The Kilroy Family

Kilroy crest
Agendo et Fereno

Abraham Kilroy

Birth: 1817, in Turin, parish of Ballymachugh, county Cavan, Ireland

Father: Anthony Kilroy

Mother: Elizabeth (_____) Kilroy

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Adeline Kilroy

Birth: 1905/6, in Massachusetts, United States

Father: Richard Thomas Joseph Kilroy

Mother: Cora Evelyn (Terry) Kilroy

Census:
1920: Abington Town, Plymouth county, Massachusetts

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Agnes Wilhelmina Kilroy

Birth: 12 July 1893, in Middleborough, Plymouth county, Massachusetts, United States

Father: Richard Thomas Joseph Kilroy

Mother: Bridget A. (Devine) Kilroy

Census:
1900: Middleboro Town, Plymouth county, Massachusetts

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Alan James Minchin Kilroy

Title: Lt-Colonel

Richard Anthony Kilroy
Alan James Minchin Kilroy (right) with his sister Annie Kathleen (Kilroy) Gosnell
(Darjeeling 1942)
photograph from Jerry Gosnell
Birth: 24 October 1897, at Moat View, Oldcastle, county Meath, Ireland

Father: William Wesley Kilroy

Mother: Annie Catherine Maxwell (Groome) Kilroy

Occupation: Army Officer in the 36th Sikh Regiment of the Indian Army, reaching the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. Alan was awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE).

Death: 26 December 1974, in county Meath, Ireland, aged 78

Buried: Killeagh cemetery, Oldcastle, county Meath, Ireland

Census:
1901: Moat, Oldcastle, county Meath
1911: Mountjoy School, Mountjoy Square, St Peters, Dublin, county Dublin

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Alexander Kilroy

of Omard, county Cavan

Birth: 1806

Father: Richard Kilroy

Mother: Elizabeth (_____) Kilroy

Married: Maria Lucinda Fry on 17 January 1833, in St Luke, Old Charlton, Kent, England. Maria's father, Captain Fry, served in the Royal Navy.

Children: Occupation: Staff Surgeon in the Royal Navy. Member Royal College Surgeons England, 1827. Alexander joined the British Navy on 7 February 1828. On 20 May 1835 he was posted to the Edinburgh serving in the Mediterranean, as assistant surgeon (Navy List 1836). Alexander was promoted to surgeon on 15 April 1838. The Navy Lists for 1840, 1841 and 1842 show him serving as surgeon on the Favourite in the East Indies. Alexander then became part of the Transport Service of the Navy, serving as sugeon superintendent on at least four convict ships, the China in 1845 (United Service Magazine vol 47 p634), the Mayda in 1846, the female convict ship Australasia in 1849, and the Mermaid in 1850-51. The Australasia sailed from Dublin on 26 June 1849, at the height of the Great Famine, taking 95 days to arrive at Hobart, Tasmania on 29 September 1849. The following general remarks in his surgeon's journal have been transcribed at the Family Tree of Trudy Mae Cowley
When the convicts were embarked at Kingstown they seemed to be in excellent health, although in reality they were not so for most of them had suffered from insufficient and bad food before their convictions and in Grange Gorman Depot had been fed a good deal on Bread and Milk which gave them a healthy appearance, but very soon after the change from that diet to the salt provisions of the ship they suffered considerably in health, labouring under obstipation with ma? and gastric ?ation This change was felt the more suddenly from want of the usual supply of potatoes which are generally given to fresh convict ships and which could not be procured at the time the Australasia sailed from Kingstown.
The cases at first were not very severe in the Fever cases which occurred during the warm weather principally within the tropics. The head was generally very much affected but in only two of them required b?section. These two cases 3 and 4 of this Journal, their convalescence was very slow and frequently interrupted and complicated by local congestions, dysentry and dysuria. The other cases of fever were generally relived by purging with a cold application to the head and in some of them b?tis which in hard cases had to be repeated.
The convicts remained in pretty good health until we got into cold and damp weather after passing the Cape of Good Hope. When dysentery became prevalent amongst them the cases were not very severe at first although some of them proved tedious but after a time the cases became more or less complicated with Scarbulic (?) Symptoms and then became very troublesome and difficult to manage ...
Those sent sick on board the Anson were generally slight cases but still requiring medical treatment and there was not room for them in the Hospital.
... whenever they went on deck their feet soon became damp and cold in consequence of the thinness of their shoes which are very little use as a means of keeping the feet dry and warm and I think it would be a great improvement in female convict ships to send thicker and stronger shoes and in that case one pair per convict should be sufficient for the voyage.
The Mermaid sailed from Woolwich on 20 December 1850 bound for Fremantle, Western Australia, with 208 convicts aboard. It arrived on 13 May 1851. On 10 March 1854, Alexander joined, as surgeon, the Ajax, a screw steam guard ship based in the Baltic in the 1855 list and in Devonport, Devon in the 1857 list. On 1 February 1858, he joined the Exmouth, also a screw steam guard ship based in Devonport (Navy List 1858). Alexander retired on 13 May 1859.

Death: 22 December 1872, at 6 Shaftesbury Terrace, Kensington, Middlesex, England, aged 66

Buried: Brompton cemetery, London, England

Census:
28 May 1821: Omard, Ballymachugh, county Cavan

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Alexander Robert Kilroy

Birth: 1833/4, in Omard, county Cavan, Ireland

Father: Alexander Kilroy

Mother: Maria Lucinda (Fry) Kilroy

Married: Jacintha "Jessie" Sophia Bayntun on 5 September 1863, in Sattara, Bombay Presidency, India
The Times of India, 1863
KILROY - BAYNTUN - Sept 5th at Sattara, Bombay Presidency by the Rev A Onslow, Alexander Robert Kilroy, 33rd Regiment, son of Alexander Kilroy, Esq., RN to Jessie, daughter of Captain Bayntun, late of the 14th Light Dragoons. - No cards

Jessie was born in 1835/6, in Belfast, Ireland, the daughter of Laurence Charles Bayntun and Sophia Bathurst Cooper. She died in 1890 in Staines district, Middlesex, aged 54, and was buried on 24 July 1890, in St Marys, Staines.
1881: 5 Cromwell Terrace, London, Middlesex

Occupation: Army surgeon. Member Royal College Surgeons England, 1855. Alexander was made assistant surgeon on 12 April 1855 and surgeon on 11 April 1868. He was in the 33rd Foot, stationed in Bombay in 1861, then appointed to the Royal Artillery in 1869.

Death: 2 May 1879, at Nainital, Uttarakhand, India
The Times of India, 1879
May 2 at Naini Tal Alexander Robert Kilroy Surgeon Major AMD Royal Artillery aged 45 years

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Angela Bernadine Mary (Kilroy) Rendle

Birth: 11 November 1905, in Sheppey district, Kent, England

Baptism: 30 December 1905, in St Barnabas, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England

Father: Lancelot Kilroy

Mother: Hester Mary (Dowson) Kilroy

Married: Edward J. Rendell in 1937 in Hampstead district, London, England

Notes: Known as "Tota"

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Anne (Kilroy) Fry

Birth: 1804, in Turin, parish of Ballymachugh, county Cavan, Ireland

Father: Anthony Kilroy

Mother: Elizabeth (_____) Kilroy

Married: John Fry

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Annie Kathleen Maxwell (Kilroy) Gosnell

Annie Kathleen Maxwell Kilroy
Annie Kathleen (Kilroy) Gosnell
(1923, Dublin)
photograph from Jerry Gosnell
known as "Kathleen" and "Kay"

Birth: 5 August 1896, at Moat View, Oldcastle, county Meath, Ireland

Baptism: 20 September 1896, in Oldcastle, county Meath, Ireland

Father: William Wesley Kilroy

Mother: Annie Catherine Maxwell (Groome) Kilroy

Married: Kenneth Arthur Gosnell on 31 October 1922, in St. Paul's Church, Nasirabad, Rajputana, India

Notes: Annie's driver's license from 1919 lists her height as 5ft 6 3/4 in, her build as "slight" and her hair as fair.

Death: 28 February 1984, in Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa

Buried: Ashes interred in the Garden of Remembrance, White River, Transvaal, South Africa

Photographs:

Annie Kathleen Kilroy   Ken Gosnell & Kay Kilroy wedding   Riding Jenny 1934   Kay (Kilroy) Gosnell Bexhill 1935   Kilroys fishing Lough Sheelin   Jalapahar 1941   Tonglu 1942   Poona 1943   White River 1965   White River 1978

Childhood
photo from Chris Gosnell

Wedding
(1922, Nasirabad)
photo from Jerry Gosnell

Riding Jenny
(1934)
photo from Jerry Gosnell

At Bexhill-on-Sea
(March 1935)
photo from Jerry Gosnell

Fishing with Ken Gosnell and Tony Kilroy
(Lough Sheelin, May 1935)
photo from Jerry Gosnell

In Jalapahar, near Darjeeling, 1941
photo from Jerry Gosnell

Phalut Trek - snowstorm near Tonglu (May 1942)
photo from Jerry Gosnell

Backyard Cricket
(1943, Poona)
photo from Jerry Gosnell

White River
(1965)
photo from Jerry Gosnell

with Ken Gosnell
(White River, 1978)
photo from Jerry Gosnell
Left Arrrow scroll with your mouse to see more pictures; click on an image for enlargement Right Arrrow

Census & Addresses:
1901: Moat, Oldcastle, county Meath
1911: Ladies College, 12 Haddington Terrace, Kingstown, county Dublin
1919: Moat View, Oldcastle, county Meath (driver's license)

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Anthony Kilroy

Birth: 1776, in Ballymachugh, county Cavan, Ireland

Father: _____ Kilroy

Married: Elizabeth _____

Children: Death: 1825. Annie Kathleen Kilroy writes that "Great grandfather Kilroy" was killed coming home from a hunt in his red coat. He was walking his horse with Lord Farnham when his horse slipped and threw him. The date of this event is not entirely clear. Kathleen notes that he left a son aged 19, (making this event about 1825) but also that "Grandfather married at 21", a marriage we know happened in 1834, so this death could conceivably have been two years earlier, in 1832. Either way, Lord Farnham would have been the 5th Baron, John Barry Maxwell (1767 - 1838).

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Anthony Kilroy

Omard Villa
Omard Villa, Omard, county Cavan
painting by Finola Sweeney
of  "Omard Villa", Omard, county Cavan

Birth: 1804/5

Father: Richard Kilroy

Mother: Elizabeth (_____) Kilroy

Married: Catherine Burrow on 21 February 1832 in St Peters, Dublin, county Dublin, Ireland. The marriage was witnessed by Thomas Burrow and Henry Lamange. Catherine's address is recorded as  44 Harcourt Street, St Peter, and Anthony's address is recorded as Omard, Ballymoore, county Cavan.

Children: Death: 15 July 1877 at 38 Leinster road, Rathmines, county Dublin, Ireland, aged 73
Cavan Weekly News, 10 August 1877
DEATH.
KILROY - On the 15th inst., at 38 Leinster road, Rathmines, Anthony Kilroy, Esq., late of Omard, County Cavan, in his 73rd year.

Notes:Kitty Bourke-Wright, Anthony's grand-daughter writes that Anthony sold Omard about 1876, and went to live in England. The house fell into disrepair and was demolished in the 1980s. Only some of the farm's stone outbuildings remain. Kitty writes that she "used to hear as a child what a good man Grandfather Anthony Kilroy was and how he - the eldest - had brought up a large family of brothers and sisters when their father (or their parents) had died at an early age". A later resident of the house, after the Kilroys had sold up, was told as a child that if she did not behave well "the ghost of Anthony Kilroy will get you".

W.W. Kilroy wrote in 1926 that all of Anthony's children were then dead.

Census:
28 May 1821: Omard, Ballymachugh, county Cavan

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Anthony Kilroy

Birth: 1820, in Turin, parish of Ballymachugh, county Cavan, Ireland

Father: Anthony Kilroy

Mother: Elizabeth (_____) Kilroy

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Anthony Kilroy

Birth: 1 January 1840, in Cavan, Ireland

Father: James Kilroy

Mother: Anne Moore

Death: before 1926, in Australia

Notes: Anthony went to Australia and New Zealand with his brother George

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Catherine Jane (Kilroy) Wright

Father: Anthony Kilroy

Mother: Catherine (_____) Kilroy

Married: William Bourke Wright in 1866, in Cavan district, county Cavan, Ireland

Children: Death: 1872/3. Catherine died when her daughter Kitty, was only 2 years old.

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Cecil Montague Godfrey Kilroy

Cecil Montague Godfrey Kilroy
Cecil Montague Godfrey Kilroy
photograph from Chris Gosnell
Kilroy picnic at Lough Sheelin
Kilroy family picnic at Lough Sheelin in May 1935. Cecil is standing on the right. Others featured are William Ernest Kilroy (left), Ken Gosnell (standing left), Richard Tony Kilroy (front) and Louise (Waldron) Kilroy
photograph from Jerry Gosnell
Birth: 8 February 1890, in Oldcastle, county Meath, Ireland

Father: William Wesley Kilroy

Mother: Annie Catherine Maxwell (Groome) Kilroy

Occupation: Clerk, Author and Dramatist (1911)

Death: 22 February 1961, in Dublin, Ireland, aged 71

Buried: 24 February 1961, in Deansgrange Cemetery, Dublin, Ireland.
The Headstone reads:
CECIL GODFREY KILROY | died 22nd Feb. 1961 aged 71 | "Abide with Me"

Census & Addresses: 1901: Moat, Oldcastle, county Meath
1911: 36 Chelmsford Road, St Peters, county Dublin

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Daisy Kilroy

Birth: 1880, in Winchester, Hampshire, England

Father: Philip Lefeuvre Kilroy

Mother: Louisa Susan (Le Feuvre) Kilroy

Census:
1881: Plymstock, Devon
1891: 72 Chaucer Road, Bedford St Paul, Bedfordshire

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Dorothy Kilroy

Birth: 1909/10, in Massachusetts, United States

Father: Richard Thomas Joseph Kilroy

Mother: Cora Evelyn (Terry) Kilroy

Census:
1920: Abington Town, Plymouth county, Massachusetts

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Edith Kilroy

Birth: 1907/8, in Massachusetts, United States

Father: Richard Thomas Joseph Kilroy

Mother: Cora Evelyn (Terry) Kilroy

Census:
1920: Abington Town, Plymouth county, Massachusetts

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Eileen M. M. Kilroy

Birth: 1892/3 in county Meath, Ireland.

Father: James Watkin Kilroy

Mother: Elizabeth Mary (Armstrong) Kilroy

Occupation: Drapers Assistant (1911)

Census:
1901: Derrysheridan, Killeagh, county Meath
1911: 18 Cannon Street, Kells, county Meath

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Elizabeth (_____) Kilroy

Birth: 1780, in Ballymachugh, county Cavan, Ireland

Married: Anthony Kilroy

Children: Sources:

Elizabeth (_____) Kilroy

Kilroy gravestone Detail of Kilroy gravestone
Gravestone of Richard and Elizabeth Kilroy, and their daughters Hannah and Elizabeth, in the churchyard at Ballymachugh Parish Church. It is probably part of the old church wall.
photo by Alan Hutchinson
Detail of the gravestone:
Here Until the Resurrection are
deposited the Remains of Richd
Kilroy Esq of Omard and of
Elizabeth his beloved Wife the
Former Depd this life on the 18th
April 1823 aged 43 Years the Latter
on the 19th August 1830 aged 45 Years
also the Remains of Hannah their
Eldest daughter who Depd this
life the 7th of Sept 1827 aged 19 Years
and of Elizabeth their Fourth
Daughter who Depd this life on
the 28 of Aug. 1827 aged 13 Years
This tribute to the memory of
Richd and Elizabeth Kilroy has
been Raised by their affectionate
Daughters Maria Maxwell
and Frances Fearns
photo by Alan Hutchinson
Birth: 1784/5

Married: Richard Kilroy

Children: Death: 19 August 1830, aged 45

Buried: Ballymachugh Parish Church, county Cavan, Ireland

Census:
28 May 1821: Omard, Ballymachugh, county Cavan

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Elizabeth Kilroy

Kilroy gravestone Detail of Kilroy gravestone
Gravestone of Richard and Elizabeth Kilroy, and their daughters Hannah and Elizabeth, in the churchyard at Ballymachugh Parish Church. It is probably part of the old church wall.
photo by Alan Hutchinson
Detail of the gravestone:
Here Until the Resurrection are
deposited the Remains of Richd
Kilroy Esq of Omard and of
Elizabeth his beloved Wife the
Former Depd this life on the 18th
April 1823 aged 43 Years the Latter
on the 19th August 1830 aged 45 Years
also the Remains of Hannah their
Eldest daughter who Depd this
life the 7th of Sept 1827 aged 19 Years
and of Elizabeth their Fourth
Daughter who Depd this life on
the 28 of Aug. 1827 aged 13 Years
This tribute to the memory of
Richd and Elizabeth Kilroy has
been Raised by their affectionate
Daughters Maria Maxwell
and Frances Fearns
photo by Alan Hutchinson
Birth: 1813/4

Father: Richard Kilroy

Mother: Elizabeth (_____) Kilroy

Death: 28 August 1827

Buried: Ballymachugh Parish Church, county Cavan, Ireland

Census:
28 May 1821: Omard, Ballymachugh, county Cavan

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Elizabeth (Kilroy) Whiteside

Birth: 1834, in Ireland

Father: Anthony Kilroy

Mother: Catherine (_____) Kilroy

Married: James Arthur Whiteside on 13 February 1857, in St. Anne's Church, Dublin South disrict, county Dublin, Ireland. James was born in 1823/4, in Ireland (the marriage announcement states that he was from Crumlin, county Antrim). He was a clergyman, educated at Trinity College Dublin, and was rector of Penhow, Monmouthshire in 1881, and vicar of Queen Charlotte in Bath in 1889. He died on 20 June 1910, in Bath, Somerset, aged 86.
Cavan Weekly News, 19 February 1857
MARRIED.
On the 13th instant, in Anne's Church, by the Rev. Eugene O'MEARA, the Rev. James WHITESIDE, of Crumlin, county Antrim, to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Anthony KILROY, of Omard, county Cavan, Esq.

Death: 1912, in Bath district, Somerset, England

Census & Addresses:
1881: Penhow, Monmouth, Wales
1889: 12 Burlington Street, Bath, Somerset  (Kelly's Directory of Somerset, 1889)

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Elizabeth Frances (Kilroy) Porter

known as "Lizzie"

Birth: 15 May 1836, in Ballymachugh, county Cavan, Ireland

Father: James Kilroy

Mother: Anne Moore

Married: George Porter on 11 April 1860, in Ballymachugh, county Cavan, Ireland

Children: Death: 1901, aged 65

Census:
1901: Bey Beg, St. Mary's, county Meath (listed as Frances Elizabeth)

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Emma Martha (Kilroy) Carson

Birth: 12 March 1850, in Ballymachugh, county Cavan, Ireland

Father: James Kilroy

Mother: Anne Moore

Married: Samuel Crawford Carson in 1886, in Dublin South district, county Dublin, Ireland

Children: Census:
1901: Corcreeghy, Bellanode, county Monaghan
 1911: 11 Clarinda Park North, Kingstown, county Dublin

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Ethel Essie Kilroy

Birth: 1893 in Oldcastle district, county Meath, Ireland.

Father: James Watkin Kilroy

Mother: Elizabeth Mary (Armstrong) Kilroy

Occupation: Apprentice (in a drapers shop) (1911)

Census:
1901: Derrysheridan, Killeagh, county Meath
1911: 97 Clanbrassil Street, Dundalk, county Louth

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Fanny Kilroy

Birth: 1813, in Turin, parish of Ballymachugh, county Cavan, Ireland

Father: Anthony Kilroy

Mother: Elizabeth (_____) Kilroy

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Frances (Kilroy) Fearns

Ballymachugh Parish Church
Ballymachugh Parish Church
photo by Alan Hutchinson
Birth: 1812/3

Father: Richard Kilroy

Mother: Elizabeth (_____) Kilroy

Married: _____ Fearns

Buried: Ballymachugh

Census:
28 May 1821: Omard, Ballymachugh, county Cavan

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George Thomas Kilroy

Birth: 24 May 1838, in Cavan, Ireland

Father: James Kilroy

Mother: Anne Moore

Death: before 1926, in Australia

Notes: George went to Australia and New Zealand with his brother Anthony.

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George Kilroy

Father: Mark Moore Kilroy

Occupation: Clergyman

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Guy Philip Kilroy

Birth: 1909, in Hendon district, Middlesex, England

Father: Willie Dickson Kilroy

Mother: Edith Mary (Maclaren) Kilroy

Occupation: Lieutenat Commander in the Royal Navy. In October 1939, Lieutenant G. P. Kilroy was involved in the Minesweeping Section trials of the 'Skid', an early type of electro-magnetic mine sweep towed by the drifter Feaco, and in the subsequent development of the electric 'AA' sweep strung between two trawlers. Guy was stationed on the Clyde in 1947.

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Hannah Kilroy

Birth: 1802, in Turin, Ballymachugh, county Cavan, Ireland

Father: Anthony Kilroy

Mother: Elizabeth (_____) Kilroy

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Hannah Kilroy

Kilroy gravestone Detail of Kilroy gravestone
Gravestone of Richard and Elizabeth Kilroy, and their daughters Hannah and Elizabeth, in the churchyard at Ballymachugh Parish Church. It is probably part of the old church wall.
photo by Alan Hutchinson
Detail of the gravestone:
Here Until the Resurrection are
deposited the Remains of Richd
Kilroy Esq of Omard and of
Elizabeth his beloved Wife the
Former Depd this life on the 18th
April 1823 aged 43 Years the Latter
on the 19th August 1830 aged 45 Years
also the Remains of Hannah their
Eldest daughter who Depd this
life the 7th of Sept 1827 aged 19 Years
and of Elizabeth their Fourth
Daughter who Depd this life on
the 28 of Aug. 1827 aged 13 Years
This tribute to the memory of
Richd and Elizabeth Kilroy has
been Raised by their affectionate
Daughters Maria Maxwell
and Frances Fearns
photo by Alan Hutchinson
Birth: 1808

Father: Richard Kilroy

Mother: Elizabeth (_____) Kilroy

Death: 7 September 1827, aged 19

Buried: Ballymachugh Parish Church, county Cavan, Ireland

Census:
28 May 1821: Omard, Ballymachugh, county Cavan

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Hannah Selina (Kilroy) Purdon

Birth: 27 March 1844, in Ballymachugh, county Cavan, Ireland

Father: Anthony Kilroy

Mother: Catherine (_____) Kilroy

Married: John Edward Blakeney Purdon in 1866, in Cavan district, county Cavan, Ireland

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Death: 22 April 1907 in Mendocino county, California, United States, aged 63 years and 27 days

Census: 1900: Turlock, Stanislaus county, California

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Henrietta Kilroy

Father: Anthony Kilroy

Mother: Catherine (_____) Kilroy

Death: in India

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Isaiah Kilroy

Birth: 16 February 1817, in Ballymachugh, county Cavan, Ireland

Father: Anthony Kilroy

Mother: Elizabeth (_____) Kilroy

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James Kilroy

Ballymachugh Parish Church
Ballymachugh Parish Church
photo by Alan Hutchinson
Birth: 1806, in county Cavan, Ireland

Father: Anthony Kilroy

Mother: Elizabeth (_____) Kilroy

Married: Anne Moore on 25 February 1834

Children: Occupation: Farmer

Death: 2 April 1880, in Ballymachugh, county Cavan, Ireland, aged 74

Buried: Ballymachugh, county Cavan, Ireland

Notes: James lived at Turin, Ballymachugh parish, county Cavan, and then came to Moat View near Oldcastle, county Meath, about 1869. In a letter in 1926, his son William writes that he was "of Fortland Co. Cavan". Fortland is another townland in Ballymachugh. In the same letter in 1926, William notes that all five of his brothers were dead.
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James Kilroy

Birth: 1818/9

Father: Richard Kilroy

Mother: Elizabeth (_____) Kilroy

Married: Sarah Wigelsworth on 23 June 1859, in St Andrew, Dublin, county Dublin, Ireland. James is listed as single, the son of Richard Kilroy. Sarah is listed as single and the daughter of Joseph Wigelsworth. Sarah was the daughter of Joseph Wigelsworth and Anne Martin and was the sister of Catherine Wilhelmina Wigelsworth, who married James's brother, John, in 1862.

Census:
28 May 1821: Omard, Ballymachugh, county Cavan

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James Watkin Kilroy

Derrysheridan House
Derrysheridan House in 2000, before a recent renovation
photo from Ross House Equestrian Centre
of Halfcarton & Derrysheridan, Killeagh, county Meath

Birth: 21 April 1848, in Turin, Ballymachugh, county Cavan, Ireland

Father: James Kilroy

Mother: Anne Moore

Married (1st): Maria Gibson on 24 April 1877, in the Wesleyan Church, Stephens Green, Dublin, Ireland. Maria was born in 1852/3, the third daughter of James Gibson, Esq., of Craddenstown, county Westmeath. She died on 10 December 1888 in Oldcastle district, county Meath, aged 35, and is buried in Ballymachugh, county Cavan.
Cavan Weekly News 27 April 1877
MARRIAGES.
KILROY and GIBSON - April 24, in the Wesleyan Church, Stephens'-green, Dublin, by the Rev. James Nixon, brother-in-law of the bride, assisted by the Rev. William Gorman, James Kilroy, Esq., of Ballycan House, Mountnugent, to Maria, third daughter of James Gibson, Esq., of Craddenstown, county Westmeath.

Children:
Married (2nd): Elizabeth Mary Armstrong in 1891, in Kells district, county Meath, Ireland. Elizabeth was born in 1853/4, in county Meath. In 1901, after the death of her husband, Elizabeth is listed as a farmer in Derrysheridan townland. She died on 16 August 1907 in Oldcastle district, county Meath, aged 53, and is buried in Ballymachugh, county Cavan.
1901: Derrysheridan, Killeagh, county Meath

Children:
Death: 3 October 1899, in Oldcastle district, county Meath, Ireland, aged 51

Buried: Ballymachugh, county Cavan, Ireland

Notes: One of James's daughters became Mrs. Mason.

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James Kilroy

Birth: 23 February 1899, in Middleborough, Plymouth county, Massachusetts, United States

Father: Richard Thomas Joseph Kilroy

Mother: Bridget A. (Devine) Kilroy

Death: 7 November 1899

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Jane Kilroy

Birth: 1809, in Turin, parish of Ballymachugh, county Cavan, Ireland

Father: Anthony Kilroy

Mother: Elizabeth (_____) Kilroy

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John Kilroy

Birth: 1796, in Turin, Ballymachugh, county Cavan, Ireland

Father: Anthony Kilroy

Mother: Elizabeth (_____) Kilroy

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John Kilroy

Catherine Wilhelmina Wiglesworth
Catherine Wilhelmina Wigelsworth
photo from Joe Lineberger
Birth: 1819/20

Father: Richard Kilroy

Mother: Elizabeth (_____) Kilroy

Married: Catherine Wilhelmina Wigelsworth on 19 September 1862, in Dublin North, county Dublin, Ireland. Known as "Kate", Catherine was of Church Park, near Roscommon. She was the daughter of Joseph Wigelsworth and Anne Martin, and was the sister of Sarah Wigelsworth, who married John's brother, James in 1859. She also had a brother, Joseph Wigelsworth (who was born 21 March, 1827 in Church Park, and died near Clyattville, Lowndes County, Georgia, United States) and two other sisters: Abigail Wigelsworth, who is listed as a retired farmer, single, aged 69, living in Tromaun, Athleague, county Roscommon in the 1911 census, and Anne who appears in the 1901 census living in Tromaun with Abbie, also a single famer.

Children:
Census:
28 May 1821: Omard, Ballymachugh, county Cavan

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John James Kilroy

Birth: 12 May 1845, in Ballymachugh, county Cavan, Ireland

Father: James Kilroy

Mother: Anne Moore

Notes: Kathleen remarks that she thinks John died young.

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Lancelot Kilroy

Birth: 8 May 1870, in Oudh, India

Baptism: 30 May 1870, in Sitapur, Oudh, West Bengal, India

Father: Philip Lefeuvre Kilroy

Mother: Louisa Susan (Le Feuvre) Kilroy

Married: Hester Mary Dowson. Hester was born in 1867, in Basford, Nottinghamshire, the daughter of Benjamin Dowson, a solicitor, and Alice (Greg) Dowson. Hester was a nurse at the Arthur Road Hospital, Bombay, and the letters extracted in the privately printed "Bombay during the Plague" describe her voyage to India, her experiences during the plague of 1897-8, and the death from plague of her friend Harriett McDougall. Hester's eldest brother, William Enfield Dowson, was one of the earliest motor car owners in Nottingham and is recreated as the Will Renshaw in D.H. Lawrence's story "The Overtone" who "drove to all kinds of unexpected places, in his motor car, bathed where he liked, said what he liked, did what he liked".
Hester appears in these censuses:
1871: Ropewal Rd., Nottingham Castle and Standard Hill, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, aged 3, born Basford, Nottingham
1881: 4 Clumber Road, Standard Hill, Nottinghamshire
1891: Clumber Rd., Standard Hill, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, aged 23, born Nottingham, Nottinghamshire

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Occupation: Naval Surgeon, Royal Navy. In 1908, Lancelot is listed as the staff surgeon aboard the Brilliant, attached to the fourth Cruiser Squadron.

Publications:
1905: An Inquiry into the Existence of Typhoid Fever in Bermuda (British Medical Journal 22 April 1905; 1(2312): 878-880 by Lancelot Kilroy and F.W. Hooper)

Notes:
On 17 November 1904, Hester and her children Maud and Robert (but not Alix?), along with Evelyn Roebuck, their nurse and governess, entered the United States on the Majestic (manifest), from Liverpool. Their final destination is given as Bermuda with the intention of joining Lancelot Kilroy at the Royal Naval Hospital, Bermuda. They are accompanied by Hester's father, Benjamin Dowson, who gives his occupation as lawyer and residence as Nottingham. He states his purpose as being to accompanhy his daughter as far as New York (crossed out and replaced with Montreal, Canada). Curiously, the same party (Benjamin Dowson, Hester, Maud, Robert but this time including Alix, appear on the mainfest of the Teutonic which arrived in New York on 20 October 1904, but their names are all crossed out. I surmise that perhaps Alix fell ill, the family did not board the Teutonic, and they then proceeded on the Majestic a month later, leaving Alix behind to recover)
On 22 March 1905, Lancelot, his wife Hester and children Maud Winifred and Robert, and Evelyn Roebuck, returned to the United States aboard the Bermudian (manifest) sailing from Hamilton, Bermuda. They were en route to London, and they give their last residence as Bermuda.

In 1934, Lancelot, his brother Willie and F. Wheatley applied for a patent for "A new or improved device for holding fish hooks, artificial flies or baits"

Death: 1947

Census & Addresses:
1881: Junior School of The United Services College, Westward Ho!, Abbotsham, Devon
1901, 1904: "The Park", Nottingham, Nottinghamshire (baptism records of children Maud and Robert)
1905: Bermuda (Ellis Island ship manifest)
1907: Cromwell Street, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire (baptism records of daughter Mona)
1934: Barn Elms Farm, Bradfield, Berkshire (patent application)

Sources:

Louise Maria Kilroy

Birth: 7 June 1874, in Freshwater, Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England

Baptised: 5 July 1874, in Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England

Father: Philip Lefeuvre Kilroy

Mother: Louisa Susan (Le Feuvre) Kilroy

Census:
1881: Plymstock, Devon
1891: 72 Chaucer Road, Bedford St Paul, Bedfordshire

Sources:

Lucy Kilroy

Birth: 1852, in Ireland

Father: James Kilroy

Mother: Anne Moore

Sources:

Margaret Anne (Kilroy) Gill

known as "Maggie"

Birth: 2 Jan 1842, in county Cavan, Ireland

Father: James Kilroy

Mother: Anne Moore

Married: Benjamin Gill on 13 August 1863, in Cavan district, county Cavan, Ireland

Children: Occupation: Farmer

Notes: I believe that there is some error here with Margraet's children. The 1911 census shows that she only ever had seven children, all still living in 1911.

Death: 18 September 1920, in Trim district, county Meath, Ireland

Census:
1901: Clonygrange, Killaconnigan, county Meath
1911: Clonygrange, Killaconnigan, county Meath

Sources:

Maria (Kilroy) Maxwell

Ballymachugh Parish Church
Ballymachugh Parish Church
photo by Alan Hutchinson
Birth: 1810/1

Father: Richard Kilroy

Mother: Elizabeth (_____) Kilroy

Married: Henry Maxwell on 23 June 1831, in the presence of her brother, Anthony.

Children: Buried: Ballymachugh, county Cavan, Ireland

Census:
28 May 1821: Omard, Ballymachugh, county Cavan

Sources:

Maria Kilroy

Birth: at Omard, county Cavan, Ireland

Father: Alexander Kilroy

Mother: Maria Lucinda (Fry) Kilroy

Notes: Spinster

Sources:

Maria G. Kilroy

Birth: 1888, in Oldcastle district, county Meath, Ireland.
Maria's mother, also named Maria, died on 10 December 1888, probably in childbirth, and so Maria birth is likely near that date. Both the mother's death and the daughter's birth were registered in 1Q1889.

Father: James Watkin Kilroy

Mother: Maria (_____) Kilroy

Census:
1901: Derrysheridan, Killeagh, county Meath

Sources:

Mark Anthony Kilroy

Birth: 1841/2

Father: Anthony Kilroy

Mother: Catherine (_____) Kilroy

Occupation: Army Surgeon. Mark was registered as a doctor on 5 March 1866. His qualifications at the time are given as "Mem. R. Coll. Surg. Eng. 1865. Lic. K. Q. Coll. Phys. Irel. 1865.". Mark became Staff Assistant-Surgeon on 1 April 1867. Hart's Army list for 1870 shows him as an assistant-surgeon with the rank of lieutenant, stationed in the West Indies and the 1871 and 1872 lists show him with the same rank now stationed in Chatham, Kent. The 1873 list shows Mark still an assistant-surgeon with the rank of lieutenant, now stationed in Bengal. Mark retired on 4 November 1873, with the rank of surgeon. This retirement, after only 6 years, was likely a result of illness, and Mark died the following year.

Death: 1874, in Croydon district, Surrey, England, aged 32

Addresses: 1865: 10 Upper Gloucester Street, Dublin (admission to King and Queen's College of Physicians in Ireland)
1866: Ogmard, Virginia, county Cavan (The Medical Register (1878) p278)

Sources:

Mark Moore Kilroy

Birth: 19 March 1854, in Ballymachugh, county Cavan, Ireland

Father: James Kilroy

Mother: Anne Moore

Children: Notes: Mark emigrated to New Zealand. The Otago Witness on 5 April 1905 p27 mentions a theft from Mark's shop.
THE CHARGE AGAINST OSBORNE.
A PECULIAR DEVELOPMENT
...
A third information was here prepared and put in, charging Osborne with having, in December last, broken and entered the shop of Mark Moore Kilroy and stolen therefrom seven silk handkerchiefs, valued at £1 6s 3d. ...


Death: 1918, aged 64, in New Zealand

Sources:

Mary Kilroy

Birth: 1800, in Turin, Ballymachugh, county Cavan, Ireland

Father: Anthony Kilroy

Mother: Elizabeth (_____) Kilroy

Sources:

Mary Jane (Kilroy, Hannon) Lowry

Birth: 7 January 1835, in Turin, Ballymachugh parish, county Cavan, Ireland

Father: James Kilroy

Mother: Anne Moore

Married (1st): Thomas Hannon on 13 September 1855, in Turin, Ballymachugh, county Cavan, Ireland

Children: Married (2nd): Joseph Lowry on 19 February 1861, in St Thomas, Dublin, county Dublin, Ireland. Joseph is noted as the son of John Lowry, and Mary Jane Hannon is recorded as the daughter of James Kilroy.

Children: The 1911 census notes that this marriage had 10 children of whom 6 were living in 1911.

Death: 1913, in Navan district, county Meath, Ireland

Census: 1901: Scallanstown, Ardbraccan, county Meath
1911: Scallanstown, Ardbraccan, county Meath

Sources:

Mary Ruth Kilroy

Birth: 1894, in Middleborough, Plymouth county, Massachusetts, United States
The birth record has Mary's birth date as 18 September 1894, which is incompatible with the death date of 8 September 1894.

Father: Richard Thomas Joseph Kilroy

Mother: Bridget A. (Devine) Kilroy

Death: 8 September 1894, in Middleborough, Plymouth county, United States

Sources:

Mary Alix Hester (Kilroy) Meynell

Title: Dame Alix Kilroy, Lady Meynell, DBE.
Alix was Lady Meynell after her marriage to Sir Francis Meynell in 1946 until this was superceded by her own DBE received in 1949.

Birth: 2 February 1903, in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England

Baptism: 9 February 1903, in St Barnabas, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England

Father: Lancelot Kilroy

Mother: Hester Mary (Dowson) Kilroy

Education: Malvern Girls' Schools and Somerville College, Oxford

Married: Francis Meredith Wilfrid Meynell in 1946. Francis was born in 1895, the son of writer Alice Meynell. He was imprisoned as a conscientious objector in the First World War, but later became well known as a a poet, book designer and founder of the Nonesuch Press, and was knighted in 1946. Sir Francis died in 1975.

Occupation: Civil Servant. Alix was noted for having been, in 1925, one of the first two women to enter the administrative grade of the Civil Service by examination. She had a distinguished career at the Board of Trade, serving as Under Secretary from 1946 until her retirement in 1955. Alix also served as Secretary of the newly formed Monopolies Commission from 1949 until 1952.

Publications: 1953: The task and methods of the Monopolies Commission
1979: Francis Meynell of the Nonesuch Press
1988: Public Servant, Private Woman (autobiography)
1998: What Grandmother Said (extracts of letters from her grandmother)

Death: 31 August 1999, in Brent Eleigh, Suffolk, England

Obituary: The Independent (London) 2 September 1999, by John Commander

Notes: Mary always used her second name, Alix, but both her birth certificate and baptism record show her first name as Mary. Alix was known as "A.K." to her colleagues and "Bay" to her friends.

Addresses:
1958: 19 Clevedon Place, London SW1  (notes by Kathleen Kilroy)

Sources:

Matilda (Kilroy) Elliott

Birth: 13 February 1843, in Ballymachugh, county Cavan, Ireland

Father: James Kilroy

Mother: Anne Moore

Married: John David Elliott on 22 May 1867, in Ballymachugh, county Cavan, Ireland

Children: Notes: Emigrated to Canada

Death: in the United States

Sources:

Maud Winifred Mary Greg (Kilroy) Milne

Title: Lady Milne

Birth: 24 November 1901, in Nottingham district, Nottinghamshire, England

Baptism: 30 December 1901, in St Barnabas, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England. Maud was baptised as "Marida Winifred Mary Kilroy"

Father: Lancelot Kilroy

Mother: Hester Mary (Dowson) Kilroy

Education: Malvern Girls' School. Maud entered Bedford College, University of London in 1920 and received a B.Sc. Hons (Chem) (London) 1924. In the same year she became a Fellow of the Chemical Society, nominated by G.A.R. Kon, M.A. Whiteley and Arnold Stevenson. After graduation, Maud acquired a Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR) grant to work at Imperial College with Professor Thorpe. In 1926 she applied for a position of assistant librarian in the Science Library. There is no indication as to whether she was successful.

Married: David Milne on 23 August 1928 in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England. David was born in 1895/6. Sir David Milne was appointed Permanent Under Secretary of State for Scotland in 1946. In 1960, David joined the Board of the BBC as Scottish Governor, aged 64. In 1964, David was appointed as Chairman of the Committee of Inquiry into an outbreak of typhoid in Aberdeen.

Notes: Maud was generally called Winifred, and known as "Bimbi" to her family and friends.
On 17 November 1904, Hester and her children Maud and Robert (but not Alix), along with Evelyn Roebuck, their nurse and governess, entered the United States on The Majestic (manifest), from Liverpool. Their final destination is given as Bermuda with the intention of joining Surgeon Kilroy at the Royal Naval Hospital, Bermuda.
On 22 March 1905, Lancelot, his wife Hester and children Maud Winifred and Robert, and Evelyn Roebuck, returned to the United States aboard the Bermudian (manifest) sailing from Hamilton, Bermuda. They were en route to London, and they give their last residence as Bermuda.

Addresses:
1924: Brooklyn Hotel, Earl's Court Square, London (nomination to Chemical Society)
1958: 34 Greenhill Gardens, Edinburgh, Scotland (notes by Kathleen Kilroy)

Sources:

Mona Gabrielle Kilroy

Birth: 21 December 1906, in Nottingham district, Nottinghamshire, England

Baptism: 21 February 1907, in St Barnabas, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England

Father: Lancelot Kilroy

Mother: Hester Mary (Dowson) Kilroy

Sources:

Philip Lefeuvre Kilroy

Title: Lt-Colonel

Birth: 1844, in Plymouth, Devon, England

Father: Alexander Kilroy

Mother: Maria Lucinda (Fry) Kilroy

Married: Louisa Susan Le Feuvre in 1867 in South Stoneham district, Hampshire, England. Louisa was born in 1839/40, in Southampton, Hampshire, England, and died in 1919, on the Isle of Wight, aged 79.
1891: 72 Chaucer Road, Bedford St Paul, Bedfordshire

Children: Occupation: Army Surgeon. Philip joined the Royal Army Medical Corps as an assistant surgeon on 2 October 1865. He is listed in the Regimental Chronicle of the 60th, or King's Royal Rifle Corps, as an assistant surgeon from 1867 to 1873. He was promoted to surgeon on 1 March 1873 and in 1875 was stationed in West Forts. Philip was made Surgeon Major on 2 October 1877. Hart's Army List for 1882 shows Philip as a Surgeon Major, stationed in Bengal. Philip was then promoted to Surgeon Lt. Col. on 10 March 1892, and he retired on 15 May 1895.

Death: 1905

Census:
1881: Plymstock, Devon

Sources:

Reggie Kilroy

Father: Mark Moore Kilroy

Notes: Reggie fought with Anzaca in World War I

Sources:

Richard Kilroy

Kilroy gravestone Detail of Kilroy gravestone
Gravestone of Richard and Elizabeth Kilroy, and their daughters Hannah and Elizabeth, in the churchyard at Ballymachugh Parish Church. It is probably part of the old church wall.
photo by Alan Hutchinson
Detail of the gravestone:
Here Until the Resurrection are
deposited the Remains of Richd
Kilroy Esq of Omard and of
Elizabeth his beloved Wife the
Former Depd this life on the 18th
April 1823 aged 43 Years the Latter
on the 19th August 1830 aged 45 Years
also the Remains of Hannah their
Eldest daughter who Depd this
life the 7th of Sept 1827 aged 19 Years
and of Elizabeth their Fourth
Daughter who Depd this life on
the 28 of Aug. 1827 aged 13 Years
This tribute to the memory of
Richd and Elizabeth Kilroy has
been Raised by their affectionate
Daughters Maria Maxwell
and Frances Fearns
photo by Alan Hutchinson
Birth: 1779/80

Father: _____ Kilroy

Married: Elizabeth

Children: Occupation: Farmer. In the 1821 census, Richard is recorded as owning 109 acres in the townland of Omard, an extremely large area for this time and place, and indicates he was a very wealthy man.

Death: 18 April 1823, aged 43. Alan Hutchinson has his date of death as 20 April 1843, and his age at death as 44.

Buried: Ballymachugh Parish Church, county Cavan, Ireland

Census:
28 May 1821: Omard, Ballymachugh, county Cavan

Sources:

Richard Kilroy

Birth: 1816/7

Father: Richard Kilroy

Mother: Elizabeth (_____) Kilroy

Census:
28 May 1821: Omard, Ballymachugh, county Cavan

Sources:

Richard Thomas Joseph Kilroy

Birth: 1863, in Dublin, county Dublin, Ireland

Father: John Kilroy

Mother: Catherine Wilhelmina (Wigelsworth) Kilroy

Married (1st): Bridget A. Devine on 15 August 1892, in Middleborough, Plymouth county, Massachusetts, United States. Richard is listed as aged 31, born in Dublin, Ireland, single, the son of John Kilroy and Catherine Wigglesworth. Bridget A. Devine is listed as aged 27, born in Dublin, Ireland, single, the daughter of Thomas Devine and Mary Renigon (or Kerrigan). Bridget, who used the nickname Delia, died on 6 March 1902, in Middleborough.

Children: Married (2nd): Cora Evelyn Terry on 26 August 1905, in Central Falls, Rhode Island, United States. Richard is listed as aged 41, born in Ireland, widowed, the son of John Kilroy and Kate Wigelsworth. Cora is listed as aged 27, born in Fall River, Massachusetts, the daughter of Benjamin Terry and Isabel Manchester.
Cora was born on 15 February 1878, in Fall River, Bristol county, Massachusetts.
1880: Fall River, Bristol county, Massachusetts

Children: Census:
1900: Middleboro Town, Plymouth county, Massachusetts
1920: Abington Town, Plymouth county, Massachusetts

Notes: Richard emigrated to the United States in 1890

Sources:

Richard Anthony Kilroy

Richard Anthony Kilroy
Richard Anthony Kilroy
(May 1935)
photograph from Jerry Gosnell
Richard Anthony Kilroy
Richard Anthony Kilroy
photograph from Jerry Gosnell
Gravestone of Richard Anthony Kilroy and Martha Jane Webb
Gravestone of Richard Anthony Kilroy and Martha Jane (Webb) Kilroy in Killeagh Cemetery, Oldcastle, county Meath, Ireland
photograph from Jerry Gosnell
known as "Tony"

Birth: 27 February 1895, in Oldcastle, county Meath, Ireland

Father: William Wesley Kilroy

Mother: Annie Catherine Maxwell (Groome) Kilroy

Married: Martha Jane Webb in 1927 in Mullingar district, county Westmeath, Ireland. Martha died on 13 April 1968, and was buried on 15 April 1968 in Killeagh cemetery, Oldcastle, county Meath.

Death: 8 July 1971, in county Meath, Ireland

Notes: Richard served in World War I, enlisting in the 12th Regiment, Canadian Mounted Rifles in Calgary on 18 June 1915 (Trooper 117338)

Census:
1901: Moat, Oldcastle, county Meath
1911: Mountjoy School, Mountjoy Square, St Peters, Dublin, county Dublin

Sources:

Robert Alexander Kilroy

Robert wrote his book under the name Commander Robin A. Kilroy, and he may have used Robin rather than Robert (which appears on his birth certificate)

Title: Commander R. A. Kilroy, DSC

Birth: 27 June 1904, in Nottingham district, Nottinghamshire, England

Baptism: 8 July 1904, in St Barnabas, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England

Father: Lancelot Kilroy

Mother: Hester Mary (Dowson) Kilroy

Occupation: Commander in the Royal Navy. Robert was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, a naval medal awarded for 'gallantry during active operations against the enemy'. In addition, he was awarded the Cross of the First Class of the Order of Naval Merit by the King of Spain in 1929.
The Royal Air Force Flight 20 December 1929
Foreign Decoration.
THE King has given authority for the wearing of the following decoration:
Lieutenant Robert Alexander Kilroy, R.N., of the British Naval Aircraft Carrier Eagle, Cross of the First Class of the Order of Naval Merit, conferred upon him by the King of Spain in recognition of valuable services.

Boleh
The Boleh in the Mediterranean Sea (1986)
Notes:
On 17 November 1904, Hester and her children Maud and Robert (but not Alix?), along with Evelyn Roebuck, their nurse and governess, entered the United States on The Majestic (manifest), from Liverpool. Their final destination is given as Bermuda with the intention of joining Lancelot Kilroy at the Royal Naval Hospital, Bermuda.
On 22 March 1905, Lancelot, his wife Hester and children Maud Winifred and Robert, and Evelyn Roebuck, returned to the United States aboard the Bermudian (manifest) sailing from Hamilton, Bermuda. They were en route to London, and they give their last residence as Bermuda.

In 1949, Robert designed and built a Malay junk yacht Boleh and then sailed it in an epic 15,000 mile journey from Singapore to Salcombe, Devon with a crew of five. The 170 day voyage, with stops in Sabang, Colombo, Minikoi, Seychelles, Mauritius, Port Elizabeth, Simonstown, St. Helena, Ascension and Cape Verde was the subject of a book he wrote in 1951. The Boleh was severely damaged by fire in 1978, but was rebuilt and was later purchased by a Kilroy family trust. In 2008, the Boleh was being restored in Southsea, Hampshire to be used for sail training.

Publications:
1951: Boleh

Death: about 2 January 1961

Sources:

Sarah Anne (Kilroy) Russell

known as "Sallie"

Father: Richard Kilroy

Mother: Elizabeth (_____) Kilroy

Married: Thomas Samuel Russell on 22 January 1852, in Ballymachugh, county Cavan, Ireland. Thomas is listed as single, the son of Eleas Russell. Sarah is listed as single, the daughter of Richard Kilroy.

Children: Notes: Sallie is listed in the Kilroy family notes as a member of this family. She does not appear with the family in the 1821 census, and was probably born after the census but before her father's death in 1823.

Sources:

Susan Kilroy

Gravestone of William Wesley Kilroy, Annie Groome and Susan Kilroy
Gravestone of William Wesley Kilroy, Annie Catherine Maxwell (Groome) Kilroy and Susan Kilroy in Killeagh Cemetery, Oldcastle, county Meath, Ireland
photograph from Jerry Gosnell
Birth: 30 June 1846, in county Cavan, Ireland

Father: James Kilroy

Mother: Anne Moore

Death: 27 January 1922, at Moat View, Oldcastle, county Meath, Ireland

Buried: Killeagh cemetery, Oldcastle, county Meath, Ireland

Notes: Known as "Lily"

Census:
1911: Scallanstown, Ardbraccan, county Meath

Sources:

Virginia Catherine Kilroy

Birth: 23 January 1897, in Middleborough, Plymouth county, Massachusetts, United States

Father: Richard Thomas Joseph Kilroy

Mother: Bridget A. (Devine) Kilroy

Census:
1900: Middleboro Town, Plymouth county, Massachusetts
1920: Abington Town, Plymouth county, Massachusetts

Sources:

William Kilroy

Birth: 11 June 1837, in Ballymachugh, county Cavan, Ireland

Father: Anthony Kilroy

Mother: Catherine (_____) Kilroy

Death: 15 April 1865 in Dublin South district, county Dublin, Ireland, aged 26

Sources:

William James Kilroy

Birth: 1848, in Plymouth, Devon, England

Father: Alexander Kilroy

Mother: Maria Lucinda (Fry) Kilroy

Occupation: William was Fleet Paymaster in the Royal Navy. William was made assistant paymaster with seniority from 11 December 1869. On 2 March 1871, William joined the Scout, a corvette in the Pacific, as assistant paymaster (1872 Navy List), and he was still aboard the Scout in the Pacific in 1873 and when it was ordered home in 1874.  On 5 August 1875, William joined the Excellent, a Gunnery ship stationed in Portsmouth (1876 list). On 10 January 1877, William joined the Seagull, a Gun-Vessel, as assistant paymaster in charge. In the 1878 Navy List, the Seagull had been stationed in the Cape of Good Hope and the West Coast of Africa, but was ordered back to Devonport. On 30 July 1880, William joined the Euphrates, an Indian Troop Ship (1881 list) where we still find him in the 1881 census. On 11 August 1881, William joined the Malabar, an iron troop ship, stationed in Porstmouth (1882 list) and on 1 October 1882 he joined the Crocodile, also a troop ship based in Portsmouth (1883 list). On 20 July 1883 William joined the Sultan, attached to the Channel Squadron (1885 list). On 13 January 1886, William was promoted to paymaster, and on 3 April 1886, he joined the Kingfisher, a Composite Sloop based in the East Indies, as paymaster (1887 Navy list). On 1 February 1889 William joined, as paymaster, the Hyacinth, a Screw Cruiser 3rd Class which was in China at the time of the 1891 Navy List. William retired as Fleet Paymaster on 30 April 1900.

Death: 1901, in the Isle of Wight district, Hampshire, England, aged 53

Census:
1881: Euphrates, Royal Navy, England

Sources:

William Wesley Kilroy

William Wesley Kilroy
William Wesley Kilroy
scan by Chris Gosnell
Gravestone of William Wesley Kilroy, Annie Groome and Susan Kilroy
Gravestone of William Wesley Kilroy, Annie Catherine Maxwell (Groome) Kilroy and Susan Kilroy in Killeagh Cemetery, Oldcastle, county Meath, Ireland
photograph from Jerry Gosnell
Birth: 27 April 1856 in county Cavan, Ireland

Father: James Kilroy

Mother: Anne Moore

Married: Annie Catherine Maxwell Groome on 20 September 1888, in Drogheda, county Louth, Ireland

Children: Occupation: Farmer and Land Agent. This is how William describes himself in the 1901 census and in 1911 as Assessor, Surveyor and Farmer. On 9 February 1889, William was appointed as a magistrate in Meath county, and is described at the time as a land agent and landowner. William was an executor of the will of his wife's aunt, Catherine Dalzell Carpendale in 1917, at which time he is listed as a Surveyor. In 1926, he writes a letter from Moat View, and notes that he is "Assessor for Honr. Mr. Justice Wylie Land Judge" and that he valued land all over Ireland "for him & others". In the same letter he notes that previously he had had a large stud farm, but reduced its size in 1914, because his work took him away from home so much.

Death: 6 May 1931, in Oldcastle, county Meath, Ireland, aged 75

Buried: in Killeagh cemetery, Oldcastle, county Meath, Ireland

Notes:
William was Master of the Ballymacad fox hounds.

Census & Addresses:
1896: Moat View, Oldcastle, county Meath (birth certificate of daughter Annie Kathleen)
1901: Moat View, Oldcastle, county Meath (obituary of mother-in-law Harriette Maxwell (Carpendale) Groome)
1901: Moat, Oldcastle, county Meath
1911: Moat, Oldcastle, county Meath
1915: Moat View, Oldcastle, county Meath (enlistment of son Richard in Canadian Army in 1915)
1926: Moat View, Oldcastle, county Meath (letter in possession of Chris Gosnell)

Sources:

Willie Dickson Kilroy

Birth: 1876, in Southampton Highfield, Hampshire, England

Father: Philip Lefeuvre Kilroy

Mother: Louisa Susan (Le Feuvre) Kilroy

Married: Edith Mary Maclaren in 1906 in Farnham district (Hampshire and Surrey), England

Notes: Willie was a prolific inventor, and secured numerous patents including, in 1909 an application "For Improvements Relating to Electro-motors and to the Production of Sound Waves for Signalling to a Distance, in 1910, an application "for Improvements in and Relating to Danger and Like Signal Devices and, in 1928, one for "Improvements in or connected with lamps for vehicles". In 1934, Willie, his brother Lancelot and F. Wheatley received for a patent for "A new or improved device for holding fish hooks, artificial flies or baits" and in 1955  he patented "Improvements in and relating to blocks for yachts, boats and the like"

Census:
1881: Plymstock, Devon
1891: 72 Chaucer Road, Bedford St Paul, Bedfordshire
1934: Lane End, Everton, Lymington, Hampshire (patent application)

Sources:

William Ernest Kilroy

William Ernest Kilroy
William Ernest Kilroy
photograph from Chris Gosnell
Kilroy picnic at Lough Sheelin
Kilroy family picnic at Lough Sheelin in May 1935. William Ernest is seated far left. Others featured are Ken Gosnell (standing left), Richard Tony Kilroy (front) and Louise (Waldron) Kilroy and Cecil Kilroy (standing right)
photograph from Jerry Gosnell
Gravestone of William Ernest Kilroy and Louise Waldron
Gravestone of William Ernest Kilroy and Louise (Waldron) Kilroy in Killeagh Cemetery, Oldcastle, county Meath, Ireland
photograph from Jerry Gosnell
known as "Ernest"

Birth: 12 September 1892, at Moat View, Oldcastle, county Meath, Ireland

Father: William Wesley Kilroy

Mother: Annie Catherine Maxwell (Groome) Kilroy

Married: Louise Emily Madeleine Waldron on 6 April 1927 in Athboy Church, Athboy, county Meath, Ireland

Death: 23 August 1973, at Moat View, Oldcastle, county Meath, Ireland

Buried: Killeagh Cemetery, Oldcastle, county Meath, Ireland

Census:
1901: Moat, Oldcastle, county Meath
1911: Moat, Oldcastle, county Meath

Sources:

_____ Kilroy

Children: Sources:
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