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Re: George J Brown - possible US Immigrant?
« Reply #9 on: Monday 30 July 18 18:56 BST (UK) »
Brilliant.  Thanks for the help.  I knew he had returned to the UK in 1907 but not who he was seeing nor did I know that Peter McNamara lived in Cloone in Ireland.

I am surprised that he is recorded as widowed on the marriage record as I have no record of a first wife.

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Re: George J Brown - possible US Immigrant?
« Reply #10 on: Monday 30 July 18 21:51 BST (UK) »
I have found no record of him on a ship. I presumed  that he was a household  butler as his passport application stated he was resident in the US except for 2 trips to uk in 1900 and 1907.

Finally found George's 1900 trip.

It appears his brother Osborne was with him on that trip.

They are on lines 21 & 22, Images 801 & 801. Their distination is NY and ??? Home

Geo M: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JX81-36D

Osborne: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JX81-366

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Re: George J Brown - possible US Immigrant?
« Reply #11 on: Tuesday 31 July 18 07:48 BST (UK) »
Osborne is recorded in Haverfordwest workhourse in 1895 where he took part in a race at an athletics event

http://newspapers.library.wales/view/4332827/4332833/68/

I can only assume that as his mother was dead and father had a history of being arrested for drunkeness the workhouse was his only option until his eldest brother came back for him in 1900.

I am no closer to finding George Brown senior but I am beginning to wonder whether he never left Wales and died before 1911.