Ramcharan-Crowley

Roomed with, and helped take care of brother Jeremiah's wife, Catharine, and children after Jerry's death. He died on Christmas day, "a fine day to be going home." Was quoted as saying: It ain't that I hate you that I bate* you. It's to show me authority.** ----- * "beat" ** Quoted by Daniel Crowley to his daughter Maggie in reference to the Rodney King beating in Los Angeles in 1992.

Lived with his nephew, Bill Crowley, and his family in 1930.

Uncle John, who came over a few years after Grandpa on the Algiers, and was a policeman, but with a drinking problem. He'd work for months, then get drunk for three weeks, a "bender." He was interested in Grandma's sister who became Sister Angela, but she rejected his attentions, so he said the Dinans were "a bunch of damn Danes." After Grandpa died young, John lived in Grandma's house, and she always rushed home to get his dinner ready on time. No one knows their real relationship- -probably entirely innocent, but who can say? Grandma made many jokes with the six other widows in St. Pat's Parish and the seven widowers.

Uncle John must have been 21* when he emmigrated. He had attended Christian Brothers school. One day on the way to school, he threw a stone at a bird, hit it, and it fell to the ground. "Old Bourke" the schoolmaster saw him do it. Un cle J ohn knew he would be hoisted on a boy's back and thrashed so he didn't go to school anymore. He worked for the Ledleys of the Rohnson, Ledley, Ferguson & Co--the big drapery company in Cork, Dublin and Belfast. He was their coachman. I'll tell tales of those days later. -- * Originally wrote "19 - 21" but the 19 was crossed out with note: "sailed '83"

Sailed from Cobh, the harbor of Cork, on March 22, 1888*, aboard the steamer Lake Nephigan.** -- * Judging by the ship records, he appears to have sailed in 1883 **I couldn't find a steamer named "Lake Nephigan," but found a record for the Beaver Line steamer "Lake Nepigon" -MLC