Looking for anything on Jonathan, the son of Ebenezer Brooks. Jonathan was born 1709 Deerfield, but what happened to him? I thought I saw somewhere that his mother and possibly others removed to CT? Any help greatly appreciated, thanks! JB John & Donna Bedard New England Scenic Photography http://www.bedardphoto.com

I am not familiar with your sources for the Ships passenger lists--I'm referring to the COWARD lookup information. Would they have any information on James SENIOR coming over about 1850 from Sheffield? This family was in Northfield, (Litchfield), CT working for the Northfield Knife Company before moving to Buckland. In 1860, they are listed ion the census with real property but I have not had a chance to follow up research on that property. At least some of them moved on to other knife making towns; son, Joseph SENIOR and his wife Hannah moved back to Northfield, CT. U.S. 1860 census in Buckland, Franklin County, Massachusetts: James SENIOR, 48, M, Pocket Cutler, Real Estate=$1000, Personal Prop.=200, b. England Barbary SENIOR, 45, F, b. England Amelia SENIOR, 16, F, b. England Emma SENIOR, 13, F, b. England Ernest SENIOR, 8, M, b. Connecticut,, U.S.A. Arvina(?) SENIOR, 5, F, b. Connecticut, U.S.A. At the same house: Joseph SENIOR, 26, M, Pocket Cutlery, Personal Prop=$150, b. England Hannah SENIOR, 24, F, b. England Lydia J. SENIOR, 1, F, b. Connecticut, U.S.A. (note: every other reference calls her Nettie Jane SENIOR if this is the same person--maybe younger siblings couldn't say Lydia) Hannah SENIOR was formerly Hannah Marshall and she was in Beaver Falls, PA before she was in Northfield, Litchfield, CT. Joseph and Hannah SENIOR are buried in Northfield Cemetery in CT. I know that some of these family members moved to nearby states such as NY and CT, where there was work in other knife factories but I have no trail for James SENIOR and I'm wondering if he is buried somewhere in this area? Thanks for any leads. Ginny Echelberger

According to 1900 census: George b Jul 1842, 'knife temperer,' Selena b Aug 1847, Emlie b Oct 1870, John b 1872, all in England, resided Buckland, Mass. (part of which is in Shel. Falls), and arrived 1884 [? but] were in US for 6 years. According to Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1910: Annie, dau of George & Selena (Spencer) Coward, of Buckland, d. Buckland, 4 Nov 1897, age 20-10-2, of pulmonary tuberculosis, buried Arms Cemetery, Shelburne. According to Boston passenger Lists, 1820-1943: John (age 23, hawker) & Anna Coward (age 18) arrived in Boston, Mass. on the 'Catalonia' 15 Oct 1894, having departed Liverpool, England via Queenstown, Ireland. Selma Coward of Sheffield (age 42) arrived in Boston, Mass. on the 'Pavonia' 29 Oct 1893, with friend S Oates, having departed Liverpool, England via Queenstown, Ireland. According to New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957: George (age 51, file forger) and Emily Coward (ae 24, servant) of England, destined for Shelburne Falls, arrived New York, New York 11 Sept 1895 on the 'Majestic,' having departed Liverpool, England. Hope this is some help. Joel ----- Original Message ----- From: <gc-gateway@rootsweb.com> To: <MAFRANKL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2006 6:45 PM Subject: [MAFRANKL] Information about Coward > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: Coward > Classification: queries > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.massachusetts.counties.franklin/2139/mb.ashx > > Message Board Post: > > Some members of my family left Sheffield in 1894/5 to live in Shelburne > Falls. Since they were cutlers by trade I assume they went to work at the > Lamson and Goodnow factory who I know recruited from Sheffield. The family > consisted of parents George and Selena and children, John, Anna and Emily. > I know that Emily returned to Sheffield but would love to find out what > happened to the rest of the family. Any help would be much appreciated. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MAFRANKL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Coward Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.massachusetts.counties.franklin/2139/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Some members of my family left Sheffield in 1894/5 to live in Shelburne Falls. Since they were cutlers by trade I assume they went to work at the Lamson and Goodnow factory who I know recruited from Sheffield. The family consisted of parents George and Selena and children, John, Anna and Emily. I know that Emily returned to Sheffield but would love to find out what happened to the rest of the family. Any help would be much appreciated.

Perhaps you are posting to several lists but in the event that you were not aware, Framingham is located in Middlesex County, MA. Marilyn At 01:00 AM 12/29/2006, you wrote: >A LITTLE MORE INFORMATION AND A NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS >IM STILL LOOKING FOR MY 2 SISTERS. > MARGARET AND GLORIA POSTIZZI, THEIR MOTHER WAS KATHERINE >DIGRANDI OR DEGRANDE NOT SURE OF THE SPELLING. >THEY WOULD NOW BE IN THEIR LATE 60'S OR EARLY 70'S >MY TWIN AND I WERE BORN OCT 12,1942 WHEN OUR FATHER PAUL POSTI WAS >STATIONED AT CAMP SAN LUIS OBISPO CALIFORNIA DURING WWII. I UNDERSTAND >THEY WANTED NOTHING TO DO WITH PAUL, AND WE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH HIM >EITHER,. AS WE >GREW UP WITHOUT HIM AROUND AT ALL. >I H AVE RECEIVED THE GRADUATION PICTURE OF MARGARET, (PEGGY) >FROM ANOTHER VIEWER >BUT WOULD REALLY LIKE TO MEET MY SISTERS >THANKING YOU IN ADVAnce FOR ANY HELP THEY GREW UP IN THE MASS FRAMINGHAM >AREA. >MADDYDAWN1942@aol.com

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: POSTIZZI ==DIGRANDI=DEGRANDE Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.massachusetts.counties.franklin/823.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: A LITTLE MORE INFORMATION AND A NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS IM STILL LOOKING FOR MY 2 SISTERS. MARGARET AND GLORIA POSTIZZI, THEIR MOTHER WAS KATHERINE DIGRANDI OR DEGRANDE NOT SURE OF THE SPELLING. THEY WOULD NOW BE IN THEIR LATE 60'S OR EARLY 70'S MY TWIN AND I WERE BORN OCT 12,1942 WHEN OUR FATHER PAUL POSTI WAS STATIONED AT CAMP SAN LUIS OBISPO CALIFORNIA DURING WWII. I UNDERSTAND THEY WANTED NOTHING TO DO WITH PAUL, AND WE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH HIM EITHER,. AS WE GREW UP WITHOUT HIM AROUND AT ALL. I H AVE RECEIVED THE GRADUATION PICTURE OF MARGARET, (PEGGY) FROM ANOTHER VIEWER BUT WOULD REALLY LIKE TO MEET MY SISTERS THANKING YOU IN ADVAnce FOR ANY HELP THEY GREW UP IN THE MASS FRAMINGHAM AREA. MADDYDAWN1942@aol.com

I thought this might be of interest to readers of the list. Hope it makes it through the servers given its lenght. Son of Francis Twichell and Sally Fish of Athol, Mass.: 1. Ginery Bachelor TWICHELL was born on 25 Aug 1811 in Athol, Worcester, Massachusetts. He died on 23 Jul 1883 in Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts. Genealogy of the Twitchell Family, Record of the Descendants of the Puritan Benjamin Twitchell - Dorcester, Lancaster, Medfield and Sherborn, Massachusetts, 1632 - 1927. Compiled and Edited by Ralph Emerson Twitchell, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Private printing by Herbert K. Twitchell, New York, N.Y. 1929. p. 304. He was a life member of the New England Historical and Genealogical Society. Rev. Increase N. Tarbox, D.D., historigrapher of that society, in a biographical sketch of is career, says: "Mr Twichell's career has been such as could hardly be possible, certainly not probable, under any other than the free institutions of this country. Born of a plain but vigorous stock, breathing, in his boyhood and youth, the air of the rough hill-country of northern Massachusetts, enjoying the privileges of that common school education to which every New England boy and girl is entitled, he rose from humble employments, through the rank of stage-driver to become a large proprietor, owning and managing various lines reaching from Massachusetts into new Hampshire and Vermont. His experiences and successes as an express rider are also well remembered. "When the railroad age had been fairly inaugurated, he left the kindom of horses, in which he had ruled and reigned, and turned to the iron track and iron horse. From assistant superintendent he became superintendent and then president of the Boston and Worcester Railroad, already when he took it, one of the improtant roads in the country; but it was immensely enlarged and improved during the period of his connection with it, partly by te rapid growth of the country, and partly by his wise and efficient management. During this period, the Boston and Worcester and Western Roads were united, making the Boston and Albany Railroad. His presidency ended when the two were united. His connectin with the road lasted in its various forms of service, for about twenty-nine years, and was characterized so far as he was concerned, by magnanimiyt, a large and gererous conception of the true interests of the road in ralation to its patrons. There was nothing of the mean and narrow in his disposition." He was the third in line of succession, of the presidents of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company, a contemporary of Thomas Nickerson, Alden Speare and other noted railroad builders and operators of the last decades of the 19th century. In 1866, he was chosen a member of the 40th Congress, representing the 3rd district of Massachusetts, and was re-elected to the 41st and 43rd congresses. He was not a talking, but a wise, working thoroughly useful and practical member of the national legislature. Mrs. Alice Morse Earle, in her book entitled "Stage Coach and Tavern Days," on page 301 says: "From 1830 to 1846 a brilliant comet flashed its way through the stage-driving world of New England; it was Hon. Ginery Twichell, who was successivley and successfully post-rider, stage-driver, stage proprietor, most noted express rider of his times, rail-road superintendent, president of the Boston and Worcester Rail-road, and member of Congress. "Some thirty years ago or more a small child sat in the 'operating room' of a photographer's gallery in Worcester. Her feet and had, were laboriously placed in a tentatively graceful attitude and the back of her head firmly fastened in that iron 'branks-without-a-gag' fixture which then prevailed in photographers' rooms, and may still for all that I know. A sudden dashing inroad from an adjoining room of the photographer's assistant with the loud and excited exclamation, 'Ginery's coming, Ginery's coming,' led to the immediate and unceremonious unveiling of the artist from the heavy black cloth that had enveloped his head while he was peeping wisely throug the instrument at his juvenil sitter, and to his violent exit; he was followed with equal hast and lack of expanation by my own attendant. Thus basely deserted I sat for some minutes wondering what a Ginery could be, for there was to me a sort of mensgerie-circus-like ring to the word, and I deemed it some strange wild beast like the Pygarg once exhibited at the old Salem Taver. At last, though fully convinced that my moving would bread the camera, I boldly disengaged myself fom the claws of the branks, ran to a front window, and hung peering out at the Ginery over the heads of he other occupants of the galery, who regarded with eager delight no wild or strange beast, but a great stage-coach with six horses which stood recking, foaming, pawing in front of the Baystate house across the street. Adignified and self-contained old man, ruddy of face, and dressed in a heavy great-coat and tall silk hat, sat erect on the coachman's seat, reins well in hand - and suddenly Ginery and his six horses were off with rattle of wheels and bloing of horn and cheers of the crowd; but not before there was imprinted forever in unfading colors on my young brain a clear picture of the dashing coaching life of olden days. It was an anniversay of some memorable event, and the member of Congress celebrated it by once more driving over his old-time coaching route to meet the cheers and admiration of all beholders. "The predecessor of Baystate House, the old Central Hotel, ws the headquaters of Twichell's stage line during the sixteen years of his connection with it. It was built in 1722, and rooms in it served various purposes besides those of good chear - one being used as a county jail." "I do not doubt that the coach which I saw was the one thus referred to in the Boston Traveller of June 1, 1867, as Mr. Twichell occasionally drove it until the year of his death: "The vernerable coach built by Moses T Breck of Worceste, and used 30 years ago in the heart of the Commonwealth by Hon. Ginery Twichell for special occasions before railroads were fairly in vogue, passed theough our Boston streets on Friday. The vehicle was of a most substantial pattern; no repars have been needed through all these years except an occasional coat of varnish and new upholstering. In 1840, by request of the citizens of the twon of Barre, seats were added on the top of the vehicle, so that a party of 32 persons could be accomodated (12 inside and 20 outside). The largest load ever carried by the ponderous carriage was a party of sixty-two (62) young ladies of Worcester, who, uniformly dressed, were driven on a blackberry excursion to the suburbs by Mr. Twichell himself, eight matche horses being required on the occasion. During the exciting presidential campaing of 1840, the staunch vehilce was used for conveying the sovereigns to and from political gatherings in the towns surrounding old Quinsigamon.' "There is still living in Boston, at an advance age, but of vigorous mental powers, Mr. Henry S. Miner, the last stage-driver of Ginery Twichell's stage-route, perhaps the last person living who was connected with it. He has scores of tales of stage-coach days which he has capacity to frame in interesting language. I am indebted to him for many letters full of information and interest. He says" 'Ginery Twichell was a shrewd, quiet, persevering amn of but few words, and those to the point; his voice was clear and low, never raised to horses or men. Affable, sociable, he ws a man that would make friends, and hold them. He was smooth-shaven and red-faced, but strictly temperate. He had one habit of rubbing his hands rapidly when in carnest conversation. He had but a common-school education and might be called a self-made man. Before through railroads were completed, Mr. Twichell collected the November election votes on horse-back from Greenfield to Worcester, 54 miles, covering the distance in four and one-half hours. He had relays of horses and men every 6 to 10 miles. As the work always came in the night, he was many times thrown by his horse stumbling, but always came out all right. At one time he slept in his clothes with buckskin underwear, at the American House in Worcester, in wait for dispatches from English steamers. He had men and horses on the raod to Norwich for one week waiting also. When the dispatches arrived he mounted his horse and started for Norwich; he met the boat, and the dispatches were in New York hours ahead of any other line. I am the only one of his drivers living, and one hostler is living." " A friend who remembers riding with Twichell eulogizes him in the warmest terms for his passengers as comfortable as possible. He had an inexhaustible fund of racy aneedotes which he would tell so well that it was a perfect treat to ride upon the box with him. He was a general favorite, especially with the country folks, and the boys and girls on the road, and with these he always had a joke to crack whenever it came his way to do so, to the infinite amusedment of the travellers whom he had in charge. He carried many small and valuable parcels, and executed commissions for the people like an expressman. After a period of self-denial in early life, through-out which he had saved his liberal earnings carefully, he was enabled to purchase from Mr. Stockwell the stage and two horses which he drove between Athol and Barre. About 1837 he started withMr. Burt and Mr. Billings a stage line from Brattleboro to Worcester. "In 1843 he was engaged in driving a stage of his own between Barre and Worcester. Not long afterward he was sole owner of a line from Greenfield, Massachusetts, to Brattleboro, Vermont. The Postmaster-General about this time advertised for mai contracts, and Ginery Twichell went to Washington. It was supposed by the owners of the other lines, who knew he had gone thither, that he would not undertake to execute more than on contract, but his own private views, it appers, were somewhat broader, for he contracted with the Government to carry the mails upon a number of routes, greatly to the astonishment of others in the business; and what was better still, he accomplished what he had undertaken very satisfactorily to the Postmaster-General, and came to be regarded as a sort of Napoleon among mail contractors. He became the owner of a large number of fine stages and horses. He ran a line from Worcester to Northfield, sixty miles, three times a week; from Worcester to Winchester fifty-five miles, daily; from Worcester to Keen, fifty-four miles, three times a week; to Templeton, twenty-five miles, daily; from Templeton to Greenfield, forty-eight miles, daily; from Barre to Worcester, forty-four miles, daily. In all this was two hundred and eighty-six miles of stage-route, and it took a hundred and fifty-six horses to do the work." "The Unrivaled Express Rider, Ginery Twichell, who rode from Worcester to Harford, a distance of Sixty miles in Three hours and Twenty minutes through deep snow, January 23, 1846. It commemorates an exploit of his which was much talked of at the time it took place." Ginery Bachelor TWICHELL and Theolotia RUGGLES were married. Theolotia RUGGLES (daughter of Capt. Creighton RUGGLES) was born on 26 Apr 1820 in Hardwick, Worcester, Massachusetts. Genealogy of the Twitchell Family, Record of the Descendants of the Puritan Benjamin Twitchell - Dorcester, Lancaster, Medfield and Sherborn, Massachusetts, 1632 - 1927. Compiled and Edited by Ralph Emerson Twitchell, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Private printing by Herbert K. Twitchell, New York, N.Y. 1929. p. 304. Theolotia Ruggles was a descendant of Rev. Timothy Ruggles of Roxbur, who married Mary White, third daughter of Deacon Benjamin White, Eldest son of Joseph White of Brookline, Mass. These Whites came from Roxbury. Ginery Bachelor TWICHELL and Theolotia RUGGLES had the following children: 2 i. Delia (twin) TWICHELL was born on 4 Oct 1847. 3 ii. Julia (twin) TWICHELL was born on 4 Oct 1847. 4 iii. Calla TWICHELL was born on 19 May 1849. 5 iv. Frank TWICHELL was born on 20 Dec 1850. 6 v. Edward G. TWICHELL was born on 1 Jan 1852. 7 vi. Alfred D. TWICHELL was born on 5 Feb 1853.

Seeking information on the parents and siblings of Della F. Edes. Regards, Paul Allred First Generation 1. Lucian R. TURNER was born on 5 Sep 1867 in Rochester Township, Windsor, Vermont. He died about 1944. 1910 Federal Census, Orange, Franklin, Massachusetts; Roll: T624)589: Page: 11B; Enumeration District: 515; Image: 383. Home in 1910: Orange, Franklin, Massachusetts. 1920 Federal Census; New Smyrna, Volusia, Florida, Roll: T625_230: Page: 1A; Enumeration District: 194; Image: 433. Name: Lucian R. Turner; Home in 1920: New Smyrna, Volusia, Florida; Age: 52; Birthplace: Vermont; Relation to Head of House: Brother; Father's Birth Place: Vermont; Mother's Birth Place: Vermont; Marital Status: Single; Race: White; Sex: Male; Able to Read: Yes; Able to Write: Yes; Image: 433. Household Members: Lenis J. Turner; Age 52; Lucian R. Turner; Age 52. Lucian R. TURNER and Della F. EDES were married on 1 Sep 1898 in Orange, Franklin, Massachusetts. Della F. EDES was born about 1867 in , , Massachusetts. Lucian R. TURNER and Della F. EDES had the following children: 2 i. Lewis C. TURNER was born on 18 Feb 1899 in , , Maine. He died on 21 Mar 1979 in Macon, Bibb, Georgia.

Della F Edes, age 21, born Cambridge, housemaid of Orange, dau of Geo W & Jennie B (Lord) Edes, married first by Baptist pastor L A Freeman of Orange, at Orange 1 Sep 1898, as his first, Lucian R Turner, age 30, born Rochester, Vt, farmer of Orange, son of Lewis W & Mary E (Kidder) Turner. - Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1910 via NEHGS 1910 Orange: George Edes (b abt 1845, Maine) & Betsy J (b abt 1845, Maine) m 34 yrs; had 1 child; 1 child lvg Same as George A Edes (b abt 1844, Maine) etc in Dakota Territory, 1880? > Seeking information on the parents and siblings of Della F. Edes. > > Regards, > Paul Allred > > First Generation > > 1. Lucian R. TURNER was born on 5 Sep 1867 in Rochester Township, > Windsor, Vermont. He died about 1944. 1910 Federal Census, Orange, > Franklin, Massachusetts; Roll: T624)589: Page: 11B; Enumeration > District: 515; Image: 383. > Home in 1910: Orange, Franklin, Massachusetts. > > 1920 Federal Census; New Smyrna, Volusia, Florida, Roll: T625_230: > Page: 1A; Enumeration District: 194; Image: 433. > Name: Lucian R. Turner; Home in 1920: New Smyrna, Volusia, Florida; > Age: 52; Birthplace: Vermont; Relation to Head of House: Brother; > Father's Birth Place: Vermont; Mother's Birth Place: Vermont; Marital > Status: Single; Race: White; Sex: Male; Able to Read: Yes; Able to > Write: Yes; Image: 433. Household Members: Lenis J. Turner; Age 52; > Lucian R. Turner; Age 52. > > Lucian R. TURNER and Della F. EDES were married on 1 Sep 1898 in > Orange, Franklin, Massachusetts. Della F. EDES was born about 1867 in > , , Massachusetts. Lucian R. TURNER and Della F. EDES had the > following children: > > 2 i. Lewis C. TURNER was born on 18 Feb 1899 in , , Maine. He died > on 21 Mar 1979 in Macon, Bibb, Georgia. > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MAFRANKL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.massachusetts.counties.franklin/2138.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Garry, Thanks so much for this info (I'm new to this board and relatively new to Western Massachusetts research). The post to which he's referring is here: http://boards.ancestry.com/localities.northam.usa.states.massachusetts.counties.franklin/1049.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx and describes how Franklin Co. didn't come into existence until 1812, so that any land deed records (and other records) prior to that time would be found in Hampshire Co., (i.e., in Northampton). A subsequent poster said that they did find a land deed from 1792 in Franklin County, so perhaps Franklin has copies of land deeds prior to 1812. And Garry, your explanation of this sheds light on why someone from Warwick would have been taken to Northampton to be tried for a crime (back in 1778). I'd always wondered about that. Now I get it. Thanks. AND, I have some changes to make to my GEDCOM because I think I've always referred to Warwick as in Franklin Co., even for events that took place prior to 1812. Thank you very much for the clarification! -- Jillaine Smith Washington DC

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.massachusetts.counties.franklin/2138.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi.. Awhile ago I posted comments about just this issue. I suggest you review postings by "Garry" having to do with information about Franklin & Hampshire Counties with regard to towns, counties, land and probate records and important dates. One needs to do a little homework before making such requests. I also suggest contacting the Warwick library directly about the Cobb Diary. Good luck.

Jillaine, > Does anyone know where one would find land deeds from Warwick from about > 1778? > > You will find deeds from about 1787 to present at the Hampshire County Courthouse at Northfield, as Warwick was part of Hampshire County until Franklin was formed about 1812. Deeds with earlier dates are housed at Springfield, i .e. Hampden County Courthouse.      However, the Franklin Co. Courthouse, in Greenfield, does have abstracts of deeds from 1663-1786. As I recall, at least one piece of information not included in the abstracts are the names of witnesses - often important clues.      If you don't find what you are looking for, you might also consider Worcester Co, particularly if the individual(s) you are reseaching came from a town in Worcester Co.         Joan A. Hunter, M.L.S., Certified Genealogist MASSACHUSETTS GENEALOGY, specializing in Franklin, Hampden & Hampshire Counties Author of Descendants to the Tenth Generation of Jedediah Barton (1707-after 1798) of Oxford and Ward, Worcester County, Massachusetts, pub. Higginson Book Co. "Vernon, Vt., Marriages," NEHG Register, Apr. 2004 and Vermont Genealogy, Apr., July, Oct., 2004. Member Association of Professional Genealogists http://www.apgen.org CG is a service mark of the Board for Certification of Genealogists used under license after periodic evaluations by the Board http://www.bcgcertification.org

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.massachusetts.counties.franklin/2138/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Does anyone know where one would find land deeds from Warwick from about 1778? Thanks. -- Jillaine

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.massachusetts.counties.franklin/2134.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: This family is still living in Deerfield in 1880, but they're listed as Park rather than Parker. I think it's the right family, though: father William, mother Sarah, children John, Joseph, Lissie, William, Mary, James, Francis, and George. (I think Lissie = Sarah Elizabeth.) In 1900 William and Sarah are living in Greenfield with son George. And I found the following death record: Greenfield 1902 vol 529 p 22 William R. Parker, died Aug 27, age 68 yr 8 mo, cause gangrene, residence/place of death Greenfield, occupation retired, born England - Shefield, father Joseph Parker, b Shefield, mother unknown, born unknown Hope this helps! jp

I checked with one of the Warwick selectmen, and he replied: As far as the Cobb diaries go, the Warwick library has a typed transcription of most or all of the diaries. The originals are either in the library or at the historical society. Nancy Hickler is the librarian and can be reached at 978-544-7866 or _warwick@cwmars.org_ (mailto:warwick@cwmars.org) . I have read much of the transcribed version at the library this past year. Sara

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: cobb Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.massachusetts.counties.franklin/2137/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Seeking anyone with information about the diary kept by William Cobb of Warwick between 1794 and 1853. Apparently a copy of it (or even the original) is in the Warwick public library. Can anyone confirm this? I've googled it without much success. -- Jillaine Smith Washington DC

There is no Town Clerk in Millers Falls, as Millers Falls is a village of both the towns of Montague and Erving. In this case, Montague is the relevant town, and certificates are available there for $10 each. BTW Montague consists of following villages: Montague Center, Montague City, Lake Pleasant, Turners Falls, Millers Falls ----- Original Message ----- From: <gc-gateway@rootsweb.com> To: <MAFRANKL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2006 11:10 AM Subject: Re: [MAFRANKL] Powers in Miller's Falls, MA > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: > Classification: queries > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.massachusetts.counties.franklin/2136.1/mb.ashx > > Message Board Post: > > You can write to the Town Clerk in Millers Falls and obtain the > certificate needed, the photo's are another story. I send a letter and > than give them my email so they can give me the cost and if they are > available. > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MAFRANKL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.massachusetts.counties.franklin/2136.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: You can write to the Town Clerk in Millers Falls and obtain the certificate needed, the photo's are another story. I send a letter and than give them my email so they can give me the cost and if they are available.

I think you can write to the Town Clerk. I have done so in the past and received a prompt reply Barbara

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/4EB.2ACE/2136 Message Board Post: I am looking for info on the Powers family, John S. Powers married to Ellen A Griffin of Miller's Falls on 7 June 1892. They lived in Miller's Falls and John ran a dry goods store. The building in which his store was located was still standing in 1989. A sign on top of the building still bore the title "Powers Block". John died in 1933 and Ellen died in 1957. Both are buried in St. Mary's Cemetery in Turner's Falls, MA. They had three children, Leon, born 2 Feb 1895, John and Eileen, born ca. 1901. Eileen is buried with her parents. Would someone be willing to do a lookup at the town clerks office for copies of birth, death marriage certs and possibly get a picture of the building and cemetery plots? I will reimburse for costs incurred. Thanks in advance Andy Powers