This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: NONNYLOU1 Surnames: Seeley, Seelye, Shotwell Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.newyork.counties.niagara/433.429.2.1.1.2.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I'm "Nancy come lately" here but have just started hashing over family info with a newly found distant Shotwell cousin. He has his great grandfather's scrapbook that is sometimes vague and confusing. My Gr greatgrandmother was Mary Matilda Seeley, born 6 Oct 1833 and died 14 Nov 1905 in Buffalo (she'd married James Morgan Shotwell, lived in Ontario, MI, IL, MN and Erie Co NY) purported in this scrapbook to have been born in Poverty Ridge, Niagara Co. I find a Mary M, of the right age, in the Orin Seeley (Seelye) household in the 1850 census in Porter. BUT Scrapbook says Mary M had sisters Amelia and Emma and a brother John and the Orin household does not have any of them. Scrapbook has that Amelia married Mr Dalrympl and had Louis and Catherine, maybe in IL. Emma married Mr Gould and had Ruth and John. Also mentions an uncle Eben or Ebenezer and Napoleon Seeley and a grist mill at Johnson's Creek, which I find mentioned in a history of Hartland, Niagara Co. I'm laying all this out here to see if it helps anyone else AND vice versa. I'm thinking that that scrapbook, done in the 1930s, may have some "leads" but not necessarily proven facts, as my cousin calls some of the info "random notes on the Seeley page" and I may be right with the Orin Seeley family. Would love to hear any thoughts!! Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.