Flanagan, Doris

Stella Wallace and Karen Doyle interview Doris Flanagan at her home in Charlottetown. Doris talks about family history records and gravestones, her family immigrating to PEI from Dublin, and blacksmithing jobs. She talks about histories of marriages, death, mistakes on official documents, and spends time sharing old postcards with the interviewers. Doris also discusses her family’s education and jobs, and shares photos and other items with the interviewers.

Interview

Wallace and Doyle, Stella and Karen

Flanagan, Doris

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1982-05-18

Held by UPEI Library — SMI-ARCH 1983-001. Series 1

00:33:20

Speaks of Flanagan ancestors, including James Flanagan who was a victim of the sinking of the SS Princess Sophia in Alaska in in 1918.
Discusses the Flanagan family, originally from Dublin (many of them blacksmiths). Looks through pictures and mentions early PEI settler, Bartholomew Flanagan who died (age 78) in 1849. He had pasture lots surveyed in PEI in 1831. His son was born in Ireland in 1815, therefore Doris concludes that the family came sometime between 1815 and 1830.
Continues looking at photos of family member. Discusses how death certificates are sometimes unreliable. Old postcards sent between 1906-1909 from Burt to his sister. Dennis was a shoemaker in Summerside. Mentions the family coming to the Island in late 1849. They wanted to come earlier but the wife's pregnancy was too far along to travel. They came the following year with baby Alice. When Alice was three they lived near Great George Street and she was in an accident that permanently damaged her leg. She wore a crutch under her skirt and not many knew she had a leg that didn't work. Alice was a school teacher and she never married. Katerine was a housekeeper for the Bartlett family (of "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations"); Mary Ann (Ted's grandmother) was a seamstress for a rich Boston family; Sarah was a housekeeper in New York, she married and stayed there. There was also a brother, John, who lived in PEI.
Mentions the renumbering homes; continues looking at old postcards and pictures of family members.
Tape makes a noise, quality decreases
Doris discusses fashion in old photos. She shows an old jacket (of Alice Flanagan?).
Tape break
(Quality reduced) Discusses the stitching of the jacket. Doris speaks of her house, and the real estate collection of Dennis (Flanagan?).
Mother enters the rooom, interview ends

Held by UPEI Library — SMI-ARCH 1983-001. Series 1