Patricia Florian Barrett, 19242017 (aged 93 years)

Name
Patricia Florian /Barrett/
Type of name
adopted name
Given names
Patricia Florian
Surname
Barrett
Name
Patricia Florian /Barrett/
Given names
Patricia Florian
Surname
Barrett
Also known as
Patricia Florian /Sweeney/
Family with parents
mother
18971961
Birth: October 6, 1897 38 32 Farnham, VA
Death: April 18, 1961Port Chester, NY
herself
Family with adoptive parents
adoptive-father
adoptive-mother
Pearl Casey Barrett
18911993
Birth: February 17, 1891Chicago, Illinois
Death: July 2, 1993Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA
Marriage Marriage
elder sister
Catherine Barrett
19191932
Birth: June 4, 1919 30 28 Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA
Death: February 29, 1932Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA
5 years
herself
Mother’s family with an unknown individual
mother
18971961
Birth: October 6, 1897 38 32 Farnham, VA
Death: April 18, 1961Port Chester, NY
herself
Family with Robert Emmet Sweeney
ex-husband
herself
Religious marriage Religious marriageApril 18, 1949
Divorce Divorce
11 months
son
17 months
son
18 months
son
17 months
son
MLS 2022
1954
Birth: June 16, 1954 29 29 Lakewood, Ohio
17 months
son
15 months
son
15 months
son
20 months
daughter
2 years
daughter
20 months
son
20 months
daughter
15 months
daughter
2 years
daughter
Robert Emmet Sweeney + Kathryn Lavelle
ex-husband
ex-husband’s wife
Marriage Marriage
Birth
Adoption
Adoption: Adopted by both parents
Divorce
Death of a paternal grandfather
1929 (aged 4 years)
Death of a sister
Cause: Chronic Nephritis
Death of a maternal grandmother
January 3, 1936 (aged 11 years)
Religious marriage
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Birth of a son
Birth of a son
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Death of a mother
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Birth of a son
Death of a father
1964 (aged 39 years)
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Birth of a grandson
September 30, 1970 (aged 46 years)
Birth of a grandson
September 22, 1974 (aged 50 years)
Birth of a granddaughter
July 11, 1977 (aged 52 years)
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Birth of a grandson
Marriage of a son
Address: 30416 Salem Dr.
Bay Village, OH 44140
Birth of a grandson
May 22, 1981 (aged 56 years)
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July 4, 1983 (aged 58 years)
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March 19, 1987 (aged 62 years)
USA
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October 25, 1987 (aged 63 years)
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Marriage of a daughter
Death of a mother
Birth of a grandson
Birth of a grandson
June 8, 1994 (aged 69 years)
Birth of a grandson
March 22, 1997 (aged 72 years)
Birth of a granddaughter
Birth of a granddaughter
Birth of a grandson
December 20, 1997 (aged 73 years)
Marriage of a daughter
Birth of a grandson
Birth of a grandson
Death of a husband
Marriage of a daughter
Marriage of a granddaughter
Marriage of a grandson
Marriage of a granddaughter
Marriage of a grandson
Number of children
13
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Patricia Sweeney
Patricia Sweeney
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First Bicycle
First Bicycle
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Patricia and Pearl Barrett
Patricia and Pearl Barrett
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Swimsuits
Swimsuits
Death
November 21, 2017 (aged 93 years) Age: 93
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CATEGORY:Sweeney

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All,

I wish to share with all the family research that Mary Brigid and I have been doing this summer into Mom's heritage. We had taken the information that Mom had on her birth, the information that Trish and Mary Brigid had gathered in previous visit to Our Lady of Victory/Father Baker's Home in Lackawanna, NY and the research that her neighbor Mrs. Saylor had done as our starting point. Mary and I both discovered the web site ancestry.com and had attempted over the past year ( on and off ) to use this to further research Mom's past. However by this spring it be clear that we needed someone more skilled in genealogy and there in Buffalo,NY to get more information.

I was able to find a wonderful gal through ancestry.com to help us, Tamie Rovnak, Tracing Lives through Research. Her specialty is research genealogy for orphans and she had worked with Our Lady of Victory/Father Baker's Home in the past. She and I began to communicate early this summer and by August she had completed as much as possible in Lackawanna, NY.

Our research concluded with a trip that Mom, Mary, Ed and I toke to Lackawanna/Buffalo,NY on August 7-8. We met with Tamie, toured Our Lady of Victory Basilica and Father Baker's Home, visited Holy Family Church were Mom was baptized and even found the homes of the Kemp's and Poppenburg's were Mom lived. Mom loved the trip and it was quite an experience. Mary and I have put together an album of the trip and it is at Mom's for all to enjoy.

Also in the back of this album is a summary of Tamie Rovnak's research and copies of supporting documents ( I will be send these as attachments in another email ). Here's my synopsis: Mom was born at Father Baker's Infant Home of an unwed mother on August 12, 1924. Her mother was Lelia Bryant, age 27, lived in Maryland, was born in Virginia, was a sales clerk and was Baptist. There was no information about the father available. We were able to confirm that Mom lived with the Kemp's from 1927 to at least 1930 (age 3 - 6). We did locate two of the Kemp's home, one of which is still standing. We were able to locate the Poppenburg home were Mom lived later but no additional information about this family.

Since finding out the name of Mom's birth mother, I have again been searching again on ancestry.com for her story. With my amateur research I have been able to locate a Lillia Bryant ( aka Lelia Bryant, aka Etta L. Bryant) that lived in Baltimore, was 26 or 27 at the time of Mom's birth, was born in Farnham, Virgina and was a sales clerk. I believe that she was Mom's mother. I am currently trying to further follow her history and hopefully find the Bryant family of Virginia who may be our cousins.

I hope that all the above is understandable and as exciting to you as it is to us.

Dan Sweeney

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Patricia Florian Barrett was adopted by Patrick & Pearl Barrett. Her birth name was Mary Alice Bryant and she was orphaned at birth.

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Patricia Sweeney
Patricia Sweeney
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First Bicycle
First Bicycle
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Swimsuits
Swimsuits
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Dan, Bill and Bob Sweeney
Dan, Bill and Bob Sweeney
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James, Edward and John Sweeney
James, Edward and John Sweeney