In a message dated 8/21/01 1:39:27 PM Eastern Daylight Time, awheel@dcdi.net writes: any parentsbirth places residence maybe they went back alot there might be other police depts chelsea,cambridge for example where is Preble St, S. Boston? if on boarder maybe thats a clue maybe some other part of the family knew someone and got him job in their town jim << O'CONNOR William H. - b. 1852 - Middletown, Conn - no records found to this date. D. Feb. 1890, buried Calvary Cemetery in Boston, May, 1890 [only records are from Cemetery - Archives can't find a death record] 1870-73 M. Margaret L. McCarthy, place unk. 1873 - Son Bartholomew born and diedburried? calvary all 1875 -Dau. Mary Ann, b. Dec [Mass. Archives can't find her birth record] 1877 - Son William born burried? calvary all 1879 - Son Charles bornburried? calvary all 1880 - Census - William shown as working as a policeman - BPD Archives have no record of him. 1883 - Dec. - William and Charlie die 8 days apart of diphtheria. [Family living on Preble St, S. Boston] 1903 - Mary Ann m. Frederick Howe, in July, in Boston - they live in Roxbury, then move to 34 Bournedale Rd, Jamaica Plain, where they stay. 1915 - Margaret McCarthy O'Connor dies in Roxbury - buried in Calvary, Boston That's the list - if anything clicks with anyone, please let me know. Ann >> all denning-dever-cogan in mass-some malone-carroll-mcguire-doherty-mcneil-piscopo-mazzola-heslin-martini-feddis-fa rley-dennen-dinan-fredricks- ____________________________________ "we go to school to learn the words of fools" bob dylan