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- 1841-1905, 1967-1987 (Creation)
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0.07m of textual records
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Content and structure area
Scope and content
This series contains scanned documents of Joshua Brown and Sarah [Price] Brown. It mainly details Joshua Brown’s career as a policeman/police superintendent in Stockport and Manchester. Included in the files are Joshua Brown’s writings, such as his account as a policeman in “Beating the Bounds” later published by Harcourt Brown, scans of documents such as marriage certificates, family tree, census from the Archives of Ontario, and correspondence from Harcourt Brown (or HB as he is labelled on the files) about his family history/genealogy research
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Accruals
System of arrangement
The files have been arranged according to the chronological and geographical location of Joshua Brown and family (beginning in Stockport, then Manchester, New York, Manchester again then Canada). The relationship between HB’s research notes and the documents they are about is maintained by using scanned copies.
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Open.
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Note
Material in this series contains some scanned copies of documents from the Archives of Ontario. They include Harcourt Brown’s notes (HB), which were used in his genealogical research project.