Royal Irish Regiment - Dudley HUSSEY

[johnny_doyle]

a thread re the George's moved to Oz

http://listsearches.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/AUS-QLD/2006-12/1166610775

Brian Morley is the owner of the tree I stumbled upon in Ancestry but there's no info re William etc...

The wife's from Frankfort Ave in Rathgar. I know bit's of Rathfarnham - my aunt (the father's sister), uncle and cousins are there (Hillside Park) - the Yellow House and Blue Haven(?) spring to mind.

[sihuss]

Hi Johnny,

I've chatted to Brian before.  Looks like Janet from Hervey Bay is the person with the source material though!!   Thanks for the link to the thread.

Am indeed familiar with the Yellow House, although I've never been inside.  'The Castle' in the village was my watering hole of choice

If you ever need a graveyard search or similar for Enniscorthy, just give me a shout.

Cheers,
Simon

[sihuss]

Hi folks,

just to confirm (if anyone's interested) the Dudley De Vere Hawthorne Hussey turned out to be the son of William Hawthorne Hussey of the RIC.

Cheers,

Simon

[johnny_doyle]

aha. Did you find a birth cert or the marriage cert?

[sihuss]

HI Johnny,

I got Dudley's Marriage cert.  Still leaves me with some rather odd outcomes...  If you look at William's 1911 census return, he says 4 children born of which 2 are still alive - and there are 2 children named on that sheet...William and Ethel.  So you think, okay - perhaps it was a prior marriage.... only on William's marriage cert (which I also got today) it says 'Bachelor' for his marital status...

Dudley perhaps born 'the wrong side of the bed-sheets'?  Would explain perhaps why there's no birth cert for him.

Also wife Elizabeth M. Hussey (on 1911 census sheet) becomes Lizzie Jane Smith on marriage cert (ok- this in itself is forgivable).  However all references to the RIC are dropped.  William becomes a 'Clerk' and his father Edward becomes a 'Gentleman'

I should note one thing however - there are 2 index entries for William's marriage in 1886 in Belfast - one in Apr qtr. and the other in Oct qtr.  Perhaps the 2nd one has corrections (for one reason or another).  Its really not conceivable that a 2nd William Hawthorne Hussey, also with a father Edward, got married in the same 9 month period in Belfast city.  Or William's wife Lizzie dies delivering Dudley de Vere H Hussey and he remarries immediately!!!?!?!!? 

Any other theories   

Simon

[johnny_doyle]

always more questions than answers. Don't you just love researching family history?

Any chance of posting the certs?

I'd discounted William as the father because of the census info. Just goes to show.

[sihuss]

Be my guest! 

Certfificate removed.  Only a small portion of a BMD certificate may be posted for clarification purposes.

[sihuss]

here's the other one

Certfificate removed.  Only a small portion of a BMD certificate may be posted for clarification purposes.

[johnny_doyle]

Veterinary Surgeon suggests he'll be in some University lists and professional organisation membership list.

Surprised he didn't go for a commission and into the Veterinary Corps - given the reliance the Army had on animals throughout WW1 it would have been an essential skill.