A Pension record looks incorrect for this soldier

[davidbohl]

Trying to count this pension in or out for Pte #202836 Thomas James Hennessy CWGC

The service no. 65108 5/KLR or Emily Elizabeth Lynch seems to bear no relationship to this soldier

His surname is all over the place too Hennessey/Hennessy/Hennesy

Can I discount it?

Many thanks

Dave

 

Name: Thomas James Hennessey Rank: Pte Record Type: Card Service Number: 202836/65108 Corps, Regiment or Unit: 5th King's Liverpool Regiment Title: WWI Pension Record Cards and Ledgers Description: Widows and Dependents of Other Ranks Died Lynch - McAllister P Next of Kin: Name Relation to Soldier Thomas James Hennessey   Emily Elizabeth Lynch

 

 

[doyle3]

another card lists Emily Lynch as the Foster Mother of T J Hennessy.

https://www.fold3.com/image/668884663?xid=1022&_ga=2.110454146.622199834.1643717216-209549820.1642269856

[ss002d6252]

The effects records.

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/discoveryui-content/view/716519:60506?_phsrc=TMB13&_phstart=successSource&ml_rpos=4&queryId=8d7d09fc895e5fa35a5985668029674a

Craig

[ss002d6252]

The pension card. The claim form for Emily was withdrawn and rejected,

https://www.fold3.com/image/668884663

I wonder if Emily was his foster mother and Mary was his birth mother.

Craig

[doyle3]

there is another pension card for Mary Brady with pension details recorded.

[davidbohl]

His mother Mary remarried in 1902

HENNESSY

Mary

BRENNAN

James

1902

Liverpool, Register Office or Registrar Attended

Liverpool

Thomas can be found in 1911

From Anc

 

 

[ss002d6252]

The back of the ledger for his mother's claim shows he was claiming until at least 1932/

https://www.fold3.com/image/645420168?terms=202836,thomas

Craig

[davidbohl]

She was still Brennan in 1919

From anc

[davidbohl]

54 minutes ago, ss002d6252 said:

claiming until at least 1932

That pension record has her dob 1850, it doesn't stack up with the census records 1901(Mary Hennessey widow age 31) and 1911(Mary Brennan 40)

 

 

[ss002d6252]

1 minute ago, davidbohl said:

That pension record has her dob 1850, it doesn't stack up with the census records 1901(Mary Hennessey widow age 31) and 1911(Mary Brennan 40)

 

Although it's a box for DoB, they've put her age in. The ledger would have been created about 1919/20 when Mary would have been about 50.

Craig

[doyle3]

Sounds like an interesting family tree to sort out.

A Thomas Hennessey married Mary Derrick in Liverpool, 1893.

A Mary Hennessy is 31 on the 1901 census, a widow, living with her widowed mother, Susan Derrick, and her son Thomas Hennessy aged 6.

The surname Derrick tallies with the Brennan 1911 census record for the brother in law.

At this stage, it would be a guess where Emily Lynch fits in (sister of the father a possible) without a family tree.

 

 

[davidbohl]

6 minutes ago, doyle3 said:

where Emily Lynch fits in

Given the address 14 Alexander St on the pension card, she is the daughter of Thomas Jackson Lynch, just 14 in 1911. So probably his girlfriend trying her luck (and failed)

Can't find Mary Brennan  becoming Brady, searching

[doyle3]

13 minutes ago, davidbohl said:

Given the address 14 Alexander St on the pension card, she is the daughter of Thomas Jackson Lynch, just 14 in 1911. So probably his girlfriend trying her luck (and failed)

Can't find Mary Brennan  becoming Brady, searching

Thought the mother might be a Hennessy but appears to be Formby.  Bit of a cheeky lass was young Emily if that's the case.

A Mary Brady appears in the electoral rolls at 35 Henry Edward St 1921 through to 1925. There is an entry for the 1921 census with dob 1871. 

Ditto re finding Brennan becoming Brady. Cannot find anything.