Alice Barney Cotter

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• Name: "Sis" Cotter
• Reference Number: 232-22
• _UID: 2D37C1EB9C2C44F08EDF50C72364F8435209
• Graduation: 1935, South Kingstown, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA, Wakefield, South Kingstown High School
• Baptism: 7 Mar 1937, Narragansett, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA, St. Peter's By The Sea

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Ethnicity/Relig.:
Episcopalian

Buried:
Cremated, Ashes Strewn In Narragansett Bay

Alice married James William Robinson on 29 May 1937 in Narragansett, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA. James (son of Edgar Burnet Robinson and Susan Eleanor Brayman) was born on 28 Apr 1910 in Narragansett, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA; died on 1 Jul 1953 in Wakefield, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA; was buried in South Kingstown, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA, Cem. SK043 - Riverside Cemetery. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. William James Robinson was born on 17 Apr 1941 in Wakefield, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA; died on 18 Aug 1993 in Jacksonville, Onslow County, North Carolina, USA.
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3. Carol Cotter Robinson was born on 26 Feb 1949 in Wakefield, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA; died on 8 Dec 1993 in San Pedro, , California, USA.

Family/Spouse: Private. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 232-20
• _UID: D68D2A7CC12342679FE24E4F6078EA21975D

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Born At 24 Bourne St., Providence, RI; Recorded Book No. 14, Page 72

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Recorded Book No. 14, Page 72

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Born At 24 Bourne St., Providence, RI

William married Sarah Florence "Sadie" Barney on 31 Dec 1910 in Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA. Sarah (daughter of Walter Benaiah Barney and Edith Lillian Steere) was born on 5 Jun 1890 in Johnston, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA; died on 6 Nov 1983 in Narragansett, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA; was buried in Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA, Swan Point Cemetery (Cem. PV003). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 232-15
• _UID: 44D2159680C5457894F21A6BCD3F2EDCE4CD

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• _UID: 3C589BE8AABF47688F9C7A3D0050048FF415

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Birth:
William's Birth Cert Says Edward Was Born In New York, New York Rather Than Ireland.

Occupation:
Hostler

Edward married Anna O'Neil on 30 Nov 1886 in , , Rhode Island, USA. Anna (daughter of Henry O'Neil and Bridget McCarthy) was born about 1859 in Skibbereen Section, Cork, County Cork, Ireland; died on 15 Aug 1942 in Wakefield, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA; was buried in Pawtucket, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA, St. Francis Cemetery. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Story told by Ellen Carol Cotter about her grandmother, Annie O'Neil Cotter, to Denise Cotter O'Neil.

I would like you to know that I am using the anecdotal method and that much; of the material that I am using is hearsay from my father or uncle Eddie or other family sources.

I would like to tell you about the time when my father was a very young and unmarried and working for Armour and Company in Lynn, Massachusetts. He came home with his manager who was also from out of town and had no place to go to spend the fourth of July at 126 East Manning Street with his mother, my grandmother, Annie O'Neill Cotter. Dad was quite thirsty and he said to his mother, "Ma I'd give $20 for a good stiff drink" and his mother said, "Yes? Let's see your money and dad pulled out a $20. She quickly tucked it in her bosom and went downstairs to the kitchen and then into the pantry. She soon came back upstairs with three drinks, one for dad, one for the manager and one for herself, which they proceeded to enjoy. Then dad said, "Ma, I'd give another $20 for another drink." "Let's see you money, she said." and she quickly pocketed the next $20 in her bosom. Then she went downstairs through the kitchen to the pantry. This time my father quietly followed. He wanted to see where was her supply source. Just as he came into the pantry, he saw a cloud of flour dust that even got on Gramma's hair as she dug down into the hundred pound bag of flour and came up with a bottle of Uncle Eddie's best scotch. Dad quickly went back upstairs and didn't get caught. Gramma produced the next drink and they had a wonderful afternoon.

This is a story of Gramma Cotter when she was a young woman living in Perryville, RI, which is right next to Matunuck. She lived in the big house that the Perry's owned. This was a special privilege as the rest of the help lived in the servants' quarters on the side of the hill. But Mrs. Perry was teaching Gramma to be the family cook and so she lived with the family in the household. Gramma was a truly marvelous cook and she did everything in the best Protestant tradition of Mrs. Perry. Mr. Perry was a wealthy man - they named the town for him and he owned a factory in either Wakefield or Peacedale, I'm not sure which. Edward Cotter, my grandfather, Ned, lived in the servants' quarters on the side of the hill but he had a good eye and he had both eyes on Annie O'Neill. Eventually, Grampa Cotter was the head stable man for Mr. Perry and he used to drive him every morning in his horse and wagon to town to the factory to go to work. Grampa also took care of the horses. When it was time for Gramma and Grampa to get married, they married Gramma, or so the story goes, out of the big house and then they moved to a little place off South road. They entertained all of the Irish kitchen mechanics at their house on their night off. I think the night off was Saturday night and they would do Irish dancing all night and have a wonderful time. One of the Irish mechanics was Annie Stedman but Annie Stedman was Annie then, not Stedman and she came to Gramma and she was very troubled and she said, "Annie, what will I do? Charlie Stedman wants to marry me and he is Protestant . So Gramma said, "Will he raise the children in the faith?" and Annie Steadman said "yes". My grandmother said, "What is your problem? There aren't that many Catholic men around. Marry him and be happy." Annie Steadman married Charlie and they had a large farm on South Road and Dickie and I, your father, used to go and pick blueberries there and then Annie Stedman would cook up a storm and have a big meal because her Annie came to see her. They had a wonderful friendship all their lives. Gramma Cotter never forgot a friend and was loyal to them her whole life.

This is a contrast of when two grandmothers, Ellen Mahoney Lennon and Annie O'Neill Cotter. After my mother died when I was four-and-a -half, and Dick was six and la half, my father made it a practice for us to visit Gramma and Grampa Lennon every Sunday after mass when we were still dressed up and looked pretty good. We would go to Pawtucket to Arlington Street which is lovely street right near St. Raphael's Academy. When we would pull up in the car, at the house of my grandparents, I was always impressed because it was a big beautiful gray stucco house with a lovely porch, a side porch, not a porch on the front entrance. When we would get into the house, my grandfather, who was a short, stocky man and very, very warm, would greet us with a great deal of affection. Then Dickie and I would head for the stairway, which was long, to the second floor. Halfway up on the landing, there was a statue of Venus de Milo and my brother just loved that statue and I would say to him, "Dickie Cotter! Don't you look at that dirty statue!" and he would laugh and laugh. Then I would proceed to my grandmother Lennon's bedroom and my brother would visit the rooms of our uncles and aunt Harriet. My grandmother was a tall, very erect woman who had a great deal of dignity. She would kiss me perfunctorily and then proceed to put her earrings on as she looked in the full-length mahogany mirror that I now have in my bedroom. She would say, "Ellen Carol, a lady always checks herself in the mirror before going down to greet other people". Then we would go back down the stairs with Dickie taking full measure of Venus de Milo's proportions and proceed to the first floor where Gramma would ask us if we would like to have soda and cookies. We always said yes and when we did we proceeded into the dining room and sat down in the formal dining room with the linen tablecloth on the table and my grandmother would ring for the maid whose name was Loretta. She would come in in full uniform and ask Gramma what she wanted. Then Loretta would come back with the Coca-Cola in tall glasses with ice cubes, a nappy dish underneath with two cookies each on either side of the soda and we would proceed to devour it. Nobody ever asked us if we wanted more soda or more cookies so that was it (laughs). When we would go to Gramma Cotter's she would always greet us with a great deal of love and she would be standing there covered with her flour bag apron, the hundred pound flour bag apron that she had put tabs on to tie and she would ask us if we wanted some "cookie-cola" and cookies. When we said yes, she would go into the pantry and get two cheese glasses and pour us a cheese glass of "cookie cola" each. She told us that there was dope in it so we could only have one glass but we could have all of the cookies that we wanted. So that gives you kids an idea of the differences between he lifestyle of Gramma cotter where we sat on the plastic covered tablecloth in the kitchen and had our soda in a cheese glass compared to the strained relationships and the formality of the Lennon household.

When I was about ten, uncle Eddie bought a lovely house at Sunnybrook farm next door to Howard McGrath who was then governor of the state of Rhode island. But Eddie had one problem - he could not persuade his mother Annie to stay at the house at the beach. So he kept on trying. Finally Gramma said that she would come and stay at the Sunnybrook farm house if Dickie and Carol could come and stay also during the summer months while we were on school vacation. And thus it was arranged that Dick, Dickie and Carol got to stay in this lovely house on salt pond where we had wonderful good times as a family and where Joe Young and Edward Young would visit also. But come to the time of August 14th and there was a regular ritual that Gramma Cotter put uncle Eddie through. She was preparing for the feast of August 15th, the Assumption of Our Lady over the waters into heaven, body and soul on that date. Gramma insisted that uncle Eddie go and get two buckets of salt water from the ocean, not from the polluted waters of salt pond. Uncle Eddie would dutifully go to Scarborough state beach and get two buckets full of salt water for Gramma Cotter. On the eve of the feast, August 14th, Gramma would take off her high-button black shoes and stockings and bless herself and put one foot in each bucket of salt water. She would then say some prayers to herself, take her feet out of the water, dry them and put back on her stockings and high-button shoes. And then she would look up to the heavens and say there was a blessing over the waters when Mary passed into heaven. Dickie and I thought it was a most peculiar custom because we had never read about this in any of our Catholic teaching at Holy Name School but we went along with that as being part of Gramma's customs from Ireland. Gramma was very devout land you respected her ways. It is interesting to note that Gramma died on August 14th. The Feast of the Immaculate Conception was the morning when we found her. Correction: on August 14th, 1941, was the Feast of the Assumption of Our Lady into Heaven and it was on the eve of that feast that Gramma died during the night.

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• _UID: 72C9E587553E417DB981439D47D6BF402E2B

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Rhode Island Vital Records (1853-1900);

Eric Hogan (2/1/00): I'm related somehow to a Walter Barney and an Alice Barney. They should be from the Massachusetts/Rhode Island area. The reason I know this, is my mother has a suitcase full of old photos that have been past down for a couple generations and in them I found a photo of, as above, Walter Barney and another of an Alice Barney. I have no idea my relationship to them however. The linkage to a lot of the people in the suitcase I'm just starting to discover and I'm curious on my relation to the Barney family. Other surnames on my great-grandmother's side which all should be from Mass./RI are Peck, Bliss, Potter, Lane, Read, Smith, etc. The farthest back names I have for Peck and Potter families I'm related to are: Charles Peck (b.1836?- d. 4/9/1894) and Mahala Johnson.= son Albert Peck Potter is Capt. H.A.L. Potter and Mary Read. =daughter Mary Potter

[Same] (2/8/00): This looks like it very well could be my ancestor. For example is says "Walter BARNEY, son of William Henry Harrison BARNEY and Sarah Larkin POTTER" My great-great grandmother's maiden name was Sally Larkin Bliss, and her mother was Mary Augusta Potter daughter of H.A.L. Potter and Mary Read. I have no idea who H.A.L. Potter's parents or siblings are though and maybe this is the missing link. I have found a tombstone of H.A.L Potter (1816 - 1900). I'm not sure how I can find his parents and siblings though.

[Same] (2/8/00) My great-great-grandmother Sally Larkin (Bliss) was born 5 Aug 1878 in East Prov., RI. (d. 1962 in Attleboro, Ma) Her mother was Mary Augusta Potter (b. 4 Mar 1844) and father Franklin Smith Bliss (b. 19 Jun 1843). Sarah Larkin Potter (b. Aug 1843)seems like that has to be who Sally Larkin Bliss received her middle name. She would seem to be Mary Augusta Potter's (cousin maybe?) according to the birthdates. Attleboro, Mass. is where most of my family is from.

Walter married Edith Lillian Steere on 17 Jun 1889 in Johnston, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA. Edith (daughter of Franklin Asahel Steere and Edith P. Shields) was born on 12 Jul 1865 in Blossburg, Tioga County, Pennsylvania, USA; died in 1960; was buried in Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA, North Burial Ground (Cem. PV001). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 232-7
• _UID: 87FB1C0D8D9341B59D975DEC6FF3D870E8B2

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• Occupation: Paver, City Street Department
• _UID: 2790D575A5CD4AB38F0CB9E5D711D690F797
• Immigration: 1 Apr 1864, New York City, New York County, New York, USA
• Naturalization: Oct 1879, Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA

William + Margaret (Cotter). Margaret died in Bef 1910. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: 92187FC7319E4E0180C44BE8C8D08A19C023

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• _UID: 095223C7625444FD8C7F284B4AA220BF8571

Henry + Bridget McCarthy. Bridget was born in 1840 in Skibbereen Section, Cork, County Cork, Ireland; died on 23 Dec 1876 in Skibbereen Section, Cork, County Cork, Ireland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: 4AD23C7DB89D4454BCC34536FE6B3278CF80

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• _UID: CBB1DCD2F42E4019B33A68C0C81A67F1F417

Notes:

"Representative Men and Families of Rhode Island," p.1658;
Rhode Island Vital Records (1853-1900);

Maurice Colwell Barney says he was b. in R.I. according to the 1850 & 1880 R.I. censuses. (WFT #4:0735)

marriage: by Rev. A. Huntington Clap, Congregational Pastor

Notes from My Roots; Updated: Mar 19, 2002 Contact: Sunni Kay McPheeters Home Page: The McPheeters Clan : 1850 Rhode Island census. Age 10 in father's house, Cranston, Providence County

William married Sarah Larkin Potter on 7 Feb 1864 in Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA. Sarah (daughter of Walter Lee Potter, Sr. and Freelove Brown) was born in Aug 1843 in Attleboro, Bristol County, Massachusetts, USA; died on 2 Jan 1919 in Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA; was buried in Cranston, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA, Cem. CR002 - Pocasset Cemetery. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: 0FF858160DCC4764AD7A52FB5EA1315DFABB

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Colwell Family record [per Glendon Colwell Hall's "Colwell's of New England"] indicates William H. H. Barney's wife was "Sarah Louise" as opposed to Sarah Larkin Potter [see detailed information regarding Ethel Ora Colwell and her husbands].

birth: WFT #4:0735 says b. R.I.

Eric Hogan (2/8/00) [see more of his notes under Walter Benaiah Barney]: Did you figure out how they connect? My great-great-grandmother Sally Larkin (Bliss) was born 5 Aug 1878 in East Providence, RI. (d. 1962 in Attleboro, Ma) Her mother was Mary Augusta Potter (b. 4 Mar 1844) and father Franklin Smith Bliss (b. 19 Jun 1843).

Sarah Larkin Potter (b. Aug 1843) seems like that has to be who Sally Larkin Bliss received her middle name. She would seem to be Mary Augusta Potter's (cousin maybe?) according to the birthdates. Attleboro, Ma is where most of my family is from.

MCB III has RI family photo of including older woman who is believed to be Sarah Larkin (Potter) Barney taken at Camp Cole, RI (about 1910 because MCB, Sr. is about 8 years old in photo.) Sarah is older lady sitting in chair in tent...

Sarah Larkin (Potter)_ Barney is the only CLOSE Barney/Colwell family female who was alive at that time (the other older lady in photo IS Sarah Maritta Rounds, who is thus ruled out...), so per Glendon Colwell Hall (the little boy in front in the picture, who was alive in 1999 and gave the group picture to Maurice Colwell Barney III) the oldest lady is "Grandmother Barney" (grandmother to Maurice Colwell Barney, Sr.)

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Married:
notes from My Roots; Updated: Mar 19, 2002 Contact: Sunni Kay McPheeters Home Page: The McPheeters Clan
Married: 7 FEB 1864 in Providence, Rhode Island (by A. Huntington Clapp, Congregational Pastor)

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• Reference Number: 232-4
• _UID: 8A642B4FA9BC476D80AC61498E05B81CBEAE
• Occupation: 1870, Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA; Keeps variety store

Franklin married Edith P. Shields in 1863 in Norton, Bristol County, Massachusetts, USA. Edith was born on 19 Dec 1843 in Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA; died on 12 Apr 1920; was buried in Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA, North Burial Ground (Cem. PV001). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: 16895F1A24C84702AB51FB2E9CBC4D607700

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1910 Federal Census shows her living in Providence, RI, with her daughter, Edith (Steere) Barney and granddaughter, Sarah. It shows that her father was born in Scotland and her mother in Massachusetts.