Friday, January 19, 2018

Geneaology 1.....jpr



Aunt Agnes K, grandfather  Hugh C, uncle Dr John J, grandmother Elizabeth, mother Mary A, aunt Sr Helen E
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  1. MikeyJanuary 19, 2018 at 7:00 PM

    2 things - one is that Elizabeth was a stern and cold woman, mean in some ways. Hugh, my sainted grandfather, as fine a man as ever existed, admitted as much in his last years, admitting that he did not miss her at all. two, she did not allow us to address our mother as Mom or Mommy. We were forced to call her "Mother". Her only son did not attend her funeral. Finally she sure was not a looker. Reminds me of Millard Fillmore. And I may be an ass but the truth is the truth.
    These are unnecessary comments but truthful.

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  2. J P RonanJanuary 20, 2018 at 6:48 AM

    When Lizzie was dying at home from colon cancer ,our ma and grandpa where her care givers

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  3. J P RonanJanuary 20, 2018 at 6:50 AM

    Uncle jay was threatened by the IRA sympathizers, to attend Hugh's funeral...ma told me

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    1. MikeyJanuary 20, 2018 at 8:40 AM

      what?

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    2. MikeyJanuary 20, 2018 at 8:41 AM

      can you explain, plz.

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    3. MikeyJanuary 21, 2018 at 10:32 AM

      Ok, Hugh's funeral. I get it. but what about Lizzie's? why didn't he attend hers? For you two brilliant scholars and professori, can you explain to my monkey skull, please?

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  4. J P RonanJanuary 20, 2018 at 9:37 AM

    He had a phone call that warned of harm should he not attend grandfathers funeral...this is all mother said

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  5. BillyJanuary 20, 2018 at 9:22 PM

    this photo is early WW2, Sister still in high school. And the wall behind them looks like corner house they lived in for a long time in Burgestown. The ruff wood siding is still there. Lizzie looks exactly the same, even the same clothes as I remember her from the 50's. And stern was her middle name. She was 4 or 5 years older than Hughy who had no real interest in marrage. Family arranged it. I believe she was near 40 when they were married. Mom always missed her and assured me she wasn't all that stern. SHe forbid drinking so Hughy keep a bottle hidden in the field.
    And I was told, Sister order JJ home for the funeral.

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  6. J P RonanJanuary 21, 2018 at 9:09 AM

    I understood just had an anonymous phone call

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  7. MikeyJanuary 21, 2018 at 9:14 AM

    I'm confused. Was he threatened if he didn't show up or threatened if he did? This has pzzled me for years.

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  8. BillyJanuary 21, 2018 at 5:49 PM

    Uncle JJ never wanted to come home for anything. He visited his mother a few weeks, maybe a month or two before she died to say goodbye. He felt that was enough. Apparently his parents expected him to return after medical school and assume a position in the family, something he very much did not want to do, mother said he and Hughy had a real falling out over it, thus to California. He was really like his mother hard and cold.

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    1. MikeyJanuary 21, 2018 at 5:55 PM

      Ahh!explains a lot. Hugh was asked, years after Elizabeth passed, if he missed her. His response, paraphrased,: "she was difficult to live with."

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