Does anyone have info on the Nixon or Haines (Haynes) family in the New Providence, Springfield and/or Madison areas? Thanks. Ruth

Was there a list member that was looking for info on this person, buried at Butler Cemetery (Manning ave)? I have his obit from the 1903 Argus newspaper. Dave Wisneski Pequannock, NJ

On May 11, 2003, I described a mystery surrounding the characterization of the wife of Henry Doremus (b. 29 Mar 1787 at Doremustown) as Polly Van Duyne in "The Doremus Family in America" (Gateway Press, 1990) by Edith Whitcraft Eberhart. My theory was that Polly "Van Duyne" was really Polly Romine. The note was fowarded to the Romine mailinglist and I received a reply from Renee L. Dauven who has given me permission to present her reply. "Your query to the NJMorris email list was forwarded to the Romine email list. I think that I can give you a lead on Mary Romine, wife of Henry Doremus. My source is Herbert Ackerman's book "Romeyn, Romaine Family. 1654". As you probably know, he is not the most accurate sources and I have not varified this information but at least it may give you a new direction in which to look. According to Ackerman, Mary was Maritje Romeyn, born/baptised Montville, NJ on 12 June 1791. Her parents were Daniel Romeyn and Derricksie Demarest, daughter of David Demares and Greetje Abrams Haring. He does not give a marriage date or place for Mary and Henry but lists 3 children for them: John, Ann and Daniel, b. 6 Jan 1822 and baptised 21 April 1822 at the Montville Ref. Church. Mary married secondly to Garret Van Cleef. Ackerman again gives no marriage date or place for this second marriage but list two children for this marriage: Maria, b. 21 Aug 1832, bapt. 3 Feb 1833 and William Ira Pierson. b. 5 Mar 1834, bapt. June 1834, both at Montville Ref. Church. Probably the confusion about Mary's last name stems from a hazy rememberence that she was related to the Elizabeth who married Simon Van Duyne. They were sisters, Elisabeth having been bap 1 Nov 1778 at Schraalenburgh. Perhaps the person who reported that they were related did not know Elisabeth's maiden name and thus Mary's ended up being recorded by early family "researchers" as Mary Van Duyne. Hope this helps you with one of you mysteries and gives you enough to research further to confirm the marriage." I think this closes the mystery. The "Polly Van Duyne" in "The Doremus Family in America" (Gateway Press, 1990) by Edith Whitcraft Eberhart is actually Polly (or Mary) Romine, daughter of Daniel Romeyn and Derricksie Demarest. Dick Van Duyne

In a message dated 05/14/2003 12:48:31 AM Central Daylight Time, mary.lish@verizon.net writes: > SAFE DAY at WOODLAND CEMETERY – NEWARK, NJ > FAMILY GRAVESITES & TOMBSTONE RECORDING DAY > Sunday, June 1, 2003 – 9:30 a.m. > (rain date Sunday, June 8) I don't have any ancestors in this cemetery, but would like to pass on a tip. I haven't used this method, but a "cousin" told me about this trick. White foam shaving cream and a squeege is supposed to help with difficult to read tombstones inscriptions and photos. The shaving cream would fill in the inscription and show up better than chalk. I don't see that shaving cream would be destructive, but please post here if this is incorrect.

SAFE DAY at WOODLAND CEMETERY – NEWARK, NJ FAMILY GRAVESITES & TOMBSTONE RECORDING DAY Sunday, June 1, 2003 – 9:30 a.m. (rain date Sunday, June 8) For old friends who help each year, it's that time again. For new people who have never had the opportunity, this is your chance to go to Woodland Cemetery in Newark, NJ to visit your family gravesites in the security of a group. For those out of state, our volunteers will help with pictures and tombstone inscriptions of your family gravesite. Each year the Newark Police Dept. has provided us with on-site protection, although with a large group we find we are pretty safe. Woodland Cemetery in Newark has over 82,000 burials from 1856 through present. We are not affiliated with Woodland Cemetery in any way, but work only as a volunteer group trying to preserve the tombstone inscriptions and helping family researchers find their ancestors through our computer database. For those who do attend, we ask that you allow time to help record tombstone inscriptions. Please invite your friends to come (adults only please) and help us too. We'll pair you up with someone, so please come even if you are by yourself. Anyone who will be coming to search their own family sites and needs help in locating those sites, please e-mail us and let us know what site you will be looking for. This way we can check for your family names in the computer database and find the site on a map to prepare ahead of time in order to guide you. Anyone who can't make it, but would like inscriptions and pictures of your family tombstones, please make arrangements with John or me ahead of time and we will do our best to record inscriptions and take pictures of your site, time permitting. To everyone - please let me know if you will be attending so we will have an approximate count. The day is Sunday, June 1st at 9:30 a.m. at the front gate (on South 10th St.), with a rain date of Sunday, June 8th, again at 9:30 a.m. If both days are raining, a new date will be set at a later time. If there is a question on the weather, anyone may call in the morning between 8:00-8:30 at 973-667-0450 to find out if we're still "on". The gate entrance for Woodland Cemetery is located at 670 South 10th Street between Springfield and Avon Avenues, Newark, NJ. Directions - take the Garden State Parkway to the Springfield Ave. Irvington Exit #143. Take Springfield Ave East to South 10th Street - Make a right onto South 10th St. The cemetery is located about a quarter mile down on the left side. For the new people, here are a few suggestions if you are planning on donating some time to help us record tombstone inscriptions: Wear long pants, a short sleeved shirt, with a long sleeved shirt/sweatshirt over it (in case it gets warm). Wear socks and either sturdy sneakers or hiking shoes of some sort. If you will be spending a few hours with us, bring some cold bottled water or soda - you will get thirsty. Please bring: * pencils/pens - we'll supply the paper * clip board (if you have one, if not, we are trying our best to have some available) * cheap camera (it helps to look through a camera lens to decipher a tombstone inscription) * sunglasses (sometimes easier to see the inscription) * small garden tool(s) to pull back weeds from tombstone; * wide sidewalk chalk, (to rub difficult inscriptions...again, I'll bring some * a plastic bucket to put all your "stuff" in - the tools, camera, chalk, camera, etc. - it makes it easier for you to carry everything from tombstone to tombstone. * a towel or kneeling cushion, some tombstones only show a couple of inches above ground... Any questions, just e-mail or call either John or me.... John Sass jajs918@aol.com <mailto:jajs918@aol.com> Bloomfield, New Jersey 973-748-0985 Mary Lish mary.lish@verizon.net <mailto:mary.lish@verizon.net> Nutley, New Jersey 973-667-0450

Hi All, I am posting these abstracts to the list in the hopes they may help someone out. I do not have further information on the Boyle family. Kathleen Pantano NJ Calendar of Willls 1771 - 1780 p. 58-59: "1772, Oct. 6. Boyle, Benjamin, of Morristown, Morris co.; will of. Real and personal estate to be sold. To Mary Magdolan Boyle, daughter of John and Hannah Boyle, L35. To Jean Dunremple, wife of Joseph Dunremple, the use of L50, to be put in the hands of Thomas Burgie, and, at her death, to be paid to her son, Solomon Dunremple, and, in the case of his death, to his brothers and sisters. To Susannah Munro, daughter of Daniel and Mary Munro, L35. To William Boyle, son of Solomon and Margaret Boyle, L50. Executors - John Chetwood, of Elizabeth Town, Daniel Vail, and Thomas Burgie, of Bernardstown. Witnesses - John Kinnan, William Davison, Willam Allger. Proved Dec. 7, 1772. Lib. K, p. 504." "1769, May 27. Boyle, Solomon, of Morris Co., planter; will of. By a marriage contract in the hands of Jacob Ford, I agreed to give my wife, Sarah, L12 yearly. Son, John, L10, as I have advanced to him. Son, Solomon, L600. son, Benjamin, L300. Son, Joseph, L300. Daughter, Jane, the wife of Jospeh Dalrumple, L50. Daughter, Mary, the wife of Daniel Monroe, L50. Daughter, Magdalen, the wife of John Cooper, L50. Daughter, Sarah Boyle, L200. Rest to my sons, John, Solomon, Benjamin, and Joseph, and my daughters, Jane, Mary, Magdalen and Sarah. Executors - son, Solomon, Isaac Woodruff and John Chetwood. Witnesses - John Ross, George Fleming, William Jeif. Proved July 22, 1771. Lib. K, p. 356." _________________________________________________________________ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail

Not sure who this (Frank L. Greenagel) is but he is "Cataloging Early Churches" around New jersey, this is the page for Morris county. http://66.92.127.80/morris.html neat home page: http://66.92.127.80/Index.html No page yet for Passaic county churches. Feel free to submit churches to this person. Dave Wisneski Pequannock, NJ

> In researching the Van Duyne family tree, I found many references to the Van > Duyne family of Morris Co. << Probably not related, but I went to high school with a fellow named Craig Van Duyne. I didn't know his parents. Boonton Township dwellers. Unfortunately, Craig wrapped himself around a tree and died shortly after out 1979 graduation.. Shawnee, lurking.

In researching the Van Duyne family tree, I found many references to the Van Duyne family of Morris Co. in "The Doremus Family in America" (Gateway Press, 1990) by Edith Whitcraft Eberhart. This book, based on and expanded from "The Doremus Family History in America" by William Nelson, is a well researched and accurate compilation of the Doremus family in North Jersey. Every entry for Van Duyne, save one, was confirmed by collateral information, thus making the identity of Polly Van Duyne a nettlesome mystery. According to Eberhart, Polly Van Duyne (no further identification) married Henry Doremus (b. 29 Mar 1787 at Doremustown); the couple had two children, Ann Doremus, John Doremus (no birth dates), and moved to Waterloo, Seneca Co., N.Y. Eberhart shows the descent for Henry Doremus from the original immigrant... Cornelis Doremus & Jannetje Joris Thomas Doremus & Anneke Abramse Ackerman Corenelis Doremus & Antje Young Johannis Doremus & Sarah Mandeville Henry Doremus & Polly Van Duyne I searched through my records of the Van Duyne family for all mention of Van Duyne women of that era who had married into the Doremus family, as well as all women named Polly, Mary, and Maria. (Polly is a nickname for Mary.) I went further and looked for women with the appropriate given names who might have been Van Duyne widows since a widow might be identified either by her maiden name or late husband's name. I wrote to Mrs. Eberhart in 1996 and 1997 with a number of questions, this one among them. Mrs. Eberhart, then in her 90s, had no further information. The only candidate that appeared through this search was a Mary Van Duyne, born 1798, whose record thereafter is blank. It's often quite expedient to find such candidates from among those family members whose history is blank. This Mary Van Duyne was the daughter of William Van Duyne and Elizabeth Doremus. Elizabeth Doremus was a very distant cousin of Henry Doremus. Additionally there were strong links between Mary Van Duyne and Henry Doremus through the Young family. (In Morris Co., most members of the Doremus, Young, and Van Duyne families are cousins of varying degree.) Since people distantly related in this era and place had opportunities to meet at family and social gatherings, it is possible that Mary Van Duyne (b. 1798) was the Polly who had married Henry Doremus (b. 1787) although the disparate ages would have made this union unusual. However, this would have to qualify as a dead end unless additional, more solid evidence were discovered. I decided to follow a second clue provided by Eberhart. She listed Henry Doremus having been born in 1787. I went to the records of the Pompton Plains church and found Henry, son of Johannis Doremus and wife Sara, born Mar 29 1787. (Witnesses were Hendrick Van Ness and wife Susanna.) But, in the Pompton Plains records, there was no further evidence of Henry as a husband or father. Since the Montville church was an outgrowth of the Pompton Plains church I looked in those records for Henry Doremus. There I found Henry Doremus and wife Mary, parents of John born June 5, 1813. (It is impossible to tell which dates in this collection are births or baptisms, but that's another mystery.) Henry Doremus and Pollie were parents of Ann, born July 21, 1815. So everything fit into place; but the real shocker was that Mary's and Pollie's family name in these records was Romine! Thus, I now believe that Polly "Van Duyne" married to Henry Doremus in Mrs. Eberhart's book is really Polly Romine. The evidence for this conclusion is that there is no Mary or Polly Van Duyne that fits into this niche; that Henry's children fit, by name, into Eberhart's description; that Henry Doremus as father in the Montville records is consistent with the birth of Henry in the Pompton Plains record; and the record of Henry's birth links him to the Doremus line as described by Eberhart; and Henry's wife in the baptism records of his children is listed as both Mary and Pollie. It would be instructive to see how Nelson treated this union in his book; but , unfortunately, I do not have access to that work. Are there any Romine researchers who could shed further light on this? Dick Van Duyne

I'm wondering is anyone has a subscription to Ancestry's Periodicals & Newspapers that can do a look up for me. I am interested in 3 articles on the name KOPTERA. 2 - Reno Evening Gazette (Reno, Nevada), 1 Marion Star, The (Marion, Ohio). Any help would be greatly appreciated! Dawn _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail

Would SKS please do an obit lookup for me. Theresa Granato, died Dec 1974, born Mar 18, 1893, residence Landing, Morris, NJ. With fingers crossed, thank you so much in advance. Karen

You all are the best! I can't think of when I've gotten so many responses, so fast. Thank you! Probably the best info I got was this link: http://www.state.nj.us/health/vital/vital.htm . It doesn't answer _all_ my questions but I at least have a feel for the situation now. I'll summarize the answers I got later, but wanted to share this link for now. Happy researching, Janet Morris NJ: CAREY HART DOBBINS CULLIGAN HINCH KEARNEY * searching for Jill Flanigan who is also researching those lines and whose email bounced *

Greetings researchers, I've been doing Morris County folks on and off for a while, but mostly off the list. I just got "on" again so am back... I'm researching HART in Rockaway and CAREY in Madison, primarily. A newfound cousin was just told by Rockaway that thanks to a new NJ law, to get 1800s vital records she needs to prove her relationship to the person. PLEASE say it isn't so!!!! ~ Is that true? ~ Does NJ State Archives have the same restriction? ~ Does it really apply that long ago??? TIA for any assistance! Janet janetb@bigfoot.com Morris NJ: CAREY, HART, HINCH, CULLIGAN, DOBBINS, KEARNEY

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Although this doesn't speak to your present problem, my G-Aunt's maiden name was Shawger/Shauger; she spent her married life in Sussex County. Her full name was El(Al)myra Shawger/Shauger Hamler. She was married to Andrew H. Hamler. She was born in 1844 (place unknown) and died in Sussex Co. in 1911, after bearing 7 children. Before her marriage her life's circumstances meant that she lived with someone other than her parents. She had at least two brothers (who she did not live with). She is buried at Tranquility Methodist Cemetery, Green Twp, Sus Co, NJ. Her marriage date was 09 Mar 1864 at her future sister-in-law's home on Schooley Mountain. I have wondered if these might have been her father and brother: 1880 Census: Lewis SHAWGER Self W Male W 69 NJ Laborer NJ NY Andrew SHAWGER Son S Male W 26 NJ Miner NJ NY Kathleen In a message dated 5/9/03 6:14:19 AM US Mountain Standard Time, innerlite@springsips.com writes: > Hi All, > > I'm looking for info on the Shauger family that lived on Center Ave > (behind Western Ave). I believe Mr & Mrs Shauger died in the late 40's > or early 50's. They had a son, John. > > I'm doing this research for my Mother. They took care of her when she > was young and they were very special to her but now forgetfulness is > setting in and she can't remember their first names. > > Thanks for your help, > > Linda in Colorado > > >

I am researching Nathaniel Young a Weaver in Pine Brook NJ. I find Morgan Young, Nathan and Amos sons of Stephen Young but I have not found a connection for Nathaniel. Any help on his family connections or his occupation as a waever would be greatly appreciat __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com

Hi All, I'm looking for info on the Shauger family that lived on Center Ave (behind Western Ave). I believe Mr & Mrs Shauger died in the late 40's or early 50's. They had a son, John. I'm doing this research for my Mother. They took care of her when she was young and they were very special to her but now forgetfulness is setting in and she can't remember their first names. Thanks for your help, Linda in Colorado

Anyone have any GUTZWILER or MARZELL living around Hanover Avenue during the 1940/50/60s? Names would be Bill or Erwin (Gutzwiler) and Charles, Lillian, Richard, maybe others (Marzell). Many thanks rich in NH

Anyone ever looked up a court case that occurred in the 19th century? I found a reference to a "District Court" case between 2 parties (I believe the defendant was either the County Republican organization from Passaic county, or County Republican organization in Morris County, the newspaper article wasn't clear). I know the date it occurred (March 17, 1896). I am not clear if this was a "NJ District Court", possibly in Paterson or a "Federal District court" or possible a county court. The Article came from the Butler Argus (03/20/1896) which covered news mostly in Pompton, Pequannock, and West Milford Townships. Thanks. Dave Wisneski Pequannock, NJ

Are you speaking of Greystone Sanitarium? My Grandmother died there in 1937 and at first I went thru a bit of manuevering to get her death record. Greystone told me that they did not keep records from that long ago. For those of you whose relative died at Greystone Sanitarium, and you know the date of death, I was told to write the township of Parsippany, 1001 Parsippany Blvd., Parsippany, NJ 07054. The death certificate came back with the New Jersey seal and written at the top: "State of New Jersey Office of Registrar of Vital Statistics, twp of Parsippany-Troy Hills, Morris Co., New Jersey." With, "This is to certify that the following is correctly copied from a record of Death in my office. (signed) Judith I. Silver, Registrar of Vital Statistics. Municipal Building, 1001 Parsippany Blvd., Parsippany, NJ 07054." Kathleen