This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: eroneil1 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.newyork.counties.saintlawrence/6208.1.3/mb.ashx Message Board Post: My grandmother was Cynthia VanOrnum Smith...her brother was Harry....their grandmother was from Montreal....her name was originally Bridgett McTerney...they lived in Mmontreal and her dad worked at Mount Royal...Bridgett worked in the kitchen....along came a man from England named ....???Johnson and fell in love with her beauty..he waited til she was 14 and got married....They had 4 children...Eliz. (retarded) Geroge, Lincoln and one more ?? After George was born, her hubby, Johnson, died...she had 4 kids and was about 24 yrs. old...She ended up in Malone, NY and wed James Orson VanOrnum (a 60 yr. old truck farmer ...she was 24 and his 3rd wife)....he did not like the name Bridgett and changed it to Mary...she became Mary Mc Tierney Johnson Van Ornum.. This is all I know about my grandmother, Cynthia VanOrnum Smith...I am the daugher of her 1st son, Loren Daniel,,,born 11/22/1901 Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.