Sydenham Town Forum

Further to my last post, the Jos. Foggerty who married in Stockton was not our man Just a coincidence and a pit for amateurs to fall into. My guess is that he married the 17 year old Hannah Cochrane in Limerick and at least they stayed together.
It seems that Fogerty wrote 9 books altogether and ...

Thanks a lot Steve. I've ordered Fogerty's marrage cert to see if it confirms his id. His father was also Joseph and a builder of note in Limerick where he also owned the Theatre Royal in which Catherine Hayes performed.
I can't find the Lees on the 1871 census but my provider has not yet completed ...

Hello again.
I've actually picked up J. Fogerty's census records now from 71 to 91 and his wife is listed as Hannah C. (nee Cochrane) from Limerick.
We now have a puzzle though as the Fogerty/Elizabeth couple who married in 1864 in Stockton have disappeared from the records and there is no marriage ...

Further to my previous post, do you know Fogerty's wife's name?
I found a marriage of a Joseph Foggerty to an Elizabeth Robins in Stockton March 1864. This could be the one. In 1861, he wrote that he was living in Coalbrookdale with a 19 year old girl called Marianne Robbins. Whether Elizabeth and ...

Thanks to Steve Grindlay for the extra information on Joseph Fogerty. I didn't know he was married and had a talented daughter. Strange that it was not mentioned in the ICE obit.
Fogerty and Catherine Hayes were from Limerick and his father once owned the theatre. I don't know when or where they ...

Further to Steve Grindlay's info. on Joseph Fogerty, he actually died in 1899 at his residence in Sydenham. (Obit at I.C.E.) Fogerty was a Civil Engineer as well as an architect. It seems then that W G Grace bought his house in 1899.
My interest in Fogerty and Sydenham is that the Irish singer ...