This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: O'Neil Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AFB.2ACE/1832.2 Message Board Post: Hi Aine, Sylvia Street in Arlington is a steep hill running UP from Massachusetts Avenue on the Arlington / Lexington line. In fact, the bottom half of the hill is in Lexington. The top half is in Arlington. When you get up to the plateau, you think the street ends because you come to where a house sits, but the street continues on the back of the property. The other end of Sylvia Street goes over to Appleton Street. The hilly part has house numbers, maybe 75 to 125, and house numbers say in the 200's are on the "other end." That's where I grew up, and I'm not remembering an O'NEIL family at this moment. But, I don't have the best of memories, and we really didn't know the families "beyond the house in the middle of the road." I do know there were O'NEIL families in Tewksbury around the 1960's to 1980's ! . I just reread your message, and noticed the years of birth of John O'NEIL's children. They would have gone to the Locke School on Park Avenue ! The Dallin School off of Appleton Street didn't open until around 1960. (My family lived about 3 ft. short of a mile from the school, and thus we were not allowed to get on the school bus. Walking back & forth from home to school was "not" fun !) (And, walking back up the long, steep hill from the stores was not fun !) :o)