HAGGERTY LAVERTY COSTELLO JOYCE

b: He: 16 March 1881, Monson MA; bap: 20 March 1881, St Patricks RCCh, Monson MA (He told son John that he was born in Ireland)

b: She: 22 July 1885, Littleton ME; bap: St Mary's RCCh, Houlton ME, 23 August 1885

m: 30 June 1915, St Cecilia's RCCh, Boston MA; Officiating: Rev John J McGarry, Witness: MARY HAGGERTY & THOMAS COSTELLO.... m: 51 years.... 8 kids, 3 girls & 5 boys, mostly named after ancient Costello's.... mother was seeking a 9th, t/b/n: Michael Angelo Costello

d: He: 14 February 1966, Boston MA; 85 years old, prostate cancer .... prior to his death, he was hospitalized at BosCtyHosp for a prostate cancer operation, since he was a very private/conservative person & had never been in a hospital before he naturally resisted hosp/med procedures; he was upset when female doctors & med personnel physically examined his prostate problem & he was especially dismayed when they attached a catheter to free his bladder output .... Louise visited him after his operation & reported that he seemed ok, he died the next day

d: She: 10 July 1972, Framingham MA; 86 years old; dissecting aortic aneurism

THE FAMILY during the 1910's, 20's, 30's, 40's & 50's.... lived in Houlton ME, 412 Newbury St, Boston MA; Commonwealth Ave, Boston MA & at 344 Market St (where trolley cars during the 1930's traversed the street), 588 Cambridge St (interim) & 17 Henshaw St in Brighton.

The Market St residence, tel no.: STAdium 7312 (subsequently lost to the mortgage holder during the "depression").... a Federal style brick structure historically dated from the very early 1800's.... once belonged to the Spawhawk family, an early Brighton family.... and where Richard Joyce, Thomas Augustus, Daniel Joseph & Edward Daniel were b: .... had 8 rooms, 8 kids, 2 parents , 1 bathroom , a half busted furnace & an "ice box".... & where the 3 girls had the big bedroom, w/QA 4 posters, at the front of the house, 4 boys bunked in 2 smaller BRs in the rear & Tom was stashed, to keep him out of the way, in a mid-level room over the bathroom between the 2nd floor & the attic.... & where they served up shredded wheat w/ banana's, oatmeal w/ banana's, boiled dinners, roast beef or leg-of- lamb, & an occasional batch of brown bread from Annie Meikle's Bakery to go with the family baked beans .... & where ice cream was served only on one's birthday & when one was sick & at no other time .... & also where most of us, since it was a family business, experienced our first funeral wake .... where John & Dick shoveled snow from the driveway every winter .... where neighbor Mrs Sullivan of Bently St gave us kids money for odd jobs, snow shoveling, leaf raking.... where all of us kids sold magazines to Dr Fitzgerald, a retired MD living in a house to the rear of our house with his sisters, who would buy the "Saturday Evening Post" but not the "Womens Home Journal".... where brother Dick was allowed to borrow the family car to transport the rest of us & neighboring kids on evening excursions to Lake Walden now in elitist fashion known as Walden Pond.... where, in the field next to the house, Italian immigrant women hunted & picked wild dandelions, mother had tried cooking them for the family, but they were a little strong or pungent.... where, during the Holy Season of Lent, the entire family recited the rosary on their knees every night ....then the Ryan's lived on one side of us, the Sullivan's on the other.... Mr Ryan was a painting contractor (put 2 kids thru Harvard) & Mr Sullivan (aka "Son Sullivan") was a competitor Funeral Director/Undertaker. Across the street were the Smith's (he was an independent job printer), O'Donnell's (he was a news printer), Foley/Kernan's (totally poor, had nothing), Wright's & Vanelli's (grew grapes for wine making, but did'nt share) .... also across the street was the neighborhood candy store which at one time was operated by Eddie Kernan, who drank a little, followed by Hymie Rudolph & finally Harry Fershpan who had a daughter named "Frenchie" ..... Father Coughlin, the radio priest, active radical Socialist & anti-semite could be heard on any Sunday afternoon in most any Boston/Brighton household, but not ours, during this time; the RC Hierarchy belatedly shut him down .... our radio fare (no TV then) was generally conservative, Lowell Thomas w/Blue Sunoco (gasoline) & the 6:00 o'clock news, Bob Hope with his comedy, Kate Smith w/"God Bless America" & no "shoot-em-up" serials/programs, bad for kids --

At the Henshaw St residence, there were 10 rooms , less people but still only 1 bathroom and where for varing periods of time Aunt Mary Haggerty & Haggerty cousins Alice, Jack&Alice (Jack d: in Boston from an ulcer operation at Boston City Hospital), Louise & Margaret-Mary came to live, work, get educated & acculturated in Boston preparatory to transiting to the real world)

The family churched & had "Field Day's", an out-of-doors carnival-like merry-making fund raiser, at St Columbkilles RCCh where Sundays at 9am were reserved for the childrens mass followed by Sunday School at the local Catholic HS and again followed by more Sunday School at 2pm at the local church, following this, if one hustled, the local Egyptian Theatre, a cinema palace, featured a main attraction, a "B" pic & a couple of "shorts", all for 10¢, but one had to hurry to get it all in.... schooled under a number of Principal's: Miss Barry at the Winship primary school, Mr George Gammon at the Thomas A Edison junior high school along with Mr Somebody (?) at the William Howard Taft school & Mr Rich and Mr Joseph Leary at the Brighton High School and I dont know who (?) at St Columbkille's school or at Boston Latin School... barbered by Frank Curatola @ 25¢ per head.... tooth fixed, that is "fixed-for-a-fee" by Forsyth Dental Infirmary etal.... Sunday visited Benson's Animal Farm in Nashua NH, which, truly, had wild tigers & lions, but now GWTW, Franklin Park Zoo & relatives, (Costello's, Doyle's & Casey's ) in Franklin, Monson & Arlington MA &.... summered in Houlton ME during the 1930's, a logistic monster that required the tranportation of 10 people, 8 kids & 2 adults, in an old Pierce-Arrow touring car, or something like that, with all of there summer belongings in one automobile a distance of 300 miles in a day & 1/2's time; the seating arrangements required that Dan be in the rear near a window because he suffered from "car sickness", the "regurgies", simply put & that Tom be put in a front seat near a window for the same reason & also because he battled with everbody else, Louise was suppose to keep him calm, while mother from her rear seat kept Dan's head out of the window & in her spare time kept eveybody else who were strewn about in "jump" seats etc separated; the first journey leg took us to Old Town ME, just north of Bangor where we picnicked, looked for Indians, viewed the Penobscot River & bunked overnight. The next day brought us to Houlton where we searched for a summer place to stay & "settle in" which included the following: the McLoughlin's, a farmhouse on the Ridge Rd where we slept on canvass cots, cooked with a 3 jet oil ctove & roamed the adjacent farms, Haggerty's, also on the "Ridge", i.e. Ridge Rd, ("The Ridge" where mothers old boyfriend Walter Logan farmed & lived with his son Asel who was somewhat weird and referred to by the local & visiting girls as "Ass-el"), Donovan's, in Ludow where we visited often, Duncan Woodworth's cabin on the Wiley Rd, (where Bernie Mahoney summered with us once & ultimately served in the China-Burma-India Theatre of Operations in the USArmy) Dora Adam's farm where Dan & Ed summered in ~1942 & learned to pick mustard weed, Aunt Mary's house "in-town" where all the family girls lived, sometimes to their mothers chargrin, congregated and competed for the available men, where Mary Costello first met Jimmy Rush, a swain & at Riley's cottage at Nickerson Lake where the Bermans lived next door & his kids: Malcom, Elliot & Charlotte summered, Mr Max Berman had a retail shoe store "in town", & nearby were the Frenchs, who owned a drug store "in town" & where Oscar & Jane French summered (he died young).... swam in Carey Lake .... bathed in Bee Stream where everybody bathed .... picknic'ed at Burnt Bow [aka as Burnt Brow].... picked choke cherrys, goose berrys & hunted for spruce gum.... helped with the hay & potato harvests.... went to the "lawn party" for the benifit of St Mary's Church & School fund.... attended the Woodstock Fair.... visited Laverty relatives in Benton NB.... boated, swam & fished in Nickerson Lake.... went to "town" every Saturday night.... danced & had "refreshments" at the "Burdock" [in later years, that is, unbeknownst to any parents] which was a "roadhouse" located on Littleton Ridge where Jimmy Riley played the drums.... churched at St Mary's every Sunday and visited its graveyard where many of the Haggerty bones reside.... after church, went to Grand Lake or Birch Point at Pleasent Lake for swimming & picknic'ng with all the relatives.... returned to Boston just prior to Labor Day each year (dodged Bostons infantile paralysis outbreak one year [mid 1930's] and stayed an extra 2 months at Nickerson Lake, very cold in November).

THE FAMILY OF

JOHN PATRICK COSTELLO & MARTHA ANNE HAGGERTY

|Louise Marie| Mary Veronica| Margaret Adelaide| John Patrick Jr| Richard Joyce| Thomas Augustus| Edward Daniel| Daniel Joseph| Peter Canine| More Costello Pix|

|Louise Marie| Mary Veronica| Margaret Adelaide| John Patrick Jr| Richard Joyce| Thomas Augustus| Edward Daniel| Daniel Joseph| Peter Canine| More Costello Pix|