8.20 Soldiers 1855-1890
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| Inhabitants of Scattery Island, Shannon Estuary, Co. Clare by Senan Scanlan |
| 8.21 Appendix I: Family Databases: Lighthouse Keepers Lighthouse Keepers Scattery Lighthouse started on 1st December 1872. (Source: Bill Long, Bright Light, White Water, Dublin 1993, page 135.) |
| Name | Birth. | Marriage | Death | Occupation | Comment and Sources Reference Grave No Census Age 1901/1911 | |
| 1873 | ||||||
| Bernard married Mary |
Sommers Geary |
Lightkeeper | Occupation taken from copy of Birth Certificate
for John Pious b 14/01/1878 Lightkeeper lived in house alongside the Lighthouse. |
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| Catherine Nora | Sommers | 07/06/1879 | Sponsors David Sommers & Honor Faul. | |||
| John Pious | Sommers | 14/01/1878 | Sponsors William Sommers & Honor Faul. (www.familysearch.org) | |||
| Owen Thomas | Sommers | 02/03/1876 | Sponsor? (www.familysearch.org) | |||
| Richard Simon | Sommers | 30/11/1873 | Sponsors Michael & Mary Brennan (www.familysearch.org) | |||
| 1891 | ||||||
| John | Williams | Lightkeeper | (Gave 7s-6d donation to Kilrush Catholic Church Memorial Altar) | |||
| Source: Kilrush Herald, Saturday 5th December 1891. | ||||||
| 1896 | ||||||
| Thomas married Elizabeth |
Fortune Doyle |
Lightkeeper | Number 14: Bill Long, Bright Light White
Water, Dublin 1993, page 207. |
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| Lucy Agnes | Fortune | 10/06/1896 | Sponsors Philip McDonagh and Margaret McKennan | |||
| 1901 Census | ||||||
| John | Redmond | c1850 | Lightkeeper | Not Married aged 51 | ||
| Mary | Redmond | c1851 | Sister | Not Married aged 50 | ||
| 1911 Census | ||||||
| James | French | c1861 | Lightkeeper | Married from Wexford Town aged 50 | ||
| Ellen | French | c1869 | Wife | From Wexford Town aged 42. | ||
| 1919-1932 | (Source Don Scanlan, Memories of an Islander, Clasp Ennis 2003, page 45.) | |||||
| John | Moore | Lightkeeper | Principal Keeper in 22/10/1919. | |||
| Alfred J | Scott | Lightkeeper | Principal Keeper in 22/04/1922. | |||
| P J | O'Donnell | Lightkeeper | Principal Keeper in 23/06/1926 | |||
| George W | James | Lightkeeper | Principal Keeper in 06/07/1929. | |||
| Alexander | Murray | Lightkeeper | Principal Keeper in 23/03/1932. | |||
| ? | Byrne | Lightkeeper | Lightkeeper in the 1930s Source: Oral Family Information |
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8.20 Soldiers 1855-1890 |
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