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Hitlers Brother lived in Dublin

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  • #32
    CDfm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,649 ✭✭✭✭CDfm


    An interesting aside- after the war Bridget Hitler changed her surname to Stuart-Houston. Some say it was a reference to the British right wing writer who was a teeny bit anti-semetic Houston Stewart Chamberlain or as Hitler refered to him the "prophet of the Third Reich".


  • #33
    Sundew
    Registered Users Posts: 1,554 ✭✭✭Sundew


    Just spotted this thread and just wanted to add that there was an article probably in the early 90's in "The Sunday World" about " The Irish Connection. I think there was an interview with a Dowling relative and photos were reproduced in the article. Would be worth having a look at it again!


  • #34
    CDfm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,649 ✭✭✭✭CDfm


    Sundew wrote: »
    Just spotted this thread and just wanted to add that there was an article probably in the early 90's in "The Sunday World" about " The Irish Connection. I think there was an interview with a Dowling relative and photos were reproduced in the article. Would be worth having a look at it again!


    THat would be a cool read.:)


  • #35
    Rebelheart
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,077 ✭✭✭Rebelheart


    One of those tabloid rags had this story in it about ten years ago with photographs of the alleged Brian Hitler in their paper. What did that man ever do to have that invasion into his privacy?

    Christ, I truly detest tabloids. The libel and privacy laws need to be strengthened hugely in Ireland to stop the Ger Colleran types of this world.


  • #36
    nuac
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,769 Mod ✭✭✭✭nuac


    Thanks Dónal for the family tree.

    Glad to see what I had heard years ago, that Schickelbruger was the family name, and that it was later changed to Heidler or Hitler.

    Would the Nazis have marched to victory and later defeat chanting "Heil Schickelbruger"


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  • #37
    gobnaitolunacy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,073 ✭✭✭gobnaitolunacy


    Sundew wrote: »
    Just spotted this thread and just wanted to add that there was an article probably in the early 90's in "The Sunday World" about " The Irish Connection. I think there was an interview with a Dowling relative and photos were reproduced in the article. Would be worth having a look at it again!

    Hmm the Sunday World. That glorified colouring book, hardly the place to go for historical source material.


  • #38
    Cody Pomeray
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,648 ✭✭✭Cody Pomeray


    Here is 10 year old Bridget Dowling on the 1901 Census
    http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Dublin/Pembroke_West/Flemings_Place/1287727/
    Fleming's Place is just off Mespil Road, on the Baggot Street side, near The Wellington Pub. There's a little laneway there, where you might sometimes see ladies of the night.

    Here's the family again, in 1911, although by now Bridget has left and is married to Mr Hitler, and the Dowling's have moved house. Wikipedia says she shows up on the census in Liverpool.
    http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Dublin/Trinity_Ward/Denzille_Street/81594/

    Here is a William Dowling and a Brigid/ Bridget Reynolds who were married in Kilnamanagh in 1890 when the Census suggests they could have been married (census suggests either 1890 or 1891), can't find any other matching combinations in Dublin Church records. If this is the couple, the mother's married name was Reynolds.
    http://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/details/bd00d80390333

    Just mentioning this on the off chance someone using google enters in some of these key words doing a family search!


  • #39
    Citycap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 200 ✭✭Citycap


    There was a former Cork hurler, all Ireland winner, named Paddy Hitler Healy. He is related to Colin Healy ex Celtic FC and now playing for Cork City F.C.
    Any connection to the Austrian Hitlers I wonder?


  • #40
    mickmackey1
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,288 ✭✭✭mickmackey1


    Cody Pomeray wrote: »

    Here's the family again, in 1911, although by now Bridget has left and is married to Mr Hitler, and the Dowling's have moved house. Wikipedia says she shows up on the census in Liverpool.
    http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Dublin/Trinity_Ward/Denzille_Street/81594/

    And there's more :pac:

    http://www.irishidentity.com/extras/roots/stories/hitler.htm

    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Paddy Hitler is remembered with pride in Knockainey[/FONT]
    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]
    On April 11th 1911, Nicholas Cooke of Knockainey was a CC in Liverpool and his duty on that date was to baptise William Patrick Hitler. He was the child of Alex Hitler and Brigid Elizabeth Dowling.
    Elizabeth was Irish born and she and her husband were Catholics.

    William Paddy became a fully fledged Catholic and it was Nicholas who performed the baptismal ceremony. The certificate is in the home of Tommy Cooke, a prized possession of a man nearing 90 years of age.

    William Paddy was a nephew of Adolf Hitler who died in his bunker in the closing days of World War 2. This, the belief of Tommy who in the process of leaving this historic document to some safe place where it will forever be in good hands.

    Nicholas Cooke, is now resting in St. Michael’s cemetery in Tipperary town.     [/FONT]

    Tommy Cooke is now nearing 99 years of age.


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