Charles Borromeo Jennings was born in Thurles, County Tipperary,
in 1846, and was the eldest son of Daniel Jennings and Johanna Bray. He was
baptised in Thurles on the 11th of November 1846 and called after
his grandfather Charles Jennings, of Newry, County Down.
He
was also called after St. Charles Borromeo.
St. Charles Borromeo, Italian San Carlo Borromeo, (born
October 2, 1538, Arona, duchy of Milan—died November 3, 1584, Milan; canonized
1610; feast day November 4), cardinal
and archbishop
who was one of the most important figures of the Counter-Reformation
in Italy.
He is the patron saint
of bishops,
cardinals,
seminarians, and spiritual leaders.
Charles attended Tramore School Waterford and from there
went on to study at the Catholic University, Dublin.
Catholic University... Classical Burses... Charles B. Jennings,
Tramore School,
Waterford, 15l.
He took his medical degrees in
1867 and subsequently joined the British Army.
Jennings, Charles Boromeo, Staff Assistant
Surgeon, Army, (Date of registration, 1868, Feb 1.] Lic. R. Coll. Surg. Irel.,
1867. Lic. K. Q. Coll. Phys., Ireland,
1868.
Charles married Annabelle Mary
Agnes Caldbeck, the widow of William Francis Cope Caldbeck, on January 8th
1877.
JENNINGS and CALDBECK
- Jan 8, at St. Patrick's Monkstown, Charles B. Jennings, Esq., Army Medical
Department, son of D. C. Jennings, Esq., R.I.C., to Annabelle Mary Agnes, widow
of William Francis Caldbeck, Esq., and daughter of the late Samuel Hugo, Esq.,
Guernsey.
Charles and Annabelle had three children.
- Charles
Ernest Hugo Bray Jennings
[1877-]
- Violet
Jennings [1882 South Africa - 1962] Married
1) Leonard Hacking 2) Frederick Bowring.
- Kathleen
Jennings [1883-1912] married Henry Lindemere. They had one daughter Beryl
Kathleen M. [1911-1984] and a son Henry Lindemere.
Annabelle had three children from her previous marriage,
- William
Francis Cope Caldbeck. [1867-1895].
- Francis Curran Caldbeck.
Not Married. [1871 – 1955].
- Florence
Anna Mary Caldbeck [1870 – 1956] married P.W. Stafford.
Charles retired from the Army in 1893. In the 1901 Census Charles and Annabelle [Anastasia] lived
in a house on South Hill Avenue,
Blackrock, County
Dublin. Ernest, Violet
and Kathleen were living with them, also Francis Caldbeck, Annabelle’s son and stepson
of Charles. By 1911 they were living at 6 Ulva
Road Putney S W, Wandsworth, London
& Surrey,
England.
Charles was retired and there were no children living with them. Annabelle appears as Anastasia in
both Irish and British Census Records.
In an unidentified news cutting it
was reported that the degree of LL.D. (hon. causa) was conferred on Charles
Jennings by the N.U.I. in 1915.
In 1915 The Senate of
the newly founded National University of Ireland
awarded honorary doctorate degrees on persons who had attended the Catholic University
of Ireland for conscientious
reasons, but the Catholic
University did not have
the authority to award degrees.
In a list of the recipients of the
honorary degrees the only name which appears is that of Lt-Col. John B
Jennings. It’s possible that there might be some confusion between Charles and
his younger brother John Bray Jennings [1854-1881] who also studied medicine
and who died young.
Lieut.-Col. C. B. Jennings, late
R.A.M.C., died at Fernleigh, The Hill, Monkstown, County Dublin,
on the 30th of May 1826, aged 80. He is buried in Deansgrange
Burial Ground, Blackrock, County
Dublin, Ireland,
Plot: North/F2/7. There is no one else in the plot.
His wife, Anastasia, died at the Southampton Hotel, Surbiton,
Surrey, on the 6th of May 1928. She
left a will.
The Medical Register, 1879
