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Re: The Hunt for Helena HANNON
« Reply #9 on: Monday 10 July 17 10:07 BST (UK) »
John Hannon worked on the railway,at the time of Elizabeth's birth he was a ''steam riser'' he likely got the boilers fired up in the locomotives as i believe this takes a while to get the pressure up from a cold boiler.
In 1891 on Julia's marriage he is described as an Engine Driver and still alive,he is also down as a Stoker on other certs.
His son Philip was also a stoker in the Navy from his daughter Rose's birth 1903
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XW9V-WQ5

Wife and son in 1901
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Dublin/North_Dock/Marlborough_Street/1329480/



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Re: The Hunt for Helena HANNON
« Reply #10 on: Tuesday 11 July 17 02:29 BST (UK) »
I have now discussed with my cousin the problem of the name and identification of David Woolmore's wife Helena/Elizabeth.
As your lead ie Elizabeth (with John and mother Mary DORAN) is a strong possibilty of being David's wife, then we should include this information with a caveat attached.  Somehow we don't think the mystery of how Helena became Eliza/Lillie/Lilly will ever be solved, suffice to say, she was the wife of L/Cpl David WOOLMORE and the mother of three sons, all of whom served, like their father, with the KRR Corps.
Please accept our thanks for your time and assistance in this interesting post.
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Re: The Hunt for Helena HANNON
« Reply #11 on: Tuesday 11 July 17 11:17 BST (UK) »
Julia Hannon was born 1868
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FPZ9-NGQ
Her sister Jane was born 1874
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FPTJ-FD9

When Julia? Hannon married James Norton in 1891 she gave her name as Jane or as the priest has recorded it in Latin Joanna
http://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls000633838#page/58/mode/1up
this falls in better with her age on the 1901 Census
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XSF9-Z2S