just in case this widens the picture in some ways From familysearch.com I found Thomas Rennick and Ann Mc Cawley had children in Sligo including
Joseph Rennick on the twelth of APR 1868
Alfred Rennick on the First of MAY 1871
Teresa Rennick on the Tenth of APR 1873
However that Alfred in 1901 would have been 30 so he may or may not be your Alfred. I also noticed a Thomas Rennick having a child George Frederick Rennick with a Anne Rennick McCanlen in 1878.
although repeating what others found i intrepeted slightly differently ie as you know in 1901 Alfred Rennick was a tailor aged 26 and was born in Co Sligo look out for births about 1875, his wife Caroline was 28 also born in Co Sligo look for births about 1873.together with their family they were living as lodgers in a Joseph Davis’s house at 10 John Street (Sligo West Urban, Sligo) Also in the house was living a Francis Murphy describe as stepson to Joseph Davis, and of course Kathleen Rennick was there aged 1. I mention Francis in case he is Caroline’s brother
I looked again at her entry in the 1911 census , she has become a pupil at St Lawrences industrial School in Sligo [The Sisters of Mercy (St. Patrick's) They were engaged visiting and caring for the sick and distributing alms to the hunger stricken sufferers of the years 1846-1847. In addition they training orphan girls for domestic service. One wing of the new building was devoted to a Training School for teachers, an orphanage, and a class in training for domestic service.
An Industrial School was opened in 1871 in the then closing 'Chapel of Sligo' and grounds (see under 1871). In 1880 the Sisters removed the extern schools to more spacious premises on the opposite side of the road. In the same year they built a bakery for the purpose of training their intern pupils and servants. A sewing school for extern girls was also established. A large new public laundry was built in 1888 on the Convent premises. Source A Timeline of Schooling in County Sligo 1700 – 1900 see http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlsli/school6.html]
Thus Kathleen could have been trained for several occupations.
Hi,
Thanks for replying.
Alfred Rennick May 1871 is my husband's grandfather and Joseph and Teresa are his brother and sister. George Frederick is also a brother and his mother was definitely Anne McCauley but was probably transcribed wrongly as McCanlen.
I have the birth and death dates of both Alfred and his wife Caroline, Alfred being 1 May 1871 - 8 August 1923 and Caroline 16 June 1872 - 1 August 1927. Alfred and Caroline lived for a while with Caroline's mother, Maria and Caroline's step-father, Joseph Davis. One of Caroline's brothers, Francis, lived with them. Caroline had 2 brothers, the other being Thomas (named after their father) and a sister, Agnes.
Tailoring runs in the Rennick family throughout most branches and goes back to Thomas (probably further) and some Rennick women were seamstresses so its highly likely that if the place Kathleen was put into taught sewing, she would have taken that up, keeping with tradition.
Until 2 week ago we thought that Thomas and Anne had only 8 children, 4 born in Derry and 4 in Sligo, but we have now found another son, John, who was born before any of those, in Inniskillen...there could well be more children floating around belonging to them. lol He joined the army (2nd Lancashire Fuisilers) in Sligo in 1875 aged 19, signing up for 12 years, then another 12 after that. He spent most of his life in India, getting married to an Elizabeth Stuart, a widow with 5 children. He also fought in South Africa and was awarded the South Africa Medal. We have copies of his army papers with this information on but apart from that he seems to be as elusive as Thomas and Anne and havent a clue what happened to him.
I wish I had a Tardis so I could go back and find all the anwers. lol
Lyn
