Some early male Irish lawn tennis players

[Sonas]

Trinity College is mentioned in relation to two people. Have you contacted Trinity to check their student records?
http://www.tcd.ie/Library/manuscripts/collections/archives.php

[aghadowey]

Just to clarify the details about Ernest Browne in reply #1- it should be Cumber House, Claudy in County Londonderry.
Even supposed to have its own ghost-
http://www.derryghosts.com/cumber.htm
http://www.martymccolgan.com/design/claudygaa/cumberhouse.html

[myluck!]

Thanks aghadowey - I think its lovely that Mark is trying to add families and information to these names from the past - it may even prompt their family members to research them further.
I have found it interesting that many of the people he has little information on either never married or had no children - can't have been the tennis can it??

[aghadowey]

Here's Ernest Browne in 1901 census-
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/King_s_Co_/Tullamore_Rural/Brookfield/1471580/

Looks like his death registration: Ernest De S H BROWNE (age 90) Apr./June 1946 Cheltenham (Gloucester, England) district volume 6a page 407.

"Probate of the Will of Evelyn Susan Hamilton Browne late of Comber House Claudy County Londonderry Spinster who died 17 April 1922 at Elpis Nursing Home 17 Lower Mount Street Dublin granted at Belfast to Constance Lisa Hamilton Browne Spinster and Ernest de Sylly Hamilton Browne Esquire Effects £2412 4s. 3d." www.proni.gov.uk

[aghadowey]

Possibly a 2nd marriage for Ernest (finding an obituary for him might help)-
Ernest De S H. Browne July/Aug.1930 St. George's Hanover Square district (London) volume 1a page 1232 (bride Henrietta Griffiths)

[myluck!]

Wonder is Henrietta anything to T.H.Griffiths??!!

[newmark401]

Hello,

Thanks to everyone who has replied so far. The information has been really helpful. I now have a good deal to follow up on.

I think Ernest Browne must have lived to a grand old age if he was born circa 1855 and was still alive circa 1930.

T.H. Griffiths is one of the more vague ones. He might well have been Thomas, but it is very difficult to link these people with lawn tennis even when their first names are known.

Mark

[avm228]

A.J. de C. Wilson. Another unusual name. First name(s) unknown.

Possibly Arthur John de Courcy Wilson (1867-?)- another Trinity College man?

http://tinyurl.com/7q8e2z9

[aghadowey]

I think Ernest Browne must have lived to a grand old age if he was born circa 1855 and was still alive circa 1930.

I posted likely death registration for Ernest earlier-

Looks like his death registration: Ernest De S H BROWNE (age 90) Apr./June 1946 Cheltenham (Gloucester, England) district volume 6a page 407.