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From: (Sally and Don Chirlin)
Subject: Re: [NYCAYUGA] Owen-Van Etten history OUR REPLY
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 22:50:57 -0400


Dear Bob & Carol,

Thanks for responding so promptly. How neat that a Van Etten "cousin" of
my friends for whom I'm making this search. How I got into this is a long
story, not for this e-mail. Suffice it to say, that one couple who stays
here in Chenango Co. each summer have promised me that they'd go to Owasco
and Auburn to search out I. H. Owen's ancestry and visit his grandmother
Mary Van Etten Owen and great-grandparents Anthony and Jemima Cuddeback Van
Etten as well as"Aunt" Ann Van Etten Collins in the Van Etten Cemetery
while there.

I've not understood why there was so little interest in the I. H. Owen side
of this family; there had been COPIOUS research into the Van Ettens and
other Dutch ancestry from the Hudson River Valley. My friend tells me his
mother and aunt were much more interested in the earlier ancestors through
whom they could join the Colonial Dames and go to some swanky reception in
NYCity once a year!!

I wondered about the Holdredge connection to Holdredge Collins and agree
that it may be through Owen. I had surmised that I. H. Owen's mother may
have been a Holdredge and the same may be true for the Holdredge Collins
fellow you speak of. Actually I've seen a large brown paper pedigree sheet
with the Collins line on it so wasn't surprised to see Ann, Mary but not
husbands with their parents in Van Etten Cemetery.

I found I. Holdredge Owen alive in 1880 and living in Auburn. If my
friends are fortunate, they will get a death certificate for him in Auburn,
find where he's buried, discover his parents' names, perhaps also find just
what children Mary and I. H. Owen had. We know of Grace Gladding and
Holdredge Owen who lived in Norwich and I've seen a Narcissa in Owasco
census.

What is the Minisink Valley Reformed Records you speak of? Sounds interesting.

Meanwhile, where do you folks live? We are all right here in central NY
where it is easy to do our ancestry research until they move away.
Actually for many of us, we lose the connection when our ancestors came
into NY from New England and early NY State didn't require vital records
being kept. That's another story.

Please keep in touch and I'd be happy to try to put you together with our
Van Etten descendants here ... perhaps we'll find Sherlene Belden's family
too. We do have them and allied lines back to very early times.

Sally Chirlin


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