> THE MYSTERY PEOPLE are Lucy Brooks, age 21, and Blair > Brooks, age 4. Both are identified as born in Georgia. Regarding THE MYSTERY PEOPLE Lucy Brooks, age 21, and Blair Brooks, age 4 born in Georgia. Could that be Georgia, VT rather than Georgia the state? I don't show a Blair or Lucy of that age. However, there were a lot of Brooks in Georgia, VT at that time. I don't have all their names. Just a thought. Wayne Brooks

Wayne Brooks wrote: >> THE MYSTERY PEOPLE are Lucy Brooks, age 21, and Blair >> Brooks, age 4. Both are identified as born in Georgia. >> > Regarding THE MYSTERY PEOPLE Lucy Brooks, age 21, and > Blair Brooks, age 4 born in Georgia. Could that be > Georgia, VT rather than Georgia the state? I don't show > a Blair or Lucy of that age. However, there were a lot > of Brooks in Georgia, VT at that time. I don't have all > their names. Just a thought. It's an interesting one. Despite the fact these are different lines -- Catherine descends from Capt. Thomas Brooks, while the Georgia, VT families descend via Adonijah Brooks of St. Albans from Henry Brooks of Woburn -- far stranger things have happened. Wayne has previously sent me a three-quarter-inch thick genealogy of the Georgia, VT families. I'm sorry to say that its data entry is still in the To Do stage, and the actual document hasn't yet resurfaced since I moved a year ago, so I can't consult it for a related Lucy and Blair. Chris

Thanks, Wayne, for this suggestion and also for your response, Chris. An earlier message from Dave, called attention to the presence of Lucy and Blair Brooks in Manhattan, NY in the 1880 Census. Blair is now age 14, as we would expect, but now reportedly born in New York and parents both born in Washington DC. During the same ten year interval between 1870 and 1880 censuses, Lucy has advanced only five years -- from age 21 to age 26; she now reports that she and her parents were born in Washington DC. Georgia, whether State or village, is not mentioned. In 1880, they are living, again, in a large diffuse household, made up of people born in France, Mexico, Cuba, Spain, and Ireland. Some sort of residential hotel or boarding house perhaps; there are several adults with identified professions but also a number of young people who don't have families with them. I am, for now at least, filing Lucy and Blair my mystery folder -- but open to ideas! ----- Original Message ----- From: <WayneAlvis@aol.com> To: <BROOKS-NE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 6:50 AM Subject: Re: [BNE] Lucy Brooks with Catharine Brooks Yale >> THE MYSTERY PEOPLE are Lucy Brooks, age 21, and Blair >> Brooks, age 4. Both are identified as born in Georgia. > > Regarding THE MYSTERY PEOPLE Lucy Brooks, age 21, and Blair > Brooks, age 4 born in Georgia. Could that be Georgia, VT rather > than Georgia the state? I don't show a Blair or Lucy of that > age. However, there were a lot of Brooks in Georgia, VT at that > time. I don't have all their names. Just a thought. > > Wayne Brooks > > > ==== BROOKS-NE Mailing List ==== > Changing email addresses? Preparing ahead of > time can save both you and your listowner a > headache. Write brooks-ne-admin@rootsweb.com. > >