Children of Martin Fitzgerald & Kate Hutchinson

1901C. Martin Fitzgerald, 30, gardener, was living Waterford Road, Tramore . with his wife, Katie, and 5 children

Fitzgerald	Martin	30	Male	Head of Family	R Catholic
Fitzgerald	Katie	28	Female	Wife	R Catholic
Fitzgerald	Bridget	9	Female	Daughter	R Catholic
Fitzgerald	John	7	Male	Son	R Catholic
Fitzgerald	Martin	4	Male	Son	R Catholic
Fitzgerald	Marcy	2	Female	Daughter	R Catholic
Fitzgerald	Nicholas		Male	Son	R Catholic

1911C. Martin Fitzgerald, 40, general labourer, was living Convent Hill, Tramore with his wife, Kate, and 8 children . They had been married 20 years, had had 10 children, 1 had died . All, except the 2 youngest, could read & write The 10 people lived in 6 rooms . The eldest child, Bridget, died 1907

Fitzgerald	Martin	40	Male	Head of Family	Roman Catholic
Fitzgerald	Kate	39	Female	Wife	Roman Catholic
Fitzgerald	Martin	15	Male	Son	Roman Catholic
Fitzgerald	Mary	12	Female	Daughter	Roman Catholic
Fitzgerald	Nicholas	12	Male	Son	Roman Catholic
Fitzgerald	Thomas	9	Male	Son	Roman Catholic
Fitzgerald	Kate	7	Female	Daughter	Roman Catholic
Fitzgerald	Christina	5	Female	Daughter	Roman Catholic
Fitzgerald	Bridget	3	Female	Daughter	Roman Catholic
Fitzgerald	Alice	1	Female	Daughter	Roman Catholic

John Joseph 1893 has left home by this census

3 more children were born 1913-1918 and then 3 more were 'adopted'

 

Photographs of ‘Fitzy’ tombstones in Dunhill appear on the Tramore Fitzgeralds' Facebook page - posted there by Georgina Beattie, a grandaughter of PP .

1. Bridget ~1891 .Cannot find her birth. Died 29/11/1907, aged 16, a teacher . Betty thinks she had gone to work as a teacher in Castletown -in the family grave in Holy Cross Cemetery

2. John Joseph born 8/8/1893 - Tramore -1976 . He served in the British Army during WW1 His civilian job had been a coachman . Married Ellen/Eily Dunne in Newbawn, Co. Wexford in 1928.   They lived in Patrick St., Tramore and had 5 children: 

Joseph P (Freddie) b.1929; d.2014      unmarried
Mary (Mamie) b.1932; d.2002            unmarried
John H             b.1933
Nicholas F (Frank) b.1935; d.199?
Catherine (Kathleen) b.1941

Of these, only John had offspring.  Frank got married late in life but had no children. John Joe went into the British Army at the time of WWI and he only died in 1976. John Joe and son Freddy were the local undertakers

Recollections of John Joe by Nick - please

Patrick Street, Tramore, that’s where John Joe (Martin’s eldest surviving son) lived with his family.  Possibly, they lived in the same house where JJ’s grandfather, Nicholas, died in 1923( no street mentioned on his d.c.).  JJ’s son Freddie and daughter Mamie lived there until death.  JJ ran a construction business out of there. Freddie was the local undertaker, hackney service and with a garage and second-hand car business at the top of the street.  Freddie was an interesting character and, because of his profession, knew everybody in Tramore and where they were buried.  Unfortunately, he died 2014

Another brother, Frank, got married late in life and lived further down in Patrick St but I think he bought that house rather than acquiring it from within the family.

Queen St has been mentioned a few times.?? Chris in the dark here   Nicholas lived there when Pa got married- ?? this 1890 & Nicholas lived Peter Street 1870-1911 at least! .  Later, PP and his family lived there.  I cannot say if it was in the same house.  Q. St. is the only Tramore family house I’ve never been in.-Nick

Is the late John A Fitzgerald , died 2015, the John H born 1932???. Where did Nick get John H from?? John Fitzgerald married Mary Branley in Drumcondra Dublin on 3/4/1961

https://rip.ie/death-notice/john-a.-fitzgerald-naas-kildare/248617

 

The death has occurred of Mary Fitzgerald (née Branley)
St Joseph's Road, Naas, Kildare

 

 

3. Martin born 3/7/1896 Tramore- 1913 . Died, Tramore, aged 17, labourer, of acute TB on 30/4/1913 . On the Tramore gravestone with his grandparents and sister Bridget

4. Mary Johanna born 8/9/1898 Waterford Road, Tramore. -7/3/1915-in the family grave in Holy Cross Cemetery

5. Nicholas Alphonsus born 31/7/1900 Tramore - 15/6/1968 -in the family grave in Holy Cross Cemetery. Known as Alfie ." I knew Alfie very well.  He never married but died, still at the Lodge with his sister Kitty. 

6. Thomas (PP) born 24/6/1902 Waterford Road. Died 1980. Married Mary/May Winter from Wexford.on 1929  They lived in Queen Street/Peter St., Tramore and had (maybe) 8 children: 

Edward                        b.1929             married and lived in England
Ellen M                       b.1931            
Catherine Anette         b.1932
Mary Teresa                 b.1934
Elizabeth Michelle      b.1938
Bridget P. (Pauline)     b.1939
Thomas (Peter)            b.1943
A.N. Other?

I only remember a few – Shelly, Edward, Mary, Pauline and Peter.  I knew Mary best.  She lived in Waterford, married to Jimmy O’Dwyer and had 1 son.

PP spent most of his life in England (returning once a year to replenish the family ledger)

Thomas Peter Paul (called PP) was also 1918 Mary's godfather.  PP’s son (Peter) became Deputy Police Commissioner of Ireland- see photo below . 

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Thomas, right, with son Peter & his daughter, Shell - photo courtesy of Georgina Beattie _ I contacted her via Ancestry about 19/3/2021 but she did not seem interested

7. Catherine/Kate born 18/10/1903 Tramore- 26/6/1978 . -in the family grave in Holy Cross Cemetery . Kitty - did not marry , stayed with Nicholas in The Convent Lodge, Tramore  . Betty went to stay with them every chance she got until she went to work in Dublin.

irishgen has dcs up to 1970

8. Elizabeth / Christina (Ena) born 20/12/1905-15/12/1962 . Riverstown, Tramore , aged 57, spinster, housekeeper- irishgen. -in the family grave in Holy Cross Cemetery Lived & worked in Bagnalstown Co, Carlow but returned to live with sister Alice in Riverstown, Tramore some months before her death from cancer in 1962       unmarried

9. Bridget born 7/2/1908 Tramore -1980. Bridget married Johnnie King, a milkman, I think.  They had 16 children,  2 dying as infants . I remember all of the surviving 14.  There was Noonie (maybe Bridget), Catherine, Winnifred, Udley (possibly Alice), John, Martin, Michael Terry, Dolores, Caroline, Bernadette, Anthony, Austin and Noel, who died young, ~10. of a heart complaint. The oldest of these are to be seen in the 1938 photo of Alice's wedding

10 Alice born 23/2/1910.Married Pierce Kelly in 1938, photo. Died ~1978 .They lived in Riverstown, Tramore. They had 4 children. When Nick's mother, Teasie, was in hospital in Dublin, cerca 1951, she looked after Nick and baby Gerard. Photo of her aged ~15 & her wedding photo below

Their children: Patrick J.A.                  b.1939
Catherine (Kay)           b.1940
Martin A                      b.1942
Pierce                          b.1943             d.?

11. Caroline Mary born 1/5/1913 Tramore -1915 . She died of Convulsions, 12 hours, on 25/4/1915

12. Gerald born 26/7/1916 no road given , Tramore - ?? . Does not appear to die Waterford up to 1970. Cannot find a marriage . Birth entry would appear to read Gerald, but transcribed on irishgen as Gerard . Referred to as Gerald Ignacious on a Nunn My Heritage tree

(Only possible death is 21/4/1967, aged 55, a clerk,married, in Ardeen Hospital, his address 22 Lower Yellow Lane, Waterford - this not him, father a Richard F)

13. Mary Teresa born 25/5/1918 Tramore -1977

 

Ena 1905-1962, Alfie 1900-1968, and Kitty , 1903-1978, were buried in their father's grave in Tramore

"The eight of Mom’s siblings Nick knew were: John Joe, Nicholas (Alfie), Thomas (PP), Catherine (Kitty), Christina (Ena), Bridget (Bridie King), Alice (Alice Kelly) &, of course, his mother, Mary Teresa (Teasy FitzGerald, died 11 January 1977)."

 

Alice, Mamie & Teasie ~ 1925

Nick's father, John/Jack, on extreme right of the back row

His maternal grandfather, Martin F, standing left of the groom .

His mother, Teasie, bridesmaid, seated next to the bride .

Mamie Fitzgerald/Kirwan/Hearne, in the back row

The King children belong to Bridget F, 1908, & Johnie King. Shel & Eddie F are children of Thomas /PP F 1902

Tosh may have been illegitimate: he was brought up by his father in Moonvoy (Tramore) and seemingly had no other relatios. .  “Tosh” often substituted for “Patrick”. 

3 'adopted' children '- thought to be children of Martin

1. Mamie ~1922-1969

As to Mamie, it is thought her mother may have been a Mrs Doody living in Ducks Walk in Tramore.  But that could have been just gossip – who knows.

"Mrs Doody" was indeed Mamie's mother, as confirmed by Johnnie (presumably, some time ago) but this may have been an assumed name in order to "tick boxes" in the Waterford institution where she was born, and which was run by nuns - Little Sisters of the Poor.. No female Doody/Dooley born 1920-1925 in Waterford on RI

Johnnie Hearne’s DoB was 27 March 1948; his sister Maureen’s was probably in 1950.  Maureen does indeed still live in Tramore under her married name of Corcoran.  In fact, there were two younger boys: Thomas and Anthony.

 

A Mary Fitzgerald was born to Martin Fitzgerald, van driver, at 2 Alphonsus Road 24/3/1913! Mother Mary Ellen Fitzgerald,nee Butler - this seemingly a red herring!

It is thought that Granddad Martin FitzGerald was the father of several children ‘out of wedlock’.  One of these was Mamie (Mary?).  She was a bit younger than Teresa, was raised with the family - and much loved by her father.  The two young girls were and remained great pals.  Mamie married Thomas (Tosh) Hearne, born ~1915-9.  They lived in Marrian Park, Tramore and had four children: John 1948, Maureen 1950 and 2 much younger boys, Thomas & Anthony  

Mamie Fitzgerald is mentioned in the Waterford Standard of 4/7/1936 in a Tramore Foursome reel. And again on 4/6/1938

1969. Mamie died quite young, aged 46, at 59 Marian Terrace, Tramore, of a haemorrage, her husband a commercial traveller .  Tosh died a few years ago, 2011,aged 96

2. Martin Kirby?- nothing known. Just discovered, 2/12/2021, Martin´s younger sister, Katherine 1885,

married David Kirby,a labourer, ( Fegan Ancestry FT) in 1907 and had children Martin 9/2/1918 -1996, Mary( cannot find her birth, maybe too late for Irishgen) , Nicholas 1909, Johanna 1914, Thomas 1920-1996 from who Linda Fegan is descended I .have also found a David Kirby 19/4/1916 on Irishgen

Could he, Martin 1918, born Tramore, father a labourer, have been raised by Martin Fitzgerald??

David Kirby father was a van driver by 1920. And an Eliza Hayden was the informant on all the 1916 David bc , 1918 Martin bc and the 1920 Thomas bc.

2/12/2021 Worth contacting Linda Fegan?

The release of the 1921 census miht help, but this probably not freely available until 2023!!

3. Another boy?? - nothing known

 

There were two others; boys, probably.  One was possibly named Kirby.  I’m curious about these kids.  Mom always said they (Mamie, at any rate) were ‘adopted’.  Understandably, she didn’t discuss them further.  All will have been born after 1918.  Only recently did it emerge that Martin was something of a ‘wandering gardener’ who cast his seed rather less than carefully.

 

There were 13 children officially born to them plus 3 more to Martin only . Mary was the last born to her poor mother in 1918, as you’ve seen.   Nick only ever knew 8 of them, plus another half-sister Mary (Mamie) who married Thomas (Tosh) Hearne, all in Tramore.  Only 5 of them got married but they produced about 35 children between them.  The second Bridie managing an eye-watering 16; 2 dying as infants

 

Erected by Martin Fitzgerald, Tramore in memory of his mother Johanna Fitzgerald died Dec. 22nd 1899 aged 52 years. His father Nicholas died Oct. 26th 1923 age 82 yrs. His daughter Bridie Nov. 28th 1908 age 16. His son Martin C. died Apr. 31st 1913 age 17. His daughter Mary died Mar. 7th 1915 age 17 years. His wife Kate died Apr. 28th 1936 age 63 years. Her husband Martin Fitzgerald died 27 May 1954 age 84 years. Their children Ena died 16 Dec. 1962 aged 55 Alf died 15 June 1968 aged 64. Kitty died 26th June 1978 aged 74. May they rest in peace. Amen. P. Keane.

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