I don't think I am related to the Crissey family, but I am a descendant of Crissey Coggeshall 1775-1837 of Stamford, CT. Crissey has a long history in Stamford, CT and there are lots of Crisseys in the Stamford records. Vital Racords of Stamford births, marriages and deaths for 1641-1906 are on LDS-FHC microfilms 899934, 1434311, 1434312, 1434313. Registration of Births, Marriages and Deaths of Stamford Families by Elijah B. Huntington is also on LDS-FHC microfilm 5592 and online at: http://www/rootsweb.com/~ctfairfi/stamford/ The Stamford Historical Society could have info on your Crissey's. Don't know if the following Mary Crissey Picket is related to your CRISSEY's: April 28, 1980 Letter from Mary Crissey Pickett, Long Ridge resident and childhood friend of Grace Bliss, to Adam Levine Dear Mr. Levine ...[Grace Lester-Bliss] has known me about 70 years, since she was presnt as domestic help for my mother at the time of my birth. Her husband delivered ice at the house on Broad Street (Stamford) at that time and my mother used to kid [Grace] about him--he was not her husband at that time-- with a song then popular which had a line, "The ice man is a nice man." I don't know just what he did after that, but they did own a small house on (I think) Scofieldtown Road. I believe that her father came to this country from England [she may be thinking of Grace's husband's grandfather; or maybe Gilbert Havens Lester and his wife Margaret Ann Dutcher who came to Stamford in 1882 with Rev. Wm. Thompson from Long Island, not from England...but anyway, here is the Thompson connection I mentioned above--A.L.] along with the father-in-law of an aunt of mine, a Rev. Thompson (Methodist minister) and acted as gardener, driver (horse drawn vehicles, etc.). Although of humble status, the family was always highly respected in the small community of Long Ridge, for they were quiet, well bred, very decent people, possessed of inate refinement. Grace was always a great reader--not so much novels, trash she eschewed, but she was always interested in the occult and metaphysical. As a matter of fact, her mmind was far more preoccupied with such matters than with household chores...." [I will be sending a copy of this long letter with the other material; but since I transcribed this much of it, thought I would send it along.. --A.L.] >James L. Baker >Paso Robles, San Luis Obispo Co, CA >(located on the Central Coast of California) >Surnames: Sherwood/Coggeshall/Palmer/Hoyt/Dunlap/ >Lester/Dutcher/Miller/Field(s)/Talmage/Bennett/Anderson/ >Filer/Smith >Hartlett/Van Borden/Bierman/Blinzig/Blasic >* * * * *To: CTFAIRFI-L-@rootsweb.com >Subject: CRISSEY > > LOOKING FOR CRISSEY'S FROM CT. THERE WAS A ABRAHAM CRISSY >LISTED IN 1810 CENSUS IN NEW CANAAN, FAIRFIELD CO. pg# 151 & JESSE >CRISSY SAME CENSUS & DATE, same pg. LOOKING FOR INFO & CHILDREN LISTED >FOR THESE MEN. > ALSO, LISTED IN 1820 CENSUS FOR CT, NEW CANAAN, FAIRFIELD CO. WAS >AGAIN ARAHAM CRISSY pg 282 & ABRAHAM CRISSY II, pg 283. SO LOOKS LIKE >FATHER & SON?? GREATLY APPRECIATE ANY HELP, GETTING DISCOURAGED AS >CAN'T FIND OUT ANYTHING ON BOTH FATHER & SON ABRAHAM CRISSY & JESSE >CRISSY. BELIEVE THEY ARE MY ANCESTORS & THEY MIGRATED TO NY & THEN IL >PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!! ppyoung@chibardun.net >Sincerely, >Patricia(Crissey)Young >------------------------------ >X-Message: #5 >Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 18:38:02 -0700 >From: Patricia Prouty-Young <ppyoung@chibardun.net> >To: CTFAIRFI-L@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <3B09C2FA.54BC4572@chibardun.net> >Subject: [CTFAIRFI] CRISSEY >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >MIME-Version: 1.0 > > LOOKING FOR CRISSEY'S FROM CT. THERE WAS A ABRAHAM CRISSY LISTED >IN 1810 CENSUS IN NEW CANAAN, FAIRFIELD CO., pg # 151, & JESSE CRISSY >SAME CENSUS & DATE, same pg. LOOKING FOR INFO & CHILDREN LISTED FOR >THESE MEN. > ALSO, LISTED IN 1820 CENSUS FOR CT, NEW CANAAN, FAIRFIELD CO. WAS >AGAIN ABRAHAM CRISSY pg# 282 & ABRAHAM CRISSY II, pg # 283. SO IT LOOKS >LIKE FATHER & SON?? JESSE CRISSY IS ALSO ON pg # 283. MOSTLY I'M >INTERESTED IN BOTH ABRAHAM'S FIRST!! > GREATLY WOULD APPRECIATE ANY HELP, GETTING DISCOURAGED AS CAN'T FIND >A LINK ON ANYTHING FOR THESE ABRAHAM'S. BELIEVE THEY ARE MY ANCESTORS, >THEY MIGRATED TO NY & IL. JESSE HAD A ESTATE SALE IN JODAVIESS CO., IL >PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!! ppyoung@chibardun.net >Sincerely, >Patricia(Crissey)Young >______________________________