The Barbour Collection shows a Mary Bowden Brooks, daughter of Lemuel/4 (Sr.) and Hannah Raymond, born at Norwalk 16 May 1790. I'd be interested in where you found another birth of the same (or very similar) name in 1818, as well as where you found Jeremiah T.'s birth. I don't have any Van Houtens in my own database. I'd be surprised to find Van Houten rendered as Bowden or Borden, both of which are old, legimitate English surnames — as is Bouton, for that matter. One of the Lizzie Borden works I've read had a pedigree for the name going back to England. Chris On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 21:19:24 -0800 (PST), Lois Jeanne Jain wrote: > Well, I finally had prints made of the photos I took of > gravestones at Pine Island Historical Cemetery in > Norwalk. While copying the information from my notes to > the back of each photo, as some inscriptions were not > clear, I came across the photo of one gravestone > belonging to a Mary B. Brooks, wife of Moses VanHouten. > At the time I visited the cemetery, for some reason, I > didn't think she was part of my Brooks ancestry, even > though her stone was fairly close to the others. However, > lo and behold, upon searching various spellings of the > VanHouten name, I found out that Eli Brooks, son of > Lemuel and Lydia Benedict of Norwalk had their first > child, a daughter, named Mary Borden? Bowden? Brooks on > April 12, 1818. Therefore, Eli Brooks had at least five > children, not four, as I previously reported back in > August. <snip> > Children of Eli Brooks (8/23/1792-12/28/1857) and Nancy > (Ellis?) Taylor ( 3/20/1783-1/6/1866): > > Mary Borden Brooks, born 1818 > Jeremiah T., born 1820 > Julia Ann, born 1824 > Alanson, born 1826 > Sarah A., born 1830

Chris, Jeremiah T.'s birth month and year (March 1820) I found on censuses. I don't recall if his birth date is on his gravestone (it was toppled and overgrown so I don't have a photo) but that is where I got his date of death. Mary B. (Brooks) VanHouten's birth year (1818) and death date (1906) are on her gravestone, I got the the April 12 from the FHL submission of Ann Neil and hope to get documentation of the exact birth date from her. Jeanne Christopher Brooks <trib@tributaries.us> wrote: The Barbour Collection shows a Mary Bowden Brooks, daughter of Lemuel/4 (Sr.) and Hannah Raymond, born at Norwalk 16 May 1790. I'd be interested in where you found another birth of the same (or very similar) name in 1818, as well as where you found Jeremiah T.'s birth. I don't have any Van Houtens in my own database. I'd be surprised to find Van Houten rendered as Bowden or Borden, both of which are old, legimitate English surnames — as is Bouton, for that matter. One of the Lizzie Borden works I've read had a pedigree for the name going back to England. Chris On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 21:19:24 -0800 (PST), Lois Jeanne Jain wrote: > Well, I finally had prints made of the photos I took of > gravestones at Pine Island Historical Cemetery in > Norwalk. While copying the information from my notes to > the back of each photo, as some inscriptions were not > clear, I came across the photo of one gravestone > belonging to a Mary B. Brooks, wife of Moses VanHouten. > At the time I visited the cemetery, for some reason, I > didn't think she was part of my Brooks ancestry, even > though her stone was fairly close to the others. However, > lo and behold, upon searching various spellings of the > VanHouten name, I found out that Eli Brooks, son of > Lemuel and Lydia Benedict of Norwalk had their first > child, a daughter, named Mary Borden? Bowden? Brooks on > April 12, 1818. Therefore, Eli Brooks had at least five > children, not four, as I previously reported back in > August. > Children of Eli Brooks (8/23/1792-12/28/1857) and Nancy > (Ellis?) Taylor ( 3/20/1783-1/6/1866): > > Mary Borden Brooks, born 1818 > Jeremiah T., born 1820 > Julia Ann, born 1824 > Alanson, born 1826 > Sarah A., born 1830 ==== BROOKS-NE Mailing List ==== To Search previous posts by keyword(s): http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=BROOKS-NE The address is case-sensitive.