Looking for Parents of my great-grampa born July 8, 1903 in sheepshead bay, brooklyn. His father was a hotel keeper and Shore road has something to do with him.... they lived at 1352 Ocean Parkway, BK, NY (corner of ave. n). My great-grampa was adopted, so i do not have that much info.... anything at all will help. They would have lived here until at least 1915, when the legal adoption papers were signed....
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Do these ancestors have names? there werea lot of cohens in Brooklyn. was he adopted BY Cohens, or born Cohen, adopted by others?
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My great-grampa was born a Cohen and adopted by the Robley family. He was born (supposedly) Frederick Reginald Cohen on July 8, 1903 to Benjamin B. and Hazel B. Baldwin Cohen..... The paperwork I have is minimal so I am trying to find his birth family and no success has come my way yet. I 1352 Ocean Parkway as there only known residence. I also have the name (it looks like) Mame Burlage as being Benjamin Cohens second wife after Hazel passed away when my great-grampa was an infant. I thank you for the reply and hopefully this will lead to more information. Take care.
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You don't mention your location, but I'd recommend either visiting or contacting Via Postal mail, the New York City Municipal Archives. for a minimal fee (perhaps 15$) they can and will look up his birth certificate and send you a copy. alternately, you could visit there yourself, if it's feasible, and for 5$ reserach fee, you can find it yourself, then either buy a copy (6$) or handcopy the info, and from there pethaps search for info on his parents. the birth certificate should list at least SOME of that information.
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I have been trying to look for the Cohen line myself. Frederick Shaw Robley is my great grandfather as well. The closest thing that I can find to Mame Burlage is Mamie Burlage. I wonder if he didn't know how to spell her name correctly. Her birth would be about the right time period.
Mamie Burlage Birth: abt 1893 - United States Residence: Manhattan, New Yorknformation
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