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Hi Lanica,

I saw your post. I am a desandant of John and Margaret McDermott's through their first child, Thomas. Thomas like his parents had a large family. He had 14 children of which I descendant from his 13th child Ernest, the twin of Edward. Born on Christmas in 1879. Ernest married Elizabeth Fox and their first child Thomas J is my grandfather.

Back to John and Margaret...It looks like when they left New York all their children went out to Chicago with them except Thomas and we are not sure what happened to Charles, their third child. I have the 1855 New York Census inwhich John and margaret are recorded living in the Town of Rochester in Ulster County, New York. Their daughter Jane was born in 1856 in New York and their son William is born in Wisconsin in 1859. This narrows down the time frame in which they left New York and traveled to Wisconsin. Folklore says that Andrew, the second oldest, went out first and the rest of the family followed. If this is true or not I do not know and we will probably never know. Andrew was out in Chicago by Feb 1858. He had a son baptized that month.

I have been working on the McDermott Family since 1969. I remember a conversation I had with my grandfather. I asked him if he knew anything about his family and the only things he recalled was his father telling him he had relatives living in Chicago. One of the names he recalled the family mentioning was Lucille Richards. For forty years we looked for a Lucille Richards and back in 2009 my brother found one of her children and talked with them. What a happy day! My grandfather was right on this which makes me think maybe he was right on another story he told me. He said there were three brothers that came to the United States from Ireland. One went to Chicago, one went to Florida and the other one stayed in New York. Could Charles have gone to Florida? I have spoken to many other older members of the family and they had never heard this story.

I would love to hear from you. My email address is [mailto:mvde08@comcast.net mvde08@comcast.net]

maryann