In a message dated 02/08/2000 9:43:37 PM Eastern Standard Time, clifflamere@global2000.net writes: << Things are complicated by the fact that an 1808 bp. occurred at Caughnawaga RDC, the parents being Rachel Van Derbergh and Nicholas F. Gardineer. Sounds like the same couple to me, but was the woman really having children for 24 years? >> Cliff, it's a distinct possibility that she was. My great grandmother had her first child in 1879 (she was 16) and her last child in 1908. Mary Slack Maynard Researching Slack, Gregory, Hopper, Bigelow/Bigalow, Nichols, Dunning, Mead, Fish in NY and New England, Nash, Maginn/McGinn, Donahue, Vokes in NY and Ireland, Aird and Crombie in NY and Scotland