This is a photo of my great grandmother, Susie Brown Beach, born about 1879, died March 1905.
Her parents were Thomas Brown of Ireland and Nancy Minerva Andress of Pennsylvania. Thomas Brown was part of a family of brothers and sisters who came to Colchester NY from Ireland in the 1840s and 1850s. The Browns settled in Colchester NY and were farmers. Susie Brown married Dr. William H. Beach, a dentist, and lived in Phoenix NY. She died shortly after giving birth to her third child, a son.
See how our ancestors and loved ones enjoyed a day at the beach and how it's changed over the years.
People have always been drawn to the beach. Good times with family and friends, fun food, and making memories on the sand as the sun shines down.
Some things that have changed are the bathing suits...
The 1800s where the end of the industrial revolution and the birth of scientists.
The Industrial Revolution began around 1760 and ran through the 1840's. Then began the birth of the profession of science. Louis Pasteur, Charles Darwin, Michael Faraday, Thomas Edison, and Nikola Te...
Photos of the 1900's which brought us from the industrial age to the technological age.
From 1900 through 1999 we witnessed the beginning of flight to a man on the moon and a Mars Rover. We went from using phones tethered by cords and computers that filled rooms, to carrying the equivale...
My paternal side are the Coopers, Beachs, and Brown from upstate NY. The Browns were from Ireland and arrived in the mid-1800s. The Coopers we suspect may have been Ulster Scots, first documented William Cooper b. in NY in 1821. The Beaches and Rockefellers we know little about. Maternal side is more recently Irish: Greens, Skellys, and Sheridans from County Cavan. Also researching my husband's families: Towns of and Williams of Arkwright and Forestville, NY, and Caminzind, originally from Switzerland.