For any of you subscribers who actually live in the area of Duchess County, New York, and particularly those who live in the area of Poughkeepsie, this is an appeal for help! Apparently the only way I am going to be able to trace the families of my Great Great Grandfather Abraham Pendlebury and his wife Elinor (Ellen) Fawcett is to ask for help from you. I am eighty years old, living in Florida, and cannot travel to personally do the research necessary in the way that the records of Duchess County requires. I have found that essentially you have to be able to precisely identify what records you need and pay a fee to copy them even if they turn out to be the wrong ones! To do this at a distance is just not possible. What I am looking for is any data, information, traces, clues or whatever on the families mentioned above. The information that I do have is that the Pendlebury family consisting of father John and mother Alice, and children Mary, Jane, Jacob, Elizabeth, Alice, Hannah and my Great Grandfather Abraham arrived in New York on the ship Echo in April, 1842 from Liverpool. There is evidence that the family went to Poughkeepsie, N. Y. because I have found and confirmed that Abram (sic) married Ellen Taucet (also sic), both of Poughkeepsie on 10/13/1845 and the pastor was Rev. A. F. Palmer, but the church is not cited. This came from the 10/15/1845 issue of the Poughkeepsie Telegram. But there is apparently no evidence of either the Pendlebury family or the Fawcett family which consisted of Thomas, wife Margaret, George, Thomas, Jr., Elinor (Ellen), Mary, and William. I cannot find them in any of the census data available, probably because they were there between the census's of 1840 and 1850. But they must have left some traces somewhere. I have found the names of Jacob, Elizabeth and Mary in the 1850 census, but what happened to the parents and the rest of the family?? I would welcome help in trying to find this information which could be in listings or directories, cemeteries, vital records of births, deaths, burials of that period, including cemetery records which may even show where my Great Grandfather was buried. Please contact me. Dean V. Dannewitz