A seemingly rare name i came across yesterday which has a bit of a story attached and does not seem to be documented and may be of interest to someone.
John Joseph Duitt was born in 1878 in Limerick to Peter and Catherine O'Connor
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FGVY-QVFhe had a sister Mary Jane born 1875
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FG88-QRPand a brother Peter circa 1881
1901 parents and siblings
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Limerick/Dock_Limerick_Urban_No__4/Keeffes_Lane/1501744/Father deceased by 1911
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Limerick/Limerick_No__4_Urban/Keeffes_Lane/631090/ Mary Jane had married a John Joseph Switzer in 1902
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FY8X-CNLand lived at Vizes Fields in 1911
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Limerick/Limerick_No__4_Urban/Vizes_Fields/631595/Some time before 1901 John Joseph Duitte had joined the Army and was stationed in Pretoria,Africa and was involved in a mutiny in 1903
the only record i could find
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/9821249he was convicted in Pretotia and sent to Maryborough Prison ,Co Laois.
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KM7R-G9Ba search of the National Archives reveals further info for this unfortunate soldier
http://www.nationalarchives.ie/search-the-archives/ John Duite male prisoner,number D465
Ref . GPB/PEN/3/175
Date 1903 to 1905
Creator.General prisons board
Scope and Content
aged 24,place of birth Limerick City,Labourer and Soldier,sentenced to 5 yrs for Army mutiny.Convicted at General Court Martial,Pretoria,Sth Africa,on 16th May 1903 and imprisoned in Dorchester prison,England,and Maryborough prison Queens Co Laois,transferred to Dundrum Lunatic Asylum,County Dublin on 28th of November 1905, 2 Photograph's,1 File
I have no idea what happened to him after this date
someone researching the family in 1999
http://boards.ancestry.com/localities.britisles.ireland.tip.general/467.978/mb.ashx