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.maryland.counties.baltimorecity/4028.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I now have confirmation that my 3-great grandmother ERNESTINE (ABERCROMBIE) FIELD was indeed the daughter of JOHN JOSEPH ABERCROMBIE and SARAH DE NORMANDIE from death notice. ==Philadelphia Inquirer, Page 5, vol. 122, issue: 75 March 26, 1890 DEATH NOTICE: Deceased: Ernestine A. Field; FIELD - On the ( ) instant, ERNESTINE A. FIELD widow of the late JOHN FIELD and sister of the late GENERAL JOHN J. ABERCROMBIE, in the 96th year of her age. The relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend the funeral services this morning at 8:30 o'clock, from 1723 North Tenth street. High mass at ST. MALACHY's Church. Interment private. ================================================== (more on this family on my website - see URL below report) Descendants of JOHN JOSEPH ABERCROMBIE Generation No. 1 1. JOHN JOSEPH2 ABERCROMBIE (ALEXANDER1 ABERCROMBY) was born in Scotland, and died Aft. 1808 in USA. He married (1) SARAH HINCKLEY. She died January 07, 1787 in Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina. He married (2) SARAH DE NORMANDIE January 07, 1791 in Pon Pon Parish, Charleston, South Carolina, daughter of ANTHONY DE NORMANDIE and MARY HALL. Children of JOHN ABERCROMBIE and SARAH DE NORMANDIE are: 2. i. ERNESTINE3 ABERCROMBIE, b. September 16, 1794, Pennsylvania; d. March 1890, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. ii. ALEXANDER ABERCROMBIE, b. December 09, 1792. 3. iii. GENERAL JOHN JOSEPH ABERCROMBIE, JR., b. March 04, 1798, Maryland; d. January 03, 1877, Roslyn, Nassau County, New York. iv. JAMES ABERCROMBIE, b. March 16, 1799. Generation No. 2 2. ERNESTINE3 ABERCROMBIE (JOHN JOSEPH2, ALEXANDER1 ABERCROMBY) was born September 16, 1794 in Pennsylvania, and died March 1890 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. She married JOHN FIELD April 24, 1828 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, son of UNKNOWN FIELD. He was born Abt. 1790 in Pennsylvania, and died Aft. 1867 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. Children of ERNESTINE ABERCROMBIE and JOHN FIELD are: i. SARAH CATHERINE4 FIELD, b. January 29, 1831, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. ii. CAPT. CHARLES PETER J. FIELD, b. May 25, 1834, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; d. June 05, 1864, Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee; m. ELIZABETH PAUL BEAGARY, September 24, 1859, Camden, Camden County, New Jersey; b. September 05, 1838, Camden, Camden County, New Jersey; d. October 21, 1889, Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts. iii. CAPT. THEODORE FRANCIS FIELD, b. January 07, 1838, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; d. December 01, 1918, Audubon, Camden County, New Jersey; m. SUSAN BAINBRIDGE JACOBY, November 01, 1879, Baltimore County, Maryland; b. September 27, 1858, Camden, Camden County, New Jersey; d. November 20, 1929, Audubon, Camden County, New Jersey. 3. GENERAL JOHN JOSEPH3 ABERCROMBIE, JR. (JOHN JOSEPH2, ALEXANDER1 ABERCROMBY) was born March 04, 1798 in Maryland, and died January 03, 1877 in Roslyn, Nassau County, New York. He married MARY ENGLE PATTERSON, daughter of ROBERT PATTERSON and SARAH ENGLE. She was born July 12, 1810 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, and died August 14, 1874. Children of JOHN ABERCROMBIE and MARY PATTERSON are: i. MARY ERNESTINE4 ABERCROMBIE, b. Abt. 1842; d. August 26, 1869, Roslyn, Nassau County, New York; m. SAMUEL APPLETON, JR., June 22, 1863, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; b. November 25, 1841, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. ii. SARAH IONA ABERCROMBIE, b. July 28, 1842, Iowa; m. WILLIAM ERNEST GOODMAN, October 20, 1870, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; b. December 10, 1838, Pennsylvania; d. March 22, 1912. iii. JOHN JOSEPH ABERCROMBIE, 111, b. March 17, 1845, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; d. October 04, 1919, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois; m. LILLY MARY NUGENT, August 27, 1881; b. November 1848, Illinois. iv. FRANCIS PATTERSON ABERCROMBIE, b. January 02, 1852, Texas; m. NELLIE PACKER, Abt. 1876; b. February 1857, Pennsylvania. v. LOUISE ABERCROMBIE, b. Abt. 1854, New York. vi. SUSAN ABERCROMBIE, b. Abt. 1855, Pennsylvania. vii. CLARA D. ABERCROMBIE, b. November 1855, Pennsylvania. viii. COL. WILLIAM RALPH ABERCROMBIE, b. August 1857, Fort Ripley, Crow Wing County, Minnesota; d. November 07, 1943, Spokane, Spokane County, Washington; m. LILLIAN HARRIET KIMBALL, October 13, 1886, Manhattan, New York, New York; b. Abt. 1868, Baltimore, Baltimore County, Maryland; d. March 01, 1934, Spokane, Spokane County, Washington. ix. IDA ABERCROMBIE, b. Abt. 1860, Minnesota; d. March 21, 1888, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; m. HAROLD P. NEWLIN; b. October 1855, Pennsylvania. ================== Jacqueline Sleeper Russell website: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=SRCH&db=jacquelinesr&surname=A I am not going to try to list surnames - because of major problems posting to Rootsweb boards today.