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Comment by maggie yesterday

the  reason  i  ask  i  use  to  live  in new  york  and  i know  Rochester 

Comment by Christine McCloud yesterday

The main family is Pleau; the daughters married Weber (or Webber), Weilert, and Britenstool.

Comment by maggie on Tuesday

what  are  your  names  from  rochester  ny?

Comment by Christine McCloud on Tuesday

Massachusetts is where all my ancestry seems to converge!  (Which makes sense, since I was born there.)  In Eastern MA, my ancestors are from Nova Scotia, Maine, Rhode Island, and Rochester NY.  In Western MA, they're straight from Poland & 1 line from Lithuania via Long Island.  

Comment by James P. LaLone on December 20, 2011 at 3:39pm

From another query board I got my answer -

“This must be the William Holmes who came on the Hercules in 1635 [NEHGR 75:219], settled first at Scituate [PCR 8:182], and removed by 1658 to Marshfield [PCR 8:201].

The maiden name of his wife Elizabeth is not known. Very little is known of her, mainly that she died at Marshfield 17-Feb-1798 at the age of 86 [Marshfield VR 19; MD 5:233]. William's ancestry is not known. Note that Rev. John Holmes. husband of Mary Wood/Atwood, was not a son of William. See the sketch of the family of William Holmes at 3:392-397 in Robert Charles Anderson, "The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635," 7 Volumes (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1999-2011).

Dale H. Cook, Member, NEHGS and MA Society of Mayflower Descendants;
Plymouth Co. MA Coordinator for the USGenWeb Project
Administrator of http://plymouthcolony.net “

Comment by James P. LaLone on December 20, 2011 at 1:50pm

I am searching for the maiden name of Elizabeth, wife of William HOLMES, b. c. 1591/2 in England, who settled in Plymouth Co., MA. There are a number of trees on WorldConnect giving Elizabeth's maiden name as MADDEN. Can anyone produce documentation for that? Also William's lineage is given on about 102 trees (some with sources but no documentation), all which state that the gr-gr-grandfather is William HOLMES m. to Catherine HILYARD. However, the only source that I have found so far is the Yorkshire Visitation that states William HOLMES (the gr-gr-grandfather) was married to Ellen HILYARD and who had no son William (gr-grandfather) to my ancestor William who married Elizabeth and settled in MA.

Can anyone provide documentation to this lineage if it really exists, thanks, Jim.

Comment by Connie Underwood on October 31, 2011 at 11:12pm

Looking for the following familes, Hall, Stevens, Stiles, Gooch (boston).  Thanks

Connie

Comment by Maureen on October 4, 2011 at 7:58am

Just wanted to let everyone know that I have Lowell Massachusetts directories for the years 1903, 1929 and 1937.  Anyone that would like a lookup, please don't hesitate to ask.  I also have access to newspaperarchives.com.

Comment by Daralyn Rennick on October 4, 2011 at 6:54am

Hi,

My grandmother Eti Lapidus was born in Boston in 1894. Her parents were Adolf Lapidus born c 1863 and who was Russian and Sarah (unknown surname) born c1869 who was German. I have this info from my grandmother's birth certificate. At the time of her birth they lived in Middlesex Street, Suffolk, Boston, Mass. 

Adolf and Sarah both emigrated from Galacia to the USA. They arrived in New York in 1888 and settled in Boston, Mass. Eti had a brother Luis and a sister who was Elizabeth but seems to have been called Fanny.

I have found the passenger ship records from when Adolf and Sarah arrived in the USA and also of when Sarah and the children came to the UK. Its a mystery as to what happened to Adolf. When they came to the UK there is even more mystery as my grandmother and her brother were put into an orphanage and Sarah and the middle child seem to have disappeared off the face of the earth. There are no death records for either of them.

There are a lot of people with the name Lapidus in Boston...surely one or more of them is related to Adolf? But how do I find out?  I'm completely at a loss as to where to look for info to help me.

Does anyone have any ideas please?

Thanks.

 

Lyn

Comment by Sarah Coles on August 22, 2011 at 3:40pm

Wendy, disregard my last comment.  I missed the discussion you already posted.

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