Is Meets Was

Don and Grete (Downing) Goodwin, Cape Neddick, Maine, 24 October 2002. About twenty years ago, knowing my love of family history, my cousin Grete's husband sent me an album that he found in a box in his garage. I determined that the album had belonged to my great-grandmother Maggie (Carroll) Merrill (1861–1945).  Most of the photographs had been taken in the late 1800s in Franklin, New Hampshire. If you have an ancestor with the surname of  Carroll, Cunningham, Cushing, Dwyer, Hanley, Killigrew, Lynch, Meneghin, Merrill, Morrison, Munson, Rand, Roberts, Wall, or Wheeler, you may find a picture of them in  Grammy Merrill's Album . © 2023, Cathy H Paris

Mystery Photo A few years ago, I met a second cousin, and we shared old photos. We both had a copy of the same photograph of an elegant, old New England home. His photograph was inherited from his mother. Mine came from my grandparents' album which had been passed to my aunt and then to me. Naturally, neither photograph is labelled, and the significance of this old house to our family history remains a mystery. My cousins grandfather, Harry Merrill, and my grandfather, Fred Merrill, were brothers. The brothers were both born and raised in Franklin, New Hampshire. Their mother's maiden name was Carroll.  If you recognize the house in this photograph, please contact me . Thanks goes to the Franklin Historical Society for posting a copy of this mystery photo on their website. © 2012, Cathy H Paris