Table of Contents

Preface

• Our Family's Biography

Dedications

The Lawton's

• James Lawton, is born in County Cork in 1809
• The Penal Days
• The History Behind the Irish Suffering
• The Wild Geese
• Tenant farmers
• Johanna Callaghan of Dungourney
• Killeagh, County Cork
• James and Johanna marry in 1841
• The Famine: 'The Great Hunger'
• Was it Famine or Genocide
• Johanna (Callaghan) Lawton dies at age 28
• Edward Lawton emigrates to America in 1862
• The Port of Boston
• An oath of disallegiance to the Crown
• Lynn, Massachusetts
• Edward Lawton and Margaret Heaphy marry
• The 'Go-Betweens'
• The Lawton's move to Brockton, Massachusetts
• Fred and Christine Lawton
• February 15, 1931
• Death Ends Fears
• Full military rites for Fred Lawton
• The Brockton public assists the Lawton's
• The suffering of another mother
• Fred and Christine Lawton's children
• Christine (Twohig) Lawton
• Marguerite R. Lawton
• Frederick H. Lawton
• Thomas E. Lawton
• James Robert 'Jimmy' Lawton
• The call for military service
• Operation Varsity
• Jim Lawton, the politician
• Jim Lawton runs for state-wide political office
• Jim Lawton, the jurist
• Jim Lawton, Chairman of the Board
• Jeanne Gloria (Cashman) Lawton
• Fred and Christine Lawton's grandchildren
• Children of Jim Lawton and Jeanne (Cashman) Lawton
• Mark Edward Lawton and Patricia (O'Leary) Lawton
• The perfect storm
• The Boys and Girls Club
• The passing of a great leader
• Patty (O'Leary) Lawton – the candidate
• Patty's influence was felt for years to come
• Patrick O'Leary Lawton
• Timothy Clifford Lawton
• Molly Burke Lawton
• Thomas David Lawton
• Richard James Lawton
• Robert Sean Lawton
• Paul Matthew Lawton
• Fred and Christine Lawton's great grandchildren
• The Maurice Lawton Family of Killeagh and South Boston
• Lawton Family Reunions
• Edward Lawton and his family's legacy

The O'Leary's

• The O'Leary's of Inchigeela
• The Famine: 'The Great Hunger'
• Finding the O'Leary ancestral home
• The Tailor and Ansty
• Timothy O'Leary I and Timothy O'Leary II
• The O'Leary's in America
• James O'Leary of Inchigeela and Boston
• Denis O'Leary, of Inchigeela and Brockton
• Timothy and Mary (Daylor) O'Leary's children
• Snub O'Leary
• The world goes to war again
• Snub and Marie O'Leary's children and grandchildren
• Patricia O'Leary and Mark Lawton marry in 1975
• Patty and Mark Lawton's grandchildren
• The O'Leary and Creedon Clans
• Maura Hugh Twomey is born in 1837 in Inchigeela
• The Famine – An Gorta Mor
• Branch nickname: 'O'Leary Galic'
• The Creedon's of Ballyvourney and Inchigeela
• Maura Hugh Twomey marries Michael Creedon in 1858
• The Creedon's begin their American journey
• Patricia O'Leary and Mark Lawton marry
• The Creedon support system; 'the Creedon machine'
• The five Creedon sons
• The Quabbin trip
• The Creedon cousins

The Cashman's

• Timothy and Johanna Cashman of Aghada Parish
• James Cashman
• The History Behind the Irish Suffering
• The Famine: 'The Great Hunger'
• James Cashman weds Catherine Corcoran
• Bandon-Bridge
• Was it Famine or Genocide
• Asenath Nicholson
• The Irish Come to America
• The Know-Nothings
• John Henry Cashman, the slate roofer
• The Ryan's and Quinlan's, of Borrisoleigh, County Tipperary
• Mary Quinlan weds William Ryan
• The mistreatment of the papist Irish of Borrisoleigh
• The celebration of the Eucharist in America's hometown
• Maggie Ryan weds John Henry Cashman
• The suffering of a mother
• John Henry Cashman, WWI Soldier and Brockton Firefighter
• The Strand Theatre Fire – March 11, 1941
• The World Wars
• John Henry Cashman, Jr.
• Lt. John Henry Cashman's death on April 30, 1943
• Aeschylus (525 BC – 455 BC)
• Soldier's Heart
• Post WWII
• Jeanne (Cashman) Lawton and Jimmy Lawton
• John and Beatrice Cashman's great grandchildren

The Poudrier's

• Alphonse Poudrier arrives from Quebec
• In 1911 the Poudrier's leave Spencer for Brockton
• Detective Micheal Dennehy

The Heaphy's

• Margaret Heaphy, of Killeagh
• February 15, 1931
• The suffering of Margaret (Heaphy) Lawton
• Mary (Heaphy) Donovan

The Twohig's and Long's

• The Long Family
• The Twohig Family
• Kate Long weds Tom Twohig
• Fred Lawton and Christine Twohig meet
• The day everything changed
• Catherine (Twohig) McCaig – Aunt 'Kit'

The Daylor's

• Mary F. Daylor, is born on Christmas Eve 1877
• The Irish revolutionary, David Daylor
• The assassination of Michael Collins

The Clifford's

• The Clifford's of Buttevant, County Cork
• Lynn, Massachusetts
• The children of Bill and Hannah (Burke) Clifford
• The grandchildren of Bill and Hannah (Burke) Clifford

The Burke's

• Was it Famine or Genocide
• The townland of Curragh, County Cork
• Hannah Burke marries Bill Clifford in 1911

The Keliher/Kaylor's

• From Keliher to Kaylor; from Killorglin to Roxbury
• The Puck Fair
• Asenath Nicholson visits Killorglin in 1845
• The Famine: 'The Great Hunger'
• Was it Famine or Genocide
• Who was James Keliher
• James Keliher's Journey to America; Queen of the West
• New York's immigration processing station
• Ellis Island
• James Keliher marries Ellen (Conlan) Garrity
• Good Hill
• James Kaylor's remarriage
• James Kaylor and the celebration of the Eucharist
• Richard James Kaylor weds Annie Doyle of Ireland and starts the next generation of Kaylor's
• The 'Go-Betweens'
• Richard Thomas Kaylor weds Virginia Florence Ducey
• Brian John Kaylor
• Tragedy befalls the Kaylor Family
• Travis Manning Kaylor
• Duxbury, Massachusetts
• The Kaylor cousins
• Richard James Kaylor
• Five generations removed

The Kehoe's

• Beggar's-Bridge
• An Gorta Mor at Beggar's-Bridge
• Thomas John Kehoe I
• The birth of Thomas John Kehoe II and the death of his mother, Annie (Lunney) Kehoe
• The Lunney's of County Fermanagh
• Annie Lunney born in 1870
• Tom Kehoe I remarries
• Thomas John Kehoe II marries Mary Cuddihy
• The Cuddihy's and Dunn's of Kilkenny
• The Senator Mike Mansfield connection
• Thomas John Kehoe III
• The 71st Combat Division
• Aeschylus (525 BC – 455 BC)
• Soldier's Heart
• Tom Kehoe III marries Aileen Manning in 1947
• Aileen Marie (Kehoe) Kaylor
• Aileen's siblings
• Greg Kehoe: from paperboy to prosecutor
• Coach Marchibroda

The Manning's and the Cahill's

• The Manning's of Kerry
• The Cahill's of County Clare
• Kilmaley Parish, County Clare

The Giel's of Pennsylvania

• William Giel
• William Giel, the United States Marine
• Prudence Moore and William Giel marry in 1969
• Dawn Giel meets Timothy Lawton
• The Giel/Lawton wedding in Montana
• Dawn and Tim's announcement

The Moore's of New York

• Marcus Heiselmann Moore, Jr. (1915 – 2019)
• From Hingham, Norfolk, England to Boston in 1630
• John and Adam Hawkes
• The Puritan Great Migration
• The Hawkes' Descendants
• Relationships between John & Adam Hawkes' descendants
• President Abraham Lincoln
• Common ancestry with Presidents and Kings

Family Stories

• Lawton Family Recollections (by Richard James Lawton)
• John F. Kennedy (by Mark Edward Lawton)
• Lt. John Henry Cashman (by Mark Edward Lawton)
• Frederick Lawton (by Mark Edward Lawton)
• Gerry Kelleher and Jimmy Lawton – friends forever (by Mark Edward Lawton)
• March 30, 1945, Munster Germany (by Mark Edward Lawton)
• Romance at its best (by Mark Edward Lawton)
• The Long Walk (by Travis and Molly Kaylor)
• The Announcement (by Mark Edward Lawton)
• Jim, always kept the wheels of democracy turning (by Mark Edward Lawton)
• Boys and Girls Club (by Mark Edward Lawton)
• Family Medical History (by Mark Edward Lawton)
• Keeping it in Perspective (by Mark Edward Lawton)
• Once Upon a Time (by Dawn Giel)

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Reflections

About the First Author