Wexford People

[nickr90]

This is a trial that might help some researchers.
I am going to try to post a scan of part of The Grand Collection list from 1943. If it works and there is interest I will try to add other sections.
It may point you to Wexford ancestors.

[kojak]

Hi Nickr90,

A great find and one I am sure a few of us will find useful / invaluable.  We are still trying to make in roads on our Wexford forebears (Staffords), hopefully in time a nugget of info like this will spur us on...

Kindest Regards

Jane and Kenny

[newbie]

I'm still tracing back a bit further but a terrific find and there's a Kehoe in there!
thanks for posting.
Pauline

[shorts]

Hi Nick

This information is very interesting. On a similar theme you may have noticed that the old newspapers occasionally provided a list of Tenants paying rent/rates to the local council and the names are listed by street.

From a 1930’s edition of the Wexford People (I think the 31/10/1936 edition) I transcribed the names listed for Saltee Avenue in Maudlintown, Wexford Town – see below.  There were/are only 12 houses in the street and my mother confirmed that the families marked with an asterisk were still there when she lived in the street from the late 1940’s. She also confirmed the house numbers.

M Cosgrave* (No 1)
T Duffin
E Busher
J McGuire
P Murphy
J Mernagh * (No 6)
T Tennant* (No 7)
T Doyle* (No
J Tottenham* (No 9)
T Pitman* (No 10)
M Hayes* (No 11)
F Rowe* (No 12)

This example seems to infer that the names listed for the other streets will be listed in house number order and could be of use to researchers if it’s possible to add the whole article to this topic.

I also transcribed the names for the road opposite Saltee Ave, Eden Vale (6 houses)

M’Oconnor
W O’Neill
T Swan
M Nolan
C O’Neill
T Brown

[shorts]

Further to my post above I have traced the article in question.  The names appear in the 31st October 1936 edition of the Wexford People & is a list of rate payers assenting to a proposal concerning the local water supply. Because this may have been a big issue at the time it seems that the vast majority of ratepayers expressed a vote judging by the number of names listed.

There is also a similar list of individuals in the same paper, but not as comprehensive, who were signatories to a memorial against a proposed loan' for a new town hall. As Nick implied lists like these can prove helpful to researchers trying to trace relatives. Take Roches Terrace as an example.

Below is a list of 'heads of household' as stated in the 1911 census (14 houses)

1   Crosbie   
1   Edward   
2   Lacey   
3   Crosbie   
3   Gaul   
3   Mc Manis   
4   Wilde   
5   Deveraux   
6   Dodd   
6   Whelan   
7   Keane   
8   Dunn   
9   Maher   
10   Breen   
10   Grandin   
11   Cleary   
12   Breen   
12   Frayne   
13   Carty   
14.1   Kensilla   
14.2   Brennan   
14.3   Haughton   

The surnames in bold appear 25 years later in the newspaper article (see below) almost certainly in the same houses judging by the order the names appear, eg. Lacey next to Crosbie and P (Peter) Cleary still living next to the Frayne family.

For some reason it seems that where the ratepayer was a woman her forenames are also stated which is useful for the more common surnames. 

This article provides a snapshot of where families lived in Wexford Town at a key point between the 1911 census and recent memory. (It should prove particularly useful for the less common surnames). I aim in time to transcribe all the names in the article by surname. 

Where there is a street topic already in existence (eg. Castle Hill St) and I think it may be of interest I'll try & post a copy of the street residents from the article itself - similar to the one attached.

[nickr90]

Excellent post.
A few points of note on Roche's Terrace as it is my maternal ancestral street.
The names do not correspond to the numbering of the houses - at least in the 1960s when many were still occupied by the same people.
The Crosbies noted were related to Paddy Crosbie of "School Around the Corner" fame.

[nickr90]

P Wilde was relative of a murder victim of a few decades earlier

[shorts]

On the subject of Roches Terrace I was randomly flicking through Thoms yearbook for 1931 yesterday and found the following entry in the Wexford section. Under a list of the 27 members of the Wexford Co Council was 7 members representing Wexford Town. Amongst them was:

James Gaul: 7 Roches Terrace

(The James Gaul living in the street in the 1911 census was a sailor so it's probably not the same person) 

[nickr90]

Some Confraternity prefects in early 1900s. Many gentlemen of Wexford. Is yours here?