I decided to go about it a little different.
I thought I would talk about the line on my family tree, that my Grandpa Edwards spent the longest or most amount of time on.
The Chown family.
By an agreed upon decision, my grandpa and his sister split up which lines in our family tree they would each work on. This way there was no stepping on toes, disagreements, etc and they each worked on their agreed upon line. One of the lines my grandpa got was the Chown line.
My great-grandmother Edwards was Irene Gladys Elizabeth Chown. She was born in Binalong, Australia on the 19th of April 1898. She died on the 28th of December 1985 in Taber, Alberta.
I remember my Great-Grandma Edwards. I was 7 when she passed away, but I remember spending time with her and I remember her funeral. It was the first funeral I ever went to. She was an amazing lady who defined selflessness.
Her parents were Samuel and Caroline Chown.
Samuels parents were Alfred and Lucy Chown. Alfred was the lucky one in my family that was convicted of larceny on the 9th of January 1846 in Dorset County, England. He was sentenced to 3 months imprisonment. His wife, Lucy Lane, and he were married a year later, February 7th, 1847 in Sixpenny Handley, Dorset, England.
They and their children went to Australia aboard the Emigrant in 1849.
I could go on and on about the Chown family and my ancestors. Lots of things to be said here. Maybe that is where the theme Longevity will play in.
Grandpa dedicated countless hours researching this line and to his credit found out a lot about the Chown family.
He told me before he died that he had made contact with someone who traced the Chowns out of France into England a few centuries ago, but we never were able to make the connection to the Chowns that I am related to, that lived in Berwick, Wiltshire.
Maybe one day we will find that connection. I sincerely hope so.
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