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Hello Mary,
Herbert Jacob Gurney b. Dec. 12, 1874 lives on RFD#3 Corunna, MI.  WW1 record on ancestry.com.
I have seen where Sarah died in 1909 in San Francisco but my info (I will check source) says she is buried in Michigan with Matthew and died in 1900.  Emma was a servant in San Fran in 1910.  I don't have any death certificates just info on California deaths from ancestry.com.  Sarah, Matthew, Herbert, and Mable are buried in Pine Tree cemetery in Corunna, Michigan.  Emma was born in Richmond, Virginia-what is the connection?  The photo I have is dated 1896.  Lillian marries Frank that year but the picture has her as Lilly Cross.  Was it taken just before she went to Virginia?   Mae is born in Virgina before they move back to Michigan.  Lynn

Okay let's start with some known info-Australian birth records list Matthew and Sarah Cross-her name is Morrison.  1880 census in Michigan shows Matthew and Sarah living next door to Margaret Armstrong and sister in law as relationship.  George Morrison's parents are Robert and Anne (Armstrong) Morrison of Relagh, Enniskillen, Ireland.  In California death records two children of Sarah and Matthew list their mother's maiden name as Armstrong.  By the way there were 11 but 6 died of dysentery.  Other children of M and S-Matthew died young, Lynda C. marries Samuel Davies and moves to Endicott, New York according to Emma's daughter Edith, Ella and Robert died young (I believe),  Lillian Jane marries Frank Brooks Samuel and lives and dies in California.  Frank is committed to an insane asylum in Napa, CA.  They have 6 children.  William Henry Cross marries Elizabeth Goward and lives and dies in Oakland area of California.  Mabel marries Herbert Gurney and stays in Michigan where she purchases cemetery plot for M and S and her and her husband.  They have 5 children.  My husband's grandmother Emma marries Oscar J. Roy (dit DesJardins) who is born in Father's Point, Quebec, Canada and emigrates to St. Paul, MN with his brother.  Oscar works with the railroad.  Emma and Oscar marry in Portland, Oregon in 191ll.  Their children are born in the Oakland, California-they are Eleanor, Clifford, Evelyn, Florence (my husband's mother, and Edith.  Emma and Oscar move to Seattle, Washington and Oscar dies there in 1947 and Emma in 1965.  Florence marries Loren H Schrag, Sr a chiropractor and naturopathist from Oregon.  They move to Soap Lake, Washington shortly after having my husband Loren or Lonnie in Walla Walla, Washington in 1952.  They have 2 more children before she dies in 1959 of leukemia.  As for Emma and Oscar I have little info.  We need a death certificate from Washington I guess to see who she says her mother is.  I have not been able to trace Lynda C. Cross Davies either.  Any info we can find about her would help.  Now you have some more info.  I wish we could all be on FB so we could communicate better.  I hope this helps.  I hope Lindsay sees this also and now we may have his brother helping out. Lynn

Dear Lynn,
  Just recently discovered rootschat and your message re Sarah Armstrong Morrison Cross. She and Matthew Cross are also my great-grandparents. I just completed a Cross family history book (over 200 pages) based on my father's years of research. He had obtained copies of the 1880 and 1900 censuses in Michigan but had no 1870 census.
   Do you have a copy? I have no record of a son named "Matthew" being born to Matthew and Sarah Cross and would love to get a copy of this census.
     Emma Cross Roy was the youngest sister of my grandfather William Henry Cross. The family did lose touch with the Roys I believe.
    I would like to find more information on Sarah Morrison Cross. I would like to know when she left Ireland (and with whom she traveled) and when she entered Australia and the names of the ships.
    Matthew emigrated to Sydney, Australia in 1855 on the Asiatic.
    I would also like to know where you found the family tree online.
    Thanks for any information you can provide.
Mary nee Cross

Quote from: lschrag1 on Monday 26 February 07 17:39 GMT (UK)

Hi Armstrong researchers,
I don't know if this is the right family but I am going to list my known info and see if you can help me in any way.  My husband's great grandparents were Mathew Thompson Cross b. 27 May 1834 Prickwillow, Ely, Cambs, England and Sarah Jane Morrison b. Enniskillen, Fermanagh, Ireland - Dec 1846.  Mathew emigrated to Australia around 1855 from England and worked in the Bendigo Gold Mines.  He met Sarah in Australia and they married in Ipswich, QLD 3 Apr 1865.  They left for America shortly afterward (a son Mathew was born in Shelby, Macomb County Michigan in 1867 according to the 1870 census).  The family tree online lists Sarah's father as Robert Morrison and her mother as Annie Armstrong of Ireland.  On the 1880 US census for Michigan I have found a Margaret Armstrong b. 1858 in Ireland listed as sister in law and living next door to Mathew and Sarah.  My husband's line goes through Mathew and Sarah's daughter Emma Cross who marries Oscar Joseph Roy.  Their child is Florence B. Roy born in Oakland, California and then my husband Lonnie.  Any help in figuring this out would be greatly appreciated.  Lynn

Hello Liming researcher.  I am researching the Liming name in the US for a friend whose mother was Pearl Liming b. in 1889 in Nebraska and married to Everett Leroy McGuire also b. in Nebraska.  I have traced this family back to John Lyming of Crondall, England and I am looking for anyone with more info on this family.  I am quite willing to share what I have from the US Liming family.  Lynn Schrag

Hi Armstrong researchers,
I don't know if this is the right family but I am going to list my known info and see if you can help me in any way.  My husband's great grandparents were Mathew Thompson Cross b. 27 May 1834 Prickwillow, Ely, Cambs, England and Sarah Jane Morrison b. Enniskillen, Fermanagh, Ireland - Dec 1846.  Mathew emigrated to Australia around 1855 from England and worked in the Bendigo Gold Mines.  He met Sarah in Australia and they married in Ipswich, QLD 3 Apr 1865.  They left for America shortly afterward (a son Mathew was born in Shelby, Macomb County Michigan in 1867 according to the 1870 census).  The family tree online lists Sarah's father as Robert Morrison and her mother as Annie Armstrong of Ireland.  On the 1880 US census for Michigan I have found a Margaret Armstrong b. 1858 in Ireland listed as sister in law and living next door to Mathew and Sarah.  My husband's line goes through Mathew and Sarah's daughter Emma Cross who marries Oscar Joseph Roy.  Their child is Florence B. Roy born in Oakland, California and then my husband Lonnie.  Any help in figuring this out would be greatly appreciated.  Lynn