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From: Pat Wood <>
Subject: [NY IRISH] Dominican nuns
Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2002 19:04:56 -0800


First of all, thank you to all who have responded. Much appreciated!

James Steers Lake and wife, Jennie Woods, owned what the family referred
to as Sparkhill.
Jennie was my g'father's sister.

The photo that I have must have been taken ca 1903-06. Jim, Jennie, my
g'parents, and young uncle are sitting on the lawn with the house in the
background. My dad and his much older brothers summered at the Lakes.
We have a collection of the boys playing in the fields there.

Jim Lake was one of the founders of Lake and McCreery's dept. store,
which later became McCreery's.

Would like to reconstruct some of the stories surrounding Dad's boyhood
memories. Learning more about this estate would be quite helpful.

Again, thanks very much!
Pat Wood
Fircrest, WA

On Sat, 9 Mar 2002 11:07:31 -0500 "RMH" <>
writes:
> Greetings from Rockland County, NY!
>
> Yes, Sparkill is still here - south of Piermont, but not on the
> Hudson
> River, on the west side of the high palisades, and yes, south of the
> Tappan
> Zee Bridge. Tappan is the next town to the west. Incidentally
> it's
> "Sparkill" not Sparkhill, "kill" being the Dutch word for stream or
> creek.
>
> The phone book says Dominican Sisters of Sparkill, Route 340,
> Sparkill,
> 845-359-6400. Now there is senior housing on what I believe is
> their
> property as well, Thorpe Senior Housing. The area is level and I
> would
> think it would have been desirable for farming - it's quite lovely
> the way
> it's been developed. St. Thomas Aquinas College is nearby as well.
>
> What were the names of the grandparents who lived there, and did
> they own a
> lot of property? Today what the Dominicans have covers some acres.
>
> Regina Haring
> Nanuet, NY
> http://www.dutchdoorgenealogy.com
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Pat Wood" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2002 10:36 AM
> Subject: Re: [NY IRISH] Dominican nuns
>
>
> > Pat
> >
> > I believe that it is in Rockland County and south of the Tappen
> Zee.
> >
> > On Fri, 08 Mar 2002 21:38:57 -0800 Pat Connors
> <>
> > writes:
> > > Where is Sparkhill, Pat?
> > >
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> > > Pat Connors, Sacramento CA
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