Trip, Day 12 and 13 [Updated]

Days 12 and 13, DC

We missed the Harshaw cousin Thursday night, but had a fine day for touring DC on Friday, including several war memorials. Met a cousin of Marjorie's late husband for lunch at the American Indian museum's cafeteria and heard fascinating talk on his genealogical researches (an incredible number of people in his database) and the issue of reunions, both of families and of military vets. After a short time touring the museum on to an Irish pub to meet with a McCauley cousin. He's more conscious of privacy concerns on the Internet than I am so I'll try to restrain my impulses to put everything on the net :-), when it comes to him and his branch of the family. We shared results--he's a very good photographer and has better pictures of the Number 9 new cemetery gravestones than I did. Talked of having summertimes in Canandaigua and the large number of cousins he had.

Then home to Reston for supper, taking Marjorie back to her hotel from whence she will leave Saturday for home.

[Updated--see post in Faceless.]

To and From York, PA

June Lloyd at Universal York has a post on the railroad age in York, which permitted people and goods easy access to many places.

One little appreciated vehicle of transportation for the York area was the Susquehanna River. I bought, skimmed, and almost immediately misplaced a book on working lives in the Broome County, NY area. Apparently for many years lumbering was the big industry there, beginning in the 1790's and going on until about the 1850's. Men would fell the trees, particularly during the winter, skid them to the river(s), and in the spring float them down the Susquehanna to market. Then the raftmen would travel back to Broome county.

My guess is the river path was probably the way the Rippeys, McCauley's, Blacks, and McIntyres traveled from York and Lancaster Counties to Ontario County, NY

Rippey

For what it's worth, this DIRECTORY OF IRISH FAMILY HISTORY RESEARCH shows these as research interests:

RIPPY/RIPPEY, family, (1600-1900), Ardstraw, Co. Tyr. from
1600 descs. Dr Wm. Ripy, Huguenot, Paris - Byturn,
Scarvagherin, D’clamph, Cappagh.

1058 ROS(S)BOROUGH, all names, all dates, Ahoghill, Co. Ant.
1058 ROSBOROUGH, Jas., (c.1778- ), B’mena area, Co. Ant. son of
Josh.

5845 McCAULEY, Arth./Dan., (1700s-1800s), Clare, Crosserlough,
Co. Cav.
2888 McCAULEY, Bernd./Jas., (1820- ), Co. Ferm.

No Harshaws or McCloskey's listed.

Contacts include:

9634 HARSHAW, Mr, James, 5132 Treesdale Ct, Sarasota, FL, USA,
34238, jwh@plesion.org

Welcome Living McCauley

This blog has served one of its purposes--helped locate a living McCauley (descendant of Capt. John's daughter Anna).

Recent Changes

While Marjorie has been visiting her family on the west coast, I've been playing in ancestry.com. Donald MacKay Rippey (Sr.) wrote "Susquehanna Saga", an account of Captain John Rippey and his wife, Mary Orson, and their thirteen children (2 sets of twins), as well as a visit he and his family made to Lower Chanceford Township, York County, PA and to No. 9 Church in Ontario County, NY. While I've put it on Google Docs, I haven't "published" it because I was hoping to contact his descendants for their permission first.

So this week I tried tracing that family forward and back, using the info Donald put in the Saga. I also tried filling out some of the other lines--Ann and Margaret, the older twins, married Thomas McCauley and James Stewart. The McCauley's moved with the Rippeys, but the Stewarts stayed in York. The Stewarts in York may exceed the Smiths in Ontario in numbers, so I don't have a sense of completion. But then, expecting completion in a work of genealogy is fatuous.