For those of you with ancestors from the Maudlintown area here follows a list of people who lived there in the early 1920s, long before the present estate was even thought of. Starting at the south end ,near the present day Service Station. These come from an old lady who is the oldest former resident from the street. This is after the last available census and could be helpful to those researching their family trees. I have further details on the families and houses but will not publish them now. If there is any interest, just post here for them. I remember some of these families myself many are buried 20 yards across the road in the old graveyard.
THREE THATCHED COTTAGES.
]No.1[ Miss May Duggan and her brother Nick.
No.2 Pat and Willie Parle.
No. 3 McBrides Tom a British Army pensioner and his wife.
Then to Wadden's Lane or what is now called Rocklands Lane.
House 1. Kearns family.
No 2. Jack Lett. ( the Wexford fishing dynasty began here )
No. 3. Katie Clowery.
No.4 Waddings who owned the Rocks an area of land now built over with upmarket houses.
THE BACK LANE .
House 1. Pitts. afterwards Leary's .Leary was a coachman in White's Hotel.
House 2. Pat O'Connor ,retired British Army Sergeant Major, wife and three children Kevin, Kathleen and Michael.
House 3. Mrs Hopley and son Eddie.Mrs Hopley was a Ladie's Maid to Mrs Harvey of Bargy Castle.
House 4. Annie Murphy's , before that Ferguson's.
BACK ON TO THE MAIN ROAD.
No.1 Learys ,Jack a Hurley Maker .Came there about 1916 ,before them Blakes who went to Canada.
No 2. Pat Doyle, ex Royal Navy and his wife Sarah who was from Liverpool.
No 3. Captain Pat Doyle, Merchant Navy and wife Kate and family, before them Captain Cousins also M.N. , kate's father, and family.
No 4. George Edwards ,wife Kate and family.
No 5. McGees and family.
No 6. Jake Clampett ,wife Kate and family..
No 7. Tom and Lizzie Lewis ,Tom was a deep sea sailor.
No 8. Cullen's ,before them Roche's (Sailors )
No 9. Connick's,
No 10. Revilles, Jack ,wife and family. Before them it was Butler's.
No 11. Miss Mag Kehoe .She and her mother Mary Anne had a little Hucksters shop. The father was a Sea Captain who was lost at sea.
No 12. The Miss Fardys ( As the name suggests, originally from the Hook area)
No 13. Kelly's .Sandy a carpenter .
No 14. Roche's .Husband ,wife and two sons.
No 15 McGrath's .7 son's ,6 were sailors one a postman. 5 of the sailors were captain's the other a radio officer. They also owned house 14.
No 16. Leary's another seafaring family.
No 17. O'Neill's .Captain Matt , wife and family his sons Captain Matt and Captain Jack were founders of Irish Shipping Ltd. Captain Matt lost on the Irish Pine in WW2. Mother was a sister of Capt Lar McGrath ,above.
No 18. Captain George Smith and family ,no relation to the Smith's mentioned above.
No 19. Maggie Anne Byrne who ran a little shop in her thatched cottage until the late 50s .
Hope this is helpful to some in their search for their ancestors.