1887 Fitzwilliam Lawn Tennis Club Closed Championships

[johnjensen]

Here's the baptism record for BS Le Fanu.  You should search for the others on the same site and maybe get 1 or 2 more bits.  Hope this helps

http://tinyurl.com/agytpdf

Also here's a listing from the same site which includes 2 siblings and his parents' marriage.  Transcription of his mother's surname seems quite hazardous.
http://tinyurl.com/auahxph

[newmark401]

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Hi,

Thanks for those two links. I'm quite certain now that Brinsley Renkive Le Fanu was born in Dublin.

Mark

[johnjensen]

According to rootsireland.ie there is a Thomas A Tombe born to Henry Joy Tombe and Eliza in Glenealy CoI parish in Wicklow. Henry Joy Tombe was a clergyman and later Canon ofChristchurch. Here's Henry's marriage to Elizabeth Mullins (aka De Moleyns in other sources - see below)

http://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/details/95e7a10030418

A further source on Henry and Elizabeth, showing Elizabeth's noble background, is as follows:
http://www.thepeerage.com/p29650.htm

You'll get other stuff on both parents easily enough by ordinary searching.

[johnjensen]

Coincidentally, Thomas' Tombe's father and a Richard E Maunsell, land agent, are mentioned on the same page (21) of this:

http://www.nli.ie/pdfs/mss%20lists/tighe.pdf

[johnjensen]

And Richard E Maunsell and wife Lucia are also listed in thepeerage.com.  Includes his birth and death dates:

http://thepeerage.com/p28399.htm#i283986

This is clearly the same Richard E Maunsell at 9 Ely Place in the 1911 census:
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Dublin/Mansion_House/Ely_Place/87500/

[newmark401]

Thanks for that information. As I think I already mentioned, I'm quite sure that Thomas A. Tombe was the brother of Henry Evelyn Tombe, who also played some tournament tennis and was also from County Wicklow.
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However, I'm not sure about R. Maunsell as there could well have been more than one person with that name.

Mark

According to rootsireland.ie there is a Thomas A Tombe born to Henry Joy Tombe and Eliza in Glenealy CoI parish in Wicklow. Henry Joy Tombe was a clergyman and later Canon ofChristchurch. Here's Henry's marriage to Elizabeth Mullins (aka De Moleyns in other sources - see below)

http://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/details/95e7a10030418

A further source on Henry and Elizabeth, showing Elizabeth's noble background, is as follows:
http://www.thepeerage.com/p29650.htm

You'll get other stuff on both parents easily enough by ordinary searching.

[newmark401]

I have two more pairs of lawn tennis players who were active around 1890 and were probably brothers:

Edward Hornidge
R.J. Hornidge
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J.B. Story
W.G. Story
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And a few more regular participants from this period:

A. Betham
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E.H. Greene
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C.P.R. James
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Most, if not all, of the above players appear to have been Irish.

Mark

[johnjensen]

Whether it's the same one or not, there is a Henry Evelyn Tombe showing up in rootsireland.ie as born in Wicklow in 1860 to a couple called Gordon and Grace.  This appears to be the couple mentioned in the attached (father's middle name also Evelyn).

http://tinyurl.com/cgvqnyw

Given Henry Evelyn Tombe's mother's and grandfather's names, he could well have been some sort of cousin/second cousin of Thomas Tombe, whose father was Henry Joy Tombe.   

[johnjensen]

It may or may not be the R Maunsell tennis player, of course.  I was just picking up on the Richard E Maunsell, Land Agent, in Shane's Reply#3 above.
 

Thanks for that information. As I think I already mentioned, I'm quite sure that Thomas A. Tombe was the brother of Henry Evelyn Tombe, who also played some tournament tennis and was also from County Wicklow.
--

However, I'm not sure about R. Maunsell as there could well have been more than one person with that name.

Mark

According to rootsireland.ie there is a Thomas A Tombe born to Henry Joy Tombe and Eliza in Glenealy CoI parish in Wicklow. Henry Joy Tombe was a clergyman and later Canon ofChristchurch. Here's Henry's marriage to Elizabeth Mullins (aka De Moleyns in other sources - see below)

http://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/details/95e7a10030418

A further source on Henry and Elizabeth, showing Elizabeth's noble background, is as follows:
http://www.thepeerage.com/p29650.htm

You'll get other stuff on both parents easily enough by ordinary searching.