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/DAw.2ACIB/1710 Message Board Post: I am trying to find any information on John Lawrence who married Mary Townsend in Schenectady, NY about 1805. They had the following children: i. Elizabeth Lawrence b. About 1805; NY married Issac Staats ii. Henry S. Lawrence b. Feb 9, 1806, NY married Perthenia Price. iii. Mary Ann Lawrence b. Jun 8, 1808, NY married John Pickens. iv. Cynthia Lawrence b. 1810, NY married Jacob Parsons and then Issac Taylor, Sr. v. Dorman B. Lawrence b. May 8, 1813, NY married Sarah Anderson. vi. John Simeon Lawernce b. 1815, Meigs Co. OH vii. Alfred Lawrence born 1818, Meigs Co. OH married Esther Paden Please contact me at [email protected] if any of these are in you line. Thanks Penny

Penny, I am very much interested in finding out what you may know about the Alfred Lawrence born 1818 Meigs Co. OH and married Esther Paden. I have been searching for years for a man known to me only through my late mother in law as Henry Lawrence. It's a long story but I will try to condense it. My late husband was Dale Griffey of Conneaut, Ashtabula Co. Ohio. His maternal grandmother was Lillian Orall Kidd Lawrence who married Bert Cyrus Wolcott. Lillian was the daughter of Orall (Cox) Kidd and a Robert Kidd. It seems that soon after Lillian's birth in Dec 1888 in McKeesport PA, her reported father Robert Kidd disappeared from the face of the earth, never to be found again. Orall remarried to a Henry Lawrence and he adopted Lillian thus she carried both the Kidd and Lawrence surnames. Orall died in 1921 in Conneaut, OH and we never knew what happened to this Mr. Lawrence. Throught the Ashtabula Co Genealogical Society I have learned that Mr. Lawrence was probably Albert Henry Lawrence who was born 1853 in PA and died in 1935 in Conneaut OH but was returned to Girard PA for funeral and burial "beside his wife Nellie." The ACGS also found A. Henry Lawrence on the 1860 census of Girard Twp. Erie Co. PA at age 16 with the parents being Alfred and Esther Lawrence. The only thing wrong with all this is that on the 1860 census Alfred is listed as being 36 and Esther is 34 which would make Alfred being born in 1824 instead of 1818. But then if you have been into genealogy for any time at all you know that people didn't always give their correct age on to the census taker. To get to my point I am wondering if your Alfred and Esther may be the parents of my brick wall, Henry Lawrence. Any information you would be willing to share with me would be greatly appreciated. You see I am dealing with what I know to be 3 generations of "only child" births, all three of whom are deceased now so I have no one to ask questions of. My three daughters are really hoping I can put their fathers roots together for them so they will have some form of lineage to pass on to their children. My husband, Dale died in 1995 just 11 years after his mother Virginia passed away when our children were rather young. Virginia's mother Lillian passed away just 6 months before Dale was born so he never knew his maternal grandmother. I have no idea if Orall had siblings or not but am still working on that but there again all I have to go on is her death certificate which states that she was born in Massillon, Stark Co. OH to Andrew and Anna (Keller) Cox. Thanks for any help you can give me. Mary (Dodrill) Griffey I am trying to find any information on John Lawrence who married Mary Townsend in Schenectady, NY about 1805. They had the following children: i. Elizabeth Lawrence b. About 1805; NY married Issac Staats ii. Henry S. Lawrence b. Feb 9, 1806, NY married Perthenia Price. iii. Mary Ann Lawrence b. Jun 8, 1808, NY married John Pickens. iv. Cynthia Lawrence b. 1810, NY married Jacob Parsons and then Issac Taylor, Sr. v. Dorman B. Lawrence b. May 8, 1813, NY married Sarah Anderson. vi. John Simeon Lawernce b. 1815, Meigs Co. OH vii. Alfred Lawrence born 1818, Meigs Co. OH married Esther Paden

I had said that on the 1860 census A. Henry was 16, should have been 6 years old.