Analysis: Death Date for Annie Frances Hewett

I had a green leaf show up on Ancestry for Annie Frances Hewett. She sort of disappears off the map after 1911, but an ancestry hint popped up with an Alberta death record. The death record shows an Annie F. Hewer dying in 1917 in Eastberg, Alberta.

So, I ordered the full record from the Provincial Archives of Alberta. While the information is close, there are a significant number of questionable items on the record:

• The surname does appear to be Hewer on the death record rather than Hewett
• Her middle name is listed as Florence rather than Frances. Her middle name is listed as Frances on her birth record [D04712].
• The contact name is listed as Harry K. Hewer. I have not come across anyone with a similar name to this point
• Her age is listed as 41 years, 11 months and 28 days. With a death date of 13 April 1917, this would work out to a date of birth of 16 February 1875, as opposed to the date of birth of 10 March 1872 on her birth registration [D04712]
• There's no sign that any of the rest of the family were in Alberta so the fact that she was found in a death record in Alberta is somewhat suspicious

With all of the above information, there are too many differences to conclude that this is the same Annie F. Hewett. So what happened to her beyond 1911 still remains a mystery.





Sources
[D04712] Ontario Archives of Ontario, MS 929, reels 1-245, MS929, Reel 24: 101, 15577, 15; digital image, Ancestry.com, "Ontario, Canada Births," (8 Oct 2018). Rec. Date: 21 Apr 2017. Cit. Date: 8 Oct 2018.

X00130: New Station/Station Road Brewery

One of my research topics is on the Ockenden side of the family: George Ockenden 1820-1900 and his son Charles J. Ockenden (1862-1925) were brewers according to census records. After a bit of research I found that the names of the breweries they ran were called Station Brewery and New Road Brewery. I still need to do some more research on the history of the breweries.

Recently, I came across this ad for New Road Brewery:



There's still more to find but I'm glad to have made this discovery.

New Year

Happy 2020!

Now that 2019 has come to a close, I am proud to say that I managed to complete my version of the 52 ancestors in 52 weeks challenge. Instead of following the given themes, however, my main objective was to try to get a new post up every week.

For the new year, I will try to do the same, but of late I haven't been all that successful in keeping up so I will see how long it goes.