Jackie and Michelle, These are probably the same families. The name was spelled and prounounced many ways - what did the English and Dutch know about French names. The are two volumes of the DEMAREST geneaolgy in the New City Library, Rockland co, NY. For the complete reference, see the Webpages for the Genealogical Society of Rockland County and follow the links to Genealogies in the New City Library. http://www/~nyrockla/GSRC/ Bob Protzmann > -----Original Message----- > From: Michelle Stone [SMTP:71172.2370@compuserve.com] > Sent: Friday, May 07, 1999 9:45 AM > To: NYROCKLA-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [NYROCKLA-L] 1910 ce > > >>Michelle... I have Demarest's (pronounced Demaray) from the Nyack/Tappan > > area: Margaret Elizabeth Haring b. 01/31/1851, wife of James Abraham > Hasbrouck... dau. of Fredericus and Margaret Demarest. Could there be a > connection? Jackie bunny-jo@webtv.net<< > > Hi, Jackie, > > I don't know if there's a connection between your Demarests and my > DEMAREs. > But I'm intrigued to learn that your Demarest surname is pronounced > "Demaray". I had seen a lot of Demarests in Nyack indexes and the cemetery > > there I visited, but hadn't before considered them to be related.... > > My PETER DEMARE was a wheelwright in Savannah, GA, 40 years old, in the > 1860 > census. He was a German immigrant born in Nassau, Germany, married to > SOPHIA > (age 25) born in Hanover, Germany, the census says. These names match the > names of parents (Peter Demare and Sophia Landsmann) on their daughter, > Margaret Demare Stone's death certificate. They had children Catherine and > > Henry in Savannah, and Margaret was born there circa 1864. After the Civil > > War they moved to Nyack, I was told. Margaret and her sister, "Kate > Demarie" > are buried in Massachusetts. The marriage of Peter and Sophia is listed as > > "Peter Demery and Sophia Landman" - so it is hard to tell just how the > surname was pronounced. > > If your Demarests in Nyack were from Germany, perhaps ours are related. I > did > find a Peter Demare coming into New York from Havre in 1855 on the S.S. > H.A. > Miller, a ship filled with German farmers--he was listed as a U.S. citizen > > age 38. In the Savannah records I found that a Peter Demere was > naturalized > May 1856. But if the DEMARE surname is pronounced Demeray, perhaps his > family > was originally from France, before Germany. > > I throw out this mess of details because that's all I have at the moment; > perhaps something here will ring a bell with you. > > Best wishes, > > Michelle Stone in Marietta, GA 71172.2370@compuserve.com > > Searching DEMERE / EHMANN / GILCHER / KREISCHER / LIPKE / ROBERTS (NY, MA) > / > STONE (NY, MA) / WOLFRATH > > > ==== NYROCKLA Mailing List ==== > If you enjoy NYROCKLA-L, please go to > http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html > and become a RootsWeb supporter. Also, be sure to > visit the Rockland Co. NY GenWeb page at > http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyrockla/