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Kitty Mom Sings “Danny Boy”

March 15, 2021 Susan Barrett Price

Who is lucky enough to have a 1943 recording of their grandmother singing “Danny Boy”? My mother “produced” this on a home-recording machine, where a

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John P. Curran, Entertainer

February 23, 2021 Susan Barrett Price

John P. Curran was born in England to Irish immigrant parents, who later emigrated to St. Louis, Missouri. According to information published in the Performing

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Postponing Marriage, Living with Your Parents

November 15, 2020 Susan Barrett Price

Where did I get the impression that in the “olden days” of America, people married young? For months now, I’ve been entangled in the twigs

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Barrett-Curran timeline

March 15, 2020 Susan Barrett Price

1912 22 Nov. Marriage between CATHERINE “KITTY” FLANAGAN (age 22) and THOMAS BARRETT (age 29). Tom owns a store at 4841 Easton Ave (at Bayard).

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Kathleen Barrett, Ewald Curran, 1920s

Ewald Curran: a friend indeed

February 22, 2019 Susan Barrett Price

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

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