Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Jack's mother sister Minnie Buckley (Mary Frances)

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  1. I was very surprised when this photo enlarged just once on www.barrettfamilymemoir.com so I could make this large-size copy. Ordinarily it will not enlarge, so maybe there is some way to get others to do the same. Minnie looked after Jack Barrett from age nine months until his father remarried six years later November 1894, so Jack was very close with her. She corresponded with her uncle Michael Buckley 1834-1918 of Moskeigh,Templemartin,county Cork Ireland, who had a very large family on the old farm. Minnie died of spinal meningitis March 1912, though her nephew Jack Barrett sat with her two days and could not tell if she was conscious and could understand what he said.

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