Mary Anne Brindley Hewitt c. 1844-1902
This photo is from Ernest Brown Portrait Series 2. It is the same as a photo of a photo taken by Geoff Milligan, son of Jack Milligan and Hilda White Milligan. We haven’t found the accompanying photo of Benjamin Hewitt (1843-1901), shown in the set of contact prints on the right. The contact print sheet also shows Jack Milligan (1908-1977) sorry Dad, you’re upside down, Jack’s University of Alberta grad ’29 class, John Milligan 1871-1952 (Grandad Milligan) with buckets of berries, and an upside-down photo of Louisa Jane Bryer and two little boys, probably Geoff and Joe Milligan. Somewhere these originals exist.
The PAA has a binder of the Ernest Brown series by last name and very seldom, further information. The Ernest Brown studio was a huge repository and it takes time to find things.
This might be one of Mary Anne and Benjamin’s sons. It is probably not William Hewitt who died in 1893.
The picture of Mary Anne Brindley Hewitt was hanging on the wall at the home of Jean and Earl Toanne when I took the photo around 1961. – Geoff