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Again thank you for the information. I did find that when Mary was married in 1880 lived at 17 Florence St., Auburn, in 1900 at 353 State St., Auburn and in 1930 at 60 Lewis St. also Auburn, NY. I have gotten my information mostly from Ancestry.com and fultonhistory.com.
I intend to revisit the Auburn Historian again and see if they have any records from the church the family attended. Most census and other information I have gotten indicates her birth year and month as May, 1853.

I am trying to find out any information regarding a Mary Reilly born May 10, 1853 or 1854. Unknown where in Ireland she was born or lived. Her father was John Reilly mother unknown. She arrived in New York 1867 at the age of 14 and believe she was alone. She
married in 1878 to Henry Meehan or Mehan and lived in Auburn, NY. She died in 1930.

Thank you for the information regarding nurse child. Since my last post I was able to find a ship's manifest showing that Tom Brown, his mother Martha A. Brown, a brother Albert Brown and a sister Emily Haywart arrived in Niagara Falls in 1899. I am very sure this is the correct Tom Brown. If the age recorded on the manifest is correct (14 years old) he would have been born in about 1885. I have found a Tom Brown born in Blandford and registered in 1884.

Albert Brown is another child that was never found in any family census in England that I have been able to find. According to the manifest he was also born in Blandford about 1886. When Mrs. Brown arrived here she stated she was married, however, in later newspaper articles I have found she remarried here in the States to a William Updyke. I have not found what happened to her first husband William Brown. Albert and a granddaughter's husband by the name of Fothergill was killed by a train in 1913.

Thank you for the information and I am sorry I didn't mention all that I have already obtained regarding Thomas Brown. Most of the information I have is from after he arrived in the U.S. However, I obtained a copy of his social security application on which he gave his parents names as William ? Brown and Martha A. Miles born on March 5, 1871 in Blandford, Dorset, England. There have been several years mentioned on census as to the one he arrived in the U.S. 1894, 1897 or 1901. It is believed in the family that he was a stow away on a ship arriving in Canada first and then to U.S. I know that he married and his first child was born in 1904. I have also linked him with his sister Sarah Jane Brown here in the U.S. through an obituary for Sarah listing him as her brother. Sarah arrived in the U.S. about 1900 with a daughter Elizabeth (father unknown). Elizabeth was born in 1881 in Dewsbury, Yorkshire, England. Sarah Jane was the oldest of the family being born in 1861.

I do not know his middle name. As he never appeared in any England Census as living with his parents am assuming he was given out to another family as there was a girl child born the same year and there were several other children.