I am passing this on from a fellow Smith researcher who is looking for help. If you can help him, please note his email address after his name. thanks. > My maternal grandmother is a second generation American from Irish > ancestry. I know than her grandparents were probably born in Ireland. > The family used a really neat way of naming the kids. So her brother is > named Davis Lewis Smith . He was given the first name of his paternal > grandfather David I. Smith and the surname of his maternal grandmother > Anna Marie Lewis. David and Winifred (thats my maternal grandmother) were > the oldest and the youngest of a family of 4 children born to Samuel Fair > Smith and Cynthia Ann Wood. I don't know who or where the name Samuel > came from but his middle name is the surname of his maternal grandmother > Margaret Fair (born 1791 in Ireland)was the child of John Fair and Jane > Dempsey and it was she who married a Young. Hence she was known as widow > Margaret Young in the 1880 census living with her daughter Sarah Young and > Andrew Barr. Margaret Young Smith and David had several children > including Frances, Jane, the twin boys, Samuel, and Sarah probably all > born at Mount Vernon, Westchester county. Samuel was born in August 1858. > I found Andrew Barr in the 1850 Census living as a boarder in the home of > his employer a lace merchant in New York City. He was married by 1860 and > Sara h's mother Margaret Young was living with them. By 1870 they were > also in Mt. Vernon. I am a bit confused with where Sarah Young was born > as one census says New York City in 1833 another says Ireland. Her > sister Margaret Young is always shown as born in Ireland 1825.I have not > found the ship that they came to America on. Thanks for any insights you > may have in my search. I used Census records from 1850 on but I don't > have the name of Margaret and Sara h's father. I also do not know where > Margaret Fair Young is buried but she was living in 1880. Could you post > this on one or more of the lists that you are subscribed to please. > > Daniel David Lewis Frommherz mckenzie_market@mckenzievalleymarket.com -- Pat Connors, visiting South Lee, MA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com