Hello.

I need to know the father's first of a well known war pilot. Charles
"Chuck" W. Sweeney dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki in 1945. He
died in Boston in 2004.

Several obituaries say that his father was a plumber. I need to know
the first name of the father. Also, any other information about the
father would be very helpful, including the middle name. Please
include the source that you used to find this information.

Thank you very much.
Jana

Jana,

Several obituaries I looked at mentioned that Charles William Sweeney
was from Massachusettes.


I checked the 1930 census records for Massachusettes via Ancestry.com:


http://www.ancestry.com/


and found the following record of the Sweeney family:


Quincy, Mass

Father and head of household: John J. Sweeney, 39 
Born in Mass.  (John J.'s father was born in Mass, mother in Canada)
Occupation:  Plumber   Industry: Norfolk Prison Colony

wife:  Mary B., 33

children:

John J., 12
Charles W, 10
Marylyn A, 4
Arthur, 2 10/12

Charles W. was 10 in 1930, which would have made him 84 in 2004, which
is the age of death reported in Sweeney's obituaries.


I did not see anything to indicate what the "J" in "John J" stood for.


I trust this is the information you were seeking.  However, please
don't rate this answer until you have everything you need.

If there's more I can do for you, just post a Request for
Clarification to let me know.


All the best,

pafalafa-ga

Extremely thorough and helpful answer! Thank you!! I look forward to
using Google Answers again.

jabana-ga,

Thanks so much for your feedback, which was generous several-times over.

And my apologies for misspelling Massachusetts so many times!

Hope to see you back here one day soon.

paf