Hannah Braidwood (Mann) Brace (1816 - 1888)

Born 1816 in Newfoundland

Ancestors

Wife of George Brace — married 17 Mar 1842 in Charlottetown, Queens, Prince Edward Island, Canada

Descendants

Died 1888 at about age 72 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island

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Biography

Hannah was born in 1816. She was the daughter of William Mann and Sarah Efford. She passed away in 1888.

The history of Irishtown/Burlington noted that Evangeline, a daughter of William and Sarah Mann, married a Mr. Brace of Summerside. This was actually their eldest child, Hannah Breadwood Mann, named after her father's mother, Hannah Braidwood. Hannah had left the area as a young woman, possibly to find work in Charlottetown, and the authors of the local history may have mixed up her name with that of her daughter, Sarah Evangeline; it is also possible that people interviewed for the local history remembered Hannah's son, John Albert Brace, a well-known Summerside businessman and his wife Eva.

Hannah reported that she was born in Newfoundland in 1816 on census forms and other official documents. In his response to the 1900 New York census, her son James Henry gave the intriguing response that his mother had been born at sea. This may indeed have been true: if her parents were married in Newfoundland in 1816, and William Mann's name is on a deed dated 1817, then the family could have been traveling to the Island at the time of Hannah's birth.

Her husband, George Brace, was born March 27 1809 in Quidi Vidi, Newfoundland, the son of Richard Brace and Mary Ashe, which made him Hannah's second cousin on her mother's side of the family. George came to PEI from Newfoundland in 1832, and in 1839, both Hannah Mann and George Brace were listed as members of Trinity Methodist Church in Charlottetown. They were married in that church by license on March 17, 1842. Hannah signed the form with an X, for her mark.^[1]

George and Hannah had at least 6 children: Mary Hannah Jane (1844), William Edward (1847), James Henry (1848)^[2], Richard Knight (1850),^[3] Sarah Evangeline (1852), John Albert, (1855) ^[4]and Walter Palmer (1860). By 1861, there were 11 people in the household: Hannah and George and two boys under the age of 5, 3 boys and one girl between 5-16, and one girl and one boy under 21. There was one additional woman between the ages of 21-45 - possibly a sister, a servant, or a lodger. The occupants' ages fit with those of George and Hannah's children: all professed to be Methodists. George stated that two family members were citizens of other British Provinces and the rest were natives of the Island. George gave his occupation as shoemaker. His business was listed in the 1864 Hutchinson's PEI Directory as being at the corner of Sydney and Pownell. Name transcribed as Brasa or Brase for this census. ^[5]

Daughter Mary Hannah married James McPhail on September 18, 1869; she died in Massachusetts on August 17, 1880, leaving one son, Archibald Alexander. William Edward also went to Massachusetts. He was a shoe-maker and later a policeman. He died on February 3, 1923. James Henry married Annie McLean in Charlottetown. They emigrated to the United States, where James died on June 13, 1930 in New York. Richard married Olivia Schuman. They separated, and Richard died on Prince Edward Island in 1925.^[6] He had been predeceased by one son in infancy, and two daughters, Bertha and Daisy, were drowned in Sarnia Ontario in 1909. His surviving son Nelson Talmage Brace was a veteran of the Boer War. ^[7] Sarah Evangeline, Eva, died in 1875. John Albert Brace moved to Summerside PEI, where he worked in a store, later founding Brace & McKay, a department store.

In the 1881 Canadian census, George and Hannah were still living in Charlottetown with their youngest son Walter and several lodgers. ^[8]

Hannah made trips to Boston with her grandchildren in the fall of 1884 and 1885, traveling with them back to Massachusetts. ^[9]

George was listed in the 1887/88 Charlottetown directory as living at 54 Sydney, the same address as his son Richard K. Brace.

George Brace died in Charlottetown in 1887. His will stated: "shoemaker of Charlottetown now past 99 years of age. Wife Hannah gets property. Son Richard to be a tenant until mother and father are both dead. Property to be divided in 5 equal parts among sons William Edward, James Henry, Richard Knight, John Albert, and the 5th to be divided between Walter Palmer and grandson Ambrose (or Archie), the only son of daughter Mary Anna. Witnessed by Robert G. Nelson & Samuel A. Nelson. / wills Libre 11/ Folio 470. ^{[10] [11]}

Neither George Brace nor Hannah were listed in the PEI cemetery transcriptions provided by the PEI Genealogical Society, but the Brace family gravestone in Sherwood Cemetery gave Hannah's date of death as 1888.^[12]

Sources

1. ↑ "Prince Edward Island Marriage Registers, 1832-1888," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVBJ-KNMG : 11 March 2015), George Brace and Hannah Mann, 17 Mar 1842; citing , Prince Edward Island, Canada, Public Archives, Charlottetown; FHL microfilm 1,630,091.
2. ↑ "Prince Edward Island Baptism Card Index, 1721-1885," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KCXZ-69F : 12 December 2014), George Brace in entry for James Henry Brace, 18 Jul 1848; citing p. 53, volume 2, , Prince Edward Island, Public Archives, Charlottetown; FHL microfilm 1,487,751.
3. ↑ "Prince Edward Island Baptism Card Index, 1721-1885," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KCXZ-6SM : 12 December 2014), Geo Brace in entry for Richd Knight Brace, 16 Feb 1851; citing p. 63, volume 2, , Prince Edward Island, Public Archives, Charlottetown; FHL microfilm 1,487,751.
4. ↑ Prince Edward Island Baptism Card Index, 1721-1885
5. ↑ Prince Edward Island Census, 1861," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MQWX-B2V : 8 November 2014), George Brasa, Queens, Prince Edward Island, Canada; citing p. ; Library and Archives Canada film number M-898-899, Public Archives, Ottawa; FHL microfilm 899,942.
6. ↑ PEI PARO RG19/s2/ss6: Death registration books, 1925
7. ↑ Charlottetown Guardian April 16 1925, page 3
8. ↑ "Canada Census, 1881," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MVNW-V9Z : 30 June 2017), George Brace, Charlottetown Royalty, Queens, Prince Edward Island, Canada; citing p. 88; Library and Archives Canada film number C-13163, Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; FHL microfilm 1,375,799.
9. ↑ Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Passenger and Crew Lists, 1820-1963 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2006.
10. ↑ Transcription of George's will from the Island Register - the age 99 is possibly a mistake
11. ↑ "Prince Edward Island Death Card Index, 1721-1905," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK6V-JG9W : 21 September 2015), George Brace, 1887; citing 1887, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, Division of Vital Statistics. Public Archives, Charlottetown; FHL microfilm 1,487,741.
12. ↑ Find A Grave Memorial# 150356123

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