hi tarmacadall...
cornelius (patrick) was listed as a labourer on his marriage cert.
his address on marriage cert was avondale house,harolds cross rd. dublin...(not far from clanbrassil st where he lived most of his life and where his family was born,including my father in 1914 which i have his birth cert).im guessing that avondale house may have been some sort of lodging house..what puzzles me who looked after his children,while he was at work.?? .
I have never found any records on census forms for him.
the change of birth date was through contact yesterday with his last living son (my uncle) who is now nearly 78..he confrimed that his dad was from castlecomer in kilkenny,this was alway my believe as my late father also told us this.
my uncle also told me that there was a doyle family connection to a 'harness shop' in kilkenny up as far as possibly the 1970s..
this is very confusing story as it was believed that cornelius had come to dublin after a fire had killed his wife and he was left with kathleen and jack who was thought to have been born the year corneluis was married..??...then brought back to kilkenny to be raised by family,(which side we havent a clue about)
im thinking of visting archives to try to find record of a birth or baptism of kathleen or jack to a cornelius alias patrick doyle.
i found it strange he his marriage cert had patrick doyle (no mention of cornelius)
its quite possible that the cert reads widower as it is very blurred.
sorry for the unclear nature of my previous post...there seems to be skeltons in the closet.
