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Wicklow / Re: James Gregory Doolittle
« on: Friday 08 February 19 18:45 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks very much for the  marriage year. I'm sure I had seen it in civil records, but for some reason didn't enter it in my genealogy database (and so assumed it wasn't available). Honoria Doolittle is ancillary to my tree, and her family had no direct descendants, but I was intrigued by the story of the death of hers and William Darragh's son. And because on my father's side, I encountered a similar story - my 2x ggf's 17 yo son sailed with him out of St. John's NFLD, and also died at sea, albeit of a diphtheria outbreak aboard ship. It's also interesting that some of William Darragh's nephews (my great-granduncles) were occasionally part of his crews.

I visited Wicklow town in summer 2017 and was able to see the site of the shipyard, and also the street where most of the Darraghs lived.

capo'n

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Wicklow / Re: James Gregory Doolittle
« on: Thursday 07 February 19 22:02 GMT (UK)  »
Those births are all RC church, Wicklow.

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Wicklow / Re: James Gregory Doolittle
« on: Thursday 07 February 19 22:02 GMT (UK)  »
All of the births are in the NLI RC parish records available on-line.
William, Jul 10 1865
Catherine Jun 1867
Honoria Feb 24 1869
John Arthur Apr 7 1871

I believe all the births are repeated in Irish civil records, and the deaths might be as well. Also, in Findmypast, there's reference to a monument William Darragh erected to his deceased wife and children. William the son appears in several "Lost at sea" databases.

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Wicklow / Re: James Gregory Doolittle
« on: Thursday 07 February 19 21:51 GMT (UK)  »
Hello all Doolittle researchers,

There is another Doolittle child of George Doolittle and Catherine (Connor) Doolittle - Honoria Doolittle. I have been unable to find her birth, but it should be in the late 1820s/early 1830s. Honoria married William Darragh (abt 1828-1920) of Wicklow in the 1860's. William is my 2x great-granduncle (brother of my 2x great-grandfather Thomas Darragh). William was a seafarer, captain, master mariner, and later was the owner of several vessels and a shipyard on the Wicklow waterfront (one ship I can think of offhand is "Ocean Maid"). It is possible that Honoria Doolittle's seafaring family sailed on William Darragh's vessels. In reading through these past posts on the Doolittle family, I noted William as a godparent to a child of one of Honoria's siblings.

William and Honoria lived in Summerhill, Wicklow, and had four children, none of whom survived to marry. Children:

William (Willie) 1865-1883 Lost at sea on one of his father's ships. COD: Drowning. Local lore said that William could not swim, and when a "great wind arose, his father tied him to the mast so that he could not be swept off the ship". But when the ship capsized, he was drowned. Sponsors at his baptism were James Riely and Rosanna Wall.

Catherine (Katie) 1867-1888 Baptism sponsors were ? and Maria Doolittle.

Honoria (1869-1871) Baptism sponsors were James Conway and Eliza Neil.

John Arthur (1871-1872) Baptism sponsors were John Flynn and Catherine Morgan.

Honoria Doolittle Darragh died Nov 11, 1911 (age 79, married, wife of sea captain, cardiac disease, grand-niece Katie Kavanaugh present at death).

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