Diane, I don't have real answers, but perhaps the 1850 census returns will provide more clues. It appears that Henry Burns and Hannah Miller began married life in Sullivan County, New York, and Jacobus Miller may have been living there as well. 5 Sep 1850 1850 > NEW YORK > Sullivan > Mamakating Series: M432 Roll: 603 Page: 187 Henry Burns, age 32, Caulker Hannah Burns, age 21 Winfield Burns, age 1 [all born NY] [possible] 24 Oct 1850 1850 > NEW YORK > Sullivan > Fallsburg Series: M432 Roll: 603 Page: 187 Jocobus Miller, age 60? [could by 66], Farmer Catharine Miller, age 57 William Miller, age 27, Farmer Cornelius Miller, age ?? [perhaps 11] 19 Jul 1860 1860 > NEW YORK > ULSTER > ESOPUS Series: M653 Roll: 871 Page: 204 Henry Burns, age 36, Calker Hannah Burns, age 33 Winfield Burns, age 10 Merinda Burns, age 6 Wm H. Burns, age 3 Warren Burns, age 5 months Jacobus Miller, age 76 29 Jun 1870 1870 > NEW YORK > ORANGE > MONTGOMERY Series: M593 Roll: 1068 Page: 129 [Walden Post Office] Hannah Burns, age 41, K. house Winfield Burns, age 20, Works in Knife Joe Minerva Burns, age 16, Works in Wool Mill Wm H. Burns, age 13, Works in Knife Joe Warren Burns, age 10, at school (1880) District 2, Walden, Orange, New York FHL Film 1254910 NA Film Number T9-0910 Page Number 441A Winfield BURNS Self M Male W 29 NY Works In Knife Shop NY/NY Mary BURNS Wife M Female W 33 NY Keeping House NY/NY Hattie BURNS Dau S Female W 7 NY At Home NY/NY Willie BURNS Son S Male W 4 NY At Home NY/NY Freddy BURNS Son S Male W 2 NY At Home NY/NY Best regards, Pam Sears Diane Stefane wrote: > Seeking the identities and pedigrees of the following three families > of Orange/Montgomery Counties in the Montgomery/Walden area: > > Jacobus Miller, b. 1783-1784 (he appears in the household of > daughter Hannah and son-in-law Henry Burns in Esopus, Ulster > County, age 76, with no wife.) The Burns family bible list > Jacobus Miller's death as 10 April 1860, which obviously is a > mistake, because he is alive as of census date 18 July of that > year. I'm seeking verification of the death of Jacobus Miller: > possibilities 10 Aug 1860, 10 Apr 1861, etc. He was dead before > the 1870 census, as daughter Hannah Miller Burns, widow, is living > in Walden township with her children on the 1870 census, and her > father is no longer with her. I have found entries for Jacobus > Miller in the township of Montgomery in 1790, 1800, 1810 and 2 in > 1820. There is also an 1820 entry for a third Jacobus Miller in > Wallkill in 1820. In 1790, there appears to have been a number of > heads of family Miller all living in Montgomery. Can anyone help > me with the history of this family? > > According to the Burns family bible entries, Henry Burns was b. 25 > Jan 1823; d.12 May 1861. He married 25 Dec 1848 Hannah Miller, who > was b. 22 June 1828. No places are noted with these dates. Their > children were Winfield Scott Burns b. 24 Apr 1850; d. 8 Mar. 1919; > William burns b. 1 Aug 1852, d. 24 Apr 1855; Minerva Burns b. 26 > June 1853, Alonzo Burns b. 6 Sep 1854, d. 3 Nov 1859; Henry Burns > b. 20 July 1857, Warren Burns b. 20 Feb 1860. Henry Burns d. 12 > May 1861, his widow Hannah Miller Burns d.7 Apr 1880. I do not > find traces of Henry Burns family in the Montgomery area before his > widow and children moved there, presumably to be near her > relatives after the deaths of her husband and father. It may be > that the Burns were an Ulster County family. Hannahs children grew > up and remained in the Wallkill Valley area. Does anyone have > knowledge of this Burns family? > > Winfield Scott Burns Sr, son of Henry and Hannah (MIller) Burns, b. > 24 Apr 1850, married 4 May 1875, according to the Burns family > bible, one Mary Henry. NY State Death Index lists her death as 3 > June 1928 in Walden; her gravestone dates her birth at 1848. > Although I have seen some Henry family references in Wallkill > Vally, and in the Orange County Reform Dutch Church records, I have > no means of connecting them to my Mary Henry. Any information > about this family would be new to me. The children of Winfiled > Scott and Mary (Henry) Burns, presumably all born at Walden, were > Hattie, b. 20 Oct 1873, m. Hennry C. Burrows and removed to > Brooklyn, NY; William, b. 11 Spe 1875, m. Jeannette Hasbouck; > Frreddie b. 7 Mar 1878, m. Laura ?; Lillian May b. 11 May 1882, m. > 17 Sep 1902 Frank McMahon; Evalenne b. 17 June 1886, d. 16 Aug > 1888; Winfield Scott Burns Jr. b. 25 Jan 1889, d. 1956, m. 23 Aug > 1908 Annie F. McFeeters. Winfield & Mary (Henry) Burns are buried > at Wallkill Valley Ceme! tery, as are his brother William & wife > Helen (Clearwater) Burns. > > I would greatly appreciate any assistance with the Burns, Milller > and Henry families noted above. > > Thank you. > > Diane Stefane Chesapeake VA >