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Subject: Re: [BOSTON] "Chestnut Hill"
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 17:03:26 EST

In a message dated 3/7/00 3:35:47 PM Eastern Standard Time,
writes:

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I also spoke to a local undertaker and he said that many Irish Catholic that
were not accepted / banned / frowned upon in the Boston cemeteries when to
Holy Hood in Chestnut Hill.

Elaine Bailey >>
catholics and protstants where not burried together before 1890ish
thats why first thing a catholic did was buy plots or they would wind up in
a dump thats basicly the suituation read the boston irish by tom o'conner
jim
ps i dont think chestnut hill became chestnut hill til boston college came
there

all denning-dever-cogan in mass-some
malone-carroll-mcguire-doherty-mcneil-piscopo-mazzola-heslin-martini-feddis-fa
rley-dennen-dinan-fredricks-
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