Reads Poems

Family

I grew up in the midst of 50 or so first cousins dristributed between the families of my mother (Conlin) and father. Two of my mother's seven sisters became nuns the others married men named: Conlin women married men named Bennett, Crawford, Heintz, McCabe, and Walsh; my father's two sisters married men named Hall and Barry!

Family album, 2026 additions

Springfield Republican files

Dec. 10, 1911 Spfld Repub. – Chas. Read 64, dies at home, 55 Adams St. about midnight, besides widow, four sons, Chas. J. architect Toronto; Wm. J. Attleboro, MA, James J. Frank J. of Spfld. Born May 10, 1847 Westerloo, Ont. Came to Springfield aged 16, returned home to learn cabinetmakers trade; 13 yrs foreman T.M. Walker Co. then 4 yrs foreman T. Shea Co.

Here are additions to the Read Family Album, compliments to cousin Chip, except for the first one which I now suspect to be Nana’s parents, because the woman resembles Ellen Bracken Swift:

Patrick and Ellen Swift
Patrick and Ellen Swift, I think!
Ellen Bracken Swift, c. 1892
Ellen Bracken Swift, c. 1892
Elizabeth Donohue Read, c. 1890
Elizabeth Donohue Read, c. 1890
Mary Berenice Swift, age 19
Mary Berenice Swift, age 19
Nana, Elizabeth, Dad at SU 1941
Nana, Elizabeth, Dad at SU 1941
Phil Read and Mother, Toronto 1942
Phil Read and Mother, Toronto 1942