Seeking information about the family lines of FIRMAN & BRADSHAW. These names involve a family mystery of sorts. Perhaps someone reading this and who know of FIRMANs or BRADSHAWs having removed to Michigan can help in unraveling it. William Elias FIRMAN (b. c1819 NY) & Sarah Marie BRADSHAW (b. c1833 NY) likely married in the three-county area of Herkimer-Montgomery -Otsego then removed to Michigan where son William Warren FIRMAN (Feb 1853) was born in Macomb Co. [dau.’s birth record]. Another son George (1863) was born at Sand Beach (now Harbor Beach) in Huron Co. located in the Thumb [marriage record]. The daughter Eliza Marie (b. 28 Mar 1855 MI) married Dana Parker CARTER in Lapeer Co. MI (1873) [“Pioneer Families and History of Lapeer County”]. However, no proof can be found that father William Elias FIRMAN actually made it to Lapeer. Mother Sarah FIRMIN did, however, and is found [1870 Census] living with the Rubin BRADSHAW family along with two FIRMAN children - George, mentioned above, and Horace (b. abt 1860 MI). Son William Warren age 16 [17] at the time is found working on a farm nearby. And Eliza Marie age 15 is not seen and may also have been working elsewhere. Whatever happened to the father remains a mystery. However the body of the mother Sarah Marie Bradshaw FIRMAN who died in Lapeer Co. MI (1899), was removed by her sons for burial in Clarksville MI in the western county of Ionia. [funeral home record]. This last location only deepens the mystery as her adult children remained on the east side of the state. May it please -- would anyone having ties to any of the above mentioned counties AND the surnames FIRMAN or BRADSHAW please make contact. Thank you. Wade Dick Bradenton FL FIRMAN-BRADSHAW>FIRMAN-SWEET>FIRMAN-NASH>DICK-FIRMAN>Wade DICK _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx