Cronin Clan Dashboard

Waban

Doody's of Dorchester

Wellesley Cronin's

Wellesley, Ma. "Home-Sweet-Home"

Hunnewell's Influence in the Boston Area

Flynn's of Brighton

Cronin's of Arlington Street

Cronin,s of Charlestown

Canty's of Brighton

Hanley's of Dorchester

Meeting House Hill "John Doody Memorial"

Union Soldier Memorial

Suffolk County

Document

TJ Cronin's Bar in Nova Scotia

A quick Blog tour of T.J. Cronins' lounge in Nova Scotia....The picture does not look like Chef Thomas!

Scroll down the link until uoi see the picture of the bar tender......Looks like Marty Harrison

TJ Cronin Bar Nova Scotia

Cronin Name Background

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Our CRONEN name originates in the green and beautiful island of Ireland, a land of many lakes, rivers, old castles and abbys. It is a land of saints and legends. The coastline is jagged and irregular with many bays and inlets extending so deeply into the interior of the land, making no point in the entire country more than 60 miles from the sea or some bay of the sea. The mild climate is almost never hot in summer, nor very cold in winter. It is damp with considerable year-round rainfall and a great many fogs. The size and population of Ireland is about the same as the state of Indiana.

Our name was originally spelled CRONIN and is one of the most numerous surnames in Ireland. Years ago, CRONIN was prefixed with O' and was spelled O'CROININ. Later it was spelled O'CRONIN. In Ireland in the year 1659, O'CRONIN was recorded as a principal name in County Limerick (barony of Connello) and County Kerry (barony of Magunihy) as well as in two baronies of County Cork. The surname CRONIN is derived from the word cron, meaning saffron (orange-yellow) colored. A leading family of O'CRONIN were trustees or managers of a church near Gougane Barra. CRONEEN was another common spelling of the name. CRONAN is another variation. The CRONIN clan is supposed to have descended from a third century Irish King named Lughaidh Laide.

The CRONIN's are very prevalent in the county of Cork and several placenames show this fact, for example, Liscroneen and Ballycroneen. The CRONIN's were the owners of property in West Cork near the town of Clonakilty.

It is not known why our immigrant ancestor changed the spelling to CRONEN, but there were various reasons why immigrants changed the spelling of their name. Upon entering the United States, the immigrant would have an accent and the immigration clerk would write their name down the way it sounded, then the immigrant would continue to use this spelling. Sometimes the immigrant would not be able to read or write and this would result in a change of the spelling. Some even "americanized" their name by changing the spelling while others wanted to distinguish their family from other families with the same spelling.

Between 1846 and 1851, more than a million Irish men, women and children emigrated to the United States and Canada. This was due to a mysterious blight that hit the potato crop in Ireland in the years 1845 through 1848. A million people died of starvation and disease since the potato was Ireland's principal food.

The voyage crossing the ocean to America was not a pleasant experience for many of the immigrants. The ships were overcrowded and provided little or no privacy. Sickness and disease plagued the passengers and food was scarce. Whole families died before reaching their destination. Storms were always a threat. Fifty-nine immigrant ships to America were lost in the years 1847-1853.

Poor Irish immigrants, solidly Catholic, flooded into the Louisville, Kentucky area in the late 1840's and 50's. By 1850 there were 3105 Irish immigrants in Louisville. These immigrants were mostly tenant farmers, flocking to the city penniless, looking for any kind of work that was available. They were near the bottom of the white social ladder, the free blacks being at the bottom, with whom thay often competed with in the labor market. There was much fear and prejudice towards Irish Catholics during this period. They made up a large portion of the unskilled laborers working long hours for little pay.

,John Doody,39th Ma INF. POW,Died in Libby Prison

John Doody was the father of Edward Doody (Pa). He was a soldier for the Union Army during the Civil War. Everett Horn (who was his Great Grand Son) provided me with information to find this valuable document.

John Doody resided in Dorchester, Ma; a 32 year-old Laborer. On 12/15/1863 John enlisted in the Union Army as a Private. On 12/15/1863 he mustered into "H" Co. MA - 39th Infantry.

John became a Prisoner of War on 8/19/1864 during the second Battle of Weldon Railroad and was sent to the "Libby Prison"in Richmond, VA. - John died at Annapolis Hospital.

The Libby Prison

John died on 11/17/1864 at Annapolis, MD.

He had been listed as a POW on 8/19/1864 in Weldon Railroad, VA.

Document Describing the 2nd Battle of Weldon Railroad

Below please see a copy of his death certificate that someone is trying to sell on eBay.

"FOR SALE, A VINTAGE CIVIL WAR PAY DOCUMENT TO JOHN DOODY, 39TH MA. INF. ISSUED AT ANNAPOLIS HOSPITAL. WHERE HE DIED, BUYER PAYS POSTAGE AND INSURANCE"

Death Certificate of John Doody

Soldier History of John Doody

Brighton Abattoir --Slaughterhouses

1925 Map of the Brighton Abattoir with Market St to the right and Arsenal St on the top right. Boston Acura and Staples occupy this area today. In 1872, all slaughtering activities in Brighton were consolidated into a single facility, the Brighton Abattoir, situated on a 42 acre site on the banks of the Charles River, thus freeing up valuable land in the central part of the town for house construction. Samuel Learnard, Brighton resident, was one of the Presidents of the Abattoir. The Abattoir closed in 1957 to make way for commercial property, the Leo M. Birmingham Parkway and Soldier's Field Road.

The Abattoir circa 1925

Remembering North Brighton and the Abattoir

• Thomas J. Noonan (Husband of Anne and father of Patty) had a medical supply business called "Thomas J. Noonan Medical Supply". He was very successful and, therefore, needed additional office/warehouse space. He was one of the 1st companies to build on this commercial property. The Building is still their today.

• It is also very interesting to note that the meat for the Army was processed on the Brighton side of the Charles River...While the Guns and Cannons were manufactured directly accross the river at the Watertown Arsenal. Today it is the Arsenal MAll!

The Irish come to Brighton

Why the Irish liked Brighton as their Town of Choice.....Click the Tab Below

Irish like Brighton as their home

http://www.bahistory.org/IrishImmigration.html

The Annexation of Brighton to Boston

On October 7, 1873 the voters of the independent towns of Brookline and Brighton made sharply contrasting decisions on the question of annexation to the City of Boston. While two thirds of Brookline’s electors rejected merger with the metropolis (for reasons spelled out in my last article), fully 81 percent of Brighton’s voters eagerly embraced the opportunity to join the city. Why did these neighboring towns react so differently when presented with this momentous choice?

Read the article below!

Brighton, Ma Annexation


Further History of Brighton Center

Brighton History

Hunnewell Family and Oak Square, Brighton

The Hunnewell family helped develop the Oak Square section of Brighton, Ma. Click on the link below to open the document.

Oak Square


Brighton Map circa 1950's

A Little Family History.....


Tim's (TXC) parents -- Timothy P Cronin (TPC) & Katheryn "Kay" moved to a 2 family on Hunnewell Hill across from the Presentation Church during their twilight years . The Noonan's of Oak Square ( no relation to the Brookline Noonan's) were cousin's--Lived next door, as did many other friends and family. Jim Noonan and his wife (1st cousin to the TPC family) attended the party that we had to renew relations with Ester Martin (TX's Sister) at our home in Cotuit! Pam Martin (daughter of Esther and her 3 children attended the get-together in Cotuit, as well. Esther's older sister with the birth name of Patricia is well known within Yoga circles as one of the best instructors in the country-

A Picture of Oak Square in 1995

Oak Square Pix

Tim changed his middle name from Patrick to Xavier at his confirmation ceremony. I am sure the Big Tim ( name the family used) was not too Happy about this situation. Guess what? ...he got over it!


Ester Martin and her husband John lived in the Oak Square area as well. Their home was located on Nonantum Hill (next hill to Huneywell Hil)l. St. Sebastian's C.D.S. was located at the very top of Nonantum Hill looking over the City of Boston. Please note that today St. Sebastian's in Needham is now called St. Sebastian's School.

TX had another sister named Mary. Mary left the Boston area to live in Minnesota. The lineage was Esther-oldest, Tim, and Mary - youngest. Prior to living at 106 Arlington St, Brighton, they lived at 46 Pleasant Street in Charlestown ( their home on Pleasant Street was the only home that had a 2 car garage. It was in Charlestown that the Timothy P Cronin kids grew up. Timothy P at the time was a Boston Police Officer.

The Timothy P. Cronin's lived for many years at 106 Arlington Street. It was from this address that TX would walk up and pass 46 Parsons Street (the Doody home) where Ginny Hanley would give to him a wave and blow him a kiss. Tim finished his walk at the First National Store on Washington Street where he worked behind the meat counter filling everybody's meat requirements for the day. Ginny was known to hang around the meat counter for obvious reasons. The story goes that Tim would slip into Ginny's meat order and extra piece or two.

Hunnewell's give land to Wellesley College

The Joy of Giving
New directions in philanthropy and the people who make it happen

Rachel Levitt writer

During the holiday season, the spirit of giving to others prevails in communities across the country. Whether it’s giving in the form of holiday gifts to our friends and loved ones or giving our time and money to those less fortunate, this is the one time of year when many people are willing to write a check to their favorite cause or volunteer at a homeless shelter. But in Wellesley and Weston, we are fortunate to have many individuals and families who devote their time and money to help others twelve months a year.
Why do some people devote their lives to giving back and making a difference in the lives of others? Giving is no easy thing; it requires a strong belief in humanity, and the belief that others will not only benefit from our efforts, but will perhaps be inspired to be engaged in community efforts as well.
I spoke to Weston philanthropists Steve and Joan Belkin, Doug and Julie Macrae, Kathan Tracy, the co-director of locally based Crossroads Community Foundation, and Francis Hunnewell of Wellesley, to gain a deeper understanding of the different ways that people return their gifts to others and why the joy of giving has become central to their lives.
First, some history: the town of Wellesley itself was founded on philanthropy. Horatio Hollis Hunnewell, the successful 19th-century industrialist who cared deeply for this rolling, forested piece of Massachusetts, gave the town hall (an approximate copy of his own home, designed by his cousin), the library, and the land for Wellesley College. For all his generosity, the town was named after his estate, “Wellesley,” originally based on his wife’s maiden name, Welles. In those days, new neighbors would be welcomed with the clip-clop of Hunnewell’s horse coming down their drive. It was the “old man” bringing the gift of a sapling to the fledgling Wellesleyans, requesting that they plant it somewhere on their property. An avid horticulturist, he imported diverse trees from Asia and Europe, and planted them everywhere, eventually establishing the Hunnewell Arboretum in the 1840s to preserve the legacy of his gardens and rare specimens.
Skip forward to 2006 and join Francis Hunnewell, the sixty-something great great-grandson of H.H. Hunnewell, on his porch on a sunny September morning. He is tall, athletic, and serious minded. Raised in a stone castle-like estate on a hill, he spent his twenties and thirties living in Asia and Europe working as an investment banker. In the early eighties he returned to Wellesley to tend to his aging father and make sure his children got a stateside high school education. A businessman to the core, he recognized the liability of holding onto the land his forebears had preserved. Soaring property values in Wellesley made transferring large tracts prohibitively expensive. And around the country, landed families had sold off their properties and pocketed the cash. Very tempting to do the same, but the Hunnewells are a unique family. Deep within, they understand that preserving the estates is the greatest philanthropic gesture to the community that bears their name.
Hunnewell is a true steward of the land. He has spent the past twenty-five years protecting the properties from subdivision and subsequent development. In most cases, he labored to devalue the land by giving it conservation status. The houses themselves, eight grand homes and thirty smaller homes, have been separated from the land to make their values manageable and decrease the tax burden. A trust was established to maintain the properties while new owners within the family could be found.
From the air, the properties look like Central Park, a lovely tree-filled landscape for everyone to enjoy. To maintain this gift to Wellesley, Hunnewell and his cousins work constantly to meet the resultant tax burden. Throughout the generations, they have committed themselves to a true philanthropy, to keep the properties whole, the starting point of our story.
Giving comes in many permutations. When Steve and Joan Belkin were first starting out, they didn’t have money but they did have time, and they still consider it to be their most valuable resource.
The Belkins volunteered as coaches for their children’s schools, because it was a way for them to give while staying close to their progeny. As they became successful, their friends introduced them to the many local organizations seeking time and donations. The Belkins latched onto a few charities including the Boston Medical Center and the Combined Jewish Philanthropies, committing funds and creativity to leverage their philanthropic efforts. “I’m an entrepreneur,” explained Steve Belkin during a phone interview, “I started 26 businesses, [and so] I bring vision and passion to these causes. When we got involved with the Anti-Defamation League (whose purpose is to secure justice and fair treatment to all citizens), we wanted to help community leaders learn about discrimination first-hand. Working with Lenny Zakim, the then executive director of the New England regional ADL, we chartered an airplane and flew 150 community leaders to Washington, D.C. to visit the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.” Now in its fourteenth year, the program has introduced over 2000 people to the exhibits.
“Stockpiling doesn’t fill you up,” Joan Belkin explained. “Our family mantra is: you get more from giving than getting.” That is why the Belkins dedicate so much of their time and energy to their chosen charities. Their latest projects combine business and philanthropy, including the purchase of Lookout Farm in Natick, the oldest continually working farm in the United States and a major outdoor destination for local families. When the farm came up for sale last year, developers immediately eyed the 200 acres of prime real estate. Understanding that the loss of the farm to development would be a tragic turn for the region, the Belkins committed themselves to saving this agricultural remnant thereby ensuring that families would continue to enjoy locally-grown, organic fruits and vegetables. Steve Belkin also purchased two Atlanta sports teams, the Hawks (an NBA franchise), and the Thrashers (an NHL franchise), as a community-building venture. He points out that spectator sports bring together all ethnicities and generations, and for the short time the game is on, people put aside their differences to root for their team together. He believes that some will take these lessons beyond the stadium and go to work for fairness and less discrimination in the future.
Doug Macrae dropped out of MIT to develop Ms. Pac-man. By age 23 he had amassed quite a fortune. Growing up in a wealthy family in Short Hills, New Jersey, he had learned from an early age about the importance of giving. Each year his grandmother gave money to her grandchildren to donate to a cause and required that they write a report of where they chose to give and why they believed that charity benefited society. Julie Macrae, his wife, never had money growing up. Her mother survived on welfare and food stamps. Macrae was the first person in her family to go to college, only able to afford it with significant loans and multiple jobs. “I had a giving heart but nothing to give,” she told me in her home in Weston. She married Doug in 1993 and has lived by the saying, “For those who receive, much is required.” Like the Belkins, Doug and Julie Macrae believe that giving money is not enough. They donate their time, their home, and their expertise to all the organizations to which they contribute.
The Macraes are faith-based philanthropists. They give to Grace Chapel, their non-denominational church in Lexington. Both Julie and Doug are on the board of Home Improvement Ministries (H.I.M.), an organization with the mission to “equip, encourage, and bring hope to churches, families, and marriages as they seek to establish and live out biblical designs for relationships.” As part of their work with H.I.M, the Macraes host “Engagement Matters” weekends at their home in Weston to help engaged or pre-engaged couples become better equipped for marriage. They are dedicated to education, giving generously to their own schools and paying college and graduate school tuition for family and friends in need. They also support Athletes in Action, an organization founded in 1966 that provides ministry to college and professional athletes and coaches, and Agape International. Doug is currently Chairman of the Board for Agape, an organization founded in 2003 in response to the great need for orphanages and care dedicated to children and families in India suffering as a result of the growing AIDS crisis in Asia.
With so many organizations in need and so many requests for time and money, how does one know where and how to give? Wellesley residents Kathan Tracy and Judy Salerno are co-executive directors of Crossroads Community Foundation. Tracy says, “It’s easy to find big organizations to give to, like colleges and independent schools, but there are a lot of small nonprofits that are lower profile.” That’s where Crossroads comes in. Based in Natick and serving the 27 towns and cities known as “Metrowest,” this tax-exempt public charity raises funds and distributes them to local organizations in the form of grants. People interested in giving locally but feeling overwhelmed by the sheer number of charities from which to choose can either select a Crossroads interest-based fund or start a new one for a given area. Crossroads administers each donor’s fund separately but pools those assets into one large and diversified portfolio for investment purposes. Crossroads does all the work, evaluating need, tax reporting, and distributing grants from these funds to local nonprofit organizations in accordance with the wishes of the donors. Tracy continues, “There’s a real education process to giving. You need to become much more strategic like Bill Gates and his family. They don’t deviate and that’s how they are effective.”
Because we live in affluent communities, a continuing theme expressed by parents is the desire to make our young people sympathetic to the needs of others and to educate them on how to work together to help those less fortunate. According to author Susan Crites Price in her book The Giving Family: Raising Our Children to Help Others (Council on Foundations, 2003), parents can help their children become caring adults by planting the seeds early about charitable giving through stories and activities, and by serving as role models for them. Family volunteering, community service through school, church activities, and youth organizations are ways in which a philanthropic education can be fostered.
Crossroads takes this idea one step further with their Youth in Philanthropy Program. In it, high school students are encouraged to understand the needs and challenges of the community and to learn about the work of nonprofit organizations and the process of writing grants. Students from the Rivers School and Weston High School take part in this twelve-week course that meets after school and teaches teens what the nonprofit sector does. They learn how to read budgets and actual grant proposals, then visit the charities to determine whether the organizations are set up to achieve their prospective goals. Crossroads allocates $10,000 of its resources to these students to distribute at the end of the course, usually in the form of two to three grant recipients. Most of the organizations are operating on a shoestring budget and the young philanthropists “can really make a difference with a little money,” says Tracy.
Learning how to give is an invaluable experience. One of the Youth in Philanthropy graduates said, “I never knew there was so much need right here in my backyard.” This is true for anyone who has decided to give back. The need for help in the world is overwhelming and can often discourage the budding philanthropist. I learned from these extremely generous benefactors, however, that giving begins at home. Look around and decide what it is that you care about, because giving money is never enough. To truly invest in an organization, it is important to provide the gift of your time. In fact, just talking about an organization with friends is often enough to trigger a chain of small donations. Steve Belkin coined the term, “friend raising” to refer to how enthusiasm can sometimes bring life-long commitments. As a board member of the Combined Jewish Philanthropies, Belkin encourages fundraisers and friends to see donation-raising as an opportunity to educate others about the profound need right here in Boston, and create a community around an organization committed to common goals.

Procure Point Roll Out

An e-marketplace for buyers and sellers of electronic components began its launch process recently. ProcurePoint.com management describes the site as a secure, Web-based marketplace designed for professional purchasers buying for multiple, future deliveries. They say the site will be launched in several phases over the next few months, and that it targets small and midsize contract electronic manufacturers who purchase electronic components from franchised distributors. "Buyers like the fact that we use only authorized distributors and preserve the manufacturers warranty, unlike distressed inventory sold by auction-based exchanges," says Timothy X. Cronin, ProcurePoint's chairman of the board.

Bobbys Bumper

Click on the Link below to see a picture of Uncle Bobo's new car!

BOBO's New Car

Bigbuff's e-Catalog for your review

The demo catalog is called "click4catalog". That's right just click on the tab with the underline and off you will go to enjoy my newest venture!

This is the Real Thing. The site includes:

• Electronic Component e-Catalog
• B2B Procurement System -- Better than e-bay!
• Real Time Data Base
• We Host our customers e-Processing capability

We will be ready to sell the e-Catalog System next week

NewCatalog

Bigbuff

Cronin Clan Blog

This blog is intended to provide to our family as well as the extended family (friends & neighbors) a place to relish our roots.

It needs a lot of work, but it is a start for all to injoy.

Tom and I were driving by the Honnewell Estate and we were discussing who is this man "Honnewell" that lived and developed the Town of Wellesley?

Enjoy

BigBuff

The West Needham Hunnewell Family

Click on the link below to open the Document. It is the story of the man, his family, and a view of WELLESLEY during the last century!

The Hunnewell Family Story "

Hunnewell Family of Wellesley

H. H. Hunnewell

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Horatio Hollis Hunnewell, also known as H. H. Hunnewell (July 27, 1810 - May 20, 1902), was a wealthy banker, railroad financier, philanthropist, amateur botanist, and one of the most prominent horticulturists in America in the nineteenth century. Practicing horticulture for nearly six decades on his estate in Wellesley, Massachusetts, he was perhaps the first person to cultivate and popularize rhododendrons in the United States.

Hunnewell was a director of the Illinois Central Railroad in 1862-1871, railroad entrepreneur in Kansas beginning in the 1860s, and president of the Kansas City, Fort Scott and Gulf Railroad and Kansas City, Lawrence and Southern Railroad around 1880. The railroad towns of Hunnewell, Kansas and Hunnewell, Missouri were named in his honor.

Both the town of Wellesley (founded 1881) and Wellesley College (chartered 1870) are named for Hunnewell's estate, "Wellesley", which he named for the family of his wife, Isabella Pratt Welles. The estate includes a prominent 1852 house and attached conservatory (greenhouse), Hunnewell Arboretum, pinetum, a complex of specialty greenhouses, and one of the first topiary gardens in America, all of which are still standing. The estate is part of the Hunnewell Estates Historic District, which includes the estates of many of his descendants.

[edit] Philanthropy

H. H. Hunnewell made a donation in 1873 that helped Asa Gray revise and complete his Flora of North America. He also funded the conifer collection at Arnold Arboretum, Boston, Massachusetts, and donated the Arboretum's administration building (now Hunnewell Building) in 1892.

Hunnewell was a friend and neighbor of Henry Fowle Durant (1822-1881), who founded Wellesley College on Lake Waban directly across from Hunnewell's estate. Hunnewell made a donation to the College for Eliot Dormitory in 1887, and endowed the College's Chair of Botany in 1901.

The town of Wellesley's greatest benefactor, Hunnewell built and donated the Town Hall and Free Library building (completed 1885). (The Wellesley Free Library has since moved to a new building.) He was also a frequent donor, often anonymously, to many town causes.

[edit] Trivia

Among other miscellaneous activities, Hunnewell owned the home in which Horatio Alger's father lived until his death, now called the Horatio Alger House in Natick, Massachusetts. Oliver Bacon had built this house about 1824, and sold it in 1869 to Hunnewell. In 1909, Hunnewell deeded the property to the First Unitarian Church of South Natick as a parsonage.

Hunnewell is buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts, among his family.

[edit] See also

• List of defunct United States railroads
• Walter Hunnewell Arboretum

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._H._Hunnewell"

Categories: 1810 births | 1902 deaths | American railroad executives of the 19th century

Trinidad

Building the Atlantic Bases as well as some Docs on Trinidad

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tim cronin to TXC3, tjcdurant, Gregory, Robert, Rob, Lindsey

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Hi Tim, & other interested family members-

This article describes the importance of Trinidad as an air base, as well as a Navel base during the 1940's.

Some day Tye will be delighted (as you and I are) asking what did his namesake due during the war years.

The location is: http://www.usace.army.mil/publications/eng-pamphlets/ep870-1-42/c-1-3.pdf

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I am attaching to this mail a picture of the Ship called U.S.N.S. Private William H. Thomas (T-AP185)

Also I have included a picture of TX and Mims in their civilian outfits taken in front of the Officers Club (TX) and Mims ready to go down the stairs to the beach for a hot dog!

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While we are on the subject of Trinidad....Below please see a picture of the Officers Club in Macqueripe, which was as I recall you can look out over the ocean and see Venezuela. The body of water between Trinidad and Venezuela is known as the Gulf of Parea.

http://www.chagdev.com/Pages/InAct-Map-Macqueripe.htm




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Lastly- below please find an interactive map showing the Chagueripe section of Trinidad ( Northwest section of Trinidad)....Macqueripe is above Chagueripe section on the Caribbean Sea. This is where the Officers Club was located as well as the beautiful beach where you could look out and touch Venezuela. This body of water is known as the Gulf of Parea. It is interesting to note that during the war Parea was loaded with German Subs checking around for their next


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