LOOKING FOR RELLIES

tombarker

My name is Gary Parker and I live in Australia and I am hoping to locate some of my family. I am looking for my grandfathers family. He came to Australia in the late 1800's, His name is THOMAS EDMUND PARKER born 1879 to Thomas Latchford Parker and Jane Eyre. Any contact with Rellies would be wonderful. Email: tombarker47 at hotmail.com

Coolnabacky1873

Welcome!

Were you able to get his birth cert, which will at last give you a part of Ireland to focus your search on.

It looks like he was born in Cork, in the Fermoy registration district.

Coolnabacky1873

In the 1901 census, this Tomas Parker lives in the townland of Lyre Barry, which is in the registration district of Fermoy. He is of the correct age too, to have fathered a child in 1879.

One caveat though, he is living all by himself and it says not married on his census form.

Coolnabacky1873

And another Thomas Parker, unmarried, but of relevant age. This time in the townland of Billeragh East, which is also in Fermoy reg district. This one lives with his sister, a widow.

Just to point out, it could be one or neither of them. I'm just going on the presumption they lived in the same area as where the 1879 birth was registered.

Coolnabacky1873

Those townlands are very close to each other, on the Cork/Tipperary county border. There might be a family relationship between those two men.

KildareFan

There is a public family tree on Ancestry.com which includes Thomas Parker, b. abt 1855, son of Thomas Parker 1809-1868 and Susannah Latchford 1813-1882. Thomas was born abt 1855, married Jane Eyre in St Michael's CoI in Limerick 25 Oct 1876. [Marriage Index 1876, Limerick, Vol 20, p219]. The family tree lists just one child, Rebecca born 7 Feb 1881 [Birth Index 1881 Jan-Mar, Limerick, Vol 5, p383].

A Jane Parker, age 35, dressmaker, travelled to Melbourne on board the SS Lusitania departing liverpool on 5 Dec 1890, travelling with Susan (age 10), Thomas (age 8), Rebecca (age 6) - is this your family?

Another family tree shows the following children of Susanna Latchford [b. Rathkeale Limerick, 18 Oct 1813 d. 26 Sep 1882, Ballinacurra, Co Limerick -and Thomas Parker [b. 1809-1868]

John Henry Parker – 1914 [died in South Africa]
Hannah (Nannie) Parker 1838 – 1872
Alice Mary Parker 1849 –
Thomas Parker 1855 –
James Parker 1855 – 1871
Edward Parker 1859 –

Looks like the chances of direct descendants from Thomas/Susannah in the Limerick/Cork area are slim, since his siblings seem to have died young, or outside Ireland. The only chance seems to be Alice Mary Parker who married in Limerick in 1887 [Marriage Index Oct-Dec 1887, Limerick, Vol 5, p213] possible spouse:
Michael Walsh
Francis John Jencken
Hugh Madill
William Stewart Morrow

desbrook

According to rootsireland.ie she married Willliam Stewart Morrow . - All you need now is children!

Edite - Can't find children on rootsireland . She was 38 when she got married so not a huge surprise . Can't find either on the 1901 census .

KildareFan

William Stuart Morrow, aged 58 was a visitor to his mother's home 10 Charleville Road, North Circular Road, Dublin in 1911 http://137.191.247.9/pages/1911/Dublin/Glasnevin/Charleville_Road__Circular_Road_North/8762/
He was married for 21 years, with three children.

Haven't found where he & Alice were in 1901 yet, but will look.

KildareFan

references to William Stuart Morrow in the newspapers:
Freemans journal 16 Feb 1887 Lord Lieutenant appointed him Commissioner of the Peace for Dublin City [William Stuart Morrow AB PLG 12 Nassau Street and 16-29 South Frederick Street)
Nenagh Guardian 26 Nov 1887, announcement of the marriage on 23 Nov 1887 of William Stuart Morrow JP Nassau Street to Alice Mary, daughter of Thomas Parker esq, Limerick.
Freemans Journal 5 Mar 1888, he stood for election as a Poor Law Guardian. He was listed as a book seller, 16 South Frederick Street, Dublin; the same edition reported that he retired and would not stand for election again.
His obituary in the Irish Times doesn't mention children - he died aged 87 in San Francisco; he was educated in the Royal School Armagh and Trinity College Dublin; he went to America and became involved in the Rotary movement. He founded the Rotary Clubs in Dublin, Belfast, Manchester, Edinburgh & founded the Soroptimists clubs in California [Irish Times 27 Oct 1942]
A William S. Morrow age 84, widower, was living in what appears to be a nursing home in San Francisco in the 1941 US Census - some discrepancies in age, but that happens.

Still trying to find where Alice Mary went.

desbrook

KildareFan wrote: »

William Stuart Morrow, aged 58 was a visitor to his mother's home 10 Charleville Road, North Circular Road, Dublin in 1911 http://137.191.247.9/pages/1911/Dublin/Glasnevin/Charleville_Road__Circular_Road_North/8762/
He was married for 21 years, with three children.

Haven't found where he & Alice were in 1901 yet, but will look.

He was actually 24 years married if still married to Alice - could it be that she died (Maybe childbirth ) and he remarried in 1890 ?

desbrook

There's an Alice M'MORROW death cert for Dublin North

First name(s) Alice
Last name M'Morrow
Age 55
Birth year 1850
Registered year 1905
Death year 1905
Registered quarter/year Oct - Dec 1905
Registration district Dublin North
Volume 2
Page 365
County Dublin
Country Ireland
Record set Irish Deaths 1864 - 1958
Category Life Events (Birth, Marriage, Death)
Record collection Deaths & burials

Edit - probably not her . Found a Roman Catholic Alice McMorrow of similar age living in Dublin for 1901 census but gone by 1911 .

KildareFan

And here's a photo of Great Uncle William Stuart Morrow in the history of the Rotary Clubs:
http://www.rotaryfirst100.org/leaders/morrow/#.U6LEQCimW0E

some extracts from the history [no mention of family or children - but we know he was living with his mother in the 1911 Census ...]
Morrow returned penniless to his native Ireland after a business failure. On his arrival in Dublin, he began discussions with his brother-in-law, Bill McConnell and began interesting local businessmen in the idea of forming a Rotary Club. On February 11, 1911, the Dublin Club was formed with Morrow as organizing secretary with a salary of 9 guineas. Within a couple of months, however, he had moved North to start a similar enterprise in Belfast, the inaugural meeting being held there on July 24, 1911 where he was given an office, secretary and telephone.

Somewhat simlar information in the history of the Belfast Rotary club at http://belfastrotaryclub.com/index.php/about-us/club-details/history-of-the-club.html

More background from http://milfordrotary.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/2012-11-11-robs-report-milford-rotary-issue-191.pdf
William Stuart Morrow, a graduate of Trinity College Dublin , emigrated from Ireland to the United States in 1885 and joine d #2 San Francisco club in its first year. When his business of Law and Collections failed he returned to Ireland in 1911 , and without the knowledge of Paul Harris and General Secretary Chesley , Perry set about forming Rotary clubs - forming #65 Dublin and #67 Belfast in 1911. With the subsequent approval of Paul Harris, he formed #60 Glasgow and #62 Edinburgh in 1912. To finance his operations, Morrow took a portion o f the entrance fees and when appointed club secretary, a small honorarium. He earned the soubriquet “Pound - a - Nob - Morrow.” Independently, Arthur Sheldon of the #1 Chicago club and his English agent, C Sayer Smith established #50 London and #56 Manchester clubs in 1911. Morrow will always be known for making Rotary an International organization , although Winnipeg (Canada) was the first club outside the USA to be chartered. In the early days the date of issue of a club charter had little to do with the d ate of its formation or the charter number. The London (England) charter was issued on1 August, 1912 and Manchester, Glasgow, Edinburgh Dublin and Belfast charters are dated 1 May, 1913 ......Stuart Morrow .... eventually returned to the United States where he set up the first Soroptomists club in Oakland in 1921.

More information at http://www.rotaryfirst100.org/leaders/morrow/index.htm#.U6LHlyimW0E which suggests he was a 'lonely man' & no mention of family. It says he emigrated to the US in 1885, but he married Alice Mary in 1887. Some dates don't tally.

desbrook

Alice may have got her arithmatic wrong when she said she was 52 in 1911 - she was actually 62 ! Anyway seems a good match in the 1911 UK census - Newton Abbot ,Wolborough Devonshire .

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XW9W-RWX

Just looked at the actual census image on FMP - she is in an instuition (presumably workhouse) down as a Widow , formely of private means and an imbecile . Hmmm.

Exact address is 62 East Street which is Newton Abbot hospital today .