Pretty slow in responding here, but it's the thought that counts (I hope). This is an unusual household to be sure. There's nothing off topic about your query, since these are Yankee Brookses, but I can't place any Lucy or Blair (a given name I haven't heretofore encountered) in Georgia. The Yale lock seems to have done wonders for them financially, as the personal estates are substantial and well distributed. I've never seen Quackenbos, only Quackenbush, which I first thought was a humorous invention until I learned that it's a real, in-use surname. Other than that, as Sgt. Schultz used to say on TV, "I know nothing, nothing." Could Quackenbos be a Dutch form of the name? Sorry I can't offer more. Chris |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Christopher Brooks BROOKS Families of New England http://www.tributaries.org |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Elaine Sunde wrote: > On the 1870 census in Orangetown, Rockland County, NY > there is a curious household comprised of 14 persons. > The household head is identified as John Quackenbos with > his 6-person family. No occupation and no property are > identified for John (although, curiously, his wife Roxana > holds $2000 in personal property). > > But also in the household is Catharine Brooks Yale > (daughter of Dr. John Brooks of Bernardston in the Thomas > line and widow of inventor Linus Yale, Jr). She is > credited in the census with extensive property. Also in > the home are Catharine's son John Brooks Yale and the > family of her daughter Madeline Yale Winn (later the > founder of the Deerfield arts & crafts movement). > > THE MYSTERY PEOPLE are Lucy Brooks, age 21, and Blair > Brooks, age 4. Both are identified as born in Georgia. > Lucy is credited with property but no relationships are > indicated. I realize that I'm talking to the New England > group here but these Georgia Brooks people appear to have > some relationship with the Massachusetts Brooks line. > ANYONE??? > > PS. I'm curious about the Quackenbos family too. That's > an even bigger stretch but in the off-chance that someone > knows something...