Descendants of Catherine JONES

Fourth Generation


20. Robert (Bob) Edward HUSSEY (Thomas HUSSEY , Agnes DEVINE , Catherine ) was born 3 Jan 1892 in prob. Westminster, London. He died 8 Oct 1947 in prob. Wimbledon, London.

Robert married Veronica (Vera) CONNOLLY in 1921. Veronica was born 1894 in Islington, London. She died 29 Jul 1976.

Vera's grandfather on her mother's side was Swiss, while her Connolly ancestors were Irish and emigrated to England in the late 18th century. The Connollys eventually went into the leather-processing business and established Connolly Leather, a well-known Wimbledon-based business that specialised in the manufacture of seating for luxury cars.  

Vera, Bob and their family lived in Wimbledon.

They had the following children:

  33 F i Philippa HUSSEY
+ 34 F ii Ruth HUSSEY
  35 F iii Elisabeth HUSSEY
+ 36 M iv Anthony HUSSEY

24. Michael HUSSEY (James HUSSEY , Agnes DEVINE , Catherine ) was born 1892 in Hammersmith, London. He died 1980.

Michael was a civil servant.

Michael married Mildred BISHOP in 1919 in Brentford, Middlesex. Mildred was born about 1892. She died 1980.

Michael and Mildred lived at 37 Dewhurst Road, Brook Green, London, just next door to the Hussey family home. They later moved to Mortlake in Surrey.

They had the following children:

+ 37 F i Monica HUSSEY was born 1921 and died 1993.
+ 38 F ii Ursula HUSSEY was born 1923 and died 2000.
+ 39 F iii Margaret HUSSEY
  40 M iv Peter HUSSEY

26. Stephen HUSSEY (James HUSSEY , Agnes DEVINE , Catherine ) was born 25 Jul 1895 in Hammersmith, London. He died 7 Sep 1978 in Dublin and was buried in Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin.

Stephen grew up in Hammersmith, Kensington, Chelsea and Brook Green. Money was short, and he had to leave school at the age of 11 or 12 to help financially in the upbringing of his younger brothers and sisters.

In 1914, when World War I started, Stephen joined the Royal Engineers Regiment of the British Army - the "sappers", as they were known - and was sent to France. Sappers endured the most atrocious conditions and were always the last to leave an area when a retreat was taking place, blowing up roads and bridges behind them so as to slow up pursuit by enemy forces. During one such British evacuation, Stephen carried a wounded man to safety on his back, under gunfire, and was awarded the Military Medal.

After the war, Stephen was trained as a builder by his grandfather, Thomas Hussey, and his uncle, Will Hussey. Stephen later formed a partnership with a Mr. Worman (Worman and Hussey), eventually setting up his own building company, Hussey Bros. (Builders) Ltd., on Queensway, Bayswater, London, with his brothers, Martin and Austin. The company was mostly involved in the building of churches, schools and convents, and for many years, Hussey Bros. had a maintenance contract with Westminster Cathedral. During World War II, once the German air assault on London started, the brothers worked mostly under official government contract on emergency repair and safety building work. After the war, the company built several modern churches.

In 1947, Stephen and his wife, Mary, decided that their daughters would be better off living in Ireland, and so the girls moved to Dublin, the plan being that Stephen and Mary would initially remain in London and eventually retire to Dublin. Stephen and Mary sold their home in Barnes, moved into a flat over the premises of Hussey Bros. in Bayswater, and  purchased a house in Roebuck Road in Clonskeagh for their daughters. However on an extended visit to the girls' new home, Mary became ill and died in Dublin.

After Mary's death, Stephen visited Dublin more and more frequently. In 1957, with Maureen married, and Una and Brigie about to be married, he decided to sell the house on Roebuck Road, and a smaller house on Cedarmount Road in Mount Merrion was purchased. In the 1960s Stephen retired to Dublin, and for the remainder of his life he lived with Sheila at 14 Cedarmount Road.

Stephen married Mary RYAN, daughter of Malachy RYAN and Mary MURPHY, on 22 Aug 1922 in Bagenalstown, Co. Carlow. Mary was born 24 Mar 1898 in Garryhill, Co. Carlow and was christened 27 Mar 1898 in Bagenalstown, Co. Carlow. She died 18 Nov 1950 in Dublin and was buried in Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin.

Sponsors at Mary's christening were Gerald Kearney and Clare O'Reilly.

Mary was educated at the Loreto Secondary School on Dublin's St. Stephen's Green. After leaving school, Mary went to England and joined the Post Office Section of the British Civil Service in the Brook Green / Kensington area of London.

Mary and her London-born future husband, Stephen Hussey, met at a local dance in west London. In 1921, about a year before their marriage, Stephen visited Ireland for the first time when Mary brought him to meet her family in Co. Carlow. After they married, Mary and Stephen lived in East Acton, and later at 12 Ullswater Road (which Stephen designed and built) in Barnes in London.

Around 1948, after her eldest three daughters had moved to Ireland, Mary brought Brigie, the youngest, to Dublin to join her sisters. Mary's plan was to help her daughters settle in to their new home in Clonskeagh after which she would return to London. However while in Ireland her health began to deteriorate and it was discovered she had cancer. She never made it back to London, and died in Dublin aged only 52.

They had the following children:

+ 41 F i Maureen HUSSEY was born 5 Jul 1924 and died 19 Mar 1995.
  42 F ii
Sheila HUSSEY was born 2 Jan 1927 in East Acton, London. She died 27 Jun 2003 in Mount Merrion, Dublin and was buried 30 Jun 2003 in Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin.

Sheila grew up in Barnes in London where she was educated at a small French convent about a mile from her home. After leaving school, she started work in the Irish Passport Office in London, a branch of the Irish Embassy. Some time later, Sheila acted, unknowingly, as a matchmaker for two of her sisters: a group of young Irish civil servants had been sent from Dublin to augment the staff at the Irish Passport Office, and among them were Cormac Gordon and Michael Roantree. Sheila's mother, remembering how lonely she'd felt when she'd first arrived in London from Ireland, told Sheila to invite the newcomers to tea on Sundays. That was how Sheila's sister, Maureen, met her future husband, Cormac; and another sister, Una, would later marry Michael's brother, Tom.

After Sheila moved to Dublin in 1947 with her sisters, she worked briefly in advertising and then moved on to publishing and some freelance journalism. She then spent a few years in the now-defunct Irish News Agency, after which she joined Coras Trachtála (the Irish Export Board) where she spent many years in public relations and press work.

Sheila, who never married, lived on Cedarmount Road in Mount Merrion, Co. Dublin.
+ 43 F iii Una HUSSEY was born 1 Oct 1928 and died 29 Sep 1995.
+ 44 F iv Brigid (Brigie) HUSSEY

30. Austin HUSSEY (James HUSSEY , Agnes DEVINE , Catherine ) was born 24 Apr 1907 in prob. Hammersmith, London. He died Nov 1992 in London.

Austin worked with his brothers, Stephen and Martin, in the family building business, Hussey Bros. (Builders) Ltd., based on Queensway, Bayswater, London. He lived in Ealing, London for most of his life.

Austin married (1) Jane FRASER MACKENZIE. Jane was born about 1907. She died 1958.

They had the following children:

  45 F i
Mary HUSSEY was born 1937. She died 1937.
  46 M ii
Philip HUSSEY was born 1937. He died 1971.

Austin also married (2) Theresa WHEATON

32. Marjorie Mary C. KENT (Catherine (Kate) HUSSEY , Agnes DEVINE , Catherine ) was born 1896 in Fulham or Hammersmith, London. She died date unknown.

Marjorie was a domestic science teacher.

Marjorie married Clifford RALFS. Clifford was born about 1897. He died date unknown.

Clifford and Marjorie lived in Selsey in Sussex. It's thought Clifford was an estate agent with offices in Selsey and Kensington.

They had the following children:

  47 M i John RALFS
  48 M ii Peter RALFS

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