You wrote: >98/04/04 Bertie Hoch Bhhoch55 Looking for info on Rachel AURYANSEN m.John >DeCLARK in 1837 . Their son, James m. Mary Elizabeth VAN WIE in 1871. Mary >Elizabeth was b. in Nyack, James and Rachel in Piermont. Rachel's parents were >Abraham AURYANSEN and Sarah DEMAREST, both born in Tappan. Here's what I have: Arijanse, Abraham (Auryensen; Adriance) Abraham Arijanse, son of Daniel Adriance (Auryansen) & Christina (Tiny) Cole, m. 29 Aug 1812 Tappan Ref Ch "both of Tappan," Sara Demarest, dau. of Jacobus Demarest & (1) Rachel Smith Abraham Arijanse was b. 2 Sep 1793; bp. 6 Oct 1793 Tappan Ref Ch; d. 31 Oct 1875, aged 82.1.20; buried Rockland Cemetery, Sparkill, NY Sara Demarest was b. 13 Aug 1792; bp. 2 Sep 1792 Tappan Ref Ch; d. 15 Sep 1877, aged 84.11.2; buried Rockland Cemetery, Sparkill, NY They lived at Piermont, NY, where he was a cabinetmaker. Abram Aurianson, 71, cabinet maker, and Sarah, his wife, 72, mother of six children, were listed in the 1865 New York State Census living in the town of Orangetown, Rockland County, NY. Listed living with them were: Cornelius Aurianson, 37, son, tin smith, parent of two children, married twice; Johannis, 10, grandson; Jane, 33, b. Rensselaer Co., daughter in law, mother of one child; George, 1-2/12 grandson. ---children of Abraham Arijanse & Sara Demarest: * Daniel Arijanse, b. 3 Dec, bp. 31 Dec 1813 Tappan Ref Ch (no wit); m. Eliza Ann Johnson * Rachel Aureyansen, b. 27 Nov 1816; bp. 21 Dec 1816 Tappan Ref Ch (no wit); m. 1837 John DeClark * Christina Aureyansen, b. 20 July 1819; bp. 6 Aug 1819 Tappan Ref Ch (no wit); m. (1) Adrian G. Onderdonk; m. (2) Tunis Bell * James Demarest Aureyansen, b. 18 Sep 1821; bp. 10 Oct 1821 Tappan Ref Ch (no wit); m. Sarah Chandler * John Aureyansen, b. 3 Oct 1824; bp. 7 Nov 1824 Tappan Ref Ch (no wit); m. Louisa Henderson * Cornelius Aureyansen, b. 26 July 1828; bp. 31 Aug 1828 Tappan Ref Ch (no wit); m. (1) Jane Savage; m. (2) Jane E. Allen ---Sources: Tappan Baptisms; Ryerson, Albert Winslow, The Ryerson Genealogy, 1916, p. 321; Zabriskie, George Olin, The Zabriskie Family, Vol. I, p. 146; The Demarest Family, 1964, Vol. I, p. VI-22 (#6-200); Second Book of Records of Tappan [Reformed] Church [Tappan, NY], copied Aug 1937 by Louis L. Blauvelt; 1865 New York State Census, Rockland County, 1st Election District, Town of Orangetown, taken June 1865, Dwelling 121; "Betrothals and Marriages of the Dutch Reformed Church of Tappan, Rockland County, NY" in The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, serialized, beginning in issue Vol. LXXXIV, No. 3 (July 1953) Pat Pat Wardell in Bergen County, NJ wardell@nis.net http://nis.net/~wardell