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James Meehan, Manorhamilton
« on: Friday 19 September 14 21:58 BST (UK) »
I am trying to piece together some details of a James Meehan from Manorhamilton. The piece I know is that as an elderly man working in Mountjoy Prison in Dublin 1930's he met and married my Grandmother Mary Ellen Jordan (second husband), They married 1933 Rathdown and he lived in Blackrock until his death in 1955 My Grandmother was born in 1879 so would have been 54 when they married.I am guessing he was around the same age.
The only Meehans I can find in the 1911 census are this one
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Leitrim/Manorhamilton/Manorhamilton_Town__part_of_/657525/
My next move is to get the marriage cert and see who is listed as his father but, as I have just started this today i thought I would post in Leitrim where maybe someone would know of the family and maybe something about James before 1933.
McGuirk, Jordan of Wicklow
Carr of Liverpool
Connor of Blackrock

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Re: James Meehan, Manorhamilton
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 20 September 14 10:20 BST (UK) »
Hi OurGang

What a great story.

Where did you get the Manorhamilton reference ?

Tara

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Re: James Meehan, Manorhamilton
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 20 September 14 10:26 BST (UK) »

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Re: James Meehan, Manorhamilton
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 20 September 14 10:32 BST (UK) »
As James was only 20 in 1901 he MAY have been too young to have already gone into the prison service.

None of the James in Leitrim in 1901 appear to be good matches.

I'm wondering about this chap though !

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Antrim/St__Anne_s/Donegal_Street/933469/

Still too early to tell though.

Hopefully when you get the marriage cert this can be taken back fairly easily !

Tara



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Re: James Meehan, Manorhamilton
« Reply #4 on: Saturday 20 September 14 10:36 BST (UK) »
Oh Just in case you don't know Manorhamilton is VERY close to the Sligo border so when you are doing searches please look there too !

Tara

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Re: James Meehan, Manorhamilton
« Reply #5 on: Saturday 20 September 14 12:43 BST (UK) »
Blimey Tara....I never thought of looking for prison warder for the 1911 census. What a great find by you.

I knew that James came from Manorhamilton....family lore and he met my Grandmother when she took up a job as a cook at Mountjoy Prison...oh the stories !!story goes that Granny used to visit his sister in Manorhamilton...the country being alien to the city slicker!!! My Grandmother died in about 1946 and James stayed in the Jordan family home. I was quite young when he died and remember him as an elderly pipe smoking man.
Wind on 40 years and I promised my mother that I would someday find his grave ...20 more years and I now have the date of death and location at Deansgrange but, I just thought I know nothing about this man who brought companionship and  happiness to my granny.

Of course I am doing all this rooting when I have no time to get certs or really follow up but, come November when I usually knuckle down to the library I will get all the certs...I go down cul de sacs with various parts of the family then in the Winter try to tidy the mounds of paper!.
McGuirk, Jordan of Wicklow
Carr of Liverpool
Connor of Blackrock

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Re: James Meehan, Manorhamilton
« Reply #6 on: Saturday 20 September 14 12:53 BST (UK) »
Aw it really is a sweet story and YES he truly deserves a spot on the family tree.

It will be great, come November, to get a few certs  ;D

There are a few possibilites on the usual sites for his birth but until we have his father's name sure there is no real point.

Keep us update  ;D

Tara

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Re: James Meehan, Manorhamilton
« Reply #8 on: Sunday 21 September 14 22:53 BST (UK) »
Thank you so much Hallmark. My November project is now set in stone.
McGuirk, Jordan of Wicklow
Carr of Liverpool
Connor of Blackrock