Robert Bruster

IMG_2822 Robert Brewster Tree modified

Robert was born in 1781.

• Birth Notes

  37 at death in 1818

He died at the age of 37 on May 27th, 1818.

• Death Notes

  Camus Graveyard:
  "In memory of Robert Bruster late of Camus, who died on 27th May 1818, aged 37 years.  His son Charles of Philadelphia erected this stone.  James Brewster Ballytaggart died 1897 aged 89, his wife Rachel 1884 aged 74.  James Brewster Drumart Ballymoney Died 1923 aged 74."
  

• General Notes

  Source: his stone in Camus Graveyard:
  "In memory of Robert Bruster late of Camus, who died on 27th May 1818, aged 37 years.  His son Charles of Philadelphia erected this stone.  James Brewster Ballytaggart died 1897 aged 89, his wife Rachel 1884 aged 74.  James Brewster Drumart Ballymoney Died 1923 aged 74."
  
  BG: As you have already suggested, Charles Gray, married to Sarah Creelman, calls his first son Joseph C Gray, Joseph for his father, C probably Creelman for his wife’s maiden name.
  William Brewster, married to Nancy Probably Creelman, probable sister of the above Sarah Creelman, calls his first son Robert C Brewster, the C probably for his wife’s maiden name.
  William is a real stickler for the naming convention.  He calls:
  His third (and then seventh) child William for himself
  His fourth child and first girl Sarah Jane for his mother (who came to Philly without her husband who was presumably deceased)
  His fifth child Anne for his wife
  How’s about:
  He calls his first child for his father – that would make his father a Robert Brewster.
  He calls his second child for his wife’s father – that would make him a James Creelman?  (See brackets below)
  And he calls his sixth child for his Philly brother…………Charles Brewster, who went to the trouble of raising a headstone back home to their father, Robert Brewster?
  In other words, David’s Robert is the same family as William Brewster.  As one of us said previously, this would explain why Charles did not mention his mother on the gravestone in Camus – because she is not buried there but in Philly, where she died in 1860.
  
  01/05/2012:
  I have now made my great great grandfather, Robert Brewster, the brother of David Brewster's great grandfather, James Brewster of Ballintaggart.  This makes him the brother of the James Brewster's brother, Charles Brewster, who emigrated to Philadelphia and then erected a gravestone to his father "Robert Brewster of Camus" in Camus Old graveyard.  This meant I had a new great great great grandfather, Robert Brewster.
  The original evidence for this was that David's father took him and his brothers to visit my Mary Brewster of Dromore.  She told them that their grandfather, James Brewster (son of James brewster) of Ballintaggart had a brother called John and we concluded that this John was probably a full cousin of my great grandmother, Annie Brewster, and her brother, also a John Brewster.  Ballintaggart and Domore are contiguous.
  Furthermore, we had also firmly linked William Brewster of Philadelphia as the brother of David Brewster's great great grandfather, James Brewster and we know that William Brewster's mother, Sarah Brewster lived with him in Pholadelphia.  This gave me a new great great great grandmother.
  This was all speculation until David Brewster located a family tree he had drawn in 1973 based on information given to him by his father in that year.  This tree was amazingly accurate in confirming details we already knew to be correct such as my great great grandmother being called Boyd.  And it also confirmed our speculation above.  It showed that the Robert Brewster buried in Camus did indeed die young (1818, changed to 1815) and his wife was a Sally Barr.  This must have been the Sarah Brewster living with her son, William in Philadelphia.
  The tree also showed that Robert Brewster had the following children: James (David's great grandfather) married twice the second time to a Rachel Kennedy, Robert (my great great grandfather) married to a ?? Boyd, William married to ?? Creelman and emigrated, John married to ?? Henry and emigrated, Rev Charles unmarried and emigrated,  Anne married James mcQuillan, Jenny married ?? Ramsey.
  On the basis of this tree confirming what we had already guessed, I have now made my great great grandfather, Robert Brewster of Dromore, the son of Robert Brewster of Camus.

Details of Robert's family with Sarah "Sallie" [1860 - Philly] Barr