This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Sweet Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/HBRBAIB/1154 Message Board Post: Can anybody help me with the family tree of Amelia I. Sweet. She was born on Feb. 8, 1918 in Rhode Island and married Albert J. Kenehan, also of Rhode Island in 1941. They moved to Brooklyn, NY and had a child named Irene Sweet Kenehan born 2/15/18.

My mother just received a letter from an attorney in New York asking about this family. Evidently, he is doing some probate work. What I have is that she is the daughter of John R. Sweet and Mary E. Southworth who were married in Rhode Island on 9/6/1897. Mary's parents were William M. and Mary J. Southworth. I could not find the parents of John R. Sweet. Joe Sweet 36 Bean Farm Dr. Kingston, RI 02881 ----- Original Message ----- From: <pamela_magee@Hotmail.com> To: <SWEET-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 3:47 PM Subject: Amelia I. Sweet > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: Sweet > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/HBRBAIB/1154 > > Message Board Post: > > Can anybody help me with the family tree of Amelia I. Sweet. > She was born on Feb. 8, 1918 in Rhode Island and married Albert J. Kenehan, also of Rhode Island in 1941. They moved to Brooklyn, NY and had a child named Irene Sweet Kenehan born 2/15/18. > > > > ==== SWEET Mailing List ==== > Visit Daisy's Sweet Home Page! > http://www.rootsweb.com/~daisy/sweet.htm > >

Joe wrote: > My mother just received a letter from an attorney in New York asking about > this family. Evidently, he is doing some probate work. What I have is that > she is the daughter of John R. Sweet and Mary E. Southworth who were married > in Rhode Island on 9/6/1897. Mary's parents were William M. and Mary J. > Southworth. I could not find the parents of John R. Sweet. According to the marriage records at the RI archives, the parents were Mary Eve SOUTHWICK and John Robert SWEET. Mary's parents were as above, except for the surname, and John's were Charles A. and Elizabeth S. (Danley) SWEET. The marriage took place on 1897 Sep 6, when they were 29 and 27, respectively. The daughter Amelia Irene SWEET was born 1899 Feb 28 at Providence. There were apparently no other children, since the 1910 census lists the family with only three people. It is interesting to note that the wife was listed in 1910 as "Eva M", aged "33", but married to John for 12 years. John himself was listed as being "40" in 1910. However, let's look at the original message again: > > Message Board Post: > > Can anybody help me with the family tree of Amelia I. Sweet. > > She was born on Feb. 8, 1918 in Rhode Island and married Albert J. > > Kenehan, also of Rhode Island in 1941. They moved to Brooklyn, NY and had a > > child named Irene Sweet Kenehan born 2/15/18. This is obviously garbled somehow, and it's not clear to me that there is any relationship between the Amelia in the query and the one that Joe and I have commented on. Note, by the way, that Joe's response was sent to the list, and not to the original poster. That's what happens when anybody does a "reply". That's the way it should be. However, this was a gatewayed message from the message board, so that the poster wouldn't see the reply unless she subscribed to SWEET-L. Once again, we see that the gatewaying doesn't work properly, either for the board or the list. If it can't be fixed (and I don't think it can), why should we put up with it? John Chandler