i'm hoping some one could help with this a distant cousin protrayed this to me .what i'm looking for is a birth/baptism for joseph mortimer thank you .My earliest contact with Joseph is his marriage in 1861 to Mary Anne Conneely. He was around 41 and she was about 17.
He was a carpenter living in Glasnevin at that time and she worked and lived in Ellen Berry's milliner's shop in Parnell St. in Dublin.
Their church wedding entry in the register in the Pro Cathedral (her parish) shows that they had a dispensation from the Archbishop. It is not clear what this is for but it could have related to parental consent on her side. She would have needed this as she was not of full age (21) and it might not have been forthcoming if the parents either objected or were dead. On the other hand I have not established whether Joseph was Catholic or Protestant and the dispensation might have related to a mixed marriage.
The names and address of his parents are given in the register but, unfortunately, the address is not now legible. I had figured it for "Collon Louth" but couldn't find any trace of them in the (RC) church records for this parish. Now, thanks to the miracle of digitisation, digital search and the internet, I think I have Thomas tracked down, via the LDS and Griffith's valuation, to the townland of Creewood, in the Parish of Grangegeeth, near Collon, but just on the Meath side of that county's border with Louth. This has opened up a whole new, and exciting, line of enquiry which will make it even less likely that this opus will be completed this side of the grave.
Children
Joseph and Mary Anne had a difficult first year of marriage. They were married on 31 January 1861 and Mary Anne must have become pregnant very soon afterwards as by 21 November they had a newborn who died and for whom they opened a new grave in the Garden section of Prospect Cemetery in Glasnevin.
They had a daughter, Ellen in (I think) 1863. She didn't marry and lived with her mother and unmarried brother, William, until the death of both of these in 1900 and 1902 respectively. (see below) She died in 1928, and her death notice says her death was deeply regretted by her relatives and a wide circle of friends, but, unfortunately, doesn't name any of them.
They had a son William in 1865 but he died, of infantile cholera, aged 14 months.
In 1870 they had twins, Patrick and William, my grandfather and his brother.
In 1873 they had another son, John, who died, from inflammation caused by teething, aged 15 months.
Death
Joseph died of acute peritonitis in 1875 .
Glasnevin
His widow, Mary Anne, lived for another 26 years. She appears to have stayed on in Glasnevin until 1880 or shortly after and appears in Dunville Tce. in Rathmines just before her death. I don't know where she was in the intervening period.
