Hi, This is my first posting to this list. I live in Australia and have mostly been searching for my Newell and Glasse families in London, England. I have found that quite a number of them went to Buffalo and hope that someone here may be able to assist me with my research of the Buffalo links. I will list the people in order of apparent arrival in Buffalo. The first was JOSIAH EDWARD GLASSE (born London 1825 - died ?). He married Janet Yuill in London in 1848 and some time between that date and 1853 they may have lived in the US. Their first child, Thomas, stated on various census forms in England that he was born in 1851 in NY, USA. I do not know if it was NY City or NY State. They were back in London by 1853 as my GGrandmother, AMY MARY GLASSE was born there in 1853. 2 more daughters followed, Isabella Ada and Jessie. Jessie died in childhood and their mother, Janet died in 1859. The next piece of information I have on Josiah is that he married Jessie Simpson in Glasgow, Scotland in 1871. Sometime between this date and 1880 they travelled to Buffalo as they were there in 1880 in the US census. (Source Information: Census Place Buffalo, Erie, New York Family History Library Film 1254831 NA Film Number T9-0831 Page Number 135C ). He was a gasfitter. The next members of the family I have found in Buffalo are SARAH GRACE GLASSE (Josiah's sister) and ISABELLA ADA GLASSE (Josiah's daughter). They travelled together in 1896 to Buffalo. I found them on the Ellis Island site. I have not found them back in England yet so I guess they must have stayed there. They were both spinsters. in 1881 they were living together in London. The next member of the family who may have been in Buffalo (although I could not find her on the Ellis Island site) was AMY ISABEL NEWELL. She was Josiah's granddaughter. In 1915 her mother, AMY MARY (GLASSE) NEWELL travelled to visit her in hospital in Buffalo according to the ships manifest I found on Ellis Island site. I have recently found that another Newell family travelled to Buffalo to visit relatives but I can't read the name of the relative. This family consisted of HENRY NEWELL and his children, Bertha, Nellie, Harry (9) and Charles (8) arrived in New York on way to Buffalo on 31 Jan 1906. This family was not related to the Glasse family at all, Henry was Amy Newell's brother-in-law. The final member of the family was JOHN GLASSE NEWELL, my Great Uncle, who was Josiah's grandson and Amy's son. I found him returning in 1919 on the Ellis Island site. He stated that he lived in Buffalo and his wife, Bertha was there. He said he had lived there for 13 years but I can not find his first entry. I have not found his marriage yet or any children. He died in 1982 aged 102. I sent for his social security form and it is definitely the correct person. My grandfather, his brother, died when my father was a child so my father had no contact with his paternal family at all. JOHN GLASSE NEWELL did send my grandmother some money for the children for a while after my grandfather died and when it stopped coming they assumed he had died. As I now know he died in 1982 I think the money stopped because of the depression. I am sorry this is a long posting and I hope there may be some other listers there who are researching these names. Thank you for reading this, Pauline Newell