Julia Jennings [1842- 1919], Francis Street, Dundalk, County Louth.

Julia Jennings was the fourth daughter of Patrick Jennings and Anne Coleman. She was born in Francis Street in 1842.  She was baptised on the 17^th of April 1842.  Her baptismal sponsors were Bernard Coleman and Ann Jennings.

Julia was present at the profession of Miss Casey of Bonmahon, County Waterford in St. Malachy’s Convent of Mercy, Dundalk, in October 1864, along with her brother Patrick Jennings jr., in spite of the heavy rain which had descended steadily from an early hour of the morning and prevented several ladies and gentleman from attending.[1] St.Malachy’s was the convent where her sister Anne Jane had been professed in 1862.

Julia appears in the 1911 Census living in Francis Street with her brother Patrick Coleman Jennings, though she does not appear to have been there in 1901.

She died in Francis Street in 1919. She was 77 years old, a spinster, and described as a lady of private means.  Her brother Joseph Daniel of Seatown Place, was present at her death. Patrick Coleman Jennings who also lived in Francis Street died three years later in 1921.

Julia left a will. Her brother Joseph Daniel Jennings was named as the executor.

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[1] Newry Examiner and Louth Advertiser 22 October 1864

 

Catherine Jennings [1838 - ], Francis Street, Dundalk, County Louth.

Catherine Jennings was born in 1838 in Francis Street, Dundalk, County Louth. She was the third daughter of Patrick Jennings and Anne Coleman. She was baptised on the 13^th of April 1838.  Her baptismal sponsors were Daniel Jennings and Julia Coleman. Nothing further is known about Catherine Jennings.

Charles Jennings [1840 - ], Francis Street, Dundalk, County Louth.

Charles Jennings was born in 1840 in Francis Street, Dundalk, County Louth. He was the third son of Patrick Jennings and Anne Coleman. He was baptised on the 1^st of April 1840.  His baptismal sponsors were Thomas Coleman and Margaret Carroll.

Whether he attended Clongowes Wood College like his older brother Daniel cannot be confirmed until the College Archives reopen.

Mary Bridget Jennings [1836 - ], Francis Street, Dundalk, County Louth.

Mary Bridget Jennings was born in 1836 in Francis Street, Dundalk, County Louth. She was the second daughter of Patrick Jennings and Anne Coleman. She was baptised on the 28^th of May 1836. Her baptismal sponsors were Peter Coleman and Catherine Coleman. Nothing more is known about Mary Bridget Jennings.

Anne Jane Jennings [1834-1878], Francis Street, Dundalk, County Louth.

Anne Jane Jennings was born in Francis Street, Dundalk, County Louth in 1834. She was baptised on the 18^th of January 1834 and named after her mother Anne.

Patrick’s eldest daughter Anne Jane became a Sister of Mercy in St. Malachy’s Convent in Dundalk. She entered the convent in 1860 when she received the white veil.[1] She was professed with the black veil in 1862 when she took the name of Sister Mary Ursula.

RECEPTION AND PROFESSION IN THE CONVENT OF THE SISTERS OF MERCY.

We witnessed this morning in the Convent of the Sisters of Mercy, Dundalk, one of the most solemn and interesting ceremonies observed in the Catholic Church, in which Miss Jennings, (in religion Sister Mary Ursula), daughter of Patrick Jennings, Esq., of this town, made her vows, and received the black veil…The ceremonies took place in the beautiful Chapel of the Convent, and were witnessed by a considerable number of the   most respectable families belonging to the town and county…. The ceremonies were performed in the unavoidable absence of the Lord Primate, by the most Rev. Dr. Moriarty, Lord Bishop of Kerry.[2]

Anne died in February 1878 in the Convent of Mercy, Dundalk. She was forty four years old.

 

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[1] Weekly Freeman’s Journal 28^th July 1860

[2] Dundalk Democrat and People’s Journal 11^th October 1862

Bernard Jennings [1832 - ] Francis Street, Dundalk, County Louth.

Bernard Jennings was born in 1832 in Francis Street, Dundalk , County Louth. He was the second son of Patrick Jennings and Anne Coleman. He was baptised on the 21^st of April 1832, and following traditional naming patterns he was called after his maternal grandfather Bernard [Brian] Coleman. The baptismal sponsors were Bernard Coleman and Catherine Carroll.

Nothing more is known about Bernard Coleman. Whether he attended Clongowes Wood College like his older brother Daniel cannot be confirmed until the College Archives reopen.

Daniel Jennings [1830-1847], Francis Street, Dundalk, County Louth.

Daniel Jennings was born in Francis Street, Dundalk in 1830. He was the eldest son of Patrick and Anne Jennings. He was baptised in Dundalk on the 17^th of August 1830 and named after his paternal grandfather Daniel Jennings who had died in Newry, County Down, three months earlier. His baptismal sponsors were James Carroll and Catherine Coleman.

He attended Clongowes Wood College in County Kildare from 1841 to 1843 and again from 1846 to 1847. The reason for his absence from 1843 to 1846 is not recorded, but it may have been due to ill health. More information about Daniel might possibly be found in the Clongowes Wood College Archives, but these cannot be accessed at present due to Covid-19.[1]

Daniel died in 1847. 

On Saturday night, in the 17^th year of his age, Mr. Daniel Jennings, son of Patrick Jennings, Esq., Francis Street, Dundalk.[2]

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[1] Newry Telegraph 7^th October 1847

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[2] Archivist Clongowes Wood College 15^th September 2020

Patrick Jennings [1799-1873], Dundalk, County Louth. Part 3.

Patrick Jennings first appears as a defendant in the Petty Session Courts on the 31^st of August 1855, charged with having illegal weights in his possession. He paid a fine and costs, and the weights were forfeited. In 1857 he was again charged with having illegal weights in his possession in Dundalk. He paid costs, and the weights were to be returned for adjusting.In 1870 Patrick Jennings of Francis Street Dundalk was again in the Petty Sessions Courts, this time for having in his possession in Dundalk in said county [Louth] on the 28^th day of May 1870 the following light or unjust weights – one 56lb one 4lb one 2lb and one 1lb. He was fined one shilling and one shilling costs.

These were not the only occasions Patrick Jennings was a defendant at the Petty Session courts. On at least one earlier occasions he was charged with having an unlicensed dog. But in 1868, 1869 and 1870 he owned and licensed a black male Newfoundland. He was also charged in the Petty Sessions Courts with failing to pay a labourer the wages due to him.

Patrick died in Dundalk on the 18^th of November, 1873. His will was proved at Armagh by the oath of Anne Jennings of Dundalk aforesaid the Widow and one of the Executors.[1] Anne died on the 18^th of May 1897. Patrick and Anne are both buried in St. Mary’s Church (Old Chapel) Cemetery, Newry, County Down, with Patrick’s parents Daniel and Bridget Jennings.[2]

 

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[1] PRONI 14869.

[2] Section- Old B Plot- 69

 

Patrick Jennings [1799-1873], Dundalk, County Louth. Part 2.

Patrick began his business in Dundalk in 1826 by taking over the premises of the late Mr Charles on Francis Street.  He was 27 years old.

DUNDALK.   

IRON AND DEAL YARD.

Patrick Jennings begs leave to acquaint his Friends and the Public, that he has commenced the IRON and DEAL TRADE, in that concern formerly occupied but he late Mr Charles, Frances-Street, Dundalk, where he has now an assortment of those Articles of best quality, which he will sell at moderate prices. He daly [sic] expects the Endeavour, from Dronheim with a Cargo of DOUBLE DEALS, PLANKS, &c _ 1^st Nov. 1826.[1]

He quickly began to make his mark in the business life of the town, assisted no doubt by his connection, though his marriage in 1829 to Anne Coleman, to the Coleman family.

 In 1828 he was a steward in the Louth Independent Club together with John Colman M. D. and James Carragher who was Croupier, this was, historically the assistant chairman at a public dinner, seated at the lower end of the table.[2]

Patrick Jennings used advertising extensively to promote his business with obvious results.

NEW

CROWN MEMEL TIMBER,

DEALS, STAVES AND LATHWOOD,

Patrick Jennings,

OF DUNDALK,

Is now Landing the Cargo of the Bellona. T. T. ZIEPKE,

Master, from Memel, containing

224 pieces Crown Memel Timber;

500 Ditto Crown Redwood Deals, twelve to twenty feet;

720 Ditto Crown Oak Pipe Staves;

4 Fathoms Lathwood;

 Which he offers for SALE, at his stores, Frances-Street,

Dundalk, June 5, 1837.[3]

In 1838 the Valuation Office Books gave a comprehensive description of his premises.

Francis Street. A good business street, only a few private houses in it composed mostly of shops and public houses.

Patrick Jennings. House, Stores, Offices and Yard. Good Coal and Timber yard and gateway entrance from street. Altogether a good concern well fitted up for the Coal, Timber and Iron Trade.[4]

In 1847 Patrick’s eldest son Daniel died. He had been a student at Clongowes College, in County Kildare.

There was widespread famine in the country. Little was being done to help the starving and cuttings from the Newry Examiner for December 19^th 1847 show sailings into Dundalk consisted mainly of coal with only one of Indian corn [meal]. The ISABELLA, under Captain Mathews, brought coal for Patrick Jennings from Cardiff, 

On the other hand, sailings from Dundalk listed immediately below the arrivals were ships laden with all kinds of food.

On December 18^th the PRIDE OF ERIN had sailed for Liverpool  carrying a cargo of 12 boxes of eggs, 10 boxes of dead fowl, 11 Crates of live fowl, 16 boxes of butter.326 firkins of butter, 94 bags of oatmeal, 24 bags of oats, 134 bags of shellfish, I horse, 265 sheep, 283 pigs, 24 cows.

The PRIDE OF ERIN sailed again for Liverpool on the 23^rd of December with a similar cargo except this time she also carried 13 puncheons of whiskey, 1 hamper of rabbits and 90 cows.

Meanwhile deaths from starvation continued to be reported in the press.

 

In 1862 Patrick’s eldest daughter Anne became a Sister of Mercy in the convent in Dundalk. She had entered the convent in 1860. She took the name Sister Mary Ursula.

RECEPTION AND PROFESSION IN THE CONVENT OF THE SISTERS OF MERCY.

We witnessed this morning in the Convent of the Sisters of Mercy, Dundalk, one of the most solemn and interesting ceremonies observed in the Catholic Church, in which Miss Jennings, (in religion Sister Mary Ursula), daughter of Patrick Jennings, Esq., of this town, made her vows, and received the black veil…The ceremonies took place in the beautiful Chapel of the Convent, and were witnessed by a considerable number of the most respectable families belonging to the town and county…. The ceremonies were performed in the unavoidable absence of the Lord Primate, by the most Rev. Dr. Moriarty, Lord Bishop of Kerry.[5]

Anne Jennings died in 1878 in the Convent of the Sisters of Mercy in Dundalk. She was 44.

 

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[1] Drogheda Journal, 4^th November 1826.

[2] Google Oxford Languages

[3] Newry Examiner and Louth Advertiser 14^th June 1837

[4] Valuation Office Books 1838

[5] Dundalk Democrat and People’s Journal 11^th October 1862

Patrick Jennings [1799-1873], Dundalk, County Louth. Part 1.

Patrick Jennings was the eldest son of Daniel Jennings [1765-1830] of Mill Street, Newry, County Down, and his wife Bridget. 

Patrick Jennings married Anne Coleman, the eldest daughter of Bernard Coleman, in Newry in 1829. John Caraher, who was a witness at the marriage, was the husband of Eliza Jennings, first cousin of Patrick.

Patrick Jennings and Anne Coleman 1829. Witnesses John Caraher and Mrs. McGinnis.[1]

They lived in Francis Street, Dundalk, County Louth, where Patrick was a timber merchant.

They had nine children.

1. Daniel Jennings [abt 1830-1847]. Daniel was a student at Clongowes Wood College, a Jesuit school situated in County Kildare, from 1841-1843 and again from 1846 – 1847.
2. Bernard Jennings b. 1832. Named after his maternal grandfather Bernard Coleman.
3. Anne Jane Jennings  [1834-1878]. Anne became a nun in the Mercy Order.
   
4. Mary Bridget Jennings b. 1836. Possibly named after her two grandmothers.
5. Catherine Jennings b. 1838 in Francis Street, Dundalk.
6. Charles Jennings b. 1840.
7. Julia Jennings [1842-1919]. Unmarried. Francis Street, Dundalk, County Louth.
8. Patrick Coleman Jennings [1845-1921] 5 Francis Street, Dundalk, County Louth. Timber Merchant.
9. Joseph Daniel Jennings [1848-1930]. Seatown Place, Dundalk, County Louth. Timber Merchant. Married Frances J. Murphy.

Francis Street. A good business street, only a few private houses in it composed mostly of shops and public houses.

Patrick Jennings. House, Stores, Offices and Yard. Good Coal and Timber yard and gateway entrance from street. Altogether a good concern well fitted up for the Coal, Timber and Iron Trade.[2]

 

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[1] Catholic Church Records. Newry Banns 05502/03 P.91

[2] Valuation Office Books 1838

Andrew Jennings [abt.1793 – 1869], North Street, Newry, County Down. Part 3.

Andrew in this account is described as an attorney.

Once the rent reached a critical mass, it became a political machine of impressive efficiency. The rent paid for the attorneys and barristers who took on cases for victimised Catholics. Between 19 June 1823 and the end of 1824, more than twenty five percent of the association’s expenditure went to attorneys, such as Andrew Jennings, who received £20 in August 1824 for ‘carrying on Orange prosecutions at Newry, in the case of McEvoy against Weir, when the latter was found guilty and sentenced to twelve months

imprisonment, and also for defending Hacket against the Orange party at Down sessions.[1]

And at the marriage of Mary Marmion and Alexander Macdonnell in 1826, Andrew Jennings is named as one of the trustees.[2]

In 1860 Andrew was appointed to the post of Stamp Distributor for Newry District and County Down and remained in this position until his death.

Stamp Distributor for Newry District and County Down - The Dundalk Examiner announces the appointment of a successor to the late Mr. Williams, in the person of "Mr. Andrew Jennings, of Newry, who" it was added, "from his fellow townsmen, is well qualified for the situation, and whose appointment would give general satisfaction throughout the town and neighbourhood." We have much pleasure in echoing the sentiments of our contemporary. New Telegraph.[3]

In 1864 Andrew bought four graves in St. Mary’s Catholic graveyard, Newry.

List of graves...1864 Sept. 4. Four graves for Mr. Andrew Jennings.[4]

His eldest daughter Mary Catherine had died in Dublin in August of the same year and is buried in Newry.

Andrew died in 1869.

Jennings - April 12, at Newry, of congestion of the brain, Andrew Jennings, Esq., Distributor of Stamps for County Down, aged 76 years.[5]

He died intestate.

Jennings, Andrew. (Intestate: Principal). 1869.[6]

Andrew is buried in St. Mary’s Catholic graveyard, Newry, with his daughter Mary Catherine, and his granddaughter Ellen McDonald who died as a child aged 3 in 1866.  His widow Mary Anne Jennings is not buried here, but in Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin.

There is an inscription on a slate headstone in St. Mary's graveyard, Newry:

Erected by Andrew Jennings of Newry in memory of his daughter Mary Catherine who departed this life on 19th August 1864, also Ellen McDonald who departed this life on the 16th February 1866, Andrew Jennings departed this life on the 12th April 1869 aged 76. Requiescant in pace. [7]

Mary Anne was his executor.

Letters of administration of the personal estate of Andrew Jennings, late of Newry, county Down, ironmonger, who died 12 April 1869 at same place were granted at the Principal Registry 9 September 1869 to May Anne Jennings of Newry, the widow of said deceased. Effects under eight hundred pounds.[8]

As there was now no one remaining in Newry to carry on the business, the spade mill at Finnard and the forge at 11 North Street were sold.

This Day, sale of Spade and Shovel Mill at Finard with Finishing-Forge at North Street, Newry.

To be sold by Public Auction, on Saturday, the 31^st instant, at 11 North Street, Newry, at TWO o’clock, the PLANT and Interest of the late Mr. Andrew Jennings in the Spade and Shovel Factory at Finard, and in the Finishing Forge, Stores, and Premises adjoining no. 11, North Street.

Rent and Tenure of the above will be stated previous to sale, or may be had before then, by application to the Liquidator, Mr. T. S. Malony, 6, Marcus Square, Newry.

Purchasers to pay 5 per cent Auction Fees.

Joseph Loughran, Auctioneer. 21^st July 1869.[9]

Andrew’s widow Mary Anne moved to live in Phibsborough, in Dublin, with her daughter Elizabeth, an artist, and her son Charles Clarke. They were close to her sister-in-law Sophia, widow of Charles Jennings, who lived at 8 Cabra Parade with her daughters and son. Mary Anne died at 35 Goldsmith Street in Dublin in 1876. She was 65.

 Death. Jennings, June 7, at 35 Goldsmith-street, Dublin, Mary Anne, relict of Andrew Jennings, Newry.[10]

Mary Anne is buried in Glasnevin Cemetery with her son Charles Clarke Jennings who had died in 1870.[11]

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[1] http://eprints.maynoothuniversity.ie/2899/1/MJK_Money_and_nationalist_politics.pdf

[2]  http://www.marmionfamilytree.com

[3] The Belfast News-letter, Friday, Feb., 10, 1860. Issue 13611

[4] NLI Pos 5502.

[5] The Belfast Newsletter, 1869, Apr 16.

[6] Irish Will Calendars, 1858-1878

[7] St Marys Newry Graveyard Plot No. 461 Section Old C

[8] Old Families of Newry and District...edited by R. S. J. Clarke, Belfast, 1998.

[9] Newry Reporter, 31^st July 1969

[10] Freeman's Journal, Thur., June 8, 1876

[11] Glasnevin Cemetery, MB, 11, SOUTH.

Andrew Jennings [abt. 1793-1869], North Street, Newry, County Down. Part 2.

Andrew Jennings was a Commissioner for Newry.

1828. Act for lighting, watching and cleansing...Newry Commissioners.

Andrew Jennings ironmonger

Charles O'Hagan woollendraper[1]

In 1832 Andrew was selling soap and candles.

NEW

SOAP AND CANDLE

MANUFACTURY.

ANDREW JENNINGS begs leave to announce to his Friends and the Public, that he has commenced the above Business, at his Establishment at NORTH-STREET,

where henceforward he will be regularly supplied with an

EXTENSIVE STOCK OF SOAP AND CANDLES,

which from the arrangements he has made, he can safely assure those who may favour him with their patronage will be found to be at least equal in quality to any manufactured at present in Newry,

and will be Sold on Terms which cannot be surpassed by any similar Establishment in the Trade.

A.J. takes this opportunity of assuring his Friends and the Public, that he is supplied, as usual, with an Extensive Assortment of

Bar, Rod and Hoop Iron; Cast Metal Spades and Shovels;

With a Variety of other Articles in the IRONMONGERY line.[2]

There is no doubt these were troubled times in Newry. Life was not easy.

1833 Riot in Newry.

The Newry Papers contain long accounts of a serious riot in that town, on Monday night. They are somewhat contradictory, and as usual with all the like affairs in the North, related with strong tincture of party feeling. […] The Orangemen first commenced groaning opposite the houses of persons obnoxious to them, but very soon proceeded to open acts of violence; they commenced by breaking a few windows, firing shots into some, and battering others with heavy stones. In several instances the entire fronts of the houses were destroyed, and the hall-doors perforated with bullets and slugs. All Market-parts of North-street, Castle-street, High-street and Mill-street were visited with the same unsparing ferocity […]. The wrecking continued systematically down North-street, when some panes had been broken in Andrew Jennings’s windows, at past two in the morning, the heavy and measured tread of the military warned the perpetrators of this atrocity to make their retreat which they did in double-quick time, leaving nothing to the magistrates and soldiers to witness but solitude and desolation. […][3]

Andrew appears to recognise the power of advertising!

SPADE AND  SHOVEL

Manufactory

The subscriber begs to intimate to the Trade, that he has fitted up, in a superior manner, a MILL, at MOUNTCAULFIELD, for the Manufacture of the above articles. He has now on hands

300 Dozen of Spades,

suitable to the following towns:-

Newry, Armagh, Monaghan, Aughnacloy, Dungannon, Dundalk and Drogheda.

He is now ready to receive and execute, with the utmost despatch, other patterns of Spades and Shovels, which he will dispose of on Moderate Terms.

ANDREW JENNINGS.

11 North-street, Newry, Oct. 8, 1833.[4]

But by 1834 Andrew was facing bankruptcy.

Irish Bankrupts. Andrew Jennings, of Newry, iron-merchant, July 21 and 22, and August 21.[5]

By this time he had a wife and a young family to support.

Bankrupt’s Sale by Auction, of Corn and Potatoes, on the foot, Excellent Family Horse, outside Jaunting Car, Harness, &c., &c., by order of the Assignees of Mr. Andrew Jennings.[6]

In 1835 Andrew Jennings was listed as a bankrupt in Perry’s Bankrupt Gazette.[7]

BANKRUPTS IN IRELAND

1835. Jennings Andrew (July 4, 1834) of Newry, iron merchant...  

In 1836 he had a store and yard at 21 Merchant’s Quay, and premises at 19 Monaghan Street.[8]

By 1837 he was advertising again.

SPADE and SHOVEL

Manufactory,

No. 11 North-street Newry

ANDREW JENNINGS Offers for SALE a Prime Quality of SPADES and SHOVELS, of his own Manufacture, to answer the following Markets:

Newry, Armagh, Dundalk, Castlewellan, Castleblany, Keady, &c., &c., &c., which, with a General assortment of GOODS connected with the IRON TRADE, he will dispose of on Moderate Terms, for Cash Payments. Newry, 10^th October 1837.[9]

He also still had a house, stores, offices and yard at 34 Upper North Street in 1838. And there was another side to life.

In 1838 Andrew Jennings Esq., won first prize for the best and largest cabbage, the best pickling cabbage, and the best six turnips. An extra first prize was awarded to Andrew Jennings Esq., for a stem of potatoes, from one seed, with 40 large and full grown potatoes attached thereto.

There was likewise presented to the Society from the gardens of Colonel Close, Drumbanagher, a new seedling dahlia, called the Drumbanagher Queen Victoria.[10]

North-street may not always have been a very salubrious place to live. It’s not known if Andrew was still a Commissioner for Newry at this time, as he had been ten years previously in 1828, but it’s possible, as the reference to his premises is very deliberate.

To the Editor of the Newry Telegraph

Sir,

I beg leave through the medium of your Journal, to call the attention of the Police Commissioners to the state of the entry in North-street, immediately opposite the stores of Mr. Andrew Jennings. From the quantity of filth and dirt, of every description, that is constantly heaped up in it, it is rendered a most intolerable nuisance; and from the very decayed state of the tenement, the passers by are in danger of being crushed to death, by the walls falling. Under these circumstances, I respectfully submit, that it is the duty of the Commissioners to adopt some means of keeping it clean, or, what would be much better, to close it up entirely. – your obedient servant, Julian.[11] 

In 1846 he is still listed as an Iron Merchant on North Street.[12] His brother Charles is also listed as an Iron Merchant at 30 Merchant’s Quay.

But he appears to have had other interests.

For Sale the British-built sloop “Mary Hardie,” of Grangemouth, 65 Tons per register – carries 83 Tons of 9 ½ feet on water, well found in Sails, Rigging, &c., as she now lies at the New Navigation Office, Canal, Newry.

For further particulars apply to Mr. Andrew Jennings, Merchant, North-street; or Mr George Guy, Jun., Ship Agent, 45 Merchant’s-quay, Newry.[13]

A number of times Andrew appears to have acted as an agent or a trustee, and has even been referred to as a lawyer. But there is no record of him having studied law.

In 1825 he was paid £25 for what appears to have been some form of legal representation in a case involving an attack carried out by an Orangeman [Weir] on a Catholic [McEvoy].

Andrew Jennings to carrying on Orange prosecutions at Newry, in the case of McEvoy against Weir, when the latter was found guilty and sentenced to twelve months’ imprisonment, and also for defending Hacket against an Orange party at Down Sessions or Assizes. 20.0.0.[14]

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[1] EPPI 1843 Vol 50, 632, p. 22

[2] Newry Telegraph 6^th November 1832

[3] Source unknown

[4] Newry Telegraph 15 Oct 1833

[5] Globe, 14 July 1834

[6] Newry Examiner and Louth Advertiser 6^th August 1834

[7] Perry’s Bankrupt Gazette Sat 14 Mar 1835 p. 6.

[8] Valuation Office Books

[9] Newry Telegraph 28^th October 1837

[10]  Source unknown.

[11] Newry Telegraph, 1838.

[12] Slater’s Directory, 1846.

[13] Newry Telegraph, 25^th October 1851

[14] Dublin Morning Register 16 Feb 1825

Andrew Jennings [abt. 1793-1869], North Street, Newry, County Down. Part 1.

  Andrew Jennings, Iron Merchant, was born in Newry, County Down, the son of Andrew Jennings and Catherine O’Toole of North Street. He married Mary Anne Clarke, the second daughter of the late Edward Clarke of High-st., Newry. A dispensation of Banns had been sought on the 8^th of October.

1825 October 8. Dispensations in Banns. Andrew Jennings of Newry.  5.5.[1]

Andrew and Mary Anne were married two days later on the 10^th of October 1825.

Married. Andrew Jennings, Esq., of Newry, merchant, to the daughter of the late Edw. Clarke, of said place.[2]

The witnesses were Mr. Marky and Charles Jennings. The church was in Loughinisland and the priest was the Rev. W. McMullan. 3rd and 4th witnesses were entered as Peter Jennings and Mr. Clarke Kavena.

Andrew and Mary Anne had eight children.

1. Mary Catherine [1826-1864] died in Phibsborough, Dublin. Unmarried.

2. Edward [1827 - ] may have died young.

3. Andrew [1829 -]

4. Charles Clarke [1830-1870] died in Phibsborough, Dublin. Unmarried.

5. Ellen [1834 – 1870] died in Phibsborough, Dublin. Unmarried.

6. Elizabeth [1839 - ]. Artist.

7. Edward Daniel [1845 - ]

8. Unnamed daughter married John McDonald, Templetate, County Monaghan.

The family continued to live on North Street, where Andrew’s father had lived, and where Andrew also carried on his business.

ANDREW JENNINGS offers FOR Sale, 400 Tons SCOTCH FIRE COALS, which he will dispose of on moderate terms. No. 11, North Street, Newry.[3]

Living with them was Mary Anne’s mother, widowed since the death of her husband in 1825.

Death. In Newry, on Saturday last, in the 63^rd year of her age, at the house of her son-in-law, Mr. Andrew Jennings, Mrs Clarke, relict of the late Mr. Edwd Clarke, of High-st., Newry.[4]

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[1] Parochial records of Newry, 1818-1827.  FHL 926087.

[2] Southern Reporter and Commercial Courier. Thursday 27th October 1825.www.britishnewspaperarchives.co.uk

[3] www.lastchancetoread.com/docs/1830-10-27-the-newry-examiner

[4] Belfast Commercial Chronicle 9 July 1831

Edward Daniel Jennings [1845-], North Street, Newry, County Down

Edward Daniel Jennings was the third son of Andrew Jennings [1793 – 1869], North Street, Newry, County Down, and his wife Mary Ann Clarke, daughter of Edward Clarke.

He was baptised in Newry.

Edward Daniel of Andrew Jennings and Mary Anne Clarke, sponsors Charles and Ellen Jennings 10/6[1]

There is an Edward Jennings found in Church Street, Rathfriland in 1870. He was a spirit and porter dealer.[2] He married Margaret Leathem, daughter of Andrew Leathem and Marion English. They had three children, William [b.1865], Sophia [b.1867] and Mary Ann [b.1872]. Mary Ann died in 1874 aged 2. It’s possible that William also died young. Sophia married Hugh Craig and they emigrated to New York as did Sophia’s mother Margaret. Edward had died in 1876.

It has not been possible to confirm if Edward Jennings of Rathfriland is the same Edward Daniel Jennings of North Street, Newry.

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[1] Catholic Church Records, Newry, Baptisms, 1845 05502/02 nli.ie

[2] RosDavies