william kertland

[roly]

Can anyone help pin down the dates of this man?

Known to have been a writer of sorts (Patrick and Kathleen, 1822; The Maid of Snowdon, 1733; Shaun Long and the Fairies, 1835).  He died, apparently, at some time during the 1850s.  I'm guessing that he'd have been born c. 1785-1790.

I'm chasing, in particular, anything to do with The Second Miss Bailey, performed at the Theatre Royal, Dublin (when?).

roly

[dathai]

theres this marriage in 1812
http://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/details/2e83630552727

and a burial in 1846 age 70 no way of knowing if right man
http://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/details/fe998a0407544

[dathai]

you may already have this
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2006684648/

[dathai]

According to this he was not born in Ireland however the marriage i gave you seems right
http://www.forgottenbooks.com/readbook_text/The_Poets_of_Ireland_1000341957/243
as in 1850 he's at Preston St, Chymist and perfumer
http://www.failteromhat.com/dublin/people/dir33.pdf
by 1854 Ellen Kertland is the tenant of Preston St suggesting that she is a widow
http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/index.xml?action=doNameSearch&Submit.x=43&Submit.y=11&Submit=Submit&familyname=kertland&firstname=First+Name&baronyname=&countyname=DUBLIN%2C+CITY+OF&unionname=&parishname=
his son William Joseph Kertland was born in 1813
http://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/display-pdf.jsp?pdfName=d-277-1-4-097
he died in 1885 age 71 and is buried in Mt Jerome Cemetery,Dublin
see here plot 13361
http://www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/ire/dublin/photos/tombstones/1headstones/mt-jerome90.txt

[hasta]

Good work dathai !!!
Here's a link to the "The second appearance of Miss Bailey's ghost" image missing form the Congress site. http://www.americanantiquarian.org/Inventories/Peirce/36.jpg

[annclare]

Have you looked at John Greene's Calendar of Performances - only up to 1820 however.
http://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000614044
annclare

[hanes teulu]

Dublin Weekly Register, 25 July 1846
On the 18th instant, at his house Preston Streeet, William Kertland, Esq, formerly of Ormond Quay. A spritely talent qualified him in early life to contribute to the drama many lively occasional pieces, and his songs were popular and spirited. His known integrity, philanthropy and self sacrificing patriotism, preserved, through every vicissitude, the kindest regards of his fellow citizens to "honest William Kertland".

[roly]

Thanks to all correspondents.  A life seems to be emerging.  I already had the 'Forgotten Books' reference to Kertland's possible birth in England.

Kertland's marriage to Elinor Grehan in 1812 and the widowhood of Ellen Kertland (1854) would appear to tie up together - given the known variation of names in records (such as censuses).  The 1846 Dublin Weekly Register note is very useful evidence...Various online references to residence at Preston Street add details..I have one indicating that Kertland lived in Preston Street in 1841.

Was Kertland the chemist who is referred to in some online sources?  The Forgotten Books note refers to him as a Dublin tradesman.  Or was he a full-time writer (of sorts) - in which case a certain degree of revision is still necessary?  There is no doubt that he provided regular material for stage performances...By the way, I haven't seen the Dublin Theatre book and am not likely to be able to (I live in France).

I did find an online note recording a  petition 'in the House' (Parliament) from a WK 'complaining that he had been refused admission because of his pro-Catholic sentiments'.  Again, the FG note suggests that he was a Protestant.

I have the Laurie and Whittle version of the Miss Bailey ballad - and several other L and W pieces can be found on the Bodleian's Online Ballads archive, one of which is another version of the Miss Bailey story.

roly

[hanes teulu]

A "... William Kertland, Chemist, 1, Ormond Quay, Essex Bridge, Dublin..." was advertising in the Hibernian Chronicle, 14 May 1808