In this area, records of "Monthly Meetings" were kept by the Quakers. These involved deaths, births, disowned, dismissed to another jurisdiction. The records of the Leeds group are kept at the Maine State Archives, but if you go online and google Quaker groups for your area, you will probably find a Society that can give you information. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eleanor Prieskorn" <dalell@embarqmail.com> To: <bryant@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2007 9:55 AM Subject: Re: [BRYANT] Bryant-Brown > How do I get some records? > I am trying to find William's birth mother, and if they > were Quakers and she fell sick another member would take > the child to raise (William). > Ellie > > -----Original Message----- > From: bryant-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:bryant-bounces@rootsweb.com] On > Behalf Of Marilyn Burgess > Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2007 6:32 AM > To: bryant@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [BRYANT] Bryant-Brown > > In this area, the Friends Society is called Quaker. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Eleanor Prieskorn" <dalell@embarqmail.com> > To: <Bryant-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 5:18 PM > Subject: [BRYANT] Bryant-Brown > > >> Hello List >> >> >> >> My William Henry Brown was born Nov 3 1868 in Ohio (some reports) in >> others >> it say's born in Indiana, in the 1880 census it states in that census he >> was >> 9 years old and living in the home of Catherine & Thomas Frank Bryant, >> Jay >> County. Now if the census were correct he would have been born in 1871/2 >> then in 1900 census he was going by Bryant. >> >> He married my Grandmother Edith Margaret Clawson in 1897 with the name >> Bryant. >> >> I have found no adoption or papers to state a name change. >> >> >> >> I guess if I don't connect to a Brown my family line of Bryant not Brown >> starts and ends with him. >> >> >> >> In later life he belonged to the Friends church, >> >> or maybe he belonged all along, I don't know. >> >> Anyone know another name for the Friends Church. >> >> Ellie >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> BRYANT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes > >> in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BRYANT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.485 / Virus Database: 269.13.8/993 - Release Date: 9/6/2007 > 3:18 PM > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BRYANT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >