My great-grandfather, Peter Richard MacLea, married Caroline MacCartney. Interestingly, Caroline's brother Harold married one of Peter's sisters, Isabel. Well, another branch of the family descends from Caroline and Harold's sister, Rose.

Hugh Jope, a son of Rose MacCartney and William Jope, died in 2002.

This is a very interesting file I just found with his family history wound up in other history:

http://bz.llano.net/gowen/electronic_newsletter/el200012.htm

And probably there's a lot more to know, which hopefully is all written down, because Hugh (as said above) died in 2002. These messages make reference to Hugh's work tracing his family:

http://genforum.genealogy.com/jope/messages/11.html http://genforum.genealogy.com/jope/messages/30.html

And the Social Security Death Index has this to say: HUGH F JOPE born 06 Jun 1923 died 04 May 2002 (Veteran) last zip code: 01832 (Haverhill, Essex, MA)(none specified) SSN: 025-16-8277 Issued in Massachusetts

Ah, yes, here is his obituary as well: http://eagletribune.com/news/stories/20020507/OB_005.htm

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