I am seeking contact with descendants of Richard J. FRYER, who in 1887, married Maud A. JONES in Newtown, Sydney. Maud was born in 1870 on the Macleay River, to Joseph Michael Jones and Christine Robina Fraser (nee Allders). Richard & Maud's known children are: Arthur R. Fryer, born 1888 in Lithgow; Harold R. Fryer, born 1889 in Katoomba; Thomas E. Fryer, born 1891 in Lithgow; Herbert A. Fryer, born 1893 in Katoomba; Ernest F. Fryer, born 1896 in Katoomba; Eileen Marguerite Fryer, born 1898 in Katoomba; married in 1936 to John Thomas BOYLE in Katoomba. Maud Jones was the granddaughter of Joseph Jones (1801-1870), a convict from London, sent to Port Jackson in 1818 on the ship "Hadlow (1)". A JONES family history has just been published and I am interested in making contact with descendants of this FRYER family. Margaret - margaret@cremorne1.com Sydney, Australia

Am interested in confirming that John FRYER b. 2JAN1806 at Shelton, Norfolk, England and who died 2JAN1864 at Holbeck, Yorkshire, England was the son of William Fryer and Elizabeth READ. Family records give the above, and John FRYER appears in the 1851 census at St. Jude, Hunslet, Yorkshire with birthplace as Shelton. But thorough search of Shelton parish registers, BTs and ADTs does not locate John there. Have also searched extensively through many nearby parishes without success. Family records also say John had sisters Elizabeth and Jemima but have not found their baptisms. If we could find baptisms for any of these children we could determine if William and Elizabeth are the parents. Have marriage record for William FRYER to Elizabeth READ 14FEB1801 at Shelton, he a widower and she a widow and both "of this parish". John FRYER married Sarah Martha WIGGER (b 1801 St. Augustine, Norwich) 11AUG1833 at Lakenham St. John, Norwich, Norfolk and I have located their marriage record. They had children: Elizabeth 1834-1896, Jane 1835-1926, Emily 1837-1847, and Walter 1839-1844, all born at Norwich. The parents appear with all four children in the 1841 census of St. Augustine, Norwich, Norfolk. But the 1851 census at St. Jude, Hunslet, Yorkshire only lists parents with Elizabeth and Jane--Emily and Walter had died previously. I am descended from daughter Emily who emigrated to America and settled in Utah. Would appreciate any help. Thanks. Phil Snelgrove snelgrove@pxi.net

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Fryer, Harmon, Gruwell, Welshans Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/gUX.2ACEB/283 Message Board Post: Fred A Fryer - Sat. July 17, 2004, beloved husband of the late Elsie G.Fryer, dear father of James Ross Harmon, Yolanda Sue Gruwell, and Ginger Rae Welshans, our dear father-in-law, grandfather, greatgrandfather, uncle, and dear brother of Alice Schatz, Funeral Service 10:00 a.m. Tues. July 20, 2004 at the HUTCHENS MORTUARY, 675 Graham Rd, Florissant. Interment with full military honors at Sacred Heart Cemetery. VISITATION 3 - 9 P.M. Mon. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ son of John Edward Fryer & Euna Anderson Fryer

In a message dated 7/3/2004 3:43:21 PM Mountain Daylight Time, begbert1@juo.com writes: This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/gUX.2ACEB/261.1 Message Board Post: My grandfaher was Jocob Fryer his father was Henry Fryer born 12/Mar/1831 his grandfather was Charles Fryer born ?? his grandmother was Elizabeth Faust born ?? this is as far back as i have been able to trace. Can you connect me any further back ? Thank you ==== FRYER Mailing List ==== To unsubscribe from the FRYER list, send the command "unsubscribe" to FRYER-L-request@rootsweb.com (if in mail mode) or FRYER-D-request@rootsweb.com (if in digest mode.) ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 Sorry it took so long to reply, we moved and were without internet for a while. Unfortunatly I cannot connect your Fryers to ours at this time. Chris

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/gUX.2ACEB/261.1 Message Board Post: My grandfaher was Jocob Fryer his father was Henry Fryer born 12/Mar/1831 his grandfather was Charles Fryer born ?? his grandmother was Elizabeth Faust born ?? this is as far back as i have been able to trace. Can you connect me any further back ? Thank you

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Fryer, Saylor Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/gUX.2ACEB/282 Message Board Post: [Note: I am not researching any of these families. Just posting this obit because it was on the same page as an obit I tracked down for an RAOGK request.] The Allentown Morning Call Allentown, PA Tuesday, November 15 1921 Page 7 Sarah (nee Saylor), widow of the late Jessiah S. Fryer, formerly of Englesville, died at the home of her son-in-law, Charles S. Binder, 818 East Philadelphia Ave., Pottstown, Sunday, of gangrene of the left foot. She was aged 64 years, 7 months and 23 days. There survive the following children: Mrs. Florida Reidenauer, of Pottstown; Alice, wife of Claude Dotterer, of Shanesville; Amanda, wife of Raymond Yahn, of Philadelphia, Mabel, wife of Ernest Drumheller, of Pottstown; Lottie, wife of Charles Binder, of Boyertown; also these sisters and brothers: Lucy, wife of Samuel Slemmer, of Boyertown; Sussanna, wife of Henry G. Herb, of Greshville; Mary Ann, wife of Frank Reiff, of Royersford; Lizzie, wife of Abraham Herman, of Pottstown; John Saylor, of Allentown, and Jacob Saylor, of Pennsburg. The funeral will be held from the home of her son-in-law, Charles Binder, on Thursday, November 17, at 2 p.m. Services will be continued in the Good Shepherd Reformed Church, Rev. Ge! orge G. Greenawald, officiating. Interment in Fairview cemetery.

Hello All My George Fryer and his wife Margaret (Wright) married in 1868 in Kirkby Malzeard, Yks. Their children that I know of are George born 1869; Thomas b c1871; Mary Helen (or Ellen, or Nellie) b c 1874; Iram E F b c1876; and Rhodes (or Roddy) b c1879 in Laverton, Yks; Does anyone know of these people? Please get in touch. Would love to hear. Thanks Anne New Zealand

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/gUX.2ACEB/281 Message Board Post: Dr. John E. Fryer, a psychiatrist who, while wearing a mask, electrified his colleagues by telling the 1972 convention of the American Psychiatric Association that he was a homosexual at a time when homosexuality was classified as a mental illness, died Feb. 21 in Philadelphia. He was 65. The cause was aspiration pneumonia, which he suffered after a degenerative lung disease, his sister, Katherine F. Helmbock, said. No gay American psychiatrist had risked speaking publicly before Dr. Fryer ' s appearance. When Dr. Fryer, wearing a baggy suit, a rubbery mask and a huge wig and using a microphone that distorted his voice, spoke at the association ' s meeting in Dallas, it was a dramatic moment in the gay rights movement, and it helped change psychiatrists ' attitudes toward homosexuality. For 20 years after finding in 1952 that homosexuals were " ill primarily in terms of society and of conformity with the prevailing social milieu, " the psychiatric association included hom! osexuality in its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, an official list of mental illnesses. Though the diagnosis was based on a departure from social norms, it stamped homosexuals as emotional deviants and lent medical authority to laws that made homosexual acts and even homosexuals ' public gatherings illegal. The classification was attacked as early as 1964, when Dr. Franklin E. Kameny, an astronomer trained at Harvard who had been ostracized because of his sexuality, insisted on television that homosexuality was " not a disease, a pathology, a sickness, a malfunction or a disorder of any sort. " Not until 1971, when Kameny seized the microphone in Washington, did gay protesters confront psychiatrists at their annual convention. As a result, gay advocates were invited to a panel with psychiatrists at the 1972 convention. Psychiatrists were not used to hearing from homosexuals who felt sane and normal. When Dr. Fryer slipped through a side curtain at the convention appea! ring as Dr. H. Anonymous and announcing, " I am a homosexual, I am a p sychiatrist, " fellow therapists were riveted. More than 100 gay psychiatrists were at the convention, Dr. Fryer told the audience, " and several of us feel that it is time that real flesh and blood stand up before you and ask to be listened to and understood, insofar as that is possible. " His remarks were reprinted last year in The Journal of Gay and Lesbian Psychotherapy. The risk of speaking was real. Dr. Fryer, then an untenured faculty member at Temple University, did not formally say he was the psychiatrist behind the mask until the association ' s annual meeting in Philadelphia 22 years later. " I had been thrown out of a residency because I was gay, " he wrote in 1985 in the bulletin of the Association of Gay and Lesbian Psychiatrists. " I lost a job because I was gay. It had to be said. But I couldn ' t do it as me. I was not yet full time on the faculty. " In December 1973, after more protests and debate, the board of the psychiatric association voted to remo! ve homosexuality from its list of mental disorders and to urge that " homosexuals be given all protections now guaranteed other citizens. " The members ratified the decision in April 1974. Dr. Fryer was born in Kentucky. He graduated from Transylvania College in Lexington, Ky. At the Temple University medical school, he became a professor of psychiatry. Last year, on the 30th anniversary of his speech, he received a distinguished alumnus award from the Vanderbilt University Medical School and a distinguished service award from the Association of Gay and Lesbian Psychiatrists. He is survived by his sister. Published in the San Diego Union-Tribune on 3/9/2003. (volunteer submission)

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/gUX.2ACEB/263.1.3 Message Board Post: Thank you anyway, but I am 100% certain they are not related....thanks Barb

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Fryer Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/gUX.2ACEB/263.1.1.2.1 Message Board Post: Thank you Grenville for your reply ...but the Maryann Coulson of my lineage was born April 10th or the 18th,1847....Barb

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/gUX.2ACEB/280 Message Board Post: Any information about John Fryer, came here from Ireland in 1880"s. He was father of MARY, ANNIE, MARTIN & MICHAEL. They lived in the "dirty sixth ward" as my grandmother used to tell me.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: FRYER/JEFFREY Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/gUX.2ACEB/279 Message Board Post: Looking for information on Etta Jeffrey married to William Fryer. Etta's maiden name was Jeffrey, my direct line. Their children were Mary, Faye, Bessie, Opal, and Harry. They lived in the Crawfordsville, IN area. Etta had 9 siblings. Her parents were William Jeffrey and Mary Ann (Baldwin) Jeffrey. Any information would be appreciated. Thanks! Seria

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/gUX.2ACEB/263.1.1.2 Message Board Post: mary ann baptism in 1869 to send if you reply direct. unable to locate boys baptisms. mary ann coulson aged 12 in 1851 census with other stuff can be sent if she is yours.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/gUX.2ACEB/263.1.1.1 Message Board Post: go to: www.tees valley-indexes.co.uk this site, after you have perused and done mandatory test trials, will display all fryer bmd's in hartlepool from 1837.

I have no other information on Elizabeth (Betsy) Fryer.

She is the daughter of William Fryer b. Sept 4, 1796 and Nancy. Mary, do you have a Nancy Fryer born about 1801 in Georgia? Thank you, Mary Ellen

Hi Pat I think there is a good chance we are connected to the same Elizabeth Fryer. She is the daughter of William Fryer b. Sept 4, 1796 and Nancy. According to my records she is their 8th child of 14 children. Her brother Richard Chamberlain Fryer is my ggggrandfather. Mary Schureman

I guess I am related to both of you. I am also a ggggrandaughter of R.C. Fryer, and I know that I contacted Mary about this but does Pat have any information as to the forbears of R.C., namely John Fryer and his wife Sarah and before that? PAULINE HARRIS FRYER HALL

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Crow, Hurst Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/gUX.2ACEB/198.1.2 Message Board Post: My gggrandmother was Elizabeth Fryer born 6/15/1828, probably Alabama, and died 5/28/1878 in Conway Co. Arkansas. She married Ben Crow and had the following children: Nancy Rebecca Crow (married W.B. Hurst) Richard Samuel P. Crow Elizabeth Crow Sarah T. Josephene Crow. I noticed that a William Crow was living in the Conway Co. area at the same time that Ben and Elizabeth were there. William's age was appropriate to have been Elizabeth's father but I have no information on her family. Do you think we might be connected? Pat

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/gUX.2ACEB/102.1.2.1 Message Board Post: George's father was Isaac M. Massaker, born about 1808 in NJ and died after 1870 in Luzerne Co., PA married Elizabeth “Betsy” Jaquish. They had seven known children: Benjamin, b. about 1838; William, b. about 1840; Lucy A., b. about 184?; George W., b. April 1841; John H., b. about 1843; Emily J., b. about 1847;Chester D., b. about 1848 Isaac Massaker and his brothers Daniel (born about 1801 in NJ) and Henry (born about 1812 in NJ), along with their mother Catherine (born about 1778 in NJ) are all found on the 1850 census for Plymouth, Luzerne County, PA.