Hello, roswil. – Yes I expect we are distantly related. My grandmother’s sister Annie Andrews married Jem (James not John) Memery and lived ‘in poor circumstances in Pigeon House Road, Ringsend, on the dockfront of Dublin. There she brought up a family of ten children, about fifteen years range in their ages, on the uncertain wages of a seaman, until the older ones were able to give some support.’. (from my Uncle Fred.)
Only I don’t know what number she lived at!
I can’t place Matilda Memery, except in that one census. There seem to be an awful lot of Memerys and they intermarried with Andrews and Rowdens and Littles. I’ve recently been trying to sort out a tree, but I haven’t got very far.
In the 1939 Electors List (link earlier in this thread) there’s a Brigid Memery at 25 Pigeon House Road with Josephine and Samuel, and a Christina Purcell at no 7.
My ggrandfather lived at 6, Pigeon House Road from 1870 to 1896. His son Alexander was married from this address.
Someone I am now looking for:
Annie Andrews’ grandfather was John Andrews, a pawnbroker. He (according to family story) married a Scot called Watson, and indeed ‘Watson’ occurs twice in the next two generations as a middle name. I can find no marriage and I don’t know his birth date or where he came from – most probably Ireland, I’m not even sure of that…I’d really like to take this a bit further back.
He had at least six children – Adelaide, Arthur, Frederick, Nathaniel, John and Eva, most of whom I know quite a bit about by now. Frederick my ggrandfather and his wife Anne are the only ggrandparents who I don’t have a photo of, though.
I hope you can get further with your searches, roswil…………..Alison.
