Looking for any info. on my great grandfather & gg grandfather, both were named Thomas Brew. Both were born in Ireland, Thomas Brew II was born approx. 1842, in Dublin. He was a Sunday School teacher on Gardnier's Row, but left in 1865. He came to the USA, sometime between 1865 & 1869, and married Ella A. Earl in Chicago, IL, on Dec. 30, 1872. He owned a Feed & Grain business, but the Great Chicago Fire in 1871 burned it down. He then did carpenter work. He and Ella had five daughters: Minnie, Grace, Julia, Alice and Ethel and they moved to a farm in Yorkville, WI.

Thomas Brew I, born approx. 1807, married Ellen Marshall, born approx. 1811, in Old Leighlin, Carlow County, Ireland. They had three children: Thomas, Ellen and Judith who came to the USA with Thomas. She married a John Ward.

Please contact me if you have any info.