Anne [Glenleary] Brewster

Ann Brewster Creelman gravestone Iowa

Anne was born in 1825.  Anne's father was John [Glenleary] Brewster and her mother was <Unknown>.  Her paternal grandparents were John Brewster and <Unknown>. She had three brothers and a sister, named Mary, Charles, James ?Campbell? and Jane.  She was the third oldest of the five children.  She died at the age of 29 on April 20th, 1854.

• Death Notes

  From her gravestone in Fort Madison, Iowa: Ann Brewster. Wife of. Creelman. Died. Apr 20 1854. In the 29th yr.
  Of her age

• General Notes

  Married on 05/05/1846, in Ballylagin meeting house in Macosquin. 
  
  Moved to PA then Iowa. details from Brewster bulletin board at www.genforum.genealogy.com - listed by an Ann Franklin.  She says she is using a marriage cert from Coleraine registry office. Confirmation of details Coleraine Local Record Office she was from Glenleary,  daughter of John Browster, witnessed by a James Brewster.
  
  On board the OSCEOLA from Glasgow to NYC, April 16,
  1847, these names are together:
  James Bruster, 50, farmer
  Mary Bruster, 48
  Jane Bruster, 20
  Hugh Creelman,16
  Ann Creelman, 14
  M.J. Creelman, 6 mos
  This simply HAS to be this Hugh Creelman and his wife Anne Brewster as the 6 month old child, M J Brewster, has to be Martha Jane, their daughter.  Why they should be listed as aged only 16 and 14 is a total mystery.  As are the Brewsters with whom they were travelling.
  
  BB says (030707), "BOTH William Creelman AND Hugh Creelman are living in the same area in Philly as Charles Gray. AND Hugh Creelman has living with him a Mary Brewster- age 30.  This is the 1850 Census now - I went back to it. So Mary must be Ann's sister and she is living with them but later moves in with Charles Brewster, her
  brother, in Iowa....at some point."
  
  BB says (030707), "Hugh Creelman's wife, Ann Brewster, apparently did die in 1854 as Kay says.  He then moved from Philadelphia to Lee, Madison, Iowa with 2 daughters and Mary Brewster, his sister in law.  He marries a widow, Jane Mitchell who apparently had a son John.  Mary Brewster moves in with brother Charles Brewster."
  
  From Kay Franklin's website:
  BirthBetween 1823 and 1825
  Glenleary, Londonderry, Ireland
  Stone7th & Ave F old cemetery see photo
  DeathApr 20 1854
  Fort Madison, Lee
  County, Iowa
  BurialApr 1854
  Currently in an alley of Fort Madison, Lee county, Iowa
  
  BG says (040707), "There has to be some connection between the Grays of Coole Glebe perhaps (cause that is where Jo and Sue were from according to their daughter' Anne's marriage entry), the Brewsters of Glenleary, (cause that's where Ann was from according to her marriage record) and the Creelmans of Camus (cause that is where Hugh's marriage record says he was from).  This could be a familial connection.  Or it might simply be the fact that first, they were all from the same wee area in Co Derry and emigrated together and second, they were all Seceders.  I do not know for defo if they were all Seceders but Anne and Hugh were married in Ballylaggin, which is just south of Camus, Glenleary and Coole Glebe and is a Seceder church and my own Brewsters were Seceders and the graveyard at Dromore Seceder church is heaving with Creelmans.  It is also worth noting that I think the original home of my Grays is Camus, cause that is where the most Grays live."
  
  1860 United States Federal Censusabout Jane Creelman
  Name:    Jane Creelman
  Age in 1860:    25
  Birth Year:    abt 1835
  Birthplace:    Ohio
  Home in 1860:    Washington, Lee, Iowa
  Gender:    Female
  Post Office:    Fort Madison
  Value of real estate:    View image Household Members:    Name    Age
  Hugh Creelman
  36
  Jane Creelman
  25
  Martha J Creelman
  13
  Eliza Creelman
  11
  
  @@@@ Jane Brewster July 3, 1849; she was also a native of County Derry, Ireland; lost her parents when young, and, with a brother and two sisters, came to America in 1846; @@@@ Source:  History of Lee County, Iowa
  
  
  

Details of Anne's family with Hugh Creelman