Aunt Margaret wrote and asked if I could go and stay with her for a few days, as her husband was going to London so I went to Windham and that visit changed my whole life.
"One evening, Arthur Hubbard called, he had been out hunting and having a little time before taking his train, called to see Aunt Margaret. I had not seen him for several weeks and of course, he did not know I was there. I had known him for years as he came to live in Unthanks Terrace when I was about ten. Mother called on his Grandmother and after that he came to the house quite often, they did not know which he was in love with, Mother or Margaret; but Mother went out with him the most, she was so jolly and I was always along, such walks as they used to take and when I got tired he would carry me on his back; which I enjoyed, of course. This was in the country where there was no fear of people seeing us. In the mean time, he had been out to America. Mother and Margaret had both got married before he went, so after he had been in America he wrote and asked me to marry him. I showed the letter to Grandma and wrote back and told him I was a great deal too young and that I did not want to hear from him again. He did not stay in America long and called at the house a few times, then we quarreled and I did not see him again until Friday evening at Windham. On Sunday, Mrs. Paynter came home and although I asked to stay thought it best I should go home. So in charge of one of his clerks, I went back to Norwich. He put me in a cab and I was soon home. When I got there, there was Miss Hardy, an old friend of Mother's, whom I had known all my life and Arthur Hubbard.
"They did a lot of talking about me going away and I knew Grandma wanted to keep me as badly as I wanted to stay. The next evening, Arthur took me to the musical festival, which was held every three years in Norwich, and then it was planned I should be married on the Thursday. I believe I was dazed and instead of writing Mother or the Waites, just sat and thought, and wondered what would happen next. You must remember, I was only fifteen, and I had always done as I had been told and had a happy, though lonesome child life.
"On the Thursday morning, grandmother brought me my breakfast and asked me if I was not going to get up; but said nothing about my being married.
"So, I got up and sat by the window where after awhile I saw cabs drive up to Heigham Church which was only a short distance from the house. It was getting near twelve when Jack Atchison, a cousin of Arthur's came for me. I went without a word and was married by the Reverend Wethrington, curator to the Reverend Hooste.
"We drove back to the house and at two was driven to the Station and took a train for Yarmouth. When we got to the hotel, I wrote a short letter to Mother signing myself, "Hubbard". When she got the letter she thought I had done it for fun, as I often had gone to Yarmouth with the Dunsfords, school mates of mine. My step-father, however, thought different and advised her to come on, which she did, but I never knew what passed between her and Grandma. However, she came to Yarmouth and I asked her to take me home with her, but she knew better than I that no school could take me. I was married and as she felt sure Arthur loved me, told me to be a good girl and not make any fuss. And, after all, I never lived with Grandma again, only for a few days when Arthur went to Paris. We boarded for a few weeks with some friends of his by the name of Warne at Pullham.
"Then we came back to Norwich to board, we were up late nights having company or going to the theatre, so he liked to stay in bed mornings so I used to take his breakfast up to him and then run over home, I had found a shortcut. I would stay with Grandma till 12, then run back so as to be in time to have lunch. This went on for some time, when he talked about going back to America. We were married in September and it was now March, so I wrote Mother and she came bringing my dear little sister, Mary.
"I left Norwich about the 16th of March, getting up early to run home, and say good-bye to Grandma. I missed her and the last I saw of her, she had Mary on her lap, looking very sad. I never saw her again.
"Mother came on the train with us for a few miles. We sailed about the 21st of March and got to Montreal about two weeks later, then took train to Hamilton. His brother lived on a farm in Ancaster and he decided he would build on his brother's farm, which he did. It was such a pretty little place and furnished beautifully. However we only lived there about a year when he bought a place in the village. It was much larger and had nice fruit and a very large garden.
"It was here my first child was born. When he was about two, Arthur thought he would like to farm, he had learned farming in England. I don't think he would have gone in for farming but thru the failing of the Great Eastern Railway had lost fifteen thousand dollars. He rented a 300 acre farm at Jerseyville. The house was old but with nice furniture (my), made it look very cosy.
"The following winter, Bert was born. I soon saw that Arthur knew nothing of practical farming. We had to hire all the work done. The first year, everything dried up and the next it rained most all the time, so he lost at least a thousand dollars but the 2nd winter he had a very bad accident, he had started from home in the morning to take a load of wheat to be ground, and coming home at dark, the horse ran away. The box of the sleigh and he went over the bridge thru the ice, the only thing that saved him from drowning his sleve froze to the ice, some men going home heard him calling and went and pulled him out and took him to a small store, Dr. Osborne and I found him. One arm was broken in two places, and three ribs. Directly, the hired man came and told me, I had him hitch up a pair of horses and drove to the Doctor's. It was seven miles from the farm to the Doctor's and another 14 miles to where dad was. It was 4 below zero and the first thing I did when we got to the store was to faint dead away. Well, the Doctor fixed dad as well as he could and got him home. The day he had the bandage taken off his arm, Bert walked for the first time and early the next morning, little Harry was born.
"I was now 21, and oh, so tired!! So, I told Dad there was no use his wasting any more money on the farm. So he agreed to give it up, so as we had no idea what we were going to do, had an auction, sold everything and boarded with his brother for two or three weeks while everything connected with the auction was settled.
"We then moved to Lakefield about ten miles from Peterboro, it was a very pretty place, with small lakes and wild country, the fishing was great so Arthur bought a boat and we used to take nice trips up the Lakes with our three little boys - rented and furnished a nice little house we had only been there a short time when the children had scarlet fever, we called Dr. Steel and he and Arthur were great friends and did a lot of fishing and boating together.
"The third summer we went to Sandy Point camping and the Dr. was to have come but some old woman was quite ill and she was poor. The Dr. stayed until she was better. It was a very hot day when he did come and much to our surprise, he came in a canoe. Arthur had always told him to keep out of one, as he could not swim. In the afternoon he wanted to go fishing, but Arthur told him it was too hot, however, he went and after a while, Arthur went to see what luck he had, when he found the canoe upset. He dove to see if he could get him but could not see anything of him. We were dreadfully frightened, took down the tent and got to Lakefield Lake at night. Arthur got men to go back with him, so they got the body and his brother took it to Toronto where he and his mother lived.
"In September, Arthur was all over his accident, so there was nothing to be done in the way of making money, made up his mind he would go back to England, so we had an auction and in September sailed, we had a beautiful trip and at the end of 12 days landed in Liverpool, went to Norwich, and stayed a short time at his grandmother's, nearly all my relations died in the eight years I had been away.
"We then went to Southhampton where in February my eldest daughter was born. We had only been there a few months when he made up his mind to go to America again. So, with the three little boys and our baby girl we left England at the end of March arrived in New York and then took a train for Chicago. It was only a few months after the big Chicago fire, Arthur thought it would be an easy matter to get something to do there, but the city was all destroyed, and those working there lived any way from twenty to forty miles away.
"So while in the depot, he got talking to a man and he advised him to go to Northville, which we did and rented a small house from a man by the name of Bronson. Dad was told he could get all the work he wanted helping farmers, but soon found out that the Western farmers hired no help.
"So seeing the money was gone, I started to teach music and had a class of ten. The parents thought their children should get first class musical education in six months. So, at the end of that time we moved to Millington. Then, dad went on a surveying expedition, this was early in the spring, did not hear from him again until July.
"He said he had been very ill but was working part-time in Fort Erie, so again sold out and with my little ones arrived one Saturday night at Fort Erie, had expected him to meet me had a very hard time getting a room as every hotel was full as the International Bridge was being built.
"We took a cottage. There my 2nd girl was born, little Edna, but she only lived six weeks and although I had a great deal of trouble, that was my first sorrow.
"The next year, a little boy was born, he had the old family name "Armiger Watts" . When he was a year and a half, we moved over to Buffalo.
"On the 3rd of September, 1877, Charles Walter was born and on January 1, 1879, Harry died, he was 8 years, 10 months, ten days and was buried by the side of Edna in St. John's Church yard.
"John Edward was born August 31, 1880. Percy C., February 6,1883; Frank B., November 28, 1885. Charles W. died July 24, 1888, 10 years, 10 months, 21 days.
"The December 14th, after Charles' death, Elsie was born and Kirk P., August 28, 1892.
"July 21, Dad died in 1920 and last May 25, 1926 dear Armiger passed away after being ill for eighteen months.
"Now dear, of course, this is not half of what I have written of my life and now although very old and alone, am happy to see all the children doing so well and they are all very kind to me, and of course, I can't expect to live a great time so hope that some day we may all meet in that Beautiful Isle of Somewhere.
February 4th, 1927
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"I will tell you all I know of your father's family.
"He was a branch of the Armiger Watts Hubbards.
"His grandfather was a Captain in the Navy and was born July 24th, 1783. He had one son, Armiger Watts Ibbot, born January 11th, 1811. He married a Miss Deacon, daughter of Dr. Deacon. They had five boys, but only three lived, Armiger Ibbot, born May 17th, 1831, George who died when about twenty, Arthur born March 20th, 1841.
"Their mother died when Arthur was three months old. So the children went to live with their grandfather, Captain Hubbard.
"The father died when Arthur was three and the grandfather when he was five. The boys went to live with their grandmother, after Dr. Deacon died she married a second time, a Mr. Shelton. After a few years, Mr. Shelton died. Then Armiger went into the Navy and told me he had sailed around the world three times.
"He married a Miss Miller and when their son was a few months old, he brought his wife and her sister, Fanny, to Canada and bought a farm at Ancaster.
"They had two more children, Nellie and Constance.
"Nellie married a Dr. Stevenson of Bradford, Canada, and Constance a Mr. Cumberland of Toronto, who died a few years later.
"His son, Armiger married and when about 38, died, September 17th, 1863.
"Your father and I were married the following March.
"He brought me to Canada where five children were born.
"We went back to England in 1871 and in February of the next year, our little girl was born in Southhampton.
"The following March came to the States, where the rest of the boys and one girl were born, so Emma is the only English one of the bunch.
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