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Excellent work! Thank you all. Miriam Williams Brown was the sister of Ida Williams mother of Dorothy Hiscott who was the wife of my uncle Art Hill. She was also an aunt of Richard Hiscott as it was stated on his travel document and thanks to dbreeze1 for reading that correctly.
Art Hill was born and died in Meadowvale Village where Frank Brown was born and lived, so there is a connection for Miriam and Frank. Thank you bbart for your find on the Teacher Registration Council and the link to the Meadowvale Book.
The 1871 and 1881 census has her name as Mary butthe 1871 census was taken on April 20th when she was 6 months old. Miriam was born on September 29, 1870, 6 months before the census date. Thanks to Sandra for the census and Craclyn for the find of Miriam as a teacher.
The only question is her name..from Mary to Miriam, but I think that can easily be explained. Her address on Tranby Ave. , her marriage to a man from Meadowville and her sister Ida are overwelming evidence that this is who is buried with my aunt and uncle.
One thing that does puzzle me is why wan't she buried with her husband and in the Meadowvale Book it says that Frank had a daughter Lucinda who moved to the states.
A note on Art Hill. He was a banker by trade serving as Manager in Brampton Ontario and Windsor Ontario and maybe other places as well. He served in the First World War and fought at Vimy Ridge.
After the war he wrote a letter about his experience which I have put on his Ancestry page.
Thanks again to all of you for this great work on my behalf. I very much appreciate it and truly believe that this mystery is solved.
Rodger Smith