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Margaret (Davis) and James WADDEN/WADDING’s third son, and the second George Robert (b.11 Sept 1887) married Anna Eliza (known as Elizabeth or Lil) MORRIS in 1918. (Note one of their witnesses was a Margaret LACY.) George Wadding had played the double bass at the silent pictures as a young man in Wexford. He had beenContinue reading “George Robert WADDING”

Margaret (Davis) and James WADDEN/WADDING’s second daughter, Maria (b. 18 Nov 1883) seems likely to have been the family housekeeper after the death of her mother, Margaret (Davis) WADDEN/WADDING in 1900. Maria emigrated to the US aged 21 in 1905. She went to Alleghany, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, giving her friends Patrick and John CLEARY as herContinue reading “Maria WADDING”

Margaret (Davis) and James WADDEN/WADDING’s oldest daughter Catherine Agnes ‘Kate’ (b. 26 March 1882) married James FURLONG in 1907 in Wexford. James was a fitter. James and Kate moved to London.  I believe they had the following children: In the 1911 Census Kate and James were living at 46 Eynham Rd, Shepherds Bush / Hammersmith. Continue reading “Kate (Wadding) FURLONG”

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. SomeContinue reading “John WADDING”

Margaret DAVIS the daughter of John DAVIS and Maria ATKINS was baptised 22 March 1854, at Ballymore parish, Co. Wexford, which serviced the Killinick area.  Margaret, then a 25-year-old servant of Killinick, married James WADDEN, later documented as WADDING, on February 22nd, 1879. [1] James was a saddler. Earlier that month Margaret and her groom JamesContinue reading “Margaret (Davis) WADDEN/WADDING”

John George, ‘Jack,’[1] the second son of John and Catherine ‘Kate’ (O’Shea) DAVIS was born in Cork on 24 July 1887. In the 1911 Census, Jack was living in Ilford, Essex, with his aunt Mary (O’Shea) and uncle Daniel DENNEHEY.  His occupation was ‘student’. It seems likely that Jack attended university or training in London,Continue reading “John George DAVIS (1887 – 1917)”

Maria Lucy ‘Lucie’ (Davis) GLANCY Registered at birth as Maria Lucy and known as “Lucie” the oldest child of John DAVIS and Kate O’SHEA was born 4 July 1882 in Cork. At the age of 30 she married Patrick GLANCY, on February 14th 1912.  Patrick called himself a sergeant in the R.I.C. although he wasContinue reading “John DAVIS’ (c. 1853-1925) descendants”

John DAVIS, the older brother of my great grandfather George, entered the R.I.C. in January 1874 aged 20 years, consistent with a birth around 1853. According to granddaughter Evelyn “Fluffy” (Glancy) O’DONOVAN, John and his brother George ‘aged about 15 and 16 tossed a coin to see which they would run away to: RIC orContinue reading “John DAVIS (c. 1853-1925) family”

Marriages of John DAVIS children not shown here.