Joseph Corley
Jennings was the son of Charles Jennings, Monaghan Street, Newry, County Down
and his wife Sophia Corley daughter of Patrick Corley, Clones, County Monaghan.
He was baptised in Newry.
Joseph of Charles Jennings and Sophia
Corley, 1827, sponsors Arthur O'Hagan and Anne Jennings.[1]
He
was apprenticed as an engineer with William Dargan, but subsequently emigrated
to USA
in 1845.
Joseph
appears to have been married and living in Iowa for some time. His wife, whose name is
not known, came from Pennsylvania.
They had at least four children. Family lore suggests that he had a large
family.
1. Sophia [1856-1934] was
born in Iowa.
She became a school teacher and never married. She is buried with her
father in Chicago.2. Charles P. [1858-] Charles may have married a Mary H. Garrigan in 1883. They had three daughters, Margaret, Rose and Mary; however a notice of the marriage which appeared in the Dubuque Times casts some doubt on this as it cites two uncles of Charles P Jennings who are not members of this family.[2] Possible the information contained in the notice is itself incorrect. There was a Dr Charles B Jennings in Dubuque, but he was not related to Charles P Jennings.
3. Elizabeth Blanche [1863-1949] also became a teacher and never married. She is buried with her father in Chicago.
4. James. [-1927] is buried with his sisters and his father in Chicago.
By
1890 Joseph was in Californa.[3] His second wife Margaret Bryan was born in Canada
in 1846. The 1900 US Census records that
there were no living children from the marriage with Margaret Bryan.
J.C. Jennings, San
Francisco City, b.
Nov 1827 Ireland.
m. 16 years. m. est. 1884. Imm. year 1845.[4]
In
1910 they had been married 27 years. Joseph was 82. Margaret was 67. They lived
at 39 Farallone
Street, San
Francisco Assembly
District 33, San Francisco,
California. Joseph owned his own
house, and appeared to be self employed as a solicitor working in insurance. He
was a naturalised American.[5]
He
died in California
on 6th July 1918 aged 90. He is buried in Calvary Cemetery,
Evanston, Cook,
Illinois, United
States with two of his daughters, Sophia and
Elizabeth Blanche and his son James.[6]
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