The elder Toler Roberts Garvey was my great grandfather, the younger one and George Bloomfield Garvey were my great uncles. Captain George Garvey RN (my great great grandfather) lived at Thornvale House, between Moneygall and Toomevara. His son, the elder Toler Roberts Garvey, lived at 12 Oxmantown Mall, Birr (then called Parsonstown) until he inherited Thornvale. He had three sons and three daughters: May (who became a nurse, ran a nursing home in London, after WW1 married Captain Gerald Lowry from Belfast - the first officer blinded in WW1, who subsequently became an osteopath, and died at mayfield in Sussex sometime in the 1950s); George Bloomfield, whose daughter Daphne married Commander Henry Ball RN, subsequently of the Commissioners for Irish Lights, and whose grandson, * Ball, retired a few years ago also from the Commissioners for Irish Lights, and who lives in Bray, Co Wicklow; Toler Roberts (junior) who was steward to Lord Ross, and who had two daughters - Enid, who married a Major Porter and had a son and a daugher (Maurice and Pamela), and Inez, who married John de Fraine, a farmer in Sussex (both Enid and Inez died several years ago); Henry William, who was killed in the Boer War; Olive Amy (my grandmother) who married John Edward Minchin (more below), and Helen, who never married and died at quite a young age.
John Edward and Olive Amy Minchin (nee Garvey) lived for a time at Thornvale. They had three children: Sara Amelia Helen (Sarita), b. 4/09/1910, Arthur John, b. 21/03/1912, and Olive Juliet (Judy), b. 17/02/1914 (my mother). The family moved to England in 1921, returned to Thornvale in 1929, and emigrated to Kenya in 1934. Both Arthur and Judy were keen tennis players, participating in tournaments in Roscrea, Nenagh, and in Kenya. Sarita married Walter Crawford (both deceased - Walter in 1990 and Sarita in 1997) and had three sons, *, * and *, who all currently live in South Africa. Arthur married Betty d'Olier (nee Blair), but had no children. Betty died in approximately 1978, and Arthur in 1998. Judy married Captain Thomas Lyle McClelland, and had a son, Robin (me) in *. My father died in 1961, and my mother died 20/05/2012 at the age of 98.
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