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Quaker Family History / Re: Mamaroneck Meeting Records
« on: Sunday 13 November 16 02:06 GMT (UK) »
Thanks for your response, chrispl - I appreciate it !
In my previous work, I had searched the Hazard Index of the New York Yearly Meetings ... using every spelling variant I could think of, and found nothing. I found the Surrogates Court records of Samuel's estate - from which I got the names of 7 children. I could find none of their births or marriages, either.
In the Hazard index, there were 1,763 births with a last name starting with R. I imported all of these into an Excel spreadsheet, so I could search by "first three letters of last name = "Rob" ... and other such tricks. I found nothing for Samuel or any of his children.
In deciding to request the Purchase Monthly Meeting microfilms, I had looked at all the Westchester County Meetings, and how far the family would have had to travel from Mamaroneck to attend a different meeting. The next closest meeting at the time - Chappaqua - would have taken ~3 hours each way, I'm guessing:
Scarsdale 5 mi (Records known extant: 1898 onward - not old enough)
Purchase 7 mi
Chappaqua 17 mi
Croton Valley 24 mi
Amawalk 30 mi
Yorktown Heights 31 mi
I didn't think it likely they would do that.
So I'm really at a loss here. Maybe he wasn't really a Quaker ? Or is there some other repository of records I'm missing ?
In my previous work, I had searched the Hazard Index of the New York Yearly Meetings ... using every spelling variant I could think of, and found nothing. I found the Surrogates Court records of Samuel's estate - from which I got the names of 7 children. I could find none of their births or marriages, either.
In the Hazard index, there were 1,763 births with a last name starting with R. I imported all of these into an Excel spreadsheet, so I could search by "first three letters of last name = "Rob" ... and other such tricks. I found nothing for Samuel or any of his children.
In deciding to request the Purchase Monthly Meeting microfilms, I had looked at all the Westchester County Meetings, and how far the family would have had to travel from Mamaroneck to attend a different meeting. The next closest meeting at the time - Chappaqua - would have taken ~3 hours each way, I'm guessing:
Scarsdale 5 mi (Records known extant: 1898 onward - not old enough)
Purchase 7 mi
Chappaqua 17 mi
Croton Valley 24 mi
Amawalk 30 mi
Yorktown Heights 31 mi
I didn't think it likely they would do that.
So I'm really at a loss here. Maybe he wasn't really a Quaker ? Or is there some other repository of records I'm missing ?