Estelle Legg Daughter of Clifford Legg and Mary Rice, Estelle grew up in Melrose on High Street with her siblings Robert, Mary, Pat, Alice, and Florence. Clifford had immigrated from Ireland via Nova Scotia. Mom remembers that he used to say they were the real Yankees. From Prince Edward Island Clifford moved to Rutland, Vermont for a short time and then moved to Boston. Clifford Legg was a plumber and he helped to get the plumbers' union into the Boston area. Mom recalls that "he did quite well and was a short, funny, little gnome type man. He was still alive for the first ten years that Dad and I were married." He died at age 89. According to Mom, Mary Legg was "a very pretty woman and always dressed in white gloves and a hat every time she left her house. She was very much the lady and prissy. She always looked like she had'stepped out of a hat box', an expression used at that time and that often applied to her. Her daughters, Mary, Florence, Alice, Estelle, and Pat were too, to some extent earlier on, Florence especially. "Florence was an accomplished ice skater and seamstress. Left: In their home on High Street celebrating their wedding anniversary: Back: Pat, Alice, Estelle, Florence. Front: Edith (Pat's daughter), Clifford, Mary. Right: Mary and Clifford, Christmas Estelle and Michael Estelle worked as a secretary in the naval yard, and it was there that she met Michael. They were married in June 5,1933. The Boston naval yard closed temporarily and Michael was reassigned to work in Brooklyn, New York. It was while they were there that Dad was born necessitating the following telegram sent to Mary and Jeremiah Linehan the morning after Dad's birth. They returned to Boston the following year. Previous Table of Contents Next