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From: "Edbld" <>
Subject: Re: [MAMIDDLE] Goodwin/Fitzgerald/McMahon/Stevens
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 08:26:59 -0500
References: <5.0.2.1.0.20010306214229.00a11560@earthlink.net>


Hi Joe: Normal School was a name used for the State Teachers College in
Lowell when I was growing up many yearsa ago. It was later combined with LTI
Lowell Technological Inst. and called U.Mass at Lowell
Edd Sinnett FLA/USA


----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Hardiman" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 10:02 PM
Subject: [MAMIDDLE] Goodwin/Fitzgerald/McMahon/Stevens


> I am just beginning to research my wife's family connection in Middlesex
> Co., MA. The cities of Arlington and Cambridge are mentioned in some of
> the documents that my wife has collected over the years. There are two
> cemeteries, Holy Cross and Mt. Pleasant, referenced in some old deeds.
She
> also has some old receipts from late 1800's and early 1900's funerals of
> family members. The funeral receipts mention publishing death notices in
> the Boston Herald and Boston Globe.
>
> Her names that we have identified to date are Daniel A. Goodwin b 1862 d
> 1895, Catherine Fitzgerald Goodwin Stevens b 1862 d 1961. The Fitzgerald
> connection probably migrated from Ireland after 1868. Catherine
Fitzgerald
> b abt 1868 in Ireland was married 1st to Daniel A Goodwin, and 2nd to
> Captain David Stevens of the Boston Police Department. Captain Stevens b
> 1843 d 1919 was also a Private in the Union Army from Maine during the
> Civil War. Michael Francis McMahon (who owned a neighborhood grocery
> store) b 1886 married Helen Catherine daughter of Catherine Fitzgerald
> Goodwin Stevens. It has always been assumed that Helen Catherine b 1898?
d
> 1942 was the daughter of Daniel A. Goodwin, but recent information has her
> reported date of birth 3 years after the death of Daniel A. Goodwin.
>
> Helen Catherine, my wife's grandmother, attended a "NORMAL" school, and
> taught at Cape Cod after graduation. Helen Catherine boarded with a Rose
> family at Cape Cod during the School Year.
>
> Are there any cemetery books available for Holy Cross and/or Mt
> Pleasant? Are there any index books for transcribed census data for
> Middlesex County? How would I locate the newspaper death notices from the
> Herald and Globe? What is a Normal School? Does anyone have a connection
> to these names?
>
> Any assistance or guidance would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> Joe
>
>
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