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« Reply #9 on: Tuesday 25 September 12 18:59 BST (UK) »
September 23, 1939, Helena Independent
George Brownlow, 48, died yesterday after a year's illness...operated Brownlow's Grocery at 48 West Sixth avenue for 10 years...Born in Empire (Montana), November 24, 1891....surviving are wife, brothers Archie and Thomas B...

So, his family was close to, living in, or passing through Empire, Montana in 1891.
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« Reply #10 on: Tuesday 25 September 12 20:07 BST (UK) »
Thank you so much Lisa for taking the trouble to look for me, it is very kind.  I was aware of a George R. Brownlow - William's brother - and today I found the graves of Thomas Patterson Brownlow and his 2nd wife Sarah.  What I really really want is evidence of Alice running a hotel, any signs !!  We can't be sure if Alice married William Brownlow in the States or if before they left England.

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« Reply #11 on: Monday 06 May 13 03:13 BST (UK) »
Hello Howesd!

I happen to live in Park County, Montana.  :D

May I suggest:
 Park County Genealogy Society
 10 MacDonald Creek Rd
 Livingston, MT 59047
 (Sorry, I can't find an email address but I know they exist. It's a small group and I know they hold a meeting once a month except June - Aug in the local Senior Center.)

 Yellowstone Gateway Museum of Park County
 118 W. Chinook St
 Livingston, MT 59047
 (This small museum hold lots of info concerning the area.)

Either should be able to help with your research since Cooke City, Gardiner, & Jardine are within the county.
They may point you in the right direction especially concerning the restaurant, mines, etc.

How about: The Livingston - Park Co. Library - http://www.livingstonpubliclibrary.org/ ?

Also - the Montana Historical Society - http://www.montanahistoricalsociety.org/ in Helena may help.

And - the World Mining Museum in Butte, MT - http://miningmuseum.org/

Miners tended to move from place to place here back then. Montana and the surrounding states had - and still have - numerous mines.

Empire, MT no longer exists as far as I know - the MT Historical Society or Yellowstone Gateway  may know where it was. Lots of ghost town here - they died when the ore mines ran out.

My family is not from MT so I do not know much about research here but if you need some help concerning the places above, or have a question, let me know and I will see what I can do. ;D

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« Reply #12 on: Wednesday 06 November 13 21:49 GMT (UK) »
Although its a while since this post was active I have been reading it with interest.  My great grandmother was Sarah Ann Gray, sister of Alice Hackin Gray.  I didn't know anything about Alice and her travels to America.  Maybe we could share information on the Gray family
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« Reply #13 on: Tuesday 19 November 13 22:50 GMT (UK) »
May be of interest ?
HETTY MACNAY  was born in 1885 in U.S.A.. She married JOHN SWIFT in Mar 1904 in Durham
Register Office, son of John Swift and Sarah Reveler. He was born in 1879 in Sherburn Hill,
Durham. He died in Dec 1936 in Durham, England.

John Swift and Hetty Macnay had the following child:MADGE SWIFT was born in Jun 1913. She married WILLIAM DAVID HUME on 18 Jun 1934 in St Luke's Church, Ushaw Moor, Durham. He was born in Mar 1907.

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Bull - Lower Tean,Checkley,Beamhurst - staffs.
Ianson - Middlesbrough,Darlington
Holmes - Spondon
Watson - Durham

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« Reply #14 on: Wednesday 20 November 13 09:10 GMT (UK) »
Thank you Graham, I knew about Hetty marrying John Swift but I didn't have daughter Madge etc. Did they have children I wonder ! 
Mold - Middleton Cheney, Northants.
Sewell - Woodford Halse/Middleton Cheney, Northants.
Anthony - Worcs/Shropshire
Howes - Thetford, Norfolk/Sheffield
Rix - Barking, Essex/Oxford
Callow - Deddington, Oxon
Baseley - Upper Boddington, Northants.
Tucker - Blackawton, Devon
Summerell - Bristol, Somerset/Gloucs.

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« Reply #15 on: Thursday 21 November 13 20:41 GMT (UK) »
Maybe there were children - I will investigate.
John Swift was my great grand uncle.
Hudson - Stramshall,Mayfield,Stanton,Ellastone,Wootton Lodge,Snelston,Northwood,Alton
Bull - Lower Tean,Checkley,Beamhurst - staffs.
Ianson - Middlesbrough,Darlington
Holmes - Spondon
Watson - Durham

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« Reply #16 on: Thursday 21 November 13 20:54 GMT (UK) »
One thing perplexes me a bit;

William Macnay died in 1882.  At some point after this Alice and William together with the daughters of Alice, Florence Macnay b1882 in England and Hetty Macnay born 1884

So William died 2 years before Hetty born ?
Hudson - Stramshall,Mayfield,Stanton,Ellastone,Wootton Lodge,Snelston,Northwood,Alton
Bull - Lower Tean,Checkley,Beamhurst - staffs.
Ianson - Middlesbrough,Darlington
Holmes - Spondon
Watson - Durham

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« Reply #17 on: Thursday 21 November 13 21:46 GMT (UK) »
Have we got proof of a death for William MacNay?  I can't find anything definite in 1882

Hetty Brownlow is on the 1901 census in Hepworth Street, living with the Swift family
RG13; Piece: 4677; Folio: 126; Page: 39 (my great grandma , Sarah Ann Maddox (nee Gray), Alice's sister is also living in Hepworth Street)
it does say Hetty was born in the USA in 1885

Florence MacNay was born in the Lanchester Registration District in the Mar Qtr 1882, so the family left for America between 1882 and 1885 .

Do we know exactly when?
They returned in 1893
William Brownlow is on the US 1880 census in Illinois, but I can't find a marriage for Alice and William Brownlow
Chris

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