Jerry Just a geography tip unless you need a picture or other. Ausable Forks village is split by the Ausable River. The village south side of the River is Essex county and the Town of Jay. The village north side of the river is Clinton County and Black Brook. The towns are larger tracks of land than the name implies. Villages are within towns. The Ausable river flows to Champlain Lake. There were ironworks and mines all along the northern shore in the Town of Ausable just east of Black Brook. Town of Peru borders Black Brook and Ausable and those ironworks were in the southern end of the town, most likely in village of Harkness. This may help you. http://www.clintoncountygov.com/Departments/Historian/HistorianHomePage.html On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 3:35 AM, <gjdwyer39@comcast.net> wrote: > Jack and Helen -- thanks for the tips. > > My great grandmother Margaret McAuliffe Dwyer told her children that she > lived in Ausable Falls as a child. I guess she meant Ausable Forks but I > can't find her or her sister Anne anywhere. They were 11 and 12 years of age > in 1860 and should be on the census. Their older sister Kate is on the 1860 > census living in Black Brook with her husband Patrick Hughes. Kate had a > baby in 1861 or 2 who died shortly after birth and her husband died soon > thereafter. My guess is that he died in the Civil War. Kate lost her mind > which is probably one reason why Margaret and her other siblings decided to > move away. The other reason was that Anne wished to follow her love, William > Gleason, to San Francisco. William and Anne were married in SF in 1866. > William was a carpenter and he built a lot of houses in San Francisco. He > probably learned his trade in Black Brook. Margaret's older brother > Cornelius worked at an iron mill in Peru before he moved to California. They > had another brother, Richa! > rd, who may have stayed in New York. He may have died in the war, too. > Their parents, Patrick and Hanorah, were living on his brother James > McAuliffe's farm in Lewis, Essex County in 1860. I believe both died > sometime between 1860 and 1865. Kate died in a state mental hospital in > Stockton, California in 1886. Margaret must have had a good education in New > York. She got a job as a primary school teacher in San Francisco shortly > after moving there and she taught there (while raising ten kids!) until > retiring in 1912. She married my great grandfather James O Dwyer, also a > teacher, in 1869. > > Jerry > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IRL-CORK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >