Hi all,
Happily, I'm still following this thread!
Roseb087, just to let you know that I'm researching my husband's family. His great-grandmother was Annie Stubbs, Daniel's (wife Kate Spring) sister. Annie wasn't married to my husband's grandfather, William's father, but DNA proves I have the correct family. Also, I knew my husband's mother (Anne Kelly nee Stubbs) very well and she told me a lot about the family history.
So for Tom:- Annie 1883-1965 and her siblings, Daniel 1877-1964, Mary 1880-1901, Michael 1885-1912, William 1888-1892, Christopher 1890-1965 (your grandfather) and baby Charles 1892-1893 whose parents were William Stubbs 1851-1928 and Mary Beechinor 1854-1927.
I only know William was born in Cork from the 1901 and 1911 censuses, but I'm sure you know this already. William died in the North Cork County Home of Valvular Disease of the Heart and Bronchitis. He was a widowed Labourer, late of Mallow and aged 68 years. This means he was born in about 1860. There are some discrepancies about his date of birth as in 1911 he says he is 60 years old but the same goes for his wife Mary who died in the same County Home of Rheumatic Arthritis and Endo-Carditis the previous year, the informant was their daughter Annie who was now married to Jeremiah McCarthy. Having said this as they were the only Stubbs family in Mallow I'm 99% certain of my facts.
Tom, I also think that you know that Mary Ann Clarke was married in a civil ceremony to Samuel Stubbs in Mallow on the 10th May 1849. Still, though I can't find an actual record of William's birth, lots of people have William as their son but no actual proof. I guess that if Samuel was a Soldier he could have, in reality, been born anywhere Samuel went with Mary Anne.
Good hunting
Diane