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Robin Duncan Brittain

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Robin Duncan Brittain

Birth
Fordwich, City of Canterbury, Kent, England
Death
11 Sep 1919 (aged 43)
Revere, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Burial
Everett, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA Add to Map
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Robin was the son of Alfred Duncan Brittain and Sarah Ann (Emery) Brittain. His siblings were:
Alfred John Brittain 1867-?
Isabel Jane (Brittain) Gorell
Emma Ellen (Brittain) Taylor 1869-1939
Charlotte Frances (Brittain) Alexander 1870-1960
David George Brittain 1871-1871
Edward James Brittain 1873-ca1960
David Tate Brittain 1878-1878
Minnie Alice Brittain
Agnes Moriah (Brittain) Ireland 1881-1952
Margaret L (Brittain) Hardy 1884-1932

He married Amy Elizabeth (Holding) They had four children:
Walter Robin Brittain
Gladys Amy (Brittain) Chapman Stewart 21Feb 1906-15Jul 1984
Myrtle Beryl (Brittain) Taylor 14 Apr 1909-4 Dec 1987
Alfred Duncan Brittain

Robin came over from Ramsgate England with his mother and siblings in 1889.
Served in the Spanish American War: He enlisted as a private of C Battery of the Seventh Regiment on the 27th day of April 1898 and was honourably discharged at Santuace Puerto Rico on 4 April 1899.
Robin owned four houses which he bought at low prices and improved (with the aide of family members), in his free time. He was a printer by trade and worked on the Modern Priscilla magazine. He had special ability and was a foreman there. He also worked on the Saturday Evening Post at one time in Chicago making the colour covers for that magazine as a lithographer. Anyone in trouble found that he could to Robin for help. He became ill in 1917 and passed away two years later of pernicious anemia.
Robin was the son of Alfred Duncan Brittain and Sarah Ann (Emery) Brittain. His siblings were:
Alfred John Brittain 1867-?
Isabel Jane (Brittain) Gorell
Emma Ellen (Brittain) Taylor 1869-1939
Charlotte Frances (Brittain) Alexander 1870-1960
David George Brittain 1871-1871
Edward James Brittain 1873-ca1960
David Tate Brittain 1878-1878
Minnie Alice Brittain
Agnes Moriah (Brittain) Ireland 1881-1952
Margaret L (Brittain) Hardy 1884-1932

He married Amy Elizabeth (Holding) They had four children:
Walter Robin Brittain
Gladys Amy (Brittain) Chapman Stewart 21Feb 1906-15Jul 1984
Myrtle Beryl (Brittain) Taylor 14 Apr 1909-4 Dec 1987
Alfred Duncan Brittain

Robin came over from Ramsgate England with his mother and siblings in 1889.
Served in the Spanish American War: He enlisted as a private of C Battery of the Seventh Regiment on the 27th day of April 1898 and was honourably discharged at Santuace Puerto Rico on 4 April 1899.
Robin owned four houses which he bought at low prices and improved (with the aide of family members), in his free time. He was a printer by trade and worked on the Modern Priscilla magazine. He had special ability and was a foreman there. He also worked on the Saturday Evening Post at one time in Chicago making the colour covers for that magazine as a lithographer. Anyone in trouble found that he could to Robin for help. He became ill in 1917 and passed away two years later of pernicious anemia.

Inscription

BRITTAIN
1876 ROBIN D. 1919
HE LIVED FOR OTHERS
1878 AMY E. 1927
FAITH HOPE AND LOVE
OUR BABY
1913 ALFRED D 1914
GOD BE WITH YOU TILL WE MEET AGAIN



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