Information About Loyalists In Florida

Card Descriptions of items in the University Of Florida [Micro]Film:

Date Reel # July 18, 1785 89   79 49

Vizente Manuel de Zespedes to Thomas Brown

2p. Embarkation of Loyalists.

Another Link About Embarkation here

Date Reel # March 3, 1785 16 doc 49-doc-pages 136 7 St. Augustine)
Col. Thomas Brown to Conde de Galvez (translated copy)
Request permission to visit Havana and meet Galvez prior to Brown's return to England.

Date Reel # July 10, 1785 89 6 49
Thomas Brown to Manuel Zespedes
4p. His arrival at St. Mary's; expression of friendship.


Date Reel # August 3, 1787 8 - 2 Florida
Vicente Manuel de Zespedes to Josef Espeleta (draft)
Memo enclosing letter and passport issued by Diego de Gardoqui and passport issued by Governor of Trinidad for one Thomas Brown, Englishman, to go to Cuba.

Another card including Thomas Brown: Thomas Brown, Hillsborough Inlet; Carlos Brown

In The 1934 Directory

Some surnames of interest in Genesee County, Michigan:

1934 Flint City Directory

Allen, Wm R (Mae A) rail opr  Eastern Mich  Rys  r 1701 E. Hamilton

Boismier, Lawrence W.  auto wkr  r 801 E. Paterson

Brown, Matthew, autowkr  r 918 E. Kurtz

Cameron, Anna (wid Donald) h 903 Warren

Pearce, E. May  r 1248 Poplar

Logan, Alonzo (Pearl) autowkr  h 910 Ann Arbor

Morgan, Mrs. Blanche  h 713 E. Stewart Ave.
Morgan, Wm A. (Marie) autowker  h 1110 Huron

Kuhnle, Albert
Kuhnle, Louis (Mary I)
Kuhnle, Wm  r 4417 Thetford Rd

Powers, Marion G. (Marian J) autowkr  h 1530 Colorado
Powers, Ralph (Beatrice) bodywkr  r 1661 Beach
Powers, William S. (Addie M) carp  h 1530 Colorado

Rose, Bert (Cornelia) lab  h 1500 Fenton Rd

Myers, Georgianna, student, r 1500 Fenton Rd.

Simonson, Leonard (Gertrude) h 1701 N. Stevenson

Mainprize, Clara  r 625 McKeighan Av
Mainprize, Robert (Martha) lab 625 McKeighan
Wodtke, Fred J (Myrtle E) autowkr  h 619 Copeman Blvd

Obituary of Florence B. (Brown) Pascoe Wirkus

Florence was Edward Brown's sister and Edward Brown was my Great-Aunt June's first husband. She died on 30 Oct 1974.  The obituary was published in the Flint [MI] Journal.

WIRKUS, Florence B.  --  11853 Curwood Dr., Grand Blanc, age 75, died Wednesday, October 30, 1974.  Funeral services will be held at 3 PM Saturday at Brown Funeral Home, Dr. DAvid E. Molyneaux officiating.  Burial in Sunset Hills Cemetery.  Mrs. Wirkus will lie in state at the Brown Funeral Home, 1616 Davison Rd.  Visitation 8 AM to 10 PM.  Friends desiring may take contributions to the Genesee County Crippled Children's and Adult's Society, 1420 W. Third Ave., Flint.  Mrs. Wirkus was born in Hubbel, Michigan, June 3, 1899, the daughter of Matthew and Hannah Brown, and she had been a resident of Flint and Genesee County for 40 years.  She attended the First Presbyterian Church, was a former member of the Flint Golf Club, attended the University of Eastern Michigan, did Post Graduate Studies at University of Michigan, was a member of the American Association of University Women, the University of Michigan Alumni Association, the McLaren General Hospital Auxiliary, and she taught in the Flint School System for 35 years retiring in 1963.  Surviving are: Husband, S. Howard Wirkus of Grand Blanc; son, Dr. John J. Pascoe; daughter-in-law, Mary Helen; 4 grandchildren, Donald J. Pascoe of Elkhart, Indiana, Laura Ann and William H. Pascoe both of Ann Arbor and Amy F. of Albion; nieces and nephews.

Edward J. Brown Obituary

BROWN--Edward J. Brown, 2625 Thomas St., age 59, died Tuesday, July 19, 1949, at University Hospital, Ann Arbor.  Funeral services will be held at 9 a.m., Friday, July 22, 1949, from St. Michael Church, Rev. Fr. Maurice Chawke officiating.  Burial in New Calvary Cemetery.  Body will be at the Algoe-Grundy Mortuary.  Interment services under the auspices of American Legion Red Arrow Post 151.  Rosary will be said at 7:30 p.m. Thursday.  He was born in Central, Mich., son of Matthew and Hannah Brown.  Resident of Flint 35 years.  Member of St. Michael Church and Holy Name Society, American Legion Post Red Arrow 151.  Employed at Buick Motor Co. for 30 years, No. 12.  Surviving are: Daughter, Mrs. Marjorie Callahan; son, Robert Brown, both of Flint; 2 granddaughters; sister, Mrs. Florence B. Pascoe; 1 nephew.

Edward J. Brown was my great-aunt's (June Cynthia Powers') first husband; the two children were my Dad's cousins.