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[quote=Anonymous]In the 1920s and 30's my great grandfather and step-great grandmother used to sponsor women from Ireland.  That is until one of them turned up pregnant.  She was 18 and my GG was in his late 40's early 50's.  The girl couldn't return to Ireland as an unwed mother and she no longer could live with my great grandparents.  She was forced out onto the streets.  She had the baby and worked really hard making a life with him.  GG knew that she had the baby and even brought him home to show off to his infertile wife.  My great Uncle lived with his mother until the age of six when she married.  Her husband's family forced her to give up her child for adoption because his brother had a political career.  My great uncle had his name legally changed to that of his foster family but was never adopted by them.

That Great Grandfather would also go on huge benders.  When he would drink his wife wouldn't allow him in the house.  He wasn't allowed at my grandmother's house either.  My grandmother didn't want to deal with him when he was like that and my grandfather was an upstanding man and a pillar of the community.  He certainly couldn't stay with my great aunt in the Convent.  So GG lived under a bridge during his benders.  When his wife died his drinking continued and just lived under the bridge.

My grandfather kept the books for the Irish mob and refused to take any money from them.  He was constantly offered cars, houses, cash and furs and he flatly refused to take any of them.  He didn't want to be tied to them forever.  His brother had accepted money from them and, when he tried to leave, he was thrown off a water tower and killed.[/quote]

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