***for those who don't have access to Ancestry.com, I have a link to the full-text version of the Briggs book at the top of my Springville website (I am from Springville too): http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~springville/ At 03:16 PM 2/7/2008, you wrote: >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 > > > > > > >------------------------------- >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