Looking for Ledwidge Ancestors

[Quaxer]

HarryW

At No.16on 15-1-1870  0n Page 3 (Police Intelligence) Mary Ledwidge (Victim)
                                                   Mary Slevin (Lodger) Charged-Theft
At No.32 on 26-7-1861 Inquest upon Eliza Ledwidge
At No.34 on 21-3-1867 Patrick Ledwich (Horse Shoer) Charged with Fenian Activity

Regards     Quaxer

[harrywheeldon]

Q
 Many thanks.......the Fenian character looks interesting..must try and follow it up !

Regards

H

[Hohenloh]

Thanks for that information Quaxer - it was new to me.

In my Db I have a Patrick Ledwidge got married in Dublin (probably Dublin South) in 1874.  A Patrick Ledwidge (also spelt Ledwich) married to Mary King had a child, John Joseph, on 17  August 1875 (child died). This couple had several more children in the 1870s and lived in Terenure (a suburb on the south side of Dublin).

[harrywheeldon]

HOHENLOH/QUAXER

Just of general background interest...have you read the details about the old James St Orphanage/Workhouse on www.chaptersofdublin.com ?....puts the " good old days " etc into the right perspective !

Harry

[siledee]

Was wondering (complete nosiness on my part) if any in this thread can claim relationship to the poet Francis Ledwidge   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Ledwidge
Apoligies if this is going off topic.

[Pastmagic]

A general note on Ledwith, Ledwige etc. my understanding is that they arrived in ireland c. 1240, and were originally from saxony in Germany. I havent got the details to hand, but the first Ledwith partially funded Tristernagh Abbey in Westmeath - There is a contemporary calendar roll to this effect. They settled near Multyfarnham in Westmeath, and spread into Meath, and all came from this original one.
 

[harrywheeldon]

Pastmagic
If you have'nt already done so, have a look at (*)....lots of info about the history/location of the the LEDWIDGE/LEDWICH families..1

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Harry

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[Hohenloh]

It's pretty sure the first Ledwich's arrived in Ireland after the Norman invasion and were granted land by, or under, de Lacy, and that they came from the village/townland of Ledwich in England. That they came from Saxony is debatable - this was postulated by Edward Ledwich (1738-1823), who unfortunately proved to be one of Ireland's most unreliable historians.

[GreenandGolden Bellfrog]

G'Day all,

I have found an Oliver Ledwidge, of 21 St Andrew St, who Married Margaret Moran 23/11/1873.
His father is shown as Oliver and her father is shown as John, witnesses were Michael Freeney and Mary Brophy.
Now , my Oliver was living  in England by this time . so
a/ if this is his son by an earlier marriage or otherwise would he not have gone to England? or could it have been an illegitimate birth?

my Oliver consistently gives his birth year as 1835 in all censuses, so for him to be the father he would have been about 19 at the time of the other Oliver's birth , presuming him to be about 19/20

there were also some baptism's that were sponsored by an Oliver Ledwidge
1852 and 1860

any connections with any one on this forum?


Regards

Graham