Mary Courtenay was the sister of our great-great-great grandmother, Emily Courtenay, both women being the daughter of Frederick and Mary Courtenay of Wellington Street.
Mary Courtenay married Herbert Gilman Moore, the son of Emmanuel Gilman Moore.
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Their children of Mary Courtenay and Herbert Gilman Moore were:
1) Sabina Jane Moore, born 25th July 1852 at 15 Little Britain Street, Dublin; her father was a convict officer. Sabina Jane would later marry, on 15th May 1877, Walter John Woodward. At the time of the marriage, both bride and groom were living at 16 Christchurch Place; Walter was a corporal of the Army Hospital Corps. Sabina Jane Moore was illiterate and signed her name on the wedding cert. with her mark.
Walter Woodward's father was a sawyer's clerk named John Woodward, while Herbert Moore - Sabina Jane's father - gave his profession as a gate keeper. The witnesses were Sabina Jane's younger sister, Kate Moore (ie: Catherine Isabella Moore) and a member of the Courtenay family, Thomas Courtenay.
Walter and Sabina had a daughter five months after the wedding - Adelaide Blanche Woodward, on 25th October 1877; her father, Walter, was now a sergeant in the Army Hospital Corps and the family's address was the Ship Street Barracks. Following Adelaide Blanche's birth, I can find no further trace of this child.
Sabina Woodward appeared on the 1901 census living alone in Flat 21.3 in Winetavern Street close to Christchurch Cathedral. She was a widowed tailoress who couldn't read. Ten years later her younger sister, Catherine Moore, an unmarried attendant/nurse, aged 46, was living with her, but this time at Flat 21.4, Winetavern Street.
2) Adelaide Anne Moore, born at 27 Wellington Street on 22nd May 1854. Her father, Herbert Gillman Moore, was a convict officer. 27 Wellington Street was the home of the Courtenay family, and was home to a variety of family members over the years.
In 1875 in North Dublin, Adelaide Anne Moore married Alexander Sharp; Alexander died a few years later, and the 1881 UK census shows Adelaide A. Sharpe living with her younger brother, Walter, in Southwark, London, along with his wife, Anna Maria Pennefather; At the time, Adelaide was working as a governess; the 1891 UK census shows up Adelaide Ann Sharpe, a widowed nurse, aged 34, working in the Peckham House Asylum in Camberwell, England, along with her younger sister, Catherine Isabella/Kate Moore, also a nurse.
The 1911 Census shows up an Adelaide Sharpe working as an assistant attendant on imbeciles (no sign of political correctness here!) in the North Plymouth Workhouse.
(In 1855, a George Greene of Cork St, married Sarah Coulter of 27 Wellington Street, the daughter of Philip Coulter, a mercantile clerk; the witnesses to this wedding were Herbert Moore and George Hall who was married to Mary and Emily's sister, Adelaide Anne Courtenay.)
3) Emanuel Walter Moore was born at 27 Wellington Street on 5th November 1856; Herbert was noted as an officer in Mountjoy Jail.
On 20th August 1880, Emanuel Walter married his cousin, Anna Maria Pennefather, in St. Mary's. Anna Maria's mother was Emily Courtenay who had married John Lysaght Pennefather, while Emanuel Walter's mother was Emily's sister, Mary Courtenay. In 1880, Emanuel Walter was a commercial clerk of 9 Middle Mountjoy Street while his father, Herbert Moore, was still working as a convict officer.
I sourced a deed of marriage in the Registry of Deeds in Henrietta Street, made between Emanuel Walter Moore of Cable Street, London (commercial traveller), Anna Maria Pennefather of Middle Mountjoy Street, spinster, and Charles Jones of Middle Mountjoy Street (decorator, painter). Charles Jones was Anna Maria's brother-in-law, being married to her older sister Isabella. The deed, dated 17th August 1880, three days before the wedding, stated bizarrely that Anna Maria Pennefather, with the consent of Emanuel Walter Moore, granted and made over a sum of £700 cash to Charles Jones. (A reverse dowry?)
Emanuel Walter called himself by the name Walter Moore, while his wife called herself the simpler Annie Moore.
In 1881, the UK Census captures the family living at 22, Sumner Street, Southwark, London, where Walter Moore was running a coffee-house. Living with them was Walter's widowed sister, Adelaide A. Sharpe, a governess. There were no children; two men were notes as visitors to the household - a stickmaker of Shoreditch, Thomas Bloxam, aged 60, and a 26-yr-old medical student from Chester named something Mathias. The family were also earning extra income by keeping five boarders.
A son, Charles H. Moore, was born in London in about 1883, although I can find no record of the birth.
By 1888, Walter and Annie Moore had returned to Dublin where their daughter, Eveline Moore, was born on 9th July 1888, at the Rotunda Hospital. The family's home address was 131 North Street, and Walter was working once again as a clerk.
(The name 'Eveline' reverberated through the later generations, our great-grandmother being baptised as Emily Eveline Jones, her mother being Isabella Anne Pennefather who was the daughter of Emily Courtenay.
Emily Eveline Jones, aka Tennie, married Joseph Edwards Dickson and named a daughter Eveleen Emily Dickson, who we knew as our great-aunt Ebbie.)
The family were not living in Dublin at the time of the 1901 census, and, at some stage Walter Emanuel Moore died - the Index of Registered Deaths for Ireland don't show this up, however, so the family must have been living abroad somewhere.
The son of Walter and Anna Maria Moore, Charles H. Moore, married Annie May Ward on 31st October 1909 in St. Leonard's, Bromley, London. The marriage record stated that his father, Walter Moore, had died (I can find no record of his death), and that he had been a carpenter; Charles was living at 2 Grace Street, and was a carman. His bride, Annie May Ward, was 29, and the daughter of George Ward, a railway fitter, of 4 Norris Road. The witnesses to the wedding were Alfred c. Hughes and Minnie Ward.
By 1911, the widowed Anna M. Moore, born in Dublin in about 1857, was home again in Dublin with her two children. They were living at 54 South Circular Road, and Anna Maria earned a living through rental properties, in common with her older sister, our great-great-grandmother, Isabella Jones. She had been thirty years married, and three of her four children were alive. I wonder where the third survivor was?
Her daughter, Eveline, aged 22 now, was a scholar.
Charley H. Moore, born London in about 1883, was a motor mechanic and was noted as a boarder in the household. His wife, Anny Moore, was now only 18 years old, this despite the fact that both bride and groom had been the same age on the day of their wedding! Another anomaly - although the couple had married in a Church of England church (ie: Protestant), now the census states that they were Catholic. Charles' date of birth was given as London, while Anny's was given as Dublin - I wonder did someone careless fill out the census form?
Anna Maria (Pennefather) Moore died in South Dublin in late 1916.
4) Catherine Isabella Moore, known as Kate Moore, was born on 4th April 1859 at 41 Wellington Street. Her father, Herbert Moore, was named as a Mountjoy officer.
Catherine/Kate witnessed her older sister, Sabina Jane's, wedding in 1877, to Walter Woodward.
Catherine moved to England where she worked as a nurse in Camberwell Asylum in 1891, along with her older, widowed sister, Adelaide Anne Sharpe. In 1911, she was back home in Dublin, living with her other widowed sister, Sabina Woodward, in Winetavern Street.
5) Mary Ellen Moore was born on 22nd January 1861 at 53 Wellington Street; her father, Herbert, was now working as a mechanic. He was noted in the street directories for 1865 as Hurbert Moore of 53 Wellington Street, so the family must have spent a few years living in this same house.
6) William Percival Hastings Moore was born on 26th September 1864 at 53 Wellington Street; his father was noted as a carpenter.
William was named after his paternal uncle, Hastings Percival Moore, who had been born in Cork in 1820.
7) Herbert Gilman Charles Moore was born on 22nd January 1868 at 53 Wellington St. By now, his father, Herbert, had found work as an overseer at the Guinness Brewery in James' Gate. Herbert Gilman Charles died young in 1871.
8) Frederick Thomas Moore was born 20th February 1870 but died the following year. In 1870 the family were living at 3 Halston Street and Herbert Moore was working as a gate constable.
9) Robert Isaac Alleyne Moore was born 22nd October 1871 at 16 Stafford Street; his father was a caretaker at Guinness's. The son was named after another of Herbert's Cork-born brothers, this time Alleyne Moore.
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Notes on Thomas Courtenay who witnessed the wedding of Sabina Jane Moore and Walter John Woodward in Dublin in 1877:
I wonder was this Thomas Courtenay the same man who was admitted to the Freemen of Dublin on 16th July 1863, being the grandson of Thomas Courtenay, Shearmen, who had been admitted in 1789, although the grandson was named as Thomas Frederick Courtenay. This Thomas Frederick Courtenay was a yeoman of the Royal Hospital in Kilmainham in 1863, and was named there on the Dublin Electoral Lists of 1865. He may well be a son of our direct ancestors, Frederick and Mary Courtenay of 27 Wellington Street.
The Royal Hospital in Kilmainham had been founded as a home for retired military men, and military members of the Hospital staff were provided with apartments for themselves and their families.
A Thomas Courtenay, married to Maria Browne, lived at the Royal Hospital, at this time, and the christenings of his children are recorded on the Irish Genealogy website. The family were Catholic - if Thomas were another member of our Courtenay family, then he must have converted when he married Maria Browne. Their children were mostly baptised in the Church of St. James; the childrens' names mirror the names of the children of Mary Courtenay and Herbert Moore which makes me suspect a family link:
1) William Courtenay was baptised in 1860 at St.Mary's, Haddington Road. William, who was Protestant later, married Emily Yorke in about 1886.
Emily Yorke had been born on 3rd January 1856 to a policeman, William Yorke, and to Eliza Courtney - her address at the time of her birth in 1856 was 27 Wellington St, the home of the Courtenay family, which seems to further link the family of Thomas Courtenay to the family of our direct ancestors, Frederick and Mary Courtenay. Eliza Courtney/Courtenay was most likely a daughter of Frederick and Mary Courtenay of 27 Wellington Street - if this is the case, then William Courtenay and Emily Yorke were first cousins.
William Courtenay and Eliza Yorke had three children in Dublin - Robert William Henry Courtenay was born on 27th May 1892 at 2 Avondale Road. (William's sister, Adelaide, was living at 3 Avondale Road in 1900.) On 12th May 1894, at 45 Avondale Road, the couple had Dorothy Mary Elizabeth Courtenay. Finally, on 2nd December 1897, at 24 Hardwicke Street, they had Sylvia Eugenie Adelaide Courtenay.
William and his wife, Emily, were living at 12 Broadstone Avenue, Dublin, in 1911; William was an asylum attendant. Also in the house was his younger brother, the widowed Thomas Courtenay, a musician. Thomas was present with his 18 year old son, Thomas, who had been born in India. See below....
2) Mary Ellen Courtney of the Royal Hospital, baptised 11th November 1861; the sponsors were Patrick and Mary Ellen Dwyer.
3) Thomas Courtenay was born 12th May 1865. Thomas was a musician with the military and was posted to Lucknow, Bengal, where he married in Chunar, on 4th November 1891, Ann McDonald, the daughter of Henry McDonald. The marriage record records that Thomas was the son of Thomas Courtenay, and that he had been born in 1865. Ann had been born in 1872. Their son, Thomas Courtenay, was born in Lucknow, Bengal, on 25th January 1894. (Also of interest was a Robert Benjamin Courtenay, born 11th November 1866, who married Edith Pant, the daughter of John Pant, on 21st November 1891, in Fyzabad, Bengal. This Robert - and the record doesn't show his place of birth - was a warrant officer with the Barrack Department in Bunjab, Bengal. Edith, a widow, died in Lucknow on 10th September 1936.)
4) Emilia/Emily Courtney was born 10th December 1868, at Royal Hospital. The sponsors were Robert Courtney and Julia Doyle.
An Emilia Courtney, daughter of Thomas, married Thomas Gallagher, son of Terence, in 1889.
The sponsor, Robert Courtney, may well have been the Robert Courtenay Junior who was also admitted to the Freemen of Dublin in 1857 by virtue of being the grandson of the original Thomas Courtenay, Shearman, although this Robert Courtney would have had to be Catholic, since only Catholics were permitted to be sponsors in Catholic christenings.
5) Edward Courtenay of Royal Hospital, was baptised on 18th September 1872 and was sponsored by Elizabeth McCabe.
6) Adelaide Courtenay of Royal Hospital, was baptised on 26th December 1874 and was sponsored by Patrick and Maria McCabe.
On 19th September 1901, Adelaide Courtenay married the Co. Down widower, James Clifford, in Grangegorman Church of Ireland church. This was James' second marriage - the first had been to Charlotte Matilda Wright, the daughter of Frederick Wright, a caretaker who lived at 71 Rathmines Road. James, a policeman, was stationed at the time in Dundrum.
It seems that the Courtenay children, although baptised Catholic, were reared Protestant, since yet another of Thomas and Mary Courtenay's children had reverted to the Church of Ireland by adulthood. James was a sergeant with the Royal Irish Constabulary, and was living in Bray, Co. Wicklow at the time of his Church of Ireland marriage to Adelaide. His father was a farmer, William John Clifford. Adelaide's address was given as 3 Avondale Road, Phibsboro. Her father was a clerk, Thomas Courtenay, and the witnesses were a Meta Stringer and what seems to be James Smyth Mac Sighe. A few months later, the 1901 census picks the newly-weds up at Fairview Terrace in Bray, Co. Wicklow, where Adelaide was living with her husband and his five children.
A lady's maid named Sarah Courtenay, aged 22 (the age is wildly inaccurate however) and unmarried, was also in the household, and was stated to be a cousin of the head of the household, James Clifford. This must surely be Adelaide's younger sister, Sarah.
7) Sarah Courtenay of Royal Hospital was baptised on 27th November 1876 and was sponsored by Sarah Fulds. See above.
8) Sabina Courtenay was baptised on May 23rd 1879 and was sponsored by Michael and Maria Baxter.