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THE
ANCESTRY OF JAMES CALLAGHAN
1 Leonard James Callaghan, Baron
Callaghan of Cardiff
b 27
Mar 1912, Copnor, Hampshire
d 26
Mar 2005, Burgess Hill, Sussex
2 James Callaghan, formerly Garoghan, seaman
b 21
Jan 1877, Birmingham
d 13
Oct 1921, East Stonehouse
m 10
May 1903, Portsmouth
3 Charlottie Gertrude Cundy
b 3
Aug 1879, Devonport
d 4
Jul 1961, Worthing
Grandparents
4 James Garoghan of Birmingham, electro
plate polisher
b 28
Apr 1851, Coventry
d 27
Feb 1905, Selly Oak
m 14
May 1875, Sheffield
5 Elizabeth Bernstein
b ca
1856, Manchester
d
24 Oct 1904, Birmingham
6 William Henry Cundy of Stoke Damerel, chief
carpenter’s mate
b
Tavistock, bap 2 Mar 1831, Tavistock
d 9 May 1881, Devonport
m 20 Oct 1862, Stoke Damerel
7 Rosina Fanny McDowell
b 21 Feb 1843, Devonport
d
15 Feb 1919, Plymouth
8 John Garoghan of Coventry, weaver
b ca
1806, Ireland
d 10
Nov 1870, Birmingham
m
9 Winifred
b
ca 1820, Ireland
d 14
Feb 1875, Birmingham
10 Lewis
Bernstein, traveller
b ca
1829
d
m
11 Mary Geary
b ca
1829
d
12 Robert
Cundy of Tavistock, quarryman
b ca 1785, Tavistock
d
14 Feb 1870, Calstock
m 1 Dec 1822, Tavistock
13 Grace Burn
bap 14 Jun 1794, Tavistock
d
10 Feb 1851, Tavistock
14 John
McDowell of Stoke Damerel,
shoemaker
bap
8 Oct 1815, Stoke Damerel
d ca
1849
m 29
Jun 1835, East Stonehouse
15 Charlotte
Pidgeon
bap 21 Aug 1814, Stoke Damerel
d
16
b
d
m
17
b
d
18
b
d
m
19
b
d
20
b
d
m
21
b
d
22 James Geary, farm labourer
b
d
m
23
b
d
24
b
d
m
25
b
d
26 Thomas Burn of Tavistock, labourer
b
d
m
28 Jul 1793, Tavistock
27 Joanna Sleeman
b ca
1767
bur 8
Nov 1848, Dolvin Road Cemetery, Tavistock
28 William McDowell of Stoke Damerel,
cordwainer
b ca
1792
d
m
14 Nov 1814, Stoke Damerel
29 Mary Gerry
b ca
1794
bur
29 Jan 1837, Stoke Damerel
30 James
Pidgeon of Devonport, porter
b ca
1784
d 4
Nov 1858, Stoke Damerel
m 8
Oct 1810, Stoke Damerel
31 Charlotte Stevens
b ca
1790
bur 5
Apr 1836, St Andrew, Plymouth
Sources
Oxford
Dictionary of National Biography
Death certificate for Leonard James Callaghan
Birth certificate for Charlottie Gertrude Cundy
Marriage certificate for William Henry Cundy and
Rosina Fanny McDowell
Marriage certificate for James Callaghan and
Charlottie Gertrude Cundy
Death certificate for Charlottie Gertrude Callaghan
Death certificate for James Callaghan (1921)
Death certificate for William Henry Cundy
Death certificate for Rosina Fanny (McDowell)
(Cundy) Kelly
Birth certificate for Rosina Fanny McDowell
Birth certificate for James Garoghan (1877)
Death certificate for Elizabeth (Burnstein) Garoghan
Death certificate for James Garoghan (1905)
Marriage certificate for William Beeching and
Charlotte McDowell (1853)
Marriage certificate for James Garoghan and
Elizabeth Burnstein
Marriage certificate for John Dixon and Mary Geary
(1868)
Birth certificate for James Garoghan (1851)
Death certificate for Winifred Garoghan
Death certificate for John Garoghan
Birth certificate for Mary Grace Cundy (1839)
Death certificate for Robert Cundy
Death certificate for Grace (Burn) Cundy
Death certificate for James Pidgeon
Tavistock parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk)
Stoke Damerel parish
registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk)
St Andrew, Plymouth, parish
registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk)
Devon Burials (online
at www.findmypast.co.uk)
East Stonehouse bishop’s transcripts (www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9Q5-3XXQ)
Roman Catholic registers of St Michael, Moor Street,
Birmingham (online at www.findmypast.co.uk)
Royal Navy registers of seamen’s services (National
Archives, ADM 188/292)
1841 census returns, Stoke Damerel (National
Archives, HO 107/272/3, fol. 21)
1841 census returns, Stoke Damerel (National
Archives, HO 107/272/6, fol. 3)
1841 census returns, Plymouth (National Archives, HO
107/269/2, fol. 10)
1841 census returns, Tavistock (National Archives,
HO 107/249/11, fol. 5)
1851 census returns, Tavistock (National Archives,
HO 107/1883, fol. 455)
1851 census returns, Stoke Damerel (National
Archives, HO 107/1881, fol. 269)
1851 census returns, Coventry (National Archives, HO
107/2068, fol. 130)
1851 census returns, Manchester (National Archives,
HO 107/2229, fol. 335)
1861 census returns, Devonport (National Archives,
RG 9/1449, fol. 146)
1871 census returns, Stoke Damerel (National
Archives, RG 10/2131, fol. 18)
1871 census returns, Birmingham (National Archives,
RG 10/3108, fol. 16)
1881 census returns, Dudley (National Archives, RG
11/2879, fol. 85)
Notes
The maiden surname of Winifred, wife of John
Garoghan, is given variously on the birth certificates of her sons Thomas (b 20
Apr 1849), James (b 28 Apr 1851) and John (b 25 Jul 1855) as O’Rourke, Groarck,
and O Hara.
Elizabeth (Bernstein) Garoghan’s father is given on
her marriage certificate as Lewis Burnstein, deceased, a traveller. Her parents
appear to be Lewis Bernstein and Mary, formerly Geary, who had children born or
baptised (with various spellings of the surnames recorded) in London,
Manchester, Liverpool and Birmingham. Mary seems to be the Mary Geary,
spinster, who married John Dixon on 29 Sep 1868 at Birmingham register office.
Although recorded under her maiden name, her identity with the putative wife of
Lewis Bernstein is supported by one of the witnesses to the 1868 marriage being
“Lewis Birnstien” and by the appearance in the 1871 census returns for
Birmingham of Joseph Burnsteen, aged 12, described as a son of John Dixon. The
birth on 24 Dec 1858 of Joseph “Barnsteel”, son of “Ludovici et Marić Annć
Barnsteel (olim Geary)” is recorded in the Catholic registers of Birmingham.
A Charlotte Pedgeon, spinster, married Thomas Mills
at Stoke Damerel on 22 Sep 1834. She seems to be the same person as the
Charlotte Padgan, spinster, who married John McDowell at East Stonehouse on 29
Jun 1835, as no further record has been found of the couple Thomas and
Charlotte Mills, and there is only one evident baptism for a Charlotte Pidgeon
or variants in the likely time period. The Charlotte who married John McDowell
is known from the certificate for her second marriage to have been a daughter
of James Pidgeon.