Our grandmother on our father’s side had an older brother Harry Nixon who was born in 1882. His mother died when he was a young boy but his father remarried the next year. Harry became a house builder and resided in Brighton England.
Harry married Alice Mary Sumner in 1909. Together they had five children. Their eldest son John Nixon joined the RCAF during WW2 and died in Malaysia in 1945.
Harry sailed to Canada alone in 1922 though he was married with children. His sister and half sister were living in Canada at the time. The trip was probably to visit his sisters. Our grandmother often spoke of him fondly. Our father was known as Harry Young for most of his life. Our aunts thought that our grandmother renamed our father after Harry Nixon to eliminate the name of her first husband.
There are records showing that Harry was a successful house builder in Brighton. Harry died in 1966. His grave is in Preston Anglican Parrish in Brighton England.
