looking for family, surname French or Hayden

[shorts]

Moving onto the marriages.

Mary Jane French (b1881) married Nicholas Hynes on 7 Jan 1906. (Prior to her marriage it looks like Mary lived away from Wexford as this appears to be her 1901 census record)

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Dublin/Dalkey/Barnhill_Road__Part_of_/1316899/

In the 1911 census they were living in Fishers Row.

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Wexford/Wexford_No__2_Urban/Fishers_Row/697371/

[shorts]

Jane French (b1887) married William Walsh on 17 January 1909.

This looks like their 1911 census record.

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Wexford/Rathaspick/Forth_Commons/692943/

By 1916 they to were living in Byrnes Lane as evidenced by the details I posted earlier for the marriage of Martin French to Sarah Hayden.
 

[shorts]

The Anastasia French mentioned as witness to Ellen's marriage is most likely my grand mother who from 1911 census shows living at 33 Fishers Row Wexford age 25 and 23 living with uncle John Murphy 48 journeyman shoemaker.

will see if I can find out what the location name is as per the item you have found but we know that Anastasia when married lived in a house in Batt Street before they eventually moved to Liverpool late 1938 but no idea of location in wexford between 1911 and 1938
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There is a list of the majority of Wexford Town ratepayers in an October 1936 edition of the Wexford People. There is no French family listed under Batt Street but there are two heads of household living in other streets by the name of 'J French' which could be your John French - see below.

There is also a P French in Byrnes Lane. My Mother lived next door to Peter French and his family in the 1940's. She recalls his children as follows:

Michael
Walter
Georgie - moved to Antelope Rd, Maudlintown
Stanley - moved to Saltee Ave
Francis (Franny) - killed in a motorbike accident in the Folly in the 1950's
Catherine
Bridie
Nelli

[homerj]

wow

Just absorbing all your good work here, and building up my chart, pretty amazing.

To clarify my earlier assumption that John and Anastasia lived in Batt Street before moving to Wirral Merseyside, it was just that Batt St was entered on my dad's birth cert when he was born 1924 so they must have moved around between then and when they eventually came to mainland UK.

Also intriguing why John French seems to have been born in Dover they must have travelled back and forth Ireland UK during those early years.

I hadn't looked closely enough at the hand written original census record for 1901, the reproduced version has his birth place as Down (which I assumed was short hand for somewhere else in Ireland) but looking at the hand written census record it is clearly Dover.

loving this, its really good piecing all the bits together.

have also pulled out 1901 census details for nicholas hynes.

again nice work Shorts and especially that your mother new other parts of the family.

all this is going on and we still haven't heard from Fran J  - lots for them to catch up on when they do eventually log back on.



 

[Fran J]

firstly I would like to say sorry for not logging back in before now, but ill health and family matters have been a priority,

now I would like to thank you for finding the information I was looking for regarding my Grandfather and Grandmother, yes the Sarah Hayden and Martin French you found are definitely my Grandparents, thank you for all the work you have put in on this, it has made my day to know all what I know now about my family, and its nice to have the addresses where they lived, I know I still have family in Wexford now maybe I can find them too, thank you once again I would never have found this information without you
                                                 Kindest Regards Fran J

[lifeboatgirl67]

Yes thankyou, this is my Grandmother Mary Jane French that I'm looking for. I know she married Nicholas Hynes and that they moved to Birkenhead at some point. There are lots of details that I don't know but this website seems fab and things are becoming clearer already and I've only just found it. I know she had brothers and sisters and when I can get my head around all the information and start putting it all together it'll just be amazing and something to leave for my children and grandchildren.
Thanks to all who have contributed so far and got me started.

[homerj]

Really great to see that this thread (now close to 2years old) is still connecting our family/families together.

I can now hopefully fill in some more detail on my great Aunts and their family.

still finding it hard to locate possible living relatives in Wexford.

homer

[shorts]

Really great to see that this thread (now close to 2years old) is still connecting our family/families together. I can now hopefully fill in some more detail on my great Aunts and their family.
still finding it hard to locate possible living relatives in Wexford.

homer

There's an oibituary in the Wexford paper this week for a Pascal Hayden (aged 70), son of the late John & Josephine Hayden. He has a surviving brother and 4 sisters. There were'nt that many Hayden's in Wexford Town so they could be decendants of the John Hayden, son of Thomas & Sarah Hayden, who was aged 4 in the 1911 census.   

[homerj]

thanks for the tip.

just searched for it and found the full details.