Lady Ellisha Mathew

[wyseass]

Just thought you would both like to know (if you don't already) the Irish Census 1911 now covers Antrim, Down, Dublin and Kerry.

[ChrisPage]

Chris, thanks for posting the scans. I have saved them for printing.
It is the same as my father owned, my aunt will be pleased to know I have a copy now as she was sad to hear it had been burned in the fire.

I tried to read the will, it was hard to do. Captain William Fitzwilliam Mathew is mentioned. Captain in the Bengal army.
He is on the England census in London married to Jane Emily Kennedy and had a daughter Gertrude Emily born abt 1843 London. Died 1962.
Could not see a mention of Thomas or Robert.

Thank for link to portaits of Ellisha Smyth.

Christine




 
 

[wyseass]

Has anybody seen this before:  http://everything2.com/e2node/Earl%2520of%2520Landaff.  I emailed a bit to cmathews, but thought it better to send the link.

[cmathews]

Has anybody seen this before:  http://everything2.com/e2node/Earl%2520of%2520Landaff.  I emailed a bit to cmathews, but thought it better to send the link.

Yes, thanks for the email - spookily enough I came across this site while Googling for information over the weekend just before you emailed the details.

I have also just downloaded the 1911 Census details for Marcus Beresford Mathews of 115, Grafton Street, Dublin - fascinating stuff, mistakes and all in his own handwriting as well.

I have a photograph which I have used as a placeholder for a web site I am trying to put together when I get some time. It is of his whole family all sat together looking very formal, taken at a photographic studio.
http://mathews.family.name
I also have details of who is who which I will eventually put on the site as well.

If I am boring you all with these photo's them please let me know and I will stop, but I find it fascinating.

I am trying to get time to put this site together where I will keep a repository of these images and other family tree details. Access will eventually be by invite only so once done I will make contact with access details etc. so if anyone has a GEDCOM file they could let me have to extend the details I am using then that would be great, but I fully understand if you do not want to provide these details. 

Cheers -- Chris

[wyseass]

That photo is amazing thank you so much 
While looking at the photo from you I was also able to look at 2 photos I have.  One of my Grandfather (alfred) at his wedding and one of Alfred, wife and family circa 1938.  I had great fun identifying everyone using the family tree, it was quite brilliant and fascinating.
I always thought my Aunt Jill looked like her Mother but the family resemblance to Annie is quite wonderful.
I can't thank you enough.

[ChrisPage]

What a lovely photo.
I look forward to seeing your site when it is done.
I never get bored looking at old family photos, you are so lucky to have that one.

[ChrisPage]

Have you seen the ancestral file on the mathew family at this link.
If not put in francis mathew, and thomas mathew as father and mary as mother, and ireland.

http://www.familysearch.org/ENG/search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=search_all1.asp&clear_form=true

[nerys-wales]

Everybody seems to be confusing Mathew with Mathews - two different families - Lady Ellisha Mathew is from the LLandaff peerage, not connected to Mathews at all.

[wyseass]

I know that Mathew and Mathews are different families, but we were all brought up with the story that the name changed because of the illegitimacy.  I also know that this is quite far fetched which is why the aim of all this chat and research is to discover who the parents of Rev. Robert Mathews were, or at least that is what I would like to do.
He doesn't seem to exist in Ballymena until he turns up as headmaster of the Diocesan School in 1829.