Originally Posted on Facebook: April 17, 2020

Our American Cousins…

Did you know that we have a few members of the family that moved down to the Detroit area after first living in Canada for a while?

The portrait is of Robert John Snowden b. 1865 in London, England who immigrated with his family to Canada when he was just 3 years old. His sister Rachel Snowden (my Great G) was born a year later in Hamilton in 1870. Robert married Katherine Cliff in 1893 in London, Ontario and moved to Detroit, Michigan by at least 1910 as they are on the US Federal Census living in Grosse Pointe, just outside of Detroit. Robert likely became interested in the US because his oldest sister, Caroline had also moved there shortly after her marriage to Richard Taylor about 10 years earlier.

I recently came across the portrait of Robert on someone else’s family tree in Ancestry and I could see the resemblance to Rachel immediately. Our American 2nd cousin - twice removed!