EARNEST LARAWAY - Haverhill MA and Philippine Islands
Working backwards through my wife's family, we have identified her great grandfather as Ernest Laraway, reported from Haverhill MA.
As far as we can determine, Ernest married the daughter of Jose Juan Paredes and Tranquilina PeBenito, (early 1900's??)
This marriage produced three daughters: Ethel, Grace and Anna, all still alive and living in California.Ethel, the eldest, is 94
Ethel, at the age of 15, married Jerry O'Toole, an Irish-American mining engineer.He is believed to have been born in Keokuk IA. Jerry died in 1946 due to health problems incurred during his internment by the Japanese 1942-1945 in the Santo Tomas (civilian) Internment Camp.
He and Ethel had three daughters; Fely, Louisa and Josephine.All were born in the Manila area.Fely eloped as a teen-ager with Carlos Fernandez de Villa-Abrille.They had four children; Helen (Elena, my wife) born in Manila 11/11/42, Joseph, Linda and Frances. The latter three were born in California after the family moved to the US in 1946.
Any information regarding Earnest Laraway will be greatly appreciated.
Robert Mann