This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YUB.2ACI/2066 Message Board Post: I recently found a Rockland Cty Deed from March 1858 where 75 acres in Haverstraw is being conveyed to Abraham Welch and his sister Harriet Welch Armstrong. The deed says that Peter DeNoyelles purchased the land from Baxter June,Jr. in 1827 to be held "in trust for Mary Welch, wife of John Welch of Haverstraw during her natural life and after her decease to be conveyed to Harriet and Abraham Welch, daughter and son of Mary". Mary supposedly died in March of 1858 and the executor of Peter DeNoyelles estate is conveying the land according to the terms of the trust. Question - Does anyone know what the connection is between Peter DeNoyelles and Mary Welch (also spelled Welsh or Walsh). Mary is in my line and I am trying to figure out her parents. Her dates are estimated as 1783-1858. Could Peter be her father or brother? Does anyone have the names of the children of Peter DeNoyelles? Somewhere I read that he had 12 children. Thanks - Barb