... THE SWEETMAN FAMILY HSTORY GRANDMOTHER NAME BRIDGET. GRANDFATHER NAME EDWARD. ELDEST SON WAS EDWARD.NEXT WAS MARY .THEN JAMES .THEN ANNE .THEN JOHN. THEN MICHAEL. THEN KATE . EDWARD MARRIED ROSE KEATING. MARY MARRIED HENRY DEMPSEY JAMES MARRIED MARY DAVIS. ANNE MARRIED JACK DOUGHITY.JOHN MARRIED MARGARET GIBBONS.MICHAEL WIFE NAME UNKNOWN.KATE MARRIED EDWARD MURPHY.THEY ALL LIVED IN PORTLAND STREET.I WAS TOLD MY GRANDFATHER WAS A UNION DELEGATE ON THE DOCKS. I DID NOT KNOW HIM .GRANDMA WAS ONLY SMALL. BUT I REMEMBER HER SHE WAS VERY GOOD LIVING PERSON AND ALSO VERY STRICT. UNCLE NED AND AUNTIE ROSE HAD NO FAMILY. MY MA MARY HAD EIGHT LIVING CHILDREN .UNCLE JIMMY AND AUNTY MARY HAD FOUR CHILDREN .TOMMY. MARY. JOHN ,KATHLEEN. AUNTY ANNE UNCLE JACK HAD TWO DAUGHTERS.KATHLEEN .AND ANNE.UNCLE JOHNIE.AND AUNTIE MAGGIE HAD NO FAMILY SHE WAS OUR FAVOURITE AUNTY.AND AUNTIE ROSE WAS NEXT. UNCLE MIKE AND AUNTIE MOLLY.HAD THREE CHILDREN.MAY .MCHAEL. ROSE COLLETE.LASTWAS AUNTIE KATIE UNCLE EDDIE HAD TWO SONS.EDDIE. AND TERRY GRANDMA MAIDEN NAME WAS KEHOE. GREAT GRANDMA NAMEWAS MONAGAN THEY LIVED IN ELDON STREET . AND THEY ATTENDED OUR LADY;S SCHOOL . GRANDMA WAS EIGHTY SIX WHEN SHE DIED I DON’T KNOW ABOUT GRANDAD HE DIED BEFORE I WAS BORN . I GRANDMA CAME TO LIVE IN FOUNTAINS ROAD FOR A WHILE THEN SHE WENT IN ST; JOSEPH;S HOME IN BELMONT ROAD. WHERE SHE DIED.SHE WAS BURIED IN YEW TREE CEMETARY THEY ALL WENT TO OUR LADY;S SCHOOL IN ELDON STREET.MY MA MARY HAD THE MOST CHILDREN. AUNTY ANNIE WAS ALWAYS SUPPOSED TO BE THE POSH ONE.OUR ANNIE TOLD ME A STORY ABOUT HER .THE WAY SHE TREATED BRIDIE. IT SEEMS BRIDIE USED TO TAKE HER DINNER THERE.WHEN THEY WERE AT SCHOOL. I DON’T KNOW WHY UNLESS THEY LIVED NEAR THE SCHOOL. AND OUR ANNIE USED TO GO TO AUNTY MOLLY;S ONE DAY WHEN OUR ANNIE WAS PASSING AUNTY ANNIE;S BRIDIE WAS SITTING ON THE STEP EATING HER LUNCH.SHE WAS NOT ALLOWED TO EAT WITH AUNTIE ANNIE;S TWO GIRLS. OUR ANNIE WENT MAD OVER IT AND TOLD BRIDIE COME ON WITH ME TO AUNTIE MOLLY;S I DON’T KNOW IF THERE WAS ANY BOTHER OVER IT WITH MY MA.BUT THAT WAS THE TYPE OF PERSON SHE WAS SO I WAS GLAD I DID NOT HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH HER .UNCLE JACK WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A NICE PERSON I WAS TOLD HE HAD SHARES IN CROSSFIELDS THAT MUST HAVE BEEN WHY THEY HAD MORE MONEY I KNOW MY MA SAID THEY WERE THE FIRST PEOPLE TO HAVE A WIRELESS. THE WENT TO LIVE IN MAGHULL. ANNIE AND BRIDIE MUST HAVE GONE VISITING THEM WHEN THEY MOVED BECAUSE OUR ANNIE SAID AUNTY ANNIE USED TO GO MAD BECAUSE UNCLE JACK ALWAYS MADE A BIG FUSS OF THEM AND LOVED TO SEE THEM. AUNTY ANNIE TOLD OUR ANNIE STOP SITTING ON JACK ‘S KNEE. MY MA ALWAYS SAID SHE WAS JEALOUSEOF HIM. THEY ALWAYS THOUGHT THEY WHERE ABOVE YOU AS FAR AS I CAN REMEMBER . I RECALL ONE TIME AUNTY KATIE CAME TO FOUNTAINS ROAD . OUR KATHLEEN HAD DIED AND WE WHERE ALL HEARTBOKEN OVER HER I WAS TWENTY AT THE TIME ANYWAY AUNTY KATE CAME IN WITH ONE OF HER SONS AND HIS GIRLFRIEND. THEY HAD BEEN TO SEE KATHLEEN IN THE CHAPELOF REPOSE. AND SHE STARTED GOING ON ABOUT ANOTHER GIRL IN THERE TO MY MA ASKING HER HAD SHE SEEN HER . MY MA WAS THAT UPSET I DON’T THINK SHE KNEW WHAT SHE WAS GOING ON ABOUT. SO I TOLD THEM TO GET OUT