This post is to help clarify and decipher the Courtenay family. Frederick and Mary Courtenay were our maternal great-great-great-great grandparents. It seems that Frederick was the son of the Shearman, Thomas Courtenay, who had been admitted to the Freedom of Dublin in 1789.
http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/2012/03/the-courtenay-family-of-dublin-and.html
The Children of Frederick and Mary Courtenay:
1) Emily Courtenay, who married John Pennefather, baptised 27th February 1828, lived at 45 Moore Street.
http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/2011/07/john-pennefather-and-emily-courtenay.html
2) William Courtenay, baptised 20th March 1829, born at 157 Gt.Britain St.
3) Adelaide Anne Courtenay, baptised 10th August 1831, born at 47 Moore Street. Adelaide Anne Courtenay married a commercial clerk, George Hall the son of Andrew Hall on 12th October 1851. John Pennefather and Henry Reynolds witnessed the marriage in the Black Church.
The Hall family: George Hall had been born to Andrew Hall in Bray, Co.Wicklow. Adelaide Anne Courtenay and George Hall, following their marriage in 1851, had children:
Emily Hall born 26th June 1852 at 31 Wellington Street.
Evelina Anne Hall (possibly known as Mary later) born 5th January 1857 at 6 Middle Mountjoy Street, the family's permanent address from this point.
Georgina Hall born 29th February1860.
Adelaide Anne Hall, born 9th September 1862.
Matilda Hall born 7th July 1865.
Frederick William Hall born 24th September 1867.
Albert Andrew Hall born 11th January 1872.
By the time of Frederick William Hall's birth, his father, George Hall, who had earlier been a commercial clerk, was listed as a railway clerk. By the time of the 1901 census, George was a coal merchant.
Daughter Matilda Hall, of 6 Middle Mountjoy St., married William Egan Ussher of 21 Glengarriffe Parade, South Circular Road (father: Joseph Ussher) on 9th April 1890. The witnesses to the wedding were Emilie Lunny and Robert Mottershed - Robert Mottershed was married to Isabella Alexandra Jones, the daughter of
Isabella Anne (Pennefather) Jones, who was the niece of Adelaide Anne Courtney.
In 1901, the widowed Matilda Hall Usher (spelt with either one 's' or two) was living at 50 Mountjoy St., with her widowed father, George Hall, coal merchant, and with two of her unmarried sisters, Georgina aged 38 and Emily aged 44. An aunt, Anne J.Brown, aged 83, was visiting. (Born Anne J. Hall?).
Her brother, Albert Andrew Hall, was living at 9 Sydney Avenue, Blackrock: he was an accountant, unmarried and living with two of his single sisters, the telegraphist, Adelaide, and Mary Hall.
Frederick Hall was a boarder in a boarding house in Westland Row and was working as a commission agent.
By 1911, Matilda Usher was living at 16 Cabra Road, Glasnevin with Emily, Mary and Adelaide.
Her brother, Albert Andrew Hall, married Eveline Beatrice Forster in 1901, and had become the secretary of a limited company - the couple were living at 29 Corrig Avenue, Dunlaoghaire, then called Kingstown, in 1911.
4) Mary Courtenay, baptised 12th May 1830, lived at 47 Moore Street. She married Herbert Gilman Moore, son of Emanuel Moore of Rosscarbery, Cork.
http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/2012/06/mary-courtenay-and-herbert-gilman-moore.html
Other children of Frederick and Mary Courtenay, 27 Wellington Street, whose birth records I've failed to discover, would be:
5) Eliza Courtenay/Courtney and - possibly -
6) Thomas Courtney who would have been born circa 1840.
http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/2012/06/mary-courtenay-and-herbert-gilman-moore.html
http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/2012/10/thomas-courtenay-and-mary-brown-royal.html
Eliza Courtenay (born circa 1826, possibly and most likely to Frederick and Mary Courtenay of 27 Wellington St) married a policeman, William Yorke, and had children in Dublin, most of them born at 27 Wellington St.
An Elizabeth Yorke died in North Dublin and her death was registered as 1821 - 1888.
The children of Eliza Courtenay and William Yorke were all born at 27 Wellington Street, and were baptised in St. Mary's Church:
Henry Francis Yorke, born 11th January 1846. Henry converted to Catholicism the day before his marriage. He was baptised in the Pro-Cathedral on 5th June 1893, and the following day he married Catherine Byrne, the daughter of John Byrne and Eliza Corcoran of Harolds Cross. Both bride and groom gave their address as 26 Hill Street.
By 1911, Henry - a horse dealer - was widowed, and was living at 11 St.Anthony's Place, Dublin, with a collection of children. There was a son, Henry F. Yorke, born circa 1894 to Henry and Catherine, and two step-daughters - Elizabeth Rothery, born circa 1888, and Catherine Rothery, born circa 1890. A younger girl, Margaret Rothery, who had been born in about 1892, was named as a daughter, rather than a step-daughter.
Catherine's first husband had been Isaac Rothery (1854 - 1892), the son of Isaac Rothery and Sarah Doyle of Churchtown. The couple had married in Rathmines on 4th June 1888. The witnesses had been Joseph Rothery and Elizabeth Smith. Isaac's father, Isaac Rothery, had been a policeman, who had been born circa 1834 in King's Co/Offaly, and who had enlisted in 1850.
Thomas Frederick Yorke, born 14th February 1848. Thomas York of 80 Lower Camden Street married Alice Halpin, the daughter of Thomas Halpin and Alice Dillon, on 20th August 1871 in Harrington Street Catholic church.
William Rowland Yorke, born 17th June 1850.
Adelaide Julia Yorke, born 16th August 1851.
Elizabeth Sarah was born 17th April 1853.
Emily Yorke, born 3rd January 1856. (Add link) She married a cousin, William Courtney/Courtenay, son of Thomas Courtenay of Kilmainham.
George Albert Yorke, born 16th April 1861. His father, William Yorke was now noted as a carriage painter, rather than a policeman. A George Yorke, who had been married 20 years to a woman named Elizabeth Hoey, was living at 25.3 Wellington Street in 1911, along with his 14 year old son, Thomas F. Yorke.
A Thomas Yorke of 53 Lower Wellington Street, Dublin, enlisted into the Forage Department of the Army Service Corps at the outset of the First World War.
Jane Yorke, born 17th October 1864 - her father, William, was working as a house painter.