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Andrew Cohen lent us his brew kit to make hard cider

Maria Daniels introduced us

Pauline Cheng is Jack's sister

Julie: "Look, Jack, it's a camera!" Jack: "Duh."
Us (D.Y. & Yvonne Cheng, Joe Rocchio & Mary Crosson, Julie & Jack). Taken in Needham, November 2000 by a camera on the piano
Thought you might like to know something about our families. This will be pretty skeletal for a while, I'm afraid, but I'll fill in as we go along. I want to put some pictures up so that you can recognize some of these people before you meet them. I won't go too far into the past, just three generations or so. All lists are from oldest to youngest.

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Cheng
Jimmy and Edith Cheng met in China, and raised four children in Shanghai and Taipei:

Dah Yu and his wife Marjorie raised three boys:
  • Ching-An (aka Thomas, married Grace)
  • Bing
  • Hao

Deh Yen and his wife Yvonne have three children:
  • Pauline
  • Vera
  • Jack (aka Jak aka D aka The Groom)

Ralph and his wife Yvonne have two children:
  • Baldwin (married Mary Anne, kids: Foster and Harrison)
  • Edie (aka EdiEEEEE!)

Yvonne is married to Al Piscione and has a son from a previous marriage:
  • Charles (aka Charlie)

Got it?

Cheng | Collins | Crosson | Hsieh

Collins
Grampa and Nana Collins had two daughters:

Mary is now married to Joe Rocchio. Her daughters are:
  • Julie (aka Juls aka The Bride aka The Babe)
  • Amy (aka "Ames" aka la hermosa married John)

Eileen married Rick and has one son:
  • Richard

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Crosson

Julie: "He's all right, Gramps, he's just hitting the reset button on the back of his head."
November 2000, West Roxbury

Frank Crosson is the only grandparent who will be at our ceremony. With his wife Mary, he raised four children:
  • MaryAnne
  • Frank (Julie's dad)
  • George
  • Richard

MaryAnne married Joe Ford and has two children:

  • Julia
  • Peter

Frank married Mary Collins and had two daughters:
  • Julie (the bride)
  • Amy (coincidently, the bride's sister)
George passed away.

Richard married Patty and has four children:

  • Kyle
  • Kara
  • The twins, Patrick and Erin

Cheng | Collins | Crosson | Hsieh

Hsieh
I'm not sure if my maternal grandparents had English names. They were born of an age such that my grandmother's feet were bound when she was a child, but my grandfather, a forward thinking independent young man, had the binding removed when they married. They had seven children:

Uncle John married Chan Lee and has one son:
  • Wilson

Yinhsin married Chungwu Ho and they have two children:
  • Minnie (married Rohit, son Anand)
  • Ronald (married Christina)

Yvonne married D.Y. Cheng and has three children:
  • Pauline (have you seen that link to the side?)
  • Vera
  • Jack (hey--that's me!)
Introduce yourself to these people, they're nice. Some notes that may be useful:
  • A lot of the Chinese families call each other by their familial associations. Thus, Vera and Pauline call Jack "D," which is the phonetic pronunciation of the Chinese word for "little brother." This can be confusing because I call Vera "younger [of my] older sister[s] ('xiao jie jie')" and Pauline calls her "younger sister ('mei')" and aunts and uncles call her "fat" ('pong,' a childhood nickname) but just go with the flow, try to guess who we're talking about through context and use the English names.

  • Joe Rocchio (Mary Crosson's husband) has four daughters from his previous marriage: Catherine, Rose, Eileen and Sheila.

  • There are three women named "Yvonne Cheng." My mother and two aunts on my father's side. This may seem very confusing, but they don't get confused because they (and others) call each other by their Chinese names, or by their relation names ("2nd Sister-in-law").

  • I haven't listed much of my mother's side of the family, only the ones that live in North America. The more (geographically) distant cousins won't be coming to the wedding, and I'm afraid I don't remember their English names.

  • There may be a quiz or contest related to this information; start memorizing now.

  • Frank and Mary Crosson had a son and daughter-in-law named Frank and Mary Crosson. Mary Crosson (Julie's mom) married Joe Rocchio, whose first wife was also named Mary.

  • It's probably not good (or accurate) to call Vera "fat" unless you speak Chinese.

Cheng | Collins | Crosson | Hsieh

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