Does anyone know if there are records kept as far back as 1860 in the Buffalo/Springville area? My gggrandfather, Stephen G Hooker married my gggrandmother, Helen Nash Norton of Springville in June of 1849. I only know the date from a newspaper article in Chicago when they celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. No mention of her parents though. Their first child, Alice G. Hooker, was born in NY and I am assuming the Buffalo area or Springville. They then moved to Chicago, IL in 1852. It said in Alices's obit that she had to take a canal boat to get to Chicago, IL to be married, so she must have been staying with relatives/grandparents? there until time to get married since her parents were in Chicago. Unfortunately, I can't find her wedding records or anything about it because it happened right before the Great Chicago fire of 1871 and the records were lost. But I have been trying to find out who Helen Nash Norton's parents were? Does anyone know anything about Springville or Nortons in that area or perhaps Nash's? I figure that must be a family name. Thanks for any and all or even no info! Linda Hooker Lathrop

You can read The History of the original town of Concord by Briggs on line at ancestry.com. They have all 741 pages of it including biographical sketches. This is where I found my clue to where in England my Prior clan originated. Even though the text said they came from Backs Hill in England and it took me months to figure out they meant Bexhill...it was just the clue I needed to open up my whole Prior family back to 1560. Do check this book out if you have Concord/Springville ancestors. I believe it has been reprinted by June Zintz more recently and if I recall correctly some other libraries may have it in full text on line. Marilyn Jewett Tracey ----- Original Message ----- From: "Linda Lathrop" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 11:58 PM Subject: [NYERIE] ? about Springville and my ancestors > Does anyone know if there are records kept as far back as 1860 in the > Buffalo/Springville area? > My gggrandfather, Stephen G Hooker married my gggrandmother, Helen Nash > Norton of Springville > in June of 1849. I only know the date from a newspaper article in Chicago > when they celebrated their > 50th wedding anniversary. No mention of her parents though. > > Their first child, Alice G. Hooker, was born in NY and I am assuming the > Buffalo area or Springville. > They then moved to Chicago, IL in 1852. > > It said in Alices's obit that she had to take a canal boat to get to > Chicago, IL to be married, so she must have been staying with > relatives/grandparents? there until time to get married since her parents > were > in Chicago. Unfortunately, I can't find her wedding records or anything > about it because it happened > right before the Great Chicago fire of 1871 and the records were lost. > > But I have been trying to find out who Helen Nash Norton's parents were? > > Does anyone know anything about Springville or Nortons in that area or > perhaps Nash's? I figure that must be a family name. > > Thanks for any and all or even no info! > > Linda Hooker Lathrop > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.19.20/1262 - Release Date: 2/6/2008 > 9:13 AM > >