Fan charts are fun because they are both legible and mind-boggling, able to carry a ton of information in a compact format. I try to keep our Ancestry family tree up-to-date as information comes my […]
Dunne Connections: Path to Madness
In 1944, my grandmother BRIDGET DUNNE PRICE provided hospice care in her home for the dying THOMAS DUNNE. I’ve spent countless hours with fellow family historians figuring out how he fits it. An 1896 immigrant […]
The Yanks Visit Ireland 1977
Kathleen and Curly Price, Mary Ellen and Tom Groark make their first trip to Ireland in 1977. Also there from St. Louis were ME and Curly’s first cousins Vera Stephens Whalen and Mary Stephens Barry. […]
Patrick Martin: A clue?
We’ve been searching for information on Uncles Pat and Pete Martin, the mystery siblings of my great-grandmother Catherine Martin Dunne. We know that Pat lived in Boston, had two daughters who met Katie Dunne [Collins] […]
Ewald Curran: a friend indeed
In my Flanagan timeline, I stopped the clock at 1926, leaving my future-grandmother 36 y.o. CATHERINE bereft — her family all tragically gone, her husband Tom dead, a grocery business to run, and four young […]
Flanagan Family: 1903-1926
Continued from Flanagan Family: 1882-1902. During this period, seven of the nine Flanagans die and one is institutionalized. Our grandmother Catherine (later known to all as “Kitty Mom”) is the only one to thrive. It […]
Flanagan Family 1882-1902
The Flanagan family is created: Irish immigrants have seven children and settle in St. Louis. My grandmother Catherine remembered these years as the good ones — prosperous and full of music lessons. They were the […]
Curly at St. Edward’s, Part 2: SOCCER!
As a city saturated with European immigrants in scores of Catholic parishes, St. Louis was always a big soccer town. In the 1930s, my dad Walter “Curly” Price played for the St. Edward’s team in […]
Curly at St. Edward’s, Part 1
Above is a photo of my dad’s first-grade class. What a sad-looking bunch of Irish-American ragamuffins. They were obviously just scolded to keep their hands to themselves. Walter “Curly” Price (1922-2005) is the one glowering […]
Passage: Maggie Keville
Maggie Keville made her way to America like so many other late 19th-century Irish — an 18-year-old “spinster,” traveling without family, aboard the S.S. Alaska. Her boat arrived 7 Apr. 1884. She was destined for […]
