John [Glenleary] Brewster

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John's father was John Brewster and his mother was <Unknown>.  He was an only child.

• General Notes

  Listed as father of Ann Brewster who married Hugh Creelman according to Kay Franklin on Brewster bulletin board who says she is using a marriage certificate from Coleraine registry office.  Confirmed in Coleraine Local Registry Office:
  5 May 1846; Hugh Creelman; Full; Bachelor; Weaver; Camus; James Creelman; Farmer; Anne Brewster; Full; Spinster; Blank; Glenleary; John Brewster; Farmer; Robert Creelman & James Brewster. 
  
  Ann gave her address as Glenleary at time of marriage.  There are NO Brewsters in Glenleary in either the 1831 census or the 1850s Griffiths Valuation and none appear in the Griffiths Valuation Revision Books. 
  
  BB: Using the Philadelphia City Directories as a guideline (and they start back in 1791) the ONLY Brewster/Bruster who is even likely to be the uncle of Charles of Iowa is Charles Brewster who appears in 1820 PCD.  Before that there are NO Brewsters except for 3 who are shipmasters (James, Henry and Samuel), various widows, and in 1816/1817 a J. E. Brewster, merchant for only 2 years.  A Jonathan Brewster appears in 1817 -1819 and then there is Charles who is there for a very long time from 1820-1850.
  So, I would say that this Charles Brewster is the uncle of young Charles and the son of John Brewster who escorted young Charles to America.  He probably came shortly before 1820.  The fact that they are all recorded in some way or another at the 1st Reformed Presbyterian Church indicates they all came from that Macosquin area of Seceders.
  We just need to hope the Iowa newspaper story is correct about Charles coming with his grandfather to live with an uncle.  I see no reason why it wouldn't be especially since there is actually a Charles B living in Philadelphia when young Charles arrives.
  The only way I can see that Charles Brewster of the gravestone is the same as the Iowa Charles is if 3 of those siblings(Anne, James and Jane) are not in fact his siblings living in Iowa but his cousins.  The ages are quite a bit later that Charles and the names are more likely to be first children names than later children names.  However,  Jane, Charles and Anne named first or second daughters Martha!! That should indicate their mother was a Martha.
  
  @@@@ 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 John's family with <Unknown>