I have to reply to the whole list with my excitement - this what genealogy is all about, and especially the wide community we are because of the internet! I have been looking for Carroll family information for some time now and have posted my inquiries on the Carroll family list. I subscribe to this list for all the pointers to the geographic sources necessary since they were from Rensselaer County. Imagine my surprise as I read this posting in my mail this morning!!! I will write to Jim under separate cover, but Charles Carroll was my great-grandfather and lived most of his life in Vermont and Massachusetts, settling (and buried in) Rowe, Massachusetts. His youngest daughter was my grandmother, her only daughter my mother (Thomas>Robert>Charles>Jessie>Phyllis>me!) I have Robert's pension files and there are no parents listed, but an obscure note from another family member's files mentioned Thomas and *Elizabeth* as parents. I found them in cemetary records and wrote to the town clerk only to be informed their records start later than these deaths and I need to write to the state - something I have not yet done. Anyway - thank you all for sharing for keeping this list alive! Blessings - Susan ----- Original Message ----- From: <Vlaicu57@aol.com> To: <NYRENSSE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 9:00 AM Subject: [NYRENSSE] Marriages performed by A.M. Beveridge, Lansingburgh > Am researching the family of Thomas Carroll and Mary Moss Carroll, who > apparently lived in Saratoga Co and Rensselaer Co in the 1840s and 1850s. One > probable son Robert Carroll fought in the Civil War for Colrain, Franklin Co > MA. According to his pension file, he married Ellen James Williams Sept 29 > 1855 at Hoosick Falls. I wrote to Hoosick Falls town clerk, there are no > records for Hoosick Falls that early. They were married by A.M. Beveridge, > Minister of the Gospel, Lansingburgh. Does anyone on this mailing list know > if A.M. Beveridge's records still exist? Should I try Lansingburgh? > Robert Carroll and Ellen James Williams had two sons, both claimed to be born > in Stillwater: Charles R Carroll Dec 12, 1856 and William J Carroll, Oct 5, > 1860. According to marriage and death records for Charles and William, their > father Robert was born in Petersburg. > Have no proof that Robert was the son of Thomas Carroll and Mary Moss > Carroll. Robert Carroll died in the Civil War. Am hoping his marriage record > will have parents listed. Thomas and Mary were from Ireland, married in > Canada in 1838. They settled in St. Albans Vt circa 1860. They had many > children, all apparently born in NY before the move to VT. Their son Michael > Carroll (my great great grandfather) may have been born Saratoga. Can't find > the family on 1840 or 1850 census of Saratoga Co or Rensselaer Co. > Jim Carroll > > > ==== NYRENSSE Mailing List ==== > Barbara's Genealogy Page: http://members.tripod.com/~JeffriesB > Rensselaer County Genweb page: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyrensse/ > GenConnect Board: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/NY/Rensselaer > Listowner, Pat Connors: mailto:nymets11@pacbell.net > >