Hi Wilbur!
How exciting to make a connection! Francis Syre is my ggg grandfather. Charles Brenn was my gg grandfather. Charles was married to Magdelena Syre. When you say Francis (Frank) Syre was Francis' son does that mean Magdelena and Josephine were his sisters. By the same mother? Family lore says that Francis born 1800 was a swiss aristocrat and he brought Magdelena to the states to marry her childhood sweetheart Charles Brenn who emigrated to the states 1855? . Family lore also says Francis b.1800 would travel back and forth from europe to be sure his daughter was well taken care of. Any of this make sense?I found a map of catskill from the mid to late 1800's which has a sayre (misspelled or different family?) house which brenn's owned and lived in the early 1900's according to fed census records. Do you know anything about this? My direct e-mail is
avakian.1@juno.com.