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Kerry / Re: Tracing my Grandfather
« on: Friday 25 November 11 21:59 GMT (UK)  »
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai002515084/

is the 1911 census record which has Thomas on it.

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Kerry / Re: Tracing my Grandfather
« on: Friday 25 November 11 21:52 GMT (UK)  »
Looks like we're both tracing the same family. JW's obituary describes him as being born at Manor House, Tralee which comes back as a company office if googled as "Manor House, Tralee, Co. Kerry", so the building may still be standing. I hope to get to Tralee and see.

http://rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlker/grifftralee.html  mentions a Jeremiah Whelan from 1851. I wonder if he was Maurice's father.

http://eppi.dippam.ac.uk/documents/17509/eppi_pages/469400 is a list of the 100 largest rate payers in Kerry and also mentions Maurice.


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Kerry / Re: Tracing my Grandfather
« on: Friday 25 November 11 21:23 GMT (UK)  »
The Maurice Whelan family are on the 1911 census site, wrongly listed as Whelon, I have filled in the form to correct this.

I am the grandson of Maurice's son John - an interesting character who was a surgeon commander in the Royal Navy and fought in the Boer War and WW1. His obituary describes him as a "well known big game shot" and "possessed of a rare gift of originality of expression and demeanour". His only son, the late Charles was my father.

I have a distant memory from the 1970's when I was 8 of attending a wedding in Leiecestershire where I met Derry the racehorse trainer and enjoyed a drive in a (to my young eyes!) splendid Jaguar  car he owned!

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