Hello,
I'd just like to offer an FYI which is slightly off-topic for this Board. Last summer I started to research a FITZGERALD family-tree for a close-family friend. Actually, it was for 2 generations of a large FITZGERALD family my husband has been close to for 50 yrs. The older generation grew up in Cambridge, and the younger in Lynn.
I was able to get the ancestors back to John H. FITZGERALD, b~1850, prob. Co. Cork, Ireland, and his wife, Catherine Mary SMITH, b~1852 in Ireland. I don't believe I found out when they arrived in Boston, but they married there ~1880. I believe they only had 2 children, son, Michael, b~1883, and son, John, b~1887. The parents both died during 1890's, and the teens went to live with their aunt, Catherine's sister, in Stoneham. Michael married Ella BLAKELEY of Medford, and they seem to have had a troubled marriage. By the 1920 census, Ella was living with another man. And, she seems to have had at least 6 children, but no one seems to know whether her first 4 children were FITZGERALD's, or just the first 2, sons, Michael, b1909, and John, b1910.
Our friends are descended from John, b1910, and I just found a descendant of Michael. My notes are not organized, and, from memory, I think I found John, b~1887, marrying in Stoneham and having 2 or 3 children. (I have posted about these families on the MA List and the Fitzgerald Board.)
Betty (near Lowell, MA)
P.S. Mrs. Ella (BLAKELEY) (FITZGERALD) KELLEY lived in Cambridge and Somerville with her 2nd husband. And they had at least 2 children. I believe this extended family might be buried in the "Cambridge Cemetery." When the weather is better, I want to visit that office and see if they are buried there. Perhaps the burial records would help to figure out which of her 6-8 children came from which husband. His descendants do not know.