I have been puzzling about my GGGGrandfather, who has ties to ME and MA like your Fisher / Davis enquiry. FULL NAME: William R. DAVIS BORN: 1819 of Boston on marriage record, but census says ME. SPOUSES: Married Isabella Weeks BRADBURY 24 Mar 1846 (ints 27 Feb 1846) Kittery, York Co ME. DIED: 08 Jul 1864 Kittery OF YELLOW FEVER, York Co ME. BURIED: First Baptist Cem, Kittery Point, York Co ME. OCCUPATION: Mariner, Fisherman CHILDREN: William Franklin DAVIS (1854-1926) Lillian Isabelle? Odelia? DAVIS (~1859-1952) Ann Elizabeth Plimpton DAVIS (1847-1863) Ellen Maria Peabody DAVIS (~1849-1865) Charles Van Buren DAVIS (1856-1876) Alvina Watson DAVIS (~1851-1934) Note that William Franklin was living with a Capt and Mrs Plimpton (where? why?) at time of his father's death and older his sister has Plimpton as a middle name.... Have you worked on James or John to see if you can take Almira back that way? Where are you located? I am in greater Boston, if you haven't done that bit maybe I could try to do a bit of digging. But I admit I have little time and many projects, so please don't expect anything too speedy!!! Elizabeth >I found this note written by my g-grandfather around 1900 and am having a >difficult time finding anything about the "Fisher" or "Davis" families to >which >he is referring. Any assistance would be more than welcome. (What I do know: >Almira Davis b1810 married to John Fisher b1806; They had a daughter, Mary D >Fisher, b 1833 who married, (1) John Williamson, (2) Henry Williamson) > >Thanks for any assistance you can provide >Sharen > >"On our great-grandmother Fisher's side were people of good standing as >shipbuilders in Kennebunk Port, Maine--Snows, Mitchells, Kimballs. >Great-grandfather Fisher lost all connection with his family at twelve >years of age when his >father died in Massachusetts. He, being the oldest child, was apprenticed to >a Mr. White, carpenter, in Kennebunk, Maine, four or five miles from the >Port, >and there he learned the trade, becoming very expert. He has to his credit a >pier at the Port running out into the Atlantic Ocean. Easy to see how he >became acquainted with Almira Davis of Kennebunk Port, our great-grandmother. > >Almira Davis had a brother, Captain John Davis, of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, >who sailed to England many times on merchant vessels. His wife, Eliza, and >her sister sailed with him twenty-two times. In 1868 he retired. Another >brother, James, was long editor of a Boston newspaper."