So am I! On Fri, 28 Jul 2000 21:35:58 -0400 (EDT) bevper@webtv.net (Beverly) writes: >i amlooking for information on Joyces > Regards, ED COSTELLO, 1009 Blenheim Dr, Raleigh NC 27612 USA e-mail: < costello13@juno.com >, tel: 919-782-6058; --------Searching: COSTELLO (FAHEY), (JOYCE): Co Mayo>CT, MA, ME USA>USA; HAGGERTY (McGUIRE): Co Donegal>NB Canada>ME USA>USA; LAVERTY (BROWN), (KELLY): Co Armagh>NB Can>ME,CA>USA,Can. ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.

Posted on: Hampshire Co. Ma Query Forum Board URL: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ma/Hampshire?read=417 Surname: FOSTER, CAMPBELL ------------------------- Seeking any information on Joseph Foster and Elizabeth Campbell who married in Easthampton 24 Dec 1888. Were they both from Easthampton. Did they have any siblings? A daughter was born in Greenock, Scotland in 1890 but I have been unable to locate them prior to their marriage. Their marriage certificate is ordered but I am impatient! TIA

Posted on: Hampshire Co. Ma Query Forum Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ma/Hampshire?read=416 Surname: Donovan, O'Brien ------------------------- Searching for information on the family of John Donovan, b. 1843 in Middlefield to David & Ellen. John married Catherine O'Brien in 1871 in West Springfield, MA and worked for the Boston & Albany Railroad. Father of 12, he also served in the US Navy, presumably during the Civil War. He is buried in St. Thomas in West Springfield. Thanks.

I am wondering if there is an Index to the 1840 Census for the County? If so, does anyone out there have a copy that could check to see if a surname is listed? The surname is McNANEY/McANENY. Thank you for your time. -- Richard Ross ----------------------------------------------- Indiana State Coordinator (IN ALHN) http://www.geocities.com/indiana_alhn/ Wayne County Coordinator (Iowa ALHN) http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~rkross/ Putnam County Coordinator (Missouri) http://www.rootsweb.com/~moputnam/ Vernon County Coordinator (Wisconsin) http://www.rootsweb.com/~wivernon/ Lyme City Coordinator (New London County, CT) http://www.rootsweb.com/~ctclyme/ -----------------------------------------------

looking for information on this family; William Hamilton b.? d.? spouse Sarah Benedict b. 23/28 Dec 1730 Danbury, CT d. 18 Aug 1818 Gill? MA children William b. 1747 Sarah b. 1749 Damerus b. 1751 Mary b. 1755 Abigail b. 1757 Eli 1763 Greenfield ? Eber b. 1768 Greenfield, MA where were the other children b.? when and where was William Sr. born? who are his parents and ancestors? many thanks for any help Cornelia

Posted on: Hampshire Co. Ma Wills Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ma/HampshireWill?read=3 Surname: OMSTED, OMSTEAD, BROWN, MARSH, HAMMOND, WOLCOT, SMITH ------------------------- Probate and Family Court Hampshire Division 33 King Street Northampton, Massachusetts 01060 Volume 8: 26-27 In the Name of God Amen, I Jabez Omsted of Ware-River in the County of Hampshire and Province of the Massachusetts Bay in in New England, being of lawful Age and Sound Mind, this Day calling to mind my own mortality, do make this my last Will and Testament, revoking all former Wills, or anything of that Nature or kind, by me heretofore made. And in the first place, I do commend my Spirit into the Hands of God who gave it, and my Body to a decent Burial, the rites of which to be performed in Such manner, as Shall be that to be best by my Excecutrix; and as to the Worldly with which God has blest me I do dispose of it in manner and form following. [Imprimis?] After my Debts and funeral Changes are paid, I do give and bequeath unto my well beloved wife Martha, all my personal estate, of what nature or kind Soever, forever. Item I do give her the improvements of one third part of my real estate during her natural Life, and I do also give her the improvements of my whole estate, till my Son Moses comes of age. Item. I do give and bequeath to my Son Moses all my real estate upon his paying the legassies hereafter mentioned. Item. I do give and bequeath to my Son Jeremiah five Shillings lawful money to be paid by my Son Moses when he comes of age. Item. I do give and bequeath to my Son Israel five Shillings lawful money to be paid by my Son Moses when he comes of age. Item. I do give and bequeath to the Children of my Daughter Thankful Brown deceased five Shillings lawful money to be paid by my Son Moses when he comes of age. Item. I do give and bequeath to my Daughter Hannah Marsh five Shillings lawful money to be paid by my Son Moses when he comes of age. Item. I do give end bequeath to the child of my Daughter Hammond deceased five Shillings lawful money to be paid by my Son Moses when he comes of age. Item. I do give end bequeath to my Daughter Dorcas Wolcot five Pounds lawful money to be paid by my Son Moses when he comes of age. Item. I do give and bequeath to my Daughter Sarah Marsh five Pounds lawful money to be paid by my Son Moses when he comes of age. Item. I do give and bequeath to my Abigal Smith five Pounds lawful money to be paid by my Son Moses when he comes of age. Item. I do give end bequeath to my Daughter Prudence five Pounds lawful money to be paid by my Son Moses when he comes of age with the interest. And I do constitute and appoint my well Beloved wife Martha Omstead Executrix of this my last Will and Testament. In witness of all which, I have hereunto Set my Hand and Seal this Twenty fourth of Feb.[anno Domini] Seventeen Hundred fifty two. Signed Sealed and Published In Presence of Job Lane his Jabez X" Omstead John Downing mark Hampshire Js March 22nd 1753 [said] John Downing & on the 29th of the Same month Job Lane The Witnesses to the foregoing Will which was then presented for probate appearing made oath That They Saw Capt. Jabez Omstead The Testator Sign & Seal & Heard him pronounce & declare the Same to be his last Will and Testament & that he was of Sound Mind & Memory when he did it & that they Signed as Witnesses to the Same in the [said] Testators presence wherefore at a Court of Probate holden at Northampton within & for the County of Hampshire on the Second Tuesday of April being the 10th day of [said] month [anno Domini] 1753 [p] Timothy Dwighte Esq. Judge of [said] Court - The foregoing Will as ratified approved & Confirmed [P]. March 22. John Dawning & [same month?] 29th Job Lane Sworn in Comnform April 10th 1753 [approved] as to the [Personal] Estate (as to the Conveyance of the Personal Estate which only is hereby conveyed) as the last Will & Testament of Said [Deceased]. . [P] Timothy Dwight

Posted on: Hampshire Co. Ma Query Forum Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ma/Hampshire?read=415 Surname: Warner, White, Ayres, Barnum ------------------------- Town of Middlefield, Hampshire Co, MA, Vital Records, list a HENRY WARNER as married to a BEULAH WHITE, with the following children [Warner] born in Middlefield from 1822-1831: Corinth, Daniel, Joel White, Ruana and Russell. IS THIS THE SAME HENRY WARNER who is listed in the VR for Chester, Hampden Co, perhaps with an earlier family: wife, HANNAH AYRES, with the following children [Warner] born in Chester from 1804-1818 : Abigail Ayres, Achsah Sanderson, Elizabeth Ayres, Henry James, Jason Reed and Jesse Ayres. Does anyone have proof that these two HENRY WARNERs are the same person?? I am trying to find the parents of a JAMES WARNER who married a RUANA BARNUM. If these two HENRY WARNERs are the same person, then I may have found the family I was looking for, as Henry might have named his daughter, Ruana, after a sister-in-law, Ruana, and the HENRY WARNER of Chester had an older brother, JAMES, who is currently unaccounted for.

Posted on: Hampshire Co. Ma Query Forum Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ma/Hampshire?read=414 Surname: Riel, Bryant ------------------------- My grandparents, Herbert Augustus Bryant and Matilda Riel, were married in Northampton in 1890. They later moved to Cambridge. Looking for anybody connected to this family. Thanks.

Posted on: Hampshire Co. Ma Query Forum Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ma/Hampshire?read=413 Surname: Bryant, Wilde ------------------------- I am looking for any information on the family of Luther Pomeroy Bryant and Edith Beatrice Wilde of Northampton. Luther was my grandfather's (Herbert Augustus Bryant)brother and they ran the Bryant Printing Co. in Northampton around 1890-1900. Luther and Edith had two daughters, Elizabeth and Ida Beatrice. Any information regarding this family would be appreciated. Thanks.

I went to the Forbes Library in Northampton and looked up their city directories and I believe they started in the 1920's. They have other index cards on surname there which might have the name you are looking for, but the city hall records would have the death records. You might try the email address: http://www.gazettenet.com . This is the town news and they might have old obits. There were other paper back then too. This site will have many other good links in the area as well as the Forbes Library which is: http://www.gazettenet.com/forbeslibrary . Good luck, John H. Beach 26 Ridgeland Rd. Yonkers, NY 10710-2608 Phone / FAX 1-914-793-4300 john_h_beach@compuserve.com Note: The "_" character is the underscore character, NOT a space or dash. July 14, 2000 11:29 am

ToWhomItMayInterest --- Do the public libraries in Franklin MA & Monson MA have genealogy sections? If so, please advise me of their e- or s-mail address'es. Thankyou kindly. Regards, ED COSTELLO, 1009 Blenheim Dr, Raleigh NC 27612 USA e-mail: < costello13@juno.com >, tel: 919-782-6058; --------Searching: COSTELLO (FAHEY), (JOYCE): Co Mayo>CT, MA, ME USA>USA; HAGGERTY (McGUIRE): Co Donegal>NB Canada>ME USA>USA; LAVERTY (BROWN), (KELLY): Co Armagh>NB Can>ME,CA>USA,Can. ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.

Posted on: Hampshire Co. Ma Query Forum Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ma/Hampshire?read=412 Surname: MAYNARD ------------------------- Looking for any information on John Maynard, b. 1783, Goshen, Hampshire cty. I am wondering if there is any connection between John and either of the Henry Maynards listed in "document #5 for North Hampton" found on the Hampshire cty site. Does anyone know how close together these two towns are? Thanks, bj

Posted on: Hampshire Co. Ma Query Forum Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ma/Hampshire?read=411 Surname: PRINGLE, FRIZZELL, KIMMERLY, SANDFORD ------------------------- I learned from the city directory of Springfield that Elizabeth and Frances Pringle had moved to Northampton, Hampshire County by 1899. Is there a City Directory for Northampton for any of the years following 1899? If not, how do I find out when they died there? Any advice will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Posted on: Hampshire Co. Ma Query Forum Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ma/Hampshire?read=410 Surname: BARTLETT, STEBBINS, FRIZZELL ------------------------- Martha BARTLETT married John FRIZZELL abt 1760. I am looking for proof of her parents. Some say they are John BARTLETT and Thankful STEBBINS, however Thankful would be about age 60 when Martha was born in 1740. I would like to find the names of the children of John BARTLETT and Thankful STEBBINS (in addition to Martha). Threre seems to be little known of John and Thankful STEBBINS BARTLETT of Hampshire Co MA.

Posted on: Hampshire Co. Ma Query Forum Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ma/Hampshire?read=409 Surname: Frizzell, Pringle, Sandford, Kimmerly, Gurley ------------------------- I see you listed the Frizzell surname. I am looking for information on the Frizzell family. My great grandmother was Elizabeth Frizzell who married a Pringle in Canada but she was in Springfield and in Northampton of Hampshire County Mass in the 1890's. I wonder if her family was there. Thank you very much

Posted on: Hampshire Co. Ma Query Forum Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ma/Hampshire?read=407 Surname: Frizzell, Pringle, Sandford, Kimmerly, Gurley ------------------------- I see you listed the Frizzell surname. I am looking for information on the Frizzell family. My great grandmother was Elizabeth Frizzell who married a Pringle in Canada but she was in Springfield and Northampton Mass in the 1890's. I wonder if her family was there. Thank you very much

Posted on: Hampshire Co. Ma Obituaries Board URL: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ma/HampshireObits?read=8 Surname: Daniels ------------------------- Abel Daniels died in Hampshire Co. about 1902 in a mill accident. I am searching for a copy of his obituray and the obituaries of his parents Daniel and Martha Jassman Daniels. reply to schs@sonoratx.net please thankyou. Abel's great granddaughter. Jo-Ann Palmer in Texas.

"Hello again Cousins!" Sticking my neck out on this one, so if any of you can shoot this theory down, PLEASE do so! Might any of you happen to know who Sarah JOHNSTON, b abt 1747, MA, dau. of Daniel and Susannah (BIXBY) JOHNSTON of Essex Co., MA, might have married? Or know whether either Daniel JOHNSON or his wife, Susannah BIXBY, may have left wills or probate records? Or as I have found previously in other situations, might anyone have a death record for Sarah that would preclude her as having been the wife of Deacon Ebezezer GRAY of Pelham, MA? As Deacon Ebenezer GRAY and his wife Sarah JOHNSTON of Pelham, MA, did name their only "known to me" son, Daniel Johnston GRAY, I am inclined to think that I'm on the right track. Ebenezer and Sarah were married 12 Feb 1767, Pelham, MA, or at least there is a recorded marriage record for them there. Might there also be one in Haverill, MA, where Daniel and Susannah (BIXBY) GRAY are believed to have resided, as I have found more than one marriage in MA doubly recorded, once where the bride's family lived, and again where the groom's family lived, if both not from the same community. I believe extra weight may be added to this budding theory due to the dau., Sarah JOHNSTON, of Daniel and Susannah (BIXBY) JOHNSTON, also having had a sister named Lydia. This, since I am working to try to establish the ancestry of Lydia Queen GRAY, who m. Aaron GOULD, 1781, in Pelham, MA, I do find to be somewhat enticing to my curiosity to say the least! Might anyone know as to whether Daniel JOHNSTON, who reportedly d 8 Mar 1794, Haverill, Essex Co., MA, might have left a will or other probate record naming his surviving children, or might his wife have done so, as she reportedly died 16 Jan 1779, also in Haverill? I am wondering if Sarah JOHNSTON, wife of Ebenezer GRAY, may have had a bequest left to her or her, existing heirs, and due to that fact, Deacon Ebenezer failed to include dau. Lydia Queen GRAY's name in his will? So many questions and so few answers at this time, especially for this northwest Missouri resident whose family has so many New England ancestors still to be identified. Any and all help and assistance on this one will be most appreciated! I believe all the descendant researchers who are working on the family and descendants of Aaron and Lydia Queen (GRAY) GOULD of WV, will accord anyone who helps to break through this impasse on the ancestry of Lydia, with respect and admiration, as I surely will, as we have been stymied on this question for well over a century now, in so far as I am aware! Thank you so very much "Cousins!" for either helping to establish any of this to be fact , or in showing it to be total fancy, regardless of the outcome! TTYL Craig "Always looking for Cousins!"

At 02:32 AM 7/8/00 -0400, someone wrote: >Direct Descendants of Lydia Gray & Aaron Gould > 1 Lydia Gray b: June 03, 1759 MD, Andover d: February 05, 1830 in WV, >Upshur Co., French Creek > "Hello again Cousins!" Have been looking at Aaron GOULD and Lydia GRAY for almost twenty- four years now, and don't believe anyone can prove me wrong on this! Have seen this written up incorrectly in so many places, am hoping to get this out so that anyone who either happens to share descent through this family, or has a research interest in same, might not have to waste their research time chasing incorrect information. Please do check the records and see what you find! I have come across absolutely nothing whatsoever to put Lydia GRAY in Maryland at any time! I attribute the doubly erroneous citation for her birth as having been Andover, Maryland, to someone inadvertently hitting the "D" instead of an "A", when meaning to type the abbreviation for Massachusetts. But Andover, Massachusetts, for the birth place of Lydia Queen GRAY, wife of Aaron GOULD, is still INCORRECT! There is a birth record in Andover, Massachusetts, dated 3 Jun 1759, for a Lydia GOULD, dau. of Thomas and Lydia GRAY, but if you also check the death records for Andover, Massachusetts, you will find, Lydia GRAY, died 26 Jan 1786, dau. of Thomas and Lydia GRAY, and therefore definitely cannot be our Lydia Queen GRAY, wife of Aaron GOULD. The Andover, Massachusetts, birth place for Lydia GRAY, wife of Aaron GOULD, was submitted by someone to the I.G.I. many years ago, but is still just as incorrect today for our Lydia Queen GRAY as it was when originally submitted to the I.G.I. all that time ago. The only place I know of to date, that we have found the name "Queen" associated with our Lydia GRAY, is in the will of her husband, Aaron GOULD. Might any one of you know of any other occurrence listing her name as Lydia Queen GRAY in any other primary source record? I have failed to locate, and know of no one else who has been able to locate a birth record for our Lydia Queen GRAY. The records of the French Creek Presbyterian Church attribute her as having been a sister of Mrs. Jenny Jane PEEBLES, and a birth record does exist for Jenny Jane GRAY, b 19 Jun 1771, Pelham, MA, dau. of Deacon Ebenezer and Sarah (JOHNSTON) GRAY. Aaron GOULD and Lydia GRAY were married, 29 May 1781, Pelham, MA, while her sister, Jenny Jane GRAY, and Pattrick PEEBLES were married 19 Jul 1801, Pelham, MA. The only complication, if someone might wish to view it as such, is that Deacon Ebenezer GRAY m. Sarah JOHNSTON, 12 Feb 1767, and with Lydia Queen GRAY being their dau., she would only have been about fourteen years of age at the time of her marriage. No one that I have come across at any time has yet attributed Deacon Ebenezer GRAY as having been married prior to his marriage to Sarah JOHNSTON, but he was twenty-four years old when he married Sarah, so that possibility does exist. Might any one of you know of a previous marriage for Deacon Ebenezer GRAY? I have looked for the surname "QUEEN" in the records for Pelham, and have found very, very little of any consequence whatsoever as yet. To date, the only mention of that surname that I've come across among the Pelham, MA, records is as follows: Pelham, MA, Town Meeting, 15 Feb 1763: "Matthew GRAY was allowed five shillings and four pence for 'warning Curtis CLEMENS & his wife' out of the town". John GRAY "was allowed five shillings & four pence for Warning the Widow Elizabeth QUEEN out of town." Whether the above has significance to our search, only time may tell! To date I know nothing of the ancestry of Sarah JOHNSTON, reportedly b 3 Sep 1749, d Feb 1776, so a possibility still exists that we may be looking for a QUEEN family link somewhere in her ancestry, but once again, only time may tell! Should any one of you happen to have records that might either dispute or call into question, any of the above, please do contact me! Please do contact me as well, should you have any information for any of the above family that would indeed link our families! TTYL Craig "Always looking for Cousins!"

Sorry to do this, but will Diane Jensen please contact me? My E-mails are being returned. Dave Clark