Margaret (Davis) and James WADDEN/WADDING’s oldest son John was b. 12 Feb 1880 in Wexford town.
He married Johanna KELLY there in 1902.
They had five children in Wexford and their last in Dublin:
John was a printer, and according to his cousin Lucie’s daughter, Fluffy, a representative for linotype printing machines in Ireland.
Some time between Theresa’s birth in June 1910 and the census of April 1911 the family moved to Dublin where they lived in Fairview / Drumcondra at 4 Susanville Rd.
John died aged 58 in 1937 of acute myocarditis – inflammation of the heart muscle, and pulmonary odema – fluid in the lungs.
Johanna reportedly lived with her third child, daughter Anna LAMBERT, and died as a result of a fire-related accident. I can find no death record before 1969 so presume this was post 1969.
According to Eve ‘Fluffy’ (Glancy) O’DONOVAN’s correspondence, John WADDING was ‘very dear to my family, always visiting when in Cork. ‘ Fluffy described staying with the WADDING family in Dublin, and her delight at attending the Abbey Theatre with them.
John and Johanna’s descendants
i. Margaret (Wadding) MACINERNEY
John WADDEN/WADDING and Johanna KELLY’s eldest daughter Margaret (b. 29 July 1903) married civil servant Paul Peter MACINERNEY in Fairview, Dublin on 19 October 1927. Margaret was known as Meg.[1]
Their children:
Margaret was the last of her siblings alive, reportedly dying in 1995.
iii. Anna (Wadding) LAMBERT
Second daughter Anna (b. 8 Oct 1905) married a Wexford man, flour merchant Patrick LAMBERT on 15th April 1936 in Rathgar, Dublin.
They had the following known children:
I have found no death records for Anna or Patrick pre 1969.
iv. Mary Ita (Wadding) COLLINS
John WADDEN/WADDING and Johanna KELLY’s third daughter Mary Ita (b. 6 June 1908) married under the name Ita Mary. She married in the same Rathgar church on the same day as her sister Anna, to a neighbour, bank officer James COLLINS. (Both Anna and Ita’s witnesses were their younger sisters.)
They had the following known children:
Was James in the Royal Air Force during WW2?
I have found no Irish death records for Ita or James pre 1969.
v. Theresa Mary (Wadding) COURTNEY
John WADDEN/WADDING and Johanna KELLY’s fourth daughter Theresa Mary (b. 5 June 1910) was known as Terry.
Terry reportedly married a COURTNEY. There is no record of a marriage before 1944 (when the online Irish state records cease.)
The couple did not have any known children.
Terry died post 1969.
vi. Geraldine (Wadding) JOHNSTON
John WADDEN/WADDING and Johanna KELLY’s youngest daughter Geraldine (b. 4 Feb 1912) married Albert JOHNSTON, an engineer, on 23 February 1938 in Terenure, Dublin.
They had one son in 1939.
Geraldine died in 1941 at the age of 29. Cause of death was cardiac failure and sarcoma of the lung, 2 months.[2]
Widower Albert did not remarry. He died 11 August 1965 in the Jervis St Hospital of a cerebral haemorrhage. His address, 16 South Hill, Dartry was the address given by Geraldine’s MACINERNEY niece, on her 1958 US arrival visa.
[1] Source: family correspondence May 2020.
[2] Geraldine was described in family correspondence as ‘lovely looking. Tall and dark like her father.’
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