Co.Tipperary (T) - Blennerhassett Family Tree

T 02 | / | || Because of the age | |>>>Joseph "Joe" Albert Hassett;| difference this was almost | | b.1922; emig. to Canada 1949;| certainly a 2nd marriage, | | of Powell River, BC, Canada| but that is unproven... | | Joe is unique in being able to say that his grand-father| | | was born before the battle of Trafalgar (1805)| | | /? | | m.1954 Ruby Webster| | | of Scotland (no issue)|>>>Timothy Hassett | |b.c1815 | |>>>Tryphena Blanche Hassettd.1865 Nenagh | b.1925 d.17.3.1926; bur.Registration District | Culliwane with her parents||>>>Joseph Blennerhassett >>>>>>>>>>>> >>|>>>Roland Patrick >>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>|>>>| b.23.7.1877 at Clash | Blennerhassett || / | b.19.5.1912 Norbury, || Moved to London c1896 | Croydon, Surrey; || with sister Sarah Jane | Draper; || Hodgins, with whom he | d.11.2.1996 Halifax, N.S. || boarded at 56 Laurence | Obituary 13.2.1996 (RC) || Ave., E.Ham, London 1901 | / || / | Served in army WWII; || Drapers' Assistant/Fitter | emig. to Canada 1948, || 1901; | settling in Quebec; || Served in army Veterinary | Trust Officer with "Royal || Corps at Woolwich, | Trust Co." until 1966, || London in WWI; | when he moved to Halifax, || Commercial Traveller, with | Nova Scotia to work with || Rylonds (Ryans?) of | EMI Cosser || Wood Street, London; | / || of 92 Orchard Avenue, | of Bridgetown, Windsor || Shirley, near Croydon, | and Annapolis, N. Scotia; || Surrey 1940; | Manager of "Royal Nova || Joseph was only one in | Scotia Yacht Squadron" || his family to retain use of | / || surname Blennerhassett; | Director of || his brothers used Hassett | Sport Nova Scotia; || / | Ham Radio pioneer using || d.10.1.1940 Shirley; admon. | call signs VE3APP, |>>>| 15.4.1940 London [PPR] | VE1AUL and VE1KH || / | / || m.cMay1911 Imelda Ethel | contributed to the || Hazeldeane (Hazeldene) | "Chronicle-Herald" || / | newspaper, || managed "Blennerhasset | Halifax, Nova Scotia; || General Drapers" at 131 | A great traveller & travel || Wickham Rd, Shirley | writer; author of || from c1930. during WWII | numerous articles and |>>>| shop suffered bomb | photographs of Far East| damage and in 1945 was | & Australia published in| sold out of the family but | Nova Scotia newspapers| continued to be operated | /| under Blennerhasset name | m.6.6.1938| until 1968, or perhaps later | Croydon, Surrey;| / | Olive Emily Guyatt| Her sons Roland & Denis | of Nova Scotia; b.25.3.1912| Blennerhassett worked | /| with her in the business | with her children Angela & Richard Blennerhassett,| until they joined the army | Olive visited her family in UK, sailing Montreal-Liverpool| at start of WWII in 1939 | on Cunard Line SS "Saxonia", arriving 28.6.1956;| / | stayed at 23 Blenheim Park Road, South Croydon, Surrey| She m.2nd 1945 || Alfred Pearce || of West Wickham |>>>Dennis Joseph Blennerhassett| b.26.3.1915 Addiscombe, Croydon, Surrey|>>>Richard Hassett /| b.26.6.1879 Clash; of Shirley, Surrey & of Thornton Heath, Surrey;| He may be the son who Draper at 131 Wickham Road, Shirley (with his mother, see advertisement, left);| c1930 was in a mail order served in the army WWII; Commercial Traveller; d.15.9.1999| business at Manchester /T 02 | or Birmingham m.c1946 Muriel Anne Pretious; d.c1991/2

T 03 |TWO-BY-TWOS: |>>>Ellen Jane Hassett >>>>>>>>>>>>> >>|>>>Irene Clarke >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>|>>>The Clarke and Hassett family farms adjoined each other; | b.20.8.1881 Clash | b.17.3.1915 d.in the early 1900s both families, previously Church of Ireland | d.13.7.1964; bur. | /(C.o.I.) Protestant, joined a new non-conformist religious | Culliwane Burial Ground | m. Sam Smythcommunity known to outsiders as the Two-by-Twos; | / |The Two-by-Twos are the largest of three groups which | m. George Francis Clarke |branched off from a religious movement founded in Ireland | b.c1886 |>>>Eric George Clarke >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>|>>>by evangelist William Irvine in 1897; | / | b.8.9.1912 Knockane; |(The other two groups are those who continue to follow the | of Knockane, Toomevera, | moved to Cheltenham, |founder, known as "The Testimony", and the followers | Knockane is the farm next England; |of early "Worker" Edward Cooney, known to outsiders as | to Rocklawn, Clash | d.30.9.1986 Cheltenham |>>>Cooneyites" or "Workers and Friends"); | / | / |The community has no formal name or title but is typically | Some of Hassett children | m.Oct-Dec.1950 |referred to among its members as The Truth or The Way; | from the neighbouring | Cheltenham; Ellen Barry |Outsiders call them the Two by Twos or No-name Church; | farm of Rocklawn, Clash, | b.12.5.1925 (RC) |>>>The movement had about 2000 members in Ireland | moved into the Clarke | Drumcolligher, Limerick;/ | farm at Knockane; | moved to Cheltenham;The Hassett and Clarke children were educated separately in | at some date George is | d.13.4.2004 Cheltenhama small stone building, still standing in 2003. | said to have worked |Formal education ended at age 11 or 12, when they went to | both his own farm and |>>>Imelda Doris Clarke; b.c1923;work the land or at whatever else was needed on the farm; | the Hassett farm | d.2.8.1927 bur. Culliwane Burial Ground, with her parentsAlchohol was forbidden and "...the only need for reading | / |was to be able to read the Bible..."; Later in the Clarke family | d.17.2.1961 bur. |>>>Herbert Clarkethere was a division over religion, following which Irene | Culliwane Burial Ground |stayed with The Truth but her brothers drifted away | |>>>Leslie Clarke of Knockane||>>>Thomas "Old Tom" Henry >>>>> >>|>>>Stanley "Stan" Alwyn >>>>>>>>> >>|>>>Hassett | Hassett |b.15.3.1885 at Rocklawn, | b.13.5.1909 Edmonton, |Clash, Co.Tipperary; | Hertfordshire |youngest child; d.1963 | / |/ | m.Jul-Sep.1933 |>>>c1892/96 (i.e. after his | Lambeth, London (Surrey);father died in 1889) was | Katie "Kit" Margueritesent to live with his sister | Maud(e) BrothersSarah Jane Hodgins at | b.12.1.1912 SheffieldTottenham, London, | d.c31.1.1978 Thanet, Kentwith whom he was |boarding at 56 Laurence |Avenue, East Ham, |London in 1901 |/ |Engineer's apprentice 1901 |/ |of Mitcham, Surrey |c1940-63 |/ |>>>Eric Aubrey Hassett >>>>>>>>> >>|>>>he told his children that | b.26.4.1911 London |he dropped the Blenner | d.19.12.1978 |from his name when he | / |was "naturalised", as he | m.Jul-Sep.1937 |put it, following his | Balham/Wandsworth, |move from Ireland to | London; |England | Doris "Dorice" May |/ | Brookland |worked at the Dennis | b.22.7.1911 London |Engineering Co. Guildford; | d.2.6.1996 |Chief Engineer at London | |Gear Works, Brixton | |/ | |m.1.8.1908 at Guildford; | |Rosa Minna "Rose" | |Gould | |b.1887 Corfe Castle, | |Dorset; | |of Mere, Wiltshire & | |Guildford, Surrey; | |d.1960 | ||| |T 03 | |

T 04 | || |>>>|||||||||||||||||||||||>>>Raymond "Ray" Douglas >>>>>>> >>|>>>| Hassett || b.24.5.1919 || of Herne Bay, Kent || d.17.8.1985 || / || m.18.5.1940 || Ivy Edith Spencer || b.4.8.1919 |>>>| d.8.5.2011 (on her 71st || wedding anniversary) || || || || || |>>>| || || || || || || || || |>>>| || || || || || || || || || |>>>||>>>Lieut. Kenneth "Ken" >>>>>>>> >>|>>>Norman Hassett, R.N.b.23.11.1922 d.10.10.1994of Mitcham, Surrey;of Beetley, E. Dereham, Norfolk;Served Fleet Air ArmWWII, 1940-50/m.22.9.1945Petty Officer W.R.N.S.Marjorie Fretwell b.21.12.1922;T 04Petty Officer W.R.N.S.

T 05Another disconnected Co.Tipperary family:>>|>>> Blennerhassett >>>>>> >>|>>>Thomas Blennerhassett >>>>> >>|>>>Thomas Hassett >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>|>>>Robert Hassett b.22.11.1842 Pitt Street, Sydney, NSW (Congregational Church)(alias Blenner Hassett) Bootmaker | d.11.6.1898 Camperdown, Newtown, NSWUndertaker; b.c1806 Clonmel, |of Co. Tipperary, Ireland Co.Tipperary; |>>>Elizabeth Hassett; b.1842 at St.James', (or St.Lawrence's) Sydney, NSW (C.of E.); d.c1842/ emig. to NSW c1841 |m. Mary Halliday on ship "Resource" |>>>Joseph Hassett b.8.9.1844 Pitt Street, Sydney, NSW (Congregational Church)/ | d.12.7.1906 Parramatta, NSWd.3.3.1895 (C.o.E.) |St.George St. Asylum, |>>>William Hassett; b.1846 at St.Lawrence's, Sydney, NSW (Presbyterian)Parramatta, NSW, | perhaps(?) d. young 1847Australia; |bur.5.3.1895 C.of E. Cemetery, |>>>Elizabeth Hassett >>>>>>>>>>>>> >>|>>>Frank Armstrong >>>>>>>>> >>|>>>Marjorie Armstrong >>>>> >>|>>>Rookwood, Sydney, NSW | b.c1848/50 Sydney, NSW | b.30.7.1872 Sydney, NSW | b.c1906 |/ | d.30.5.1929 Campsie, | d.26.6.1951 Perth, WA | / |3 son & 3 dau. d.young | Sydney, NSW | / | m. Perth, WA |(or was it 4 sons & 4 daus ?) | / | m.16.10.1903 Kalgoorlie, | Charles Lemon |/ | m.26.2.1870 Sydney, NSW | Western Australia; | |m.c1833 | Francis Armstrong | Cassie Ansell Powell | |>>>at Clonmel, Co.Tipperary; | b.c1849 Rhode Island, USA | b.26.12.1883 |Rachael Loney | moved to Australia; | Bayswater, S.Australia |d.30.6.1880 | of 100, Constitution Rd., | d. Perth, WA |Paddington, NSW | Dulwich Hill, NSW; | |>>>Jeanne Armstrong >>>>>>>>>|>>>(dau. of John & Jane Loney) | d.10.3.1910 Newtown, NSW | b.10.8.1908 Kalgoorlie, WA| | d.22.7.1993 Manly,| |>>>Ernest Armstrong Sydney, NSW| | /|>>>Robert Hassett |>>>William H. Armstrong m.9.3.1938 Perth, WA| d.1898 Newtown, NSW | Ronald Henry Gaunt| |>>>Ralph Armstrong b.15.9.1907 Perth, WA|>>>James Hassett | d.27.8.2001| d.1902 Newtown, NSW |>>>Lewis Armstrong Southport, Queensland| ||>>> Hassett|>>>Septimus S. Armstrong (alias F. Douglas);| d.young bef.1895 b.c1893 Wylam, Newcastle, NSW; of Dipton, NSW| /|>>> Hassettserved in the army (as F. Douglas) during WWI, service No.147;| d.young bef.1895 driver, 12th Brigade Australian Field Artillery;| d.25 June 1916 of wounds;|>>> Hassettbur. Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension,| d.young bef.1895 Nord, France 285 (grave II. E. 156)||>>> Hassettd.young bef.1895T 05

T 07This Hassett family is from Toomevara, near Nenagh, Co. Tipperary, so may perhaps(?) be related to the family on T 01, but no evidence for this>|>>> Patrick Hassett >>>>>>>>>>>> >|>>> Catherine Hassett >>>>>>>>>>> >|>>> John Kennedy >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >|>>> Catherine "Kate" Kennedy >>>>|>>> William James O'Meara/ b.c1800 Co.Tipperary; | b.c1835 Ballymackey, | b.c1860/1 Nenagh; |m. Margaret Kilmartin emig. New Zealand c1862 | Co.Tipperary; | m.?.11.1881; |>>>Margaret Theresa O'Meara, nun "Sister Natalie"with her two sons; | emig. to NZ c1862; | Michael O'Meara b.c1851 |d.1.9.1888 Totara Flat, | d.1908 Greymouth, NZ | Co.Tipperary; d.1921; |New Zealand (on west | / | emig. to NZ c1862 |>>>John Joseph O'Mearacoast of South Island) | m.c1860 Nenagh; Mary Harty | |/ | b.c1840 Nenagh, Tipperary; |>>>Annie Kennedy b. NZ |>>>Cornelius "Con" Patrick >>>>>> >|>>> O'Meara>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>|>>>m.c1830 Toomevara, | emig. to NZ c1862; | | O'Meara /Co.Tipperary; | d.1924 Greymouth |>>>Margaret Kennedy b. NZ | / m. Hugh Kennedy | | | m. |>>>Patrick Kennedy |>>>Mary Anne Kennedy b. NZ || | |>>>Mary Magdalen O'Meara, nun "Sister Augustine"|>>> Kennedy |>>>Hugh Kennedy b. NZ || | |>>>Cecilia Frances O'Meara, nun "Sister Paul"|>>> Kennedy |>>>Sarah Kennedy b. NZ || |>>>Helena Catherine O'Meara|>>>Helena Kennedy b. NZ || |>>>Gertrude Elizabeth O'Meara|>>>Julia Kennedy b. NZ||>>>Cecilia Kennedy b. NZ||>>>John Kennedy b. NZ>|>>> Thomas Hassett >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >|>>> Elizabeth Gertrude Hassettb.c1843 Co.Tipperary | b.c1880 (C.of I.); unm. 1911(C.of I.) of Clonmel, | Lady's Private Secretary 1911NOTE: >----> Co.Tipperary 1911; |There is no evidence that these Hassetts were Blennerhassett, Secretary for a Committee |>>> Hassettbut other than the Hassett family from Rocklawn, Clash (T 01), of Clonmel Corporation |at the 1911 census this was the only C.of I. Hassett family in 1911 |>>> HassettCo.Tipperary / |m.c1873 Mary Jane |>>> Hassettb.c1851 Co.Kilkenny ||>>> Hassett||>>> Hassett; d.bef.1911||>>> Hassett; d.bef.1911>|>>> Edward Hassett >>>>>>>>>> >|>>> Hannah Hassettb.c1811 | b.c1834 Castletown, Co.TipperaryCastletown, Co.Tipperary; | dressmaker 1851blacksmith 1851; |of 91 Yougreave, Bakewell |>>>Maria HassettDerbyshire, England 1851 | b.c1837 Castletown, Co.Tipperary/ |m. |>>>Ann Hassettd. bef. 1851 b.c1839 Castletown, Co.TipperaryT 07