Hello, Charles... "Fane" is likely Mary's maiden name since you provide her surname as Latham (her married name). Have you searched the 1820, 1830 and 1840 census for Brooklyn? You should find Augustus listed with his parents and siblings up to a certain point. The 1820 census may reveal John as unmarried or it may reveal siblings older than Augustus. Depending on whether Augustus was a first born son or a later child, you can work backward to determine a 5-year span in which his parents may have married. If he was the youngest child, you may have to go back to the 1810 census to find an unmarried John. If Mary was from Connecticut, there's a good chance the marriage took place there rather than in New York State. Have you located her maiden surname in Connecticut? If you know the area of Brooklyn in which the family lived, you should be able to find out which churches were close by. Knowing the family's nationality will help, too, in determining if the family was Protestant or Catholic. (No guarantees -- one of my GGG's, supposedly English Protestant, is leaning heavily in favor of Irish Catholic!) Although NYS did not require birth certificates prior to 1880, much information can be found in county, town or village records -- including newspapers -- for earlier dates. I'm not sure how far back the Brooklyn Eagle goes, but you may find citations for the Latham family that will yield clues, even if the family lived in Nassau County or elsewhere on Long Island. One of my GG's -- a Congregationalist minister who emigrated from England in 1892 -- surfaced in the Brooklyn Eagle in 1898-1901 as a Presbyterian minister near Hempstead; I'd already figured out he was Presbyterian based on family stories, but I had no idea he was in Hempstead before 1906. Good luck! ~~Cadia