Thomas Hanly and Mary Jane Pickup

Thomas Peter Hanly

Thomas Peter Hanly lives in Kent in the United Kingdom (2015) and his paternal great grandfather was from Hillsbrook, Killererin.¹

Census 1901

The 1901 census records Thomas Hanley, head of household, aged 60 years, married to Bridget. Their children and grandchildren lived with them as did their son-in-law Michael Byrne, their daughter Mary and grandchildren Bridget and Patrick.

Census 1911

The 1911 census shows that by that time Thomas was deceased. Thomas and Bridget had been married for 18 years.

Thomas and Bridget’s son

Thomas and Bridget’s son, also Thomas, married Mary Jane Pickup on 11th May 1886. At that time, Thomas was working as a labourer. Later, in the 1911 Census of England and Wales, his occupation is recorded as a ‘Stationary Engineerman’ in a paper mill.

Thomas Hanley and Mary Jane Pickup²

Thomas’ grandson remembers family stories that referred to Thomas’ brothers (whose first names are unknown), both of whom were said to have perished in the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. Sadly, nothing more is known about these men.

Thomas served in the Connaught Rangers and he died on 30th December 1929, aged 69 years. He is interred at St James’ Church, Brindle.