Eliza was a granddaughter of John and Eliza Batman, the founders of Melbourne, Victoria, one of the six states in Australia.
Eliza's father, Robert Fennell, was her mother Maria's second husband and they married in Melbourne. After Maria died young aged 30, Robert left Melbourne for good and returned with his surviving children to Ireland. A son born to them in Melbourne (Eliza's brother), Robert Collier Fennell, was born and died in Melbourne at eight months of age in 1853.
Marriage
Benjamin Murphy, a bachelor, a Merchant, from Prior Park, Clonmel, son of John Malcolmson Murphy, a Merchant, married Eliza Jane Fennell, a minor, from Cottage, near Cahir, daughter of Robert Fennell, a Gentleman, on 6 June 1866, at The Friends Meeting House, Cahir.
The witnesses were,
John G. Fennell.
John M. Murphy.
Their names were entered in the National Register of Quakers.
Benjamin Murphy died on 9 February 1880 at Bloomfield, Donnybrook, Dublin.
Probate of his estate was granted on 29 April 1880, valued at under £5,000.
Mother of,
Amy Isabel, b. 7 July 1867,
Thomas, b. 7 Aug. 1868,
George, b. 1 Nov. 1869,
Mary Violet, b. 27 March 1871,
John Malcolmson, b. 6 March 1872,
Adelaide Mary, b. 30 Nov. 1873,
She and her daughter Amy were civilian passengers onboard The Leinster, when it was sunk by two torpedoes fired from a German Submarine, whilst enroute from Kingstown [now Dun Laoghaire] to Holyhead, Anglesey, Wales, on the morning of 10 October 1918.
At present it is not known if her body was recovered.
Her name is recorded on a headstone in a Quaker cemetery in Clonmel.
Her name is included in
Eliza was a granddaughter of John and Eliza Batman, the founders of Melbourne, Victoria, one of the six states in Australia.
Eliza's father, Robert Fennell, was her mother Maria's second husband and they married in Melbourne. After Maria died young aged 30, Robert left Melbourne for good and returned with his surviving children to Ireland. A son born to them in Melbourne (Eliza's brother), Robert Collier Fennell, was born and died in Melbourne at eight months of age in 1853.
Marriage
Benjamin Murphy, a bachelor, a Merchant, from Prior Park, Clonmel, son of John Malcolmson Murphy, a Merchant, married Eliza Jane Fennell, a minor, from Cottage, near Cahir, daughter of Robert Fennell, a Gentleman, on 6 June 1866, at The Friends Meeting House, Cahir.
The witnesses were,
John G. Fennell.
John M. Murphy.
Their names were entered in the National Register of Quakers.
Benjamin Murphy died on 9 February 1880 at Bloomfield, Donnybrook, Dublin.
Probate of his estate was granted on 29 April 1880, valued at under £5,000.
Mother of,
Amy Isabel, b. 7 July 1867,
Thomas, b. 7 Aug. 1868,
George, b. 1 Nov. 1869,
Mary Violet, b. 27 March 1871,
John Malcolmson, b. 6 March 1872,
Adelaide Mary, b. 30 Nov. 1873,
She and her daughter Amy were civilian passengers onboard The Leinster, when it was sunk by two torpedoes fired from a German Submarine, whilst enroute from Kingstown [now Dun Laoghaire] to Holyhead, Anglesey, Wales, on the morning of 10 October 1918.
At present it is not known if her body was recovered.
Her name is recorded on a headstone in a Quaker cemetery in Clonmel.
Her name is included in
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