Ancestry of Leonard James Callaghan

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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

Parents

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

Great-grandparents

8 John Garoghan of Coventry, weaver

b ca 1806, Ireland

d 10 Nov 1870, Birmingham

9 Winifred

b ca 1820, Ireland

d 14 Feb 1875, Birmingham

10 Lewis Bernstein, traveller

b ca 1829

11 Mary Geary

b ca 1829

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

b ca 1815

d ca 1849

m 29 Jun 1835, East Stonehouse

15 Charlotte Pidgeon

bap 21 Aug 1814, Stoke Damerel

Great-great-grandparents

22 James Geary, farm labourer

26 Thomas Burn of Tavistock, labourer

m 28 Jul 1793, Tavistock

27 Joanna Sleeman

b ca 1767

bur 8 Nov 1848, Dolvin Road Cemetery, Tavistock

30 James Pidgeon of Devonport, labourer

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 of Leonard James Callaghan

Birth certificate of Charlottie Gertrude Cundy

Marriage certificate of William Henry Cundy and Rosina Fanny McDowell

Marriage certificate of James Callaghan and Charlottie Gertrude Cundy

Death certificate of Charlottie Gertrude Callaghan

Death certificate of James Callaghan (1921)

Death certificate of William Henry Cundy

Death certificate of Rosina Fanny (McDowell) (Cundy) Kelly

Birth certificate of Rosina Fanny McDowell

Birth certificate of James Garoghan (1877)

Death certificate of Elizabeth (Burnstein) Garoghan

Death certificate of James Garoghan (1905)

Marriage certificate of William Beeching and Charlotte McDowell (1853)

Marriage certificate of James Garoghan and Elizabeth Burnstein

Marriage certificate of John Dixon and Mary Geary (1868)

Birth certificate of James Garoghan (1851)

Death certificate of Winifred Garoghan

Death certificate of John Garoghan

Birth certificate of Mary Grace Cundy (1839)

Death certificate of Robert Cundy

Death certificate of Grace (Burn) Cundy

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 107/272/6, fol. 3)

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 Mariæ Annæ 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.