Hickey, Fred. Interview about family history in Holyrood

Interview with Fred Hickey. The original recording was made as two separate audio files. The following description is not a full transcript: Interview with Fred Hickey (March 4 2003) Jack Crawley is Patsy John’s father, that where I brought Jimmy to visit his sister, Mary. That’s twenty odd years ag...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Byrne, Joe
Other Authors: Hickey, Fred
Format: Audio
Language:English
Published: 2003
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Online Access:http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/ich_avalon/id/8517
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Summary:Interview with Fred Hickey. The original recording was made as two separate audio files. The following description is not a full transcript: Interview with Fred Hickey (March 4 2003) Jack Crawley is Patsy John’s father, that where I brought Jimmy to visit his sister, Mary. That’s twenty odd years ago. I was going to sell her a Singer sewing machine, but she said “I have one,” and I heard him say “You got nothing like I got,” and she said, “I don’t want it, I told you I didn’t want it.” Uncle Jim was married in North Sydney, he had two sons and a couple of daughters, Madeline and Teresa. He was married to a Broot up in Stephenville, Annie Broot. I was talking to her brother I supposed 35 years ago, he was working up there as a lumberjack. They were living in Sydney. I left the States in 1928 and came back to Newfoundland. Paddy married Agatha Myers, that’s Marg Myer’s daughter. They also had John and Frank who were twins, they had a brother pad that died three or four years ago, they had a brother Hubert and brother Martin. Martin is a big fellow, Joan was the woman I was sitting with and they had Anastasia, she died two or three years ago. Bernard and Stash Cole had Joe, who’s the oldest, one girl, Anna, they had Leonard and Bernard, that’s all I think. Joe is married to an Italian, they were down here about 10 years ago. They live out in Bayridge? We were out to their home out there, in the outskirts of Brooklyn. Mike and Susannah Hawco- That was Jimmy Hawco’s daughter, they had a name on her brother Johnny Done, they called her Susannah Done, she was married to my uncle Mick Hickey. Their house was right next to Clar Hawco’s, on the edge of the road. They had a son Jim, and a son Bernard and a daughter Hanora, she is married to Laul Healey in North Arm, a daughter May, she died years ago and another daughter Susannah. Mary Hickey and Jack Crawley- They had Margaret, Anastasia, Pad, Mary, Kay and a son Christian, he died as an infant. Pad is out in Chapels Cove, Margaret is in the States, Mary in down in North ...