_____________________
|
_____________________|_____________________
|
_William ALLEN ______|
| (.... - 1746) |
| | _____________________
| | |
| |_____________________|_____________________
|
_John ALLEN _________|
| (1733 - 1813) m 1759|
| | _Samuel PRECY _______+
| | | (1629 - 1716) m 1655
| | _Edward PRECY _______|_Priscilla TAYLOR ___
| | | (1668 - ....) m 1703 (1636 - 1724)
| |_Elizabeth PRECY ____|
| (1704 - 1795) |
| | _____________________
| | |
| |_Jane THORNBOURGH ___|_____________________
| m 1703
|
|--John ALLEN
| (1760 - ....)
| _____________________
| |
| _____________________|_____________________
| |
| _____________________|
| | |
| | | _____________________
| | | |
| | |_____________________|_____________________
| |
|_Sarah PIERCEY ______|
(1737 - 1806) m 1759|
| _____________________
| |
| _____________________|_____________________
| |
|_____________________|
|
| _____________________
| |
|_____________________|_____________________
[9351] Notes: Named as a beneficiary in his great-uncle Edward PRASCEY's will, proved in 1780. Also named as a beneficiary in his father John ALLEN's will, proved in 1814.
[9349] Source: Approximate year of birth only, assumed from christening date.
[9350] Source: Scanned image of baptism register, online at Ancestry.co.uk.
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__|
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| |__|__
|
_William CONDON _____|
| (1791 - 1877) m 1827|
| | __
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| | __|__
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| |__|
| |
| | __
| | |
| |__|__
|
|
|--Michael CONDON
| (1840 - 1926)
| __
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| __|__
| |
| __|
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| | | __
| | | |
| | |__|__
| |
|_Mary CROWLEY _______|
(1811 - 1886) m 1827|
| __
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| __|__
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|__|
|
| __
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|__|__
[2437]
Notes: The UK and Australian descendants of Michael CONDON have been attempting
to trace their Irish ancestry (sporadically) since at least the 1970s.
After a fair amount of success, there remained one huge unanswered question.
What became of Michael CONDON? He owned a grave at St Helier, Jersey,
in which were buried both of his parents, two of his children, and his wife,
but not himself. And there is no record of his death in Jersey.
The answer to the riddle arrived in July 2015, in a surprise email from Cathy
Piper, in Maine, USA. Cathy said that Michael CONDON had gone to America,
and that he was her great-grandfather. This news was met with a healthy
dose of scepticism, but it was backed up with a copy of a Letter from Cappoquin, sent to Michael CONDON in New York in 1925.
After absorbing the contents of the letter, the scepticism melted away.
Cathy and I turn out to be closely related. She and my late mother are
second cousins.
The reason for Michael CONDON's departure from Jersey to the USA remains a mystery.
According to US census records, he arrived there in 1870, but if he did,
he must have returned to Jersey, because he was there for the 1881 census.
He appears to have migrated permanently to the US in the 1880s, but we don't
know if he abandoned his wife, or if she kicked him out, or if there was another
reason. His brother Thomas also spent a short time in the USA. His
first child (William Thomas) was born at Boston in 1890, but then Thomas took
his family back to Jersey. At around the same time, Michael's son Patrick
was involved in Irish Republican politics, as is evident from an 1891 Tribute to Vincent Scully. It is possible that the American connections
were linked to Irish politics. Plenty of the Irish inhabitants of Boston
would have shared Patrick's anti-British feelings, and some are known to have
helped finance Irish Republican activities across the Atlantic.
While the reason or reasons for Michael's departure from Jersey are unknown,
so too are the reasons for his departure from Cappoquin around 1867. The
usual reason for migration is economic necessity, but the economy of Jersey was
not doing particularly well in the 1860s, so why Jersey...? One thing we
do know is that Michael's sister Catherine had already been in Jersey for at
least 10 years before Michael's arrival, because she married there in 1857.
And her sister Honora was living with her in 1861. Catherine's future husband,
James CULLINANE, also came from County Waterford, so it is possible that the
pair arrived together. But why Jersey? We will probably never know.
Occupation
1864 Labourer (marriage to Alice CUNNINGHAM)
1866 Labourer (birth of son Patrick)
1868 Labourer (birth of daughter Mary)
1881 General Labourer (census)
1882 Day Labourer (birth of daughter Alice)
1889 Bricklayer (marriage of son Patrick)
[2434]
Source: Approximate year of birth assumed from christening date, and approximately
calculated from:
1881 census of St Helier, Jersey - aged
45, born Ireland
[2435] Source: Scanned copy of parish register, online at the National Library of Ireland website (http://registers. nli.ie/). The register is in Latin, and he is recorded as Michaelem, son of Gulielmi Condon et Mariae Crowley.
[2436] Source: Information supplied by his great-granddaughter, Cathy Piper, who also provided a scanned copy of Michael Condon's will.
[10908]
Source: Copy of Ireland
marriage certificate. Rather Surprisingly, the groom's father is recorded
as John CONDON, but other sources quite clearly indicate that Michael CONDON's
father was William CONDON. At present (Oct 2014), my assessment is that
the groom's father's name on the marriage certificate must be an error.
The parents' marriage place (Waterford, Ireland) is also included in the Jersey
Births Register (but not included on birth certificates) for Michael & Alice
CONDON's Jersey-born daughters Mary and Alice (information supplied during phone
call to Jersey Registrar's Office, 28 Nov 2001).
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|
_Richard HAGGER ______________|
| (.... - 1724) |
| | __
| | |
| |__|__
|
_William HAGGER ___________|
| (1693 - 1763) |
| | __
| | |
| | __|__
| | |
| |_Elizabeth (surname unknown) _|
| (.... - 1737) |
| | __
| | |
| |__|__
|
|
|--Elizabeth HAGGER
| (1723 - ....)
| __
| |
| __|__
| |
| ______________________________|
| | |
| | | __
| | | |
| | |__|__
| |
|_Martha (surname unknown) _|
(.... - 1757) |
| __
| |
| __|__
| |
|______________________________|
|
| __
| |
|__|__
[198] Source: Approximate year of birth only, assumed from christening date
[199] Source: Baptism register transcript, supplied by Ann J King, Chairman of the North Herts Villages Research Group.
[11599]
Source: Fleet Marriage Registers, online at www.thegenealogist.co.uk.
The entry reads -
"March ye 2nd 1748/9
Thomas LUCAS of St Edmondbury
In Suffolk Cordwainer a Batch
And Eliz HAGER of Tharfield in
Hertfordshire Spinster"
The daughter (bp.1723) of William & Martha HAGGER was the only 'Tharfield' Elizabeth
who could have married Thomas LUCAS. There was another Elizabeth, the daughter
(bp.1728) of Thomas & Sarah HAGGER, but she married Thomas HOLLOMAN at Therfield
in 1753. This fact is confirmed by her father Thomas HAGGER's will, which names his daughter Elizabeth HOLLIMAN as
a beneficiary.
_George PHILLIPS ____+
| (1721 - 1807) m 1745
_Edward PHILLIPS ____|_Mary EAST(W)ICK ____
| (1751 - 1835) m 1778 (1721 - 1782)
_William PHILLIPS ___|
| (1793 - 1878) m 1813|
| | _____________________
| | |
| |_Mary COPSEY ________|_____________________
| (1752 - 1831) m 1778
_James PHILLIPS _____|
| (1819 - 1865) m 1841|
| | _____________________
| | |
| | _Charles WARREN _____|_____________________
| | | (1764 - ....) m 1787
| |_Susanna WARREN _____|
| (1791 - 1881) m 1813|
| | _____________________
| | |
| |_Mary CLARKE ________|_____________________
| (1764 - ....) m 1787
|
|--Jessey PHILLIPS
| (1857 - ....)
| _____________________
| |
| _____________________|_____________________
| |
| _George LONG ________|
| | (1800 - 1881) m 1822|
| | | _____________________
| | | |
| | |_____________________|_____________________
| |
|_Rachel LONG ________|
(1823 - 1902) m 1841|
| _____________________
| |
| _____________________|_____________________
| |
|_Lucy CRACK _________|
(1790 - 1865) m 1822|
| _____________________
| |
|_____________________|_____________________
[4939] Source: Approximate year of birth only. Information supplied by Paul Latimer.
_Samuel PRECY _______+
| (1629 - 1716) m 1655
_William PRECY __________|_Priscilla TAYLOR ___
| (1665 - 1746) (1636 - 1724)
_Edmund PRECY _______|
| (1705 - 1763) m 1735|
| | _____________________
| | |
| |_Mary (surname unknown) _|_____________________
|
_Edmund PRACY _______|
| (1744 - 1803) m 1767|
| | _____________________
| | |
| | _Thomas SPOKES __________|_____________________
| | | m 1705
| |_Alice SPOKES _______|
| (1713 - 1785) m 1735|
| | _____________________
| | |
| |_Mary DARLING ___________|_____________________
| m 1705
|
|--Rebecca PRACY
| (1785 - 1867)
| _____________________
| |
| _________________________|_____________________
| |
| _____________________|
| | |
| | | _____________________
| | | |
| | |_________________________|_____________________
| |
|_Lucy CARLTON _______|
(.... - 1787) m 1767|
| _____________________
| |
| _________________________|_____________________
| |
|_____________________|
|
| _____________________
| |
|_________________________|_____________________
[2656]
Notes: Named as a beneficiary of her sister Lucy Pracy's will, and also named as a beneficiary of her brother-in-law
(husband of sister Rosetta) Samuel Terry's
will
Occupation
1841 Ind. [Independent] (census)
1861 Independent (census)
[2653]
Source: Baptism register. Approximate year of birth calculated from:
1841 census of Clapham, Surrey - aged 51,
born outside county [age error? should be 55]
1861 census of Walworth, Surrey - aged 75,
born Middlx. St Luke
[2654] Source: Baptism register [information supplied by David Pracy]
[2655]
Source: Copy of GRO death certificate, which describes her as 'Widow of
John FOX, a Tea Dealer (Master), age 90", although she was actually only 81.
The informant was "Samuel SWAN, Present at the death, 262 Albany Road Camberwell",
who was probably related to Robert SWAN, a friend and one of the executors of
the will of Rebecca's husband, John FOX. Rebecca FOX left a will, a copy
of which will be acquired in due course. The National Probate Calendar
(Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, online at Ancestry.co.uk, says...
..
"FOX Rebecca. Personal Estate under £20. 26 March (1867).
The Will of Rebecca Fox late of 288 Albany-road Camberwell in the County of Surrey
Widow deceased who died 21 January 1867 at 288 Albany-road aforesaid was proved
at the Principal Registry by the oath of Samuel Swan of 262 Albany-road aforesaid
Gentleman the sole Executor."
[11269] Source: Marriage register - groom a widower, bride a spinster, both 'of this parish' [information supplied by David Pracy]
[10453]
Occupation
1891 General shop keeper (census)
[10452]
Source: Approximate year of birth only, calculated from:
1881 census of Chelsea, Middlesex - aged
27, born Essex Maldon
1891 census of Chelsea, London - aged 37,
born Essex, Maldon
1901 census of St Pancras, London - aged
47, born Essex Maldon
[11478] Source: Online GRO marriages index at FreeBMD.org.uk..... "Dec 1879, James GENTRY & Matilda Sarah STAPLES, Mile End, 1a 978".
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| |__|__
|
_Thomas WILMOT ______|
| (1801 - ....) m 1838|
| | __
| | |
| | __|__
| | |
| |_____________________|
| |
| | __
| | |
| |__|__
|
|
|--Lucy WILMOT
| (1839 - ....)
| __
| |
| __|__
| |
| _William HAGGER _____|
| | (1773 - 1820) m 1804|
| | | __
| | | |
| | |__|__
| |
|_Mary HAGGER ________|
(1805 - 1851) m 1838|
| __
| |
| __|__
| |
|_Elizabeth PRESTON __|
m 1804 |
| __
| |
|__|__
[8966]
Source: Approximate year of birth only, calculated from:
1841 census of Hornsey, Middlesex - aged
2, born outside county
[8967] Source: International Genealogical Iindex, online at www.familysearch.org