Pa & Jack Barrett victory garden
l9l8 at 640 E. Seventh Street #43 p 9 {P} {J}
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John Robert Barrett
l854-l942 and Jack Barrett ten Naval Reserve Lieutenant in back yard victory
garden l9l8 640 East Seventh St. In background is very old barn of Kinnaly
neighbors at 642East Seventh Street.The Kinnaly home,was moved to Seventh
St. in l9l2 when its former site on L St. at Fifth was taken for constru
ction of the Emerson School Born Nov.29,l854 John Robert Barrett had less
than a year offormal education.His father died Dec. l859 of lung disease and
his mother Catherine Daly of tuberculosis Feb.l863.Thie landlod Michael A.
Ring and a neighbor Mrs. Welch helped arranged for the children. Her brother
Michael A.Thompson was a baker living at 640 East. Seventh Street, where
John Robert Barrett went to live. His name appears there is the l870 u.S.
census. At some point he went west with his elder brother Michael Barrett,
who was a butcher somewhere in the Middle West. John robert paid Boston poll
taxes in l875, l876, and l877, and appears in city directories from l883
onward.He was apprenticed to master plumber William S. Locke and had his own
shop l890-l926.He once had a curious dream about visiting Yellowstone
Park.He married Catherine Agnres Buckley April 29, l884 at Gate of Heaven
church, and their son John Berchmans was born August 28,l888.She died June
8, l889, and he went to live with his Buckley in-laws on Park and Baxter
Streets, Melrose l889-l894, commuting to his plumbing shop while Minnie and
Maggie Buckley looked after Jack during the day. A stolen photo showed Jack
in a fine suit outside the house with his aunts at age about three.Jack's
father made a second marriage November l894 to Mary Lane of Grove Street
Melrose. Their children were William Joseph born October 24, l895. Mary
Frances (Mollie) February ll,l898, and Catherine born l899.From l894 to l902
the family lived at 634 East Seventh Street three doors east of L Street.A
stolen tintype showed Pa Barrett in the back yard about l900, holding the
two small baby girls -with Jack and Bill standing alongside.For several
years Pa was trustee of the property at 640 East Seventh Street when michael
Thompson was in poor health - he bought the property and lived there May
l902 until his decesae August 321, l942 while Jack was on Navy duty at Pearl
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