DESCENDANTS OF Mary MACDONALD / MCDONNELL (to contribute information, please email Helen@HelensFamilyTrees.com)

Second Generation

They had the following children:

	10	F	i	Marion MURPHY was born 1898 in Clonmel, Co. Tipperary. She died 1970s in possibly Ireland. After leaving school Marion went to London to work, living initially in the Kensington/Brook Green area. She later returned to in Ireland where she and her French-born husband, Louis, lived during the 1930s before returning to London around 1939. It's thought Marion may have moved back to Ireland after Louis' death in 1944. She and Louis had no children. It's not known how Marion and Louis met. Apparently Marion knew Louis' sisters (perhaps through school, as Marion received part of her education in France) and perhaps it was they who introduced them. Another possibility is that they met through Kathleen Clarke, who was Louis' Dublin landlady and a friend of Marion's, but we don't know if the friendship between Marion and Kathleen came about before or after Marion and Louis met. There has also been speculation that they may have met through contact between Louis and Marion's father in connection with political matters.
				Marion married Louis Napoléon LE ROUX in 1936 in Dublin. Louis was born 1890 in Pleudaniel, Brittany, France. He died 5 Aug 1944 in London and was buried 10 Aug 1944 in Surbiton, Surrey. Apparently it was Louis himself who added Napoléon to his first name, and it appears that neither his wife nor the Le Roux family were ever quite sure why he did this. Louis was a journalist, author and fervent supporter of the Breton separatist movement. He worked as either a bookkeeper or private secretary to Breton nationalist and writer Taldir Jaffrennou and wrote for a number of Breton separatist publications, including the bilingual (French/Breton) newspaper Ar Bobl of which he was also a sub-editor. In 1911 he co-founded, with Camille Le Mercier d'Erm, the Breton Nationalist Party. It's said Louis fled France for Switzerland in 1913 to avoid conscription into the French army and that attempts were made to extradite him back to France. However, letters written to a friend, Paul Buchet, whom Louis first met around 1910 when both were doing compulsory military service in Saint-Malo, suggest that this was not the case. The letters, sent from Paris during 1913 and in early 1914, clearly show Louis’ intention to move to England in the near future. There's no mention of conscription or Switzerland, rather there are several references to the English lessons he was taking during 1913 in preparation for the move. He finally decided on 28 January 1914 to move to London the following week, following the end of a love affair with a woman who he felt had treated him badly. Lodgings in London were organised (in the home of a Mrs Goode of 10 Burnley Road, Stockwell) and there's no reason to indicate he didn't make the journey. It is of course possible Louis was conscripted once war broke out, and fled to Switzerland at that point, or maybe attempts were made to extradite him back to France from England.    Regarding Louis' whereabouts during the war, it's thought he visited Ireland for the first time in 1914, and we know that he served in the British Army from June 1916 until September 1917 when he was discharged on medical grounds. It's also known he visited Ireland in 1919 when he spoke at a conference in Dublin hosted by the Irish Literary Society. In 1922 he was still living in London, working as private secretary to the British Labour politician (later prime minister) Ramsay MacDonald, whose papers he was translating into French. Louis returned to Ireland in 1930 to visit the grave of United Irishmen leader Wolfe Tone (in Bodenstown Cemetery in Co. Kildare). He was still living in London in 1932 and it's thought he moved to Ireland around 1933, lodging for a number of years in the Dublin home of Kathleen Clarke, widow of Tom Clarke, one of the leaders of the 1916 Rising. He found work, through republican contacts, with the Irish Hospitals' Trust (founded to provide funds, by means of a sweepstake system, for hospitals in Ireland). His job with the Trust apparently involved the clandestine distribution of sweepstake tickets, through a republican network, in the United States where such lotteries were illegal at the time. It's likely Louis met Irish-born Marion Murphy, whom he would marry in 1936, soon after settling in Ireland (or perhaps beforehand, in England) because in 1932 or 1933 he was accompanied by a young Irishwoman on a 'Tro Breizh' pilgrimage in Brittany (that follows a route linking the seven Breton towns associated with Brittany's seven founding saints). Due to economic cutbacks at the outbreak of World War II, Louis lost his job at the Irish Hospitals' Trust and, in 1939 or 1940, he and Marion reluctantly left Ireland to live in London. There he worked as an assistant to future Conservative prime minister Harold Macmillan. In 1944, however, Louis died following a German bombing raid. There are conflicting accounts of the exact circumstances of his death. According to one family source, Louis suffered a heart attack following a German attack. Another family member has told me he died from head injuries received when a building collapsed during a German raid, while Presse d'Armor journalist Dimitri Rouchon-Borie, in his 2008 article, 'Qui était donc Louis Napoléon Le Roux ?' , tells us that Louis was in hospital in London suffering from a severe bout of flu and was killed when a V2 bomb was dropped on the building. And according to Louis' obituary in the Irish Press, he died "after a short illness". What is certain is that Louis died in the Middlesex Hospital in London. Louis' best-known work was a biography of Irish nationalist Padraic Pearse, 'L'Irlande Militante : La vie de Patrice Pearse', published in France in 1932 and translated into English shortly afterwards. It's thought that publication of this book may have been a factor in Louis being granted Irish citizenship in 1932. Other published works included several articles for the republican newpaper An Phoblacht in the early 1930s, and the publication in 1936 of 'Tom Clarke and the Irish Freedom Movement'. Louis also compiled a biography of the Limerick Fenian John Daly (an uncle of Kathleen, Tom Clarke’s widow), which remains unpublished. In 2008 the Irish government purchased Louis' private papers from Marion's family. These documents are historically significant in that they provide fresh material relating to Irish republicanism in the early part of the 20th century. Now in the National Library in Dublin, the papers include correspondence with several leading republicans, including a number of survivors of the 1916 Rising. Many of these correspondents had provided Louis with information for his articles and biographies, but because of the risks to their security, Louis was at the time unable to reveal his sources in his published works; such secrecy is no longer necessary. Many thanks go to Bob Boles and Didier Longuèvre for much of the above information. Further details on Louis' life and involvement in nationalist affairs may be found in Éamon Ó Ciosáin's article entitled 'La Bretagne et l'Irlande pendant l'entre-deux guerres (Première partie)', published (in French) in the Spring 1988 edition of the Breton historical journal Dalc'homp Soñj.
	11	M	ii	Patrick (Pat) MURPHY was born 1900 in Clonmel, Co. Tipperary. He died 1970s.
+	12	F	iii	Margaret (Pearlie) MURPHY was born 1902 and died about 2004.
+	13	F	iv	Alice MURPHY was born 1905 and died 1975.
	14	F	v	Georgina (Ena) MURPHY was born 1907 in Clonmel, Co. Tipperary. She died 1975 in Ireland. Georgina lived in England for a number of years before returning to Ireland, possibly after the death of her husband, Toby. Back in Ireland she lived with her brother John in Greystones, Co. Wicklow.
				Georgina married John Raymond (Toby) ASHWELL-COOKE, son of John Arthur COOKE and Frances Elizabeth ASHWELL, on 4 Mar 1937 in St. Mary Magdalen's Church, Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex. John was born about 1907 in possibly Cheshire. He died about 1972. Toby was born with just the Cooke surname, Ashwell (his mother's maiden name) being a middle name. The Ashwell and Cooke names were later hyphenated, giving a new surname. His mother also used the Ashwell-Cooke name as she died as Frances Ashwell-Cooke. Toby was the youngest son in the Ashwell-Cooke family. It's known his father was living in Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex at the time of Toby's marriage in 1937. Toby was aviation expert. He was a qualified pilot with his own small plane, a founder of the London Gliding Club and author of a number of technical books on aviation, including 'Motorless Flight' (1932). It's believed Toby and Ena had no children.
	15	M	vi	John MURPHY was born 1911 in Clonmel, Co. Tipperary. He died 2006. After many years in London, John returned to Ireland, settling in Greystones, Co. Wicklow with his sister Ena. He died at the age of 95.

They had the following children:

	16	M	i	Loughlin RYAN was born about 20 May 1888 in probably Garryhill, Co. Carlow and was christened 20 May 1888 in Bagenalstown, Co. Carlow. He died 21 Sep 1955 in Knocklonogad, Garryhill, Co. Carlow and was buried in Drumphea Church Cemetery, Co. Carlow. Sponsors at Loughlin's baptism were Michael Nolan and Bridget Murphy. Loughlin lived in Knocklonogad in Garryhill.
	17	M	ii	John RYAN was born about 6 Apr 1890 in Garryhill, Co. Carlow and was christened 6 Apr 1890 in Bagenalstown, Co. Carlow. He died 2 Apr 1916. Sponsors at John's baptism were Patrick Murphy and Anne McNally. John became a primary school teacher and taught at Garryhill School for only one year before his death, just short of his 26th birthday.
	18	F	iii	Bridget (Bridie) RYAN (Sr. Gertrude) was born about 13 Mar 1892 in Garryhill, Co. Carlow and was christened 13 Mar 1892 in Bagenalstown, Co. Carlow. She died 4 Oct 1969 in St. Leo's Convent of Mercy, Carlow and was buried in St. Mary's Cemetery, Carlow. Sponsors at Bridie's baptism were Michael Kelly and Bridget Hogan. Bridie was a Sister of Mercy nun in Carlow.
+	19	M	iv	Thomas (Tom) P. RYAN was born about 22 Jul 1894 and died early 1940s.
+	20	F	v	Mary RYAN was born 24 Mar 1898 and died 18 Nov 1950.
+	21	M	vi	Patrick (Paddy) RYAN was born about 21 Oct 1900 and died 16 Apr 1973.

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