Frank Daniel Barnaby

and Theresa Rita Feola

E-Mail from March 20th -- Hello my name is Frank Feola. I am the grandson of Francesco (Frank)
Feola. I believe he was your uncle. I see a picture of him on your
website. Also there is a picture of my grandmother Lena with two
children. The one on the right is my dad who is also named Frank. (I
think that makes him your cousin) the other child is my uncle Johnny
another cousin of yours.
I went with my dad to the reunion you had a number of years ago. It
was nice to meet some family that I never knew I had. He also realy
enjoyed himself.
My dad passed away this past weekend after a long battle with cancer.
I dont know if you knew him very well or at all but we are going to
miss him very much.
I found some info about his family that I know very little about
while cleaning his apartment out. I was looking for more info on the
Internet when I came across your website. I just wanted to say hello
and let you know about my dad.
Let me know if I may be able to help out with any info.
Thanks,
Frank Feola
 

On September 6, 2009 - Received information from Stephanie Barber (Chisholm) regarding her family genealogical information with her brother-in-laws information.  Thank you Stephanie!

On February 13, 2009  - Received pictures from Victoria Furness - Posted in catagories, see Pictures on side bar. Way to go Victoria!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

On February 6, 2009 - Robert Barnaby, Jr., son of Robert Barnaby sent great information regarding his grandfather, Jesse Barnaby, grandmother, parents and great documentation. We thank Robert for his extremely useful information!  THANK YOU BOBBY!! His e-mail is below:

Terry, thanks for this, awesome! Way to Diane!

Terry, as you know, I have been dabbling in to this a little bit, on line, and by contacting local town clerks. Also I have been to the Massachusetts archives a few times to look up original records in the archives.

I have about 20 scanned docs including some certificates. I will include some with the reply. My dad's (your uncle Bob) birth certificate will show parents, as will grandfather Jesse's, grandmother Eva's and great grandfather Frank Lounsbury Barnaby's death certificate which also has the name of the cemetery, Lindenwood which is on Montvale Ave in Stoneham. The cemetery deed shows Frank L and Mary E as well As Jesse F and Eva G Also great aunt Mary T and her husband.

I used Jackie's work as a jump off point and muddled my way around, finding that names, dates and places do not always correspond from one source to another. I am seriously limited with time because of the kids and my two jobs so the research goes slowly. One conflict that I found was the identity of Mary E (Jennings) Barnaby. She has been listed as Mary E an Mary C. The ledgers at the Mass archives show several Mary Jennings born in Massachusetts during the 1870 era, plus or minus a few years, however, there is only one Mary E listed and she was born in Concord in 1869 to John and Mary (Bonnell) Jennings who were both from County Galway Ireland, not in Peabody as has been stated. The marriage record for Frank L Barnaby and Mary E Jennings show her age as 19 when they were wed which gives her a birth year of 1869. The other Mary Jennings in the birth ledger are all born in years that would make her a year or two older or younger than the 19 on the
marriage record. Noting that the marriage certificate names parents of William and Susan in Peabody who may not have been her birth parents, it is likely that when Mary E was young, she may have been sent to live with family members to be raised. This was not uncommon for the era.

I hope this is of interest to you.

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