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Record #14658

Name :: : Mary Scott PEARSON (1877 - 1945)
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Date of Birth: : Nov 1877
Marriage (1): :
Marriage (2): :
Date of Death: : 1945

Abode (1) : Place of BirthScotland, Lanark, Glasgow

84 Kelvin Laugh Road

Abode (2) : Place of Death / BurialCanada

Sailing Information

Date of Arrival: : 28 Sep 1891
Country: : Canada
Ship: : Hibernian
Placement Family: :

Homes / Agencys

Institution (GB): :
Agency: : Labourers & Domestics

NotesA birth registration was found for Mary Scott Pearson: Date: November 9, 1877, 9:15 am; Place: 84 Kelvin Laugh Road, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland; Parents: David Pearson, drapery packer, and Mary Scott, married January 28, 1876, Kelvin District, Glasgow, Scotland.

A death registration was found for David Pearson, warehouse porter, married to Mary Scott: Date: october 18, 1879, 2:30 pm; Place: 66 Kelvinbaugh Road, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland; Parents: Andrew Pearson, seaman (merchant services) and Margaret Cameron; Cause: valvular disease of heart, 9 months.

A death registration was found for Mary Mackenzie Thomson, married first to David Pearson, grocer; second to David Thomason, booksellers assistant: Date: May 6, 1884, 1:30 am; Place: 22 Hopehill Road, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland; Parents: Adam Scott, grocer; and Mary McKenzie; Cause: phthisis pulmonalis, duration 1 year, 6 months.

In 1891, Mary Pearson, 14, arrived at Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, in a group of 21 female domestics en route to Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada.

By 1895, Mary Scott Pearson was employed at the home of a Prescott brewer, where she received a small, plain Christmas card, still in the possession of Jim Brownell, her grandson.

The Toronto Sun told the story of Mary Pearson and her sister, Maggie. Mary was the grandmother of MPP Jim Brownell (Stormont-Dundas-South Glengarry), who was successful in 2011 in securing September 28th as British Home Child Day in Ontario.

"Jim Brownell (Stormont-Dundas-South Glengarry) is the grandson of a home child.

He?s tried twice to get a private member?s bill passed that would designate Sept. 28 as British Home Child Day at the Legislature.

Curtis Brownell, 62, died on October 19, 1931, at Hotel Dieu Hospital, Cornwall, Ontario, Canada, of acute septic prostratitus. Informant was his wife, Mary Brownell, who resided at Moulinette, Ontario, Canada. He was buried in Moulinette, Ontario, Canada.

Finally, after two failed attempts, last week he managed to get the bill past Third Reading with the help of New Democrat Cheri DiNovo and Tory Steve Clark.

13 years old

His grandmother, Mary Scott Pearson, came to Canada alone in 1891 when she was just 13 years old. Her sister, Maggie, arrived in 1894.

?Her father had died. Her mother remarried and then her mother died. So they were in a family of stepparents who didn?t really want them,? Brownell explained in an interview.

The sisters were originally placed in an industrial school in Scotland, where they were separated, before being sent to Canada.

Mary was sent to the Fairknowe Home in Brockville, that served as a placement centre for many home children.

His grandmother worked as a domestic servant for a Presbyterian minister in Prescott before moving to St. John?s Presbyterian Church in Cornwall to work.

Brownell?s most treasured possession is a letter of reference she was given by the minister in Prescott and a small Bible he believes speaks to the strength of her faith.

In Cornwall she met and married Brownell?s grandfather ? and the rest, as they say, is history."

Mary left Prescott in 1901, moving to Summerstown where she worked on the Chafee family farm and became part of the Salem Church congregation. A short while later she was employed at a St. John Presbyterian minister's home in Cornwall, where she met Curtis Brownell.

On March 21, 1906, at The Manse, Cornwall, Stormont, Ontario, Canada, a marriage was registered between Mary Scott Pearson, 28, domestic, born in Glasgow, Scotland, to David Pearson and Mary Scott; and Curtis Brownell, 37, railroad foreman, born in Owabruck Township, Stormont, Ontario, Canada, to Curtis John Brownell and Margaret Ellen Hollister.

ContributorsCreated : 2011-05-29 11:28:04 / From original database

Last Updated : 2011-05-29 12:26:14 /

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Surnames starting with: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 30 Entries

ID	Name	DOB	Place of birth	Arrivals & Ships	Dest.	Agency	Family links
11642	PEARSON, Alfred	1887	ENG,	May 1902 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
4191	PEARSON, Alice	1905	ENG, SRY, Bletchingley	Aug 1912 : Corsican	CAN	MacPherson Homes
4192	PEARSON, Annie	1905	ENG, SRY, Bletchingley	Aug 1912 : Corsican	CAN	MacPherson Homes
26543	PEARSON, Charles D	1888	ENG,	Mar 1906 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
23873	PEARSON, Charlotte Sarah	1900	ENG,	Aug 1912 : Corsican	CAN	MacPherson Homes
11668	PEARSON, Daisy	1894	ENG,	May 1902 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
5939	PEARSON, Edith	1894	ENG,	Oct 1903 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
15873	PEARSON, Edward	1897	ENG,	Sep 1911 : Tunisian	CAN	MacPherson Homes
4189	PEARSON, Elizabeth	1901	ENG, SRY, Bletchingley	Aug 1912 : Corsican	CAN	MacPherson Homes
8897	PEARSON, Emily	1901	ENG, SRY, Bletchingley	Aug 1912 : Corsican	CAN	MacPherson Homes
18664	PEARSON, Henry J	1884	ENG,	Apr 1895 : Sardinian	CAN	Liverpool Sheltering Home
6295	PEARSON, James	1897	ENG,	Jun 1909 : Tunisian	CAN	MacPherson Homes
13564	PEARSON, James	1873	ENG, MDX, Stepney	Jul 1887 : Sarmatian	CAN	Canadian Catholic Emigration Committee
23476	PEARSON, James	1899	ENG, LAN, Liverpool	Jun 1914 : Alsatian	CAN	Louisa Birt
25743	PEARSON, James	1899	ENG,	May 1909 : Corsican	CAN	Louisa Birt
10799	PEARSON, Jessie	1870	ENG,	Sep 1880 : Moravian	CAN	Maria Rye
25662	PEARSON, John	1898	ENG,	May 1909 : Corsican	CAN	Catholic Emigration Society
11745	PEARSON, Mabel	1892	ENG,	May 1902 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
14659	PEARSON, Margaret Scott	1879	ENG, , Glasgow	Jun 1894 : Pomeranian	CAN	Quarriers
14658	PEARSON, Mary Scott	1877	SCT, LKS, Glasgow	Sep 1891 : Hibernian	CAN	Labourers & Domestics
19199	PEARSON, May	1902	ENG,	Sep 1912 : Victorian	CAN	MacPherson Homes
11758	PEARSON, Mildred	1896	ENG,	May 1902 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
6116	PEARSON, Phyllis	1898	ENG,	Aug 1909 : Tunisian	CAN	MacPherson Homes
23477	PEARSON, Sarah Ellen	1901	ENG, LAN, Liverpool	Jun 1914 : Alsatian	CAN	Louisa Birt
4190	PEARSON, Walter	1903	ENG, SRY, Bletchingley	Aug 1912 : Corsican	CAN	MacPherson Homes
21120	PEARSON, William	1890	ENG,	Apr 1898 : Labrador	CAN	Barnardos
25661	PEARSON, William	1899	ENG,	May 1909 : Corsican	CAN	Catholic Emigration Society
25754	PEARSON, William	1897	ENG,	May 1909 : Corsican	CAN	Louisa Birt
15655	PEARSON, William Earnest	1912	ENG,	Sep 1923 : Minnedosa	CAN	Barnardos
26542	PEARSON, William J	1887	ENG,	Mar 1906 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
ID	Name	DOB	Place of birth	Arrivals & Ships	Dest.	Agency	Family links

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