At 02:10 PM 9/16/2008, you wrote: >Looking for a MARY BECKWITH who is said to have gone to that County after >1890. She was born about 1869 to Nancy Bercier in Crogan, Lewis Co., NY. > >Mary was adopted by a Smith family and prior to 1889 married Will Beckwith >orinally from Canada. They had a daughter, Maude, born in Camden, Oneida >Co. NY 25 Jan 1889. > >For an unknown reason the marriage to Beckwith terminated and she left >Camden and went to Chenango County. Maude's obit said Mary, her mother, died >when Maude was a small child but no other details were given. Mary is my >Brickwall. This doesn't really answer your question - but - in the 1900 census for Oneida County - Camden township page 122B. Will Beckwith - W - M - b. Dec 1865? - 35 yrs old - born Canada, parents born there also He is listed in household of Sarah A Allen - W - F - July 18? - 56? 0 - b. Vermont, unknown where parents born Further up the same page - Maud Beckwith - listed as a boarder at age 12 living with Edward and Emma H. Valentine. Birth info listed as Mar. 1888, b. NY, father - Canada, mother - NY Tim