There is no Michael Scott, nor Michael Scott Connolly in this family lineage

Father- Owen F. Connolly (USA 1921-1996) m.1947 (Lexington, Ma) Dorothy McCormack (USA 1924)

--- Owen F. Connolly was a US Air Force officer -entering the service in 1942-graduated Air Cadets -Marfia Texas, pilot & airborne engineer, then training & medical service corps.
One assignment for 5 years in Montgomery, Al. Gunter AFB crossed his path with worldwide US allies in aviation medicine - as he trained pilots and their trainers for the jet age. While at Gunter AFB - he and his family experienced the segregated South and the "Montgomery Bus Boycott'.
White caucasians from the North -Yankees- they supported the integration - but Owen was 'Hatch Act' barred & the family lived on base.
SCOTTMCON (Scott M Connolly) attended segregated 'Capitol Heights Elementary' School in Montgomery, Ala. through 3rd grade. --- Owen would unfortutously have 'tetes-a-tete' with "Kissing Jim Folsum" -who would stop and sit in his limousine (Cadillac) at the Connolly quarters - last in a string befoe the road to the airstrip at Gunter where the Governor kept hs plane.
SCOTTMCON accompanied his mother Dorothy on a bus boycott induced ride to Montgomery's black sections to bring home Katherine - the young woman who helped her with house & children (we called her Caspar).

SCOTTMCON remember's Alabama's integration only in seeing penal road work - chain gangs - & sugar cane fields ... and in the orphanage of Father Caswell outside Montgomery. Segregation produced racially governed off-base movie theaters (went to 2 movies -'Moby DIck' & "Old Man & the Sea') .. and 'white' department stores. Dorothy & Owen raised their children 'irracially' with a teaching of uman equality. Owen also served elsewhere in the South in Greenville, SC; and Fort Bragg, NC. ... and as a military officer implemented President Truman's armed forces desegration order -1947-48. In another related pre-civilian move, Dad's style ... Owen F., a chain-smoker of cigarettes quit cold-turkey in 1959-60? after the mlitary surgeon-general's report of cigarette-smoking & lung cancer.

In WWII Owen flew in the South Pacific: Fiji, Carolnes, New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand, Phillipines ..and was a "Macarthurite" ..General McArthur was his 'Gereral' .. and he flew airborne & logistics missions - mainly into bush strips with C-47's; - wanted a figher pilot assigmnet -but he got a Colt 45. (When Dorothy & Owen divorced his pilot's bragging 'short snorter' was given away by his wife - (a 'short snorter' is made of currencies & scrip from the currency of every place a pilot lands). [McArthur's father came from the Westover AFB-Chcopee, Mass area .. and connects to PEI & US Scots-Irish McArthurs].

___ FATHER's SIDE___

Joseph A. Connolly (Portland, Me USA) m. 1906 Sarah E. Scott (Portland, Me USA) - son Owen

(Joseph A.. Connolly ... [Electrical Engineer -Cumberland Ave, Portland, Me. 1906 City Directory ... departure notice to Warren, O - 1907 year after 1906 wedding ]...nb Joseph A..Connolly in pulp/boxboard business had electro-mechanical paper machinery patents .. later paper/boxboard wholesaler/plant rep ... also N. Florida - Tampa-St Petersburg boxboard business)

[Parents of Joseph Connolly - :Bryan C. Connolly b.Ireland 1939(Teamster & City of Portland employee) m.1872 Winifred McGowan b.Ireland 1843 (Bryan Connolly's parents came from Ireland immigrating while he was a boy-Letrim, Ireland)
Charles Scott (Portland, Me USA) m.1882 Mary Anne. Durgin (Portland, Me USA .. [nb Charles Scott is also said brother of Sarah Scott's father] ... (yes like Durgin Park Durgins) (Scott Family will supplement - cf collateral tree - John Scott -Portland, Maine & published Scott Family genealogy) .. Portland Maine branch includes many Walter Scotts, USA and Scottish, ... related to the Baronet Walter Scott & hermeneutist Walter Scott.)
Mary Anne Durgin-Scott m Charles Scott, Mary Alice Scott - 1883-1969; Sarah Elizabeth Scott 1882-1971 .. [Durgin family's Sarah tradition resumed with Sarah Scott]

----Mother's Side____

Charles A. McCormack (1890-1957 Boston,USA) m.1920 Anna Louise O'Keefe (1890-1973 Boston,USA)- daughter Dorothy
Daniel F McCormack (1846 PEI, Canada, Boston 1936) m.1871-2 Caroline May (1851-1910 Brookline, Ma USA) - son Charles was one of eleven surviving of thirteen children. They are interred in HolyHood-Brookline.
As one of five or six sons, Daniel Francis McCormack had five sons, and two grandsons by James.

Michael McCormack m.1834? Margaret McPhee .. both gggp born in PEI via lineage of Angus McCormack -Ulst in hebrides to Inverness Scotland to PEI ... son Daniel F. McCormack

Daniel and Caroline May McCormack are buried in HolyHood-Brookline, Ma. Location- Arbee & Sichem .. Lot #365 [Lot purchased October 5, 1884
His parenst Mcihael and Caterine Margaret McPhee McCormack are buried in Old Calvary Cemetery in Roslindale-Boston, Ma. Charles A. McCormack -son of Daniel F. & maternal grandfather is buried also in Holyhood Cemetery with his wife Anne Louise O'Keefe-MacNeill in the MacNeil plot in HolyHood. ..both families are Scottish-Canadian Prince Edward Island descended of Roman Catholic Scottish.

GGF Daniel F McCormack joined a brother John in a realty Business .. but was also a blacksmith and owned a string of livery & blacksmith s. Even as late as 1919, he kept an ad for hmsself as a horseshoer in the Boston City rectory, 523 Coumbia Avenue, Grove Hill [his first]. Relationship of Henry (dob-1801), John, James and other McCormacks to Daniel McCormack is being further researched ..also to the McCormacks realty business.

James B Keefe (b.Canada 1861-1909) m.1888-9 Mary Ellen MacNeil (b.1867 PEI, Canada) daughter of John MacNeil Anna Louise MacEachern who emigrated from Canada-PEI and settled in Chelsea, Ma. [James B O'Keefe arrived in Boston, from Ireland, alone or with a brother as young man to protect him from strife; settled in Chelsea and married a MacNeil.
One of his sons Walter Keefe and married Cecilia Majr .. and settled on Cape Ann ...Wreck of the Hesperus Circle, in Magnolia. ...The dropped 'O' evidently was the family styling from PEI although, many of Anne McCormack's school books have "O'KEEFE". [a mac or mc like problem then dropped.]

Wreck of the Hesperus by Longfellow

And fast through the midnight dark and drear, Through the whistling sleet and snow,
Like a sheeted ghost, the vessel swept
Tow'rds the reef of Norman's Woe.

John MacNeil's family are from MacNeils of Barra, in the Outer Hebrides, who emigrated with others about 1770 to Prince Edward Island; including MacEacherns .. possibly jing a party from Inverness with other Hghlanders. (

Francis J May (b.1825 Baden, Germany d.1915 Boston) m.1848 Bridgit Fitzmorris (Ireland) their daughter Caroline is my great-grandmother, borne 1851 Brookline, Ma USA (both emigrated to Boston 1840-5? she from Ireland via the Isle of Man (UK) to Liverpool then Boston or New York). GreatGreat Grandfather May's arrival in the USA is still being researched; and he may have arrived as early as 1841 via New York or direct to Boston. His future wife, future son-in-law, and his family lived in West Roxbury which would become Brookline after 1861, and part of Boston as Mattapan - Jamaica - Hyde Park.

Charles Alexander McCormack the son of Daniel F McCormack is my maternal grandfather; and he served in WWI in the locally famous YD [Yankee Division] or Fifth Division .. part of Patton's AEF in France & the low countries ...a 'doughboy' trained at Camp Drum etc. He then worked for New England Telephone & Telegraph ..where he met Anne O'Keefe-MacNeil. He is deceased & was fingerprinted by the army at least. His mother was half-German American. His YD [Big Red Diamond] was the first American force to make a bridgehead against the German Imperial forces across the Meuse River at Dun, France .. and is remembered by a plaque on the bridge there; during Pershing's combined attack knwn as the St Mihiel Salient.
More on the YD coming to ths site here later. Many of his comrades in arms who died lie in the American Cemetery at Montfaucon ... near their French allies at Verdun.

"The feat of arms, however, which marks especially the Division's ability as a fighting unit, was the crossing of the Meuse River and the establishment of a bridgehead on the eastern bank. This operation was one of the most brilliant military feats in the history of the American Army in France" John J. Pershing

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Portland, Maine Cemetery Information

All cemetery records for Portland are kept at the Evergreen Cemetery, 672 Stevens Ave., 207-797-4597. Your Fore St. location suggests the Eastern Cem. I think the Deer and Vine location id history, I'm not sure. The Eastern Cem. is located at the base of Munjoy Hill on Congress St., actually on the corner of Rt. 1A and Congress St.(Rt 22)
Western Cem. is on the western cliff of the city, Danforth St. Forest City Cem. is actually in South Portland. You can see it from the Western Cem.

Joseph A. Connolly is buried with Sarah, and his daughter Sarah in Lexington, Ma ... but might have sought Evergreen .. especially its haven for Elks ..he was an Elk BPOE

Joseph A Connolly, Gradnpa [BaBaBA when children] reminded me of Dagwood's boss Mr Dithers from the comic-ctrip "Blondie"
[Image courtesy King features]

Editor's Note --Until Scott M Connolly obtains additional materials - Family Bible & Family genealogy records of Great Aunt Mary Alice Scott (last seen 1994 .. in Aunt Alice's wooden secretary - a portable desk - as she kept them ... and likely in family custody) ..these will be rebuilt the hard way. NB- the Scott Family Bible referenced here is 'our Scott Family Bible with Durgins' ... not that of John Scott of Maine- who married a Mayflower descendant. We relate to that John Scott.

Scott M Connolly's great-grandfather Scott's name is correct as stated -Charles H. Scott, b.1854 -- a great Uncle by that name had been mentioned. For tracing by other factors-Great Grandfather resembled a Woordrow Wilson sort. Only had two daughters - one married my grandfather; the second Mary Alice was unwed. His father and mother -Henry Scott and Anne Pingram were also Maine borne.

O'Neills & MacNeils??? ...Owen Connolly married Dorothy McCormack [my parents] and kept pet names of 'Onie' & 'Nilo' for each other. Mother was part MacNeil ... and father was Connolly branch with northern O'Neill Clan (near Lietrim).

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