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from the Dictionary of British Sculptors
Edward Arlington Foley b 1816 d 1874 (note: UK census 1851 lists Edward with a middle name of Alfred)
commited suicide May 10, 1874
found in Regent's Canal
1851 England Census
Name: Edwd Alfred Foley (note middle name is Alfred not Arlington)
Age: 36
Estimated birth year: abt 1815
Relation: Head
Spouse's name: Frances
Gender: Male
Where born: Dublin, Ireland
Civil parish: St Marylebone
Ecclesiastical parish: Trinity
County/Island: Middlesex
Country: England
Street address: 55 Devonshire Street
Occupation: Sculptor
Condition as to marriage:
Disability: View image
Registration district: Marylebone
Sub-registration district: All Souls
ED, institution, or vessel: 1
Neighbors: View others on page
Household schedule number: 136
Household Members: Name Age
Charlotte Blackburne 20 servant
Anna Maria Foley 11
Edwd Alfred Foley 36 head
Emma Laura Foley 7
Frances Foley 37 wife
Lucy Foley 13
Solem E W Foley 5
1861 England Census
Name: Edwd A Foley
Age: 45
Estimated birth year: abt 1816
Relation: Head
Spouse's name: Frances
Gender: Male
Where born: Dublin, Ireland
Civil parish: St Pancras
Ecclesiastical parish: Holy Trinity
Town: Kentish Town
County/Island: Middlesex
Country: England
Street address: 9 Truro Street
Occupation: Sculptor
Condition as to marriage: View image
Registration district: Pancras
Sub-registration district: Kentish Town
ED, institution, or vessel: 15
Neighbors: View others on page
Household schedule number: 229
Household Members: Name Age
Annie M Foley 21, born abt. 1840 at St Pancras, Middlesex, England
Charles G E Foley 9, born abt. 1852 at Marylebone, Middlesex, England
Edwd A Foley 45 head, born abt. 1816 at Dublin, Ireland
Frances Foley 46 wife, born abt. 1815 at Dublin, Ireland
John E H Foley 15, born abt. 1846 at St Pancras, Middlesex, England
Laura S Foley 16, born abt. 1845 at Marylebone, Middlesex, England
Lucy Foley 23, born abt. 1838 at St Pancras, Middlesex, England
Eliza Hall 24 servant
1871 England Census
Name: Edward Foley
Age: 55
Estimated birth year: abt 1816
Relation: Head
Spouse's name: Frances
Gender: Male
Where born: Ireland
Civil parish: St Pancras
Ecclesiastical parish: St Matthew
County/Island: London
Country: England
Street address:
Occupation:
Condition as to marriage:
Disability: View image
Registration district: Pancras
Sub-registration district: Regent
ED, institution, or vessel: 5
Neighbors: View others on page
Household schedule number: 154
Household Members: Name Age
Edward Foley 55 head
Frances Foley 56 wife born abt. 1815
George Foley 19 born abt 1852 at Marylebone, Middlesex, England
Anna Krardy 17 Servant
NOTE: The above age of Edward Foley doesn't match the birth year of 1814 (1814 + 55 = 1869, two years short of the census year of 1871, however with the estimated birth date of 1816 + 55 = 1871)
Notes for EDWARD ARLINGTON FOLEY:
SUICIDES: Yesterday Dr. Lankester held an inquest in the Crown-dale Road on the body of Mr. Edward Foley, aged 59, sculptor, brother of Mr. John Foley, RA. It appeared that for the last 12 months the deceased had been very unwell, and would go out for a walk before going to bed. He was in pecuniary difficulties, and, though assured by his doctor to the contrary, believed that his illness was incurable. On Saturday night, about half-past 10 o’clock, he went out for a walk, his spirits being much depressed. At 2 o’clock on Sunday morning a young man named Pain saw him sitting on the ornamental rail of the Canal-bridge in the Albert-road, and in a few minutes heard a splash. He raised an alarm, but before the deceased could be got out of the water, he was dead. A constable said that had the drags been kept at the bridge instead of at the tavern the deceased might have been saved, as he heard the deceased cry for help. The Coroner remarked upon the dangerous character of the bridge
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John Henry Foley RA (1818-1874)
--born the second son of Jesse Foley who gaave him very little education.
--followed example of brother Edward Foley
--joined the Royal Dublin Society's School in 1831
--two years later won their principal medall for modelling & drawing
--1834 left Dublin & went to his brother inn London
--entered Royal Academy School
--later awarded silver medal
--showed "Youth at the Stream" at Westminstter Hall in 1844
--shortly after commissions for busts & staatues began to flow in & Foley found himself at front rank of British contemporary sculptors
--1849 elected an Associate
--1858 a full member of the Royal Academy
--3 years later a member of the Royal Hiberrnian Academy
--1863 honored by Belgium Academy of Arts
--finest work is thought of as equestrian sstatue of Viscount Hardinge in Calcutta described in the Art Journal (1859, p36) as "...a master piece of art; one that for grandeur and design, for truth of action and for power and beauty of execution has scarcely, if not at all, a parallel in this world")
--best known sculpture is of Prince Consortt at centre of Albert Memorial
--received commission for this piece in 18668 after Baron Morochetti (who died before completed in 1867)
--Foley also died before this piece was finnished, it was completed by his pupil, G. F. Teniswood
--at the National Memorial to the Prince Coonsort it says Foley's model was erected July 1870 and after some correction, was removed when Foley commenced the model from which the bronze guilt statue could be cast
--one critic described the finished statue as "a confection of gingerbread which ought to be under a glass shade of a giant's
mantelpiece"
--was also a designer of silver work
--designed the Confederal stamp (3) of the United States of America
--while modelling 'Asia' for the Albert memmorial in the open air, he caught a chill which affected his lungs
--he died some years later of ill health att 'The Priory' his home in Hampstead on August 27, 1874
--he is buried in the crypt at St. Paul's CCathedral
--in his will left the bulk of his propertyy to the Artist's Benevolent Fund
--left his casts to Ireland for the schoolss of the Royal Dublin Society
--according to the author of his obituary iin the Art Journal (1874, p306) "no sculptor living or dead has produced works more grand
than the Lord Hardinge and Sir James Outram. There exists no statue more perfect than that of Oliver Goldsmith in which he has untoward material to deal with, and which is beyond question a triumph of genius over difficulties, such as I think is unparalleled
in art of any period."
--The editor of the Art Journal, (S. C. Halll) gives this picture of Foley: "Slight, but well-formed, the face long and sallow, pensive
almost to melancholy, and I do not think he was outwardly of what is called a genial nature. He was not 'robust' either in body or
in mind, all his sentiments and sensations were graceful; so in truth were his manners, His leisure was 'consumed by thought'.
He seemed to me to be at work when apparently doing nothing. He was never idle, though his hands were at rest."
The sculptor J. H. Foley did not have an artistic background, being born into a Dublin grocer's family. He studied art in that city, and as a highly successful pupil, was able to enter the RA Schools in London. His first exhibits at the Royal Academy were in 1839, when his works Innocence and Death of Abel won much praise. By the mid-1840s he had a high reputation, and he was elected ARA in 1849 and RA nine years later. He continued to send works to the Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions until 1861, when he had an argument with the Hanging Committee regarding how they displayed his works. The Committee, as always, refused to back down, and thereafter Foley refused to exhibit at the Academy.
Among Foley's best portrait sculptures are considered to be those in Calcutta - Viscount Hardinge (1858) and Sir James Outram (1864). In London there is a Lord Herbert by him in Waterloo Place and Caractacus at Mansion House. He had a work called The Wanderer in the Great Exhibition and a Prince Consort in Birmingham by the City Hall. However, his crowning glory was work for the Albert Memorial (see the Walk in Hyde Park). He is responsible for the group Asia, one of four monumental pieces surrounding the Memorial, and for the actual figure of Albert that forms the centerpiece for the whole composition. Unluckily, he caught a chill while working on the former piece, and was already in poor health by the time he started on the Albert. Having taken this prized commission after the previously assigned sculptor Marochetti had died; Foley himself did not live to see his Albert assembled from the separate bronze sections it was cast from.
(source: www.speel.demon.co.uk/artists2/foley.htm)
The Albert Memorial
The Albert Memorial is one of the great sculptural achievements of the Victorian era, and for sheer scale, opulence and complexity is hard to match. The architect was George Gilbert Scott, and he was much inspired by miniature medieval shrines, and also by the medieval Eleanor Crosses, set up by King Edward I in memory of his dead Queen, Eleanor, wherever the funeral procession went. (Though the original cross in London did not survive, the current Charing Cross is closely based on the earlier design, and makes an interesting comparison with the Albert Memorial.) The composition has a large statue of Albert seated in a vast Gothic shrine, and includes a frieze with 169 carved figures, angels and virtues higher up, and separate groups representing the Continents, Industrial Arts and Sciences. The pillars supporting the canopy are of red granite from the Ross of Mull, and from a grey granite from Castle Wellan Quarries, Northern Ireland. These latter pillars, of which there are four, are from single stones, weighing about 17 tons each. Each pillar took eight men about 20 weeks to finish and polish, and the Albert Memorial was noted at the time of its completion as being one of the most costly works in granite of the period. Darley Dale stone was used for the capitals, and the arches are of Portland stone. Pink granite from Correnac, Aberdeen, appears with marble in the pedestal on which the statue of Albert sits.
The main structure was completed in that year. However the statue of Albert and the fine details are artistic licence, as these were not yet in place. The edifice was opened to the public in 1872, and the statue of Albert was only installed in 1875. The sculptor chosen was Carlo Marochetti, a favorite of Queen Victoria. He produced two designs for statues of Albert, neither considered quite right, nor was working on a third when he died. J. H. Foley was selected in his place, and completed a suitable statue, cast in many parts, but himself died before they could be assembled. That task was left to Thomas Brock, his assistant at that time. Older sources indicate that another pupil of Foley's, G. F. Teniswood, also had a hand in the completion of the statue.
The sculptor in overall charge of designing the statuary of the memorial was H. H. Armstead, and he made the Sciences, and together with J. B. Philip, made the 169-figure Frieze of Parnassus. J. B. Philip also designed the angels, and the eight Virtues were sculpted by J. Redfern. Mosaics were by Salviati of Murano, to designs of John Clayton of Clayton and Bell.
The most impressive groups are the four Continents and the four Industries, entrusted by Armstead to eight eminent sculptors. They are:
Continents
Europe by P.Macdowell
America by John Bell
Asia by J. H. Foley
Africa by W. Theed
The artist, John Henry Foley (1818-1874), who also sculpted the statue of Oliver Goldsmith that stands across from Burke outside Trinity, studied at the Royal Dublin Society and at the Royal Academy in London. One of the most successful sculptors of his generation, Foley's works can be found in the Albert Memorial, in the British Parliament, and many museums and churches. Foley's last commission was the statue of Daniel O'Connell in O'Connell Street, Dublin, but he died in 1874 before he could complete the statue he considered the crowning work of his career.
John Henry Foley
Born May 24, 1818, No. 6 Montgomery St., Dublin, Ireland
Died Aug 27, 1874, "The Priory", Hampstead, London, England
Foley is an old Irish surname about which some confusion has arisen because there is an important family of Worcestershire called Foley, which is usually regarded as English, though Bardsley thinks it was originally Irish. for example it is the arms of this English family which are often erroneously ascribed to Gaelic Foleys. In this article these English Foleys can be disregarded, though it is not unlikely that a few of them came to Ireland at various times as settlers. The Irish Foleys are very numerous and this name is among the sixty most common in Ireland with an estimated population of about ten thousand souls. Most of these are found in the original habitat of the sept, viz. Co. Waterford, and they have spread across the southern part of the country to Counties Cork and Kerry. The name is presumably derived from the Irish word foghladha meaning a plunderer, and is written O foghladha, being anglicized more phonetically than the usual Foley as Fowloo in some places in Co. Waterford, and sometimes grotesquely as Fowler. The name is never seen with its prefix O nowadays. The surname MacSharry has been anglicized Foley in some parts of Ulster in the mistake belief that it is derived from the word searrach - a fool. John Henry Foley (1818-1874), sculptor, many of whose statues adorn the streets and squares of Dublin, attained international fame in this sphere; his brother Edward Foley (1814-1874) was also a talented sculptor. Rev. Daniel Foley (1815-1874), of Dublin University, compiled and published an Irish Dictionary . Samuel Foley (1655-1695) was another prominent Protestant ecclesiastic. The Catholic church has an eminent bearer of the name in Maoliosa O'Foley, Archbishop of Cashel, who died in 1131. In modern times Alan James Foley (1835-1897) made a name as a singer under the pseudonym of Signor Foli.
Source: Edward MacLysaght, Irish Families, Dublin, 1991, page 89.
FamilySearch® International Genealogical Index search Nov. 7, 1999
John Henry FOLEY
Sex: M
Event(s):
Birth: 24 May 1818 Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Parents: none listed
Source Information:
Batch number: 6003000
Source Call No. 1621492
Type
Printout Call No.
Type
Film NONE
Sheet: 34
marriage information
John Henry FOLEY
Sex: M
Marriage(s):
Spouse: Mary Ann GRAY
Marriage: 21 Aug 1847 Old Church, Saint Pancras, London, England
Source Information:
Batch number: M047932
Source Call No. 1845-1847 0598339 & 1847-1848 0598340
Printout Call No. None
England and Wales, Civil Registration Index: 1837-1983 Record
Name: FOLEY, John Henry
Record Type: Deaths
Age at death: 56
Quarter: September
Year: 1874
District: Hampstead
County: Greater London London Middlesex
Volume: 1a
Page: 396
Hampstead
Created 1st July 1848 (out of Edmonton district). In Middlesex until 1889.
Sub-districts : Hampstead.
GRO volumes : III (1848-51); 1a (1852-1930).
Hampstead.
Registers now in Camden district.
1851 England Census
Name: John H Foley
Age: 32
Estimated birth year: abt 1819
Relation: Head
Spouse's name: Mary A
Gender: Male
Where born: Dublin, Ireland
Civil parish: St Pancras
County/Island: Middlesex
Country: England
Street address:
Occupation:
Condition as to marriage:
Disability: View image
Registration district: Pancras
Sub-registration district: Regents Park
ED, institution, or vessel: 17
Neighbors: View others on page
Household schedule number: 52
Household Members: Name Age
Jane Foley 34 sister
John H Foley 32 head
Mary A Foley 25 wife, born abt 1826 at Middlesex, England
Eliza Gregory 30 servant
Elizabeth Hunt 21 servant
can't locate John Henry Foley in the 1861 UK census
1871 England Census
Name: John H Foley
Age: 52
Estimated birth year: abt 1819
Relation: Head
Spouse's name: Mary Ann
Gender: Male
Where born: Dublin, Ireland
Civil parish: St Mary IN The Castle
County/Island: Sussex
Country: England
Street address: 3 Beach Terrace, Hastings
Occupation: Sculptor
Condition as to marriage:
Disability: View image
Registration district: Hastings
Sub-registration district: St Mary in the Castle
ED, institution, or vessel: 1
Neighbors: View others on page
Household schedule number: 161
Household Members: Name Age
John H Foley 52 head
Mary Ann Foley 45 wife birth place: London
Emily Mansell 28 servant
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BOOK REVIEWS
Foley's Asia” by Ronan Sheehan (1999, The Lilliput Press)
Magill (October 2006)
Dublin-born John Henry Foley (1818 - 1874) was the greatest sculptor of the Victorian Age. His creations include the O'Connell Mounment in Dublin, the Albert Memorial in London, the statue of Sir James Outram in Calcutta and General Stonewall Jackson in Virginia. Already the subject of a semi-fictional book, Foley's life and works are to be investigated in an upcoming documentary, "Ghost of the Empire".
Daniel O'Connell took thirty bullets during the Easter Rising, six of them in the head. He was lucky to survive. There was nothing Burke, Goldsmith or Grattan could do when the Sherwood Foresters marched past them that same afternoon. They were as powerless then as they were ten years later when the boys came out to their neighbour William of Orange and blew him clean off his horse.
Father Theobald Matthew saw his share when the Black and Tans torched Cork City one miserable December afternoon in 1920. The Apostle of Temperance held his hands out uselessly as the whiskey-swilling soldiers ran amok down Patrick Street.
Lord Dunkillen was taken entirely unawares when an angry crowd topped him from his perch in Eyre Square and hurled him into Galway Bay. Talk about cement slippers. Dunkillen's were entirely bronze. "Bronze?" exclaimed a passer by. "But he's got to be worth a fortune!" And so his lordship was dredged up again and brought to a farrier and melted down. His fate remains unknown although perhaps, like Dutch King Billy, his melted thumbs provided useful plugs for the city's waterways.
Such is the lot of a redundant statue. One day, parping pigeon's aside, everything is perfectly manageable and stoic. The next, one is heading face first for the pedestal surrounded by chanting lunatics. Although sometimes one is surrounded by nobody at all. Like those nights when the ghosts popped out to see Lord Gough in Phoenix Park, hacked off his head with a carving knife and strapped a garland of gelignite around his trusty steed's privates for good measure. Similar fates would befall HM George II, the Lords Carlisle and Eglinton, and, of course, Horatio Nelson. Queen Victoria headed to Australia. Her husband Albert and the rest of their ilk decided to lie low.
In a line up of famous Dubliners, the name John Henry Foley does not score many recognition points. And yet, as Ronan Sheehan shows in his extraordinary book, "Foley's Asia" (Lilliput), this lanky Victorian gent with the Buffalo Bill moustache was one of the most gifted sculptors the world has ever known. Indeed, he created most of the Victorian statues alluded to above.
The closest John Henry Foley has yet got to civic recognition in Dublin was the renaming of the street where he grew up - formerly Montgomery Street, now Foley Street. He was born in 1818, second son of a glass-blower, Jesse Foley, and his Wicklow-born wife, Eliza Byrne. It was Eliza's step-grandfather, a London sculptor called Benjamin Schrwoder, who had the greatest influence on the Foley child. Schrowder was one of the master craftsman who carved the miscellaneous deities and other statues that adorn their façade of the Custom House and Four Courts. As private commissions subsequently came in to Schrowder's Montgomery Street workshop, so young John Foley and his brother Edward watched eagerly as their silvery-locked tribal elder set to work with his chisel.
In time both the Foley brothers made their way to London and secured apprenticeships with the Hanoverian sculptor, William Behnes. John, the younger of the boys, had the upper hand for he had trained under John Smyth at the Sculpture School of the Royal Dublin Society in Leinster House. There he proved himself a cut above, coming top of the class in every subject. Behnes recognized the boy's genius and helped secure him a trial for the schools of London's Royal Academy, the greatest art institution of its day. Foley created a work called "The Death of Abel" that so impressed the Academy he was given a ten year scholarship.
Foley's major breakthrough came in 1844 when Prince Albert, that earnest, art-loving consort, orchestrated a competition for sculptors from across the world. At stake was the opportunity to design the statues that would grace Pugin's all new Houses of Parliament at Westminster. Three sculptors were chosen and one of these was young Foley. As Ireland braced itself for famine, so Foley mounted the marble and set to work shaping life-size statues of two opposing English Civil War leaders. Unveiled at the House of Lords in 1847, this pair of statues - Hampden and Selden - marked Foley's entrance to the big time.
As great breaks go, Foley's wasn't necessarily the most exciting. Indeed, perhaps the reason so little is known of Foley is because he's such a difficult man to pin anything untoward upon. In the few surviving records of his character, he comes across as a dutiful son, a loving husband, a conscientious friend and a seriously diligent client. Indeed, if he had any major fault it was his inability to decline whenever anyone, public or private, offered him a commission. Between 1840 and his death in 1874, he made at least twenty-two ideal figures, thirty-four busts, a dozen funerary monuments and over forty full-length statues, four of them equestrian. In each instance, Foley's genius shone through.
Such a workload left him in some curious predicaments from a political point of view. For instance, at the time of his premature death in 1874, his Islington studio was working on monuments to an Irish nationalist icon (O'Connell), a shipping magnate from Gujarat (Lovji Nusserwanjee Wadia), the Queen's late husband (Prince Albert), a military general who conquered the Punjab (Gough), and the leader of the Confederates during the US Civil War (Stonewall Jackson).
Foley was an Irishman quite willing to work within the broader spectrum of the British Empire - and to derive maximum benefits thereof. Imperialism was the capitalism of its day and if you didn't play, you didn't win. One of the biggest winners was the East India Company, arguably the first great multi-national. By the 1860s, John Henry Foley was one of the most visible definers of imperialism in India. His magnificent equestrian statues of Sir James Outram and Viscount Hardinge dominated Calcutta in the wake of the Indian Mutiny.
In "Foley's Asia", Sheehan provides a series of entertaining and lucid vignettes about these two men and the other heroes of British India who Foley immortalized in marble. He had no qualms about designing statues to such controversial figures. Take John Nicholson, for instance. One evening shortly before he died storming Delhi in 1857, the fearsome Dubliner strolled into dinner saying, "I am sorry to have kept you waiting, gentlemen, but I have been hanging your cooks." The luckless chefs had been caught poisoning the soup with aconite. Likewise, Sir Hugh Gough may have been a much-loved gentleman but the gung-ho General from Limerick was also responsible for annihilating the Sikhs in 1849
For a man who couldn't say no, Foley's reluctance to have anything to do with the Daniel O'Connell monument was decidedly uncharacteristic. When Dublin Corporation launched a design contest for the project, Foley didn't enter. It was only after the Corporation failed to select a winner and appealed to him personally that he drummed up any interest. Even then he allowed the project to drag on so that he never saw it completed. It was left to his apprentice Thomas Brock to complete the present monument.
Foley's attitude to the O'Connell Monument is one of the themes explored in a new documentary from Loopline Films, funded by TG4 and BCI and scheduled for broadcast in early 2007. "John Henry Foley - Ghost of the Empire" is directed by Se Merry Doyle as a follow up to "James Gandon - A Life", his absorbing documentary on the architect of the Custom House. I worked with Se and Helen Bergin on the historical research.
Doyle's documentary took him to India where there are many who still regard "Mister Foli" as an out and out genius. Fortunately, with the collapse of the imperial world, the Indians tended to relocate his "British" statues to discreet positions rather than destroy them outright. Hardinge was sent back to a descendents' garden in Cambridge. The Outram masterpiece fared somewhat better and, after a few years penitentiary in a sculptural graveyard, was resurrected outside Victoria House in Calcutta.
John Foley was working on the "Asia" group for London's Albert Memorial when he learned of the death of Marochetti, the Italian sculptor charged with designing the statue of Prince Albert himself. The grieving Queen Victoria requested that Foley take over on "Albert" with an assurance that she would personally cover all his costs. Ever the workaholic, Foley is said to have caught pleurisy while seated on the elephant, modeling the voluptuous breasts of Asia herself. In August 1874, he collapsed at a wedding and died shortly afterwards. He was buried in St Paul's Cathedral.
Gough, Carlisle and Dunkillen may be gone but Foley lives on through his works, of which there are still more than a dozen in Ireland. Dublin city center is still dominated by Burke, Goldsmith, Grattan and O'Connell. Overlooking the People's Park at St. Patrick's Cathedral stands the philanthropist Sir Benjamin Lee Guinness. In the hall of the Royal College of Physicians, a troika of past Presidents gaze sternly as younger surgeons pass before them. In the center of Birr, Lord Rosse twiddles his telescope. Foley has an ability to appear when least expected.
ISBN: 781901 866360
Articles
Grattan's Failure: Parliamentary Opposition and the People in Ireland, 1779-1800, by Danny Mansergh - Henry Grattan as an Irish revolutionary.
Foley's Asia, by Ronan Sheehan - a lucid account of the remarkable Victorian sculptor John Henry Foley.
source: http://www.turtlebunbury.com/published/published_reviews/pub_rev_foley.htm (read January 30, 2007)
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The closest John Henry Foley has yet got to civic recognition in Dublin was the renaming of the street where he grew up - formerly Montgomery Street, now Foley Street. He was born in 1818, second son of a glass-blower, Jesse Foley, and his Wicklow-born wife, Eliza Byrne.
Source: http://www.turtlebunbury.com/published/published_reviews/pub_rev_foley.htm a book review of Foley's Asia” by Ronan Sheehan (1999, The Lilliput Press)
Magill (October 2006)
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1804
Benjamin Schrowder carves statue of James Switsir of Dublin 18 to stand in grounds of Switsir's alms houses.
At some stage Schrowder was married secondly to Mrs. Byrne, mother of Eliza Byrne and grandmother to JH Foley. He then set up workshop at 6 Montgomery Street. “There the grandfather, with his long, silvery locks, and surrounded with his tools, models and marbles, was a familiar and venerable figure in the eyes of the younger generation of the household”, Whatever he thought of his second wife, Schrowder apparently vowed that he would never leave Dublin lest he should die at a distance from his first wife’s grave. Even when a sister in Winchelsea offered to “make her will in his favour” should he come home and visit, he refused to leave. “Still, [the sister] bequeathed him a considerable sum of money and some houses in Winchelsea”. But his thoughts remained on Lavinia.
[NI09] buried in St. George’s churchyard
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1851 England Census
about Jane Foley
Name: Jane Foley
Age: 34
Estimated birth year: abt 1817
Relation: Sister
Gender: Female
Where born: Dublin, Ireland
Civil parish: St Pancras
County/Island: Middlesex
Country: England
Street address:
Occupation:
Condition as to marriage: (census record list condition as U probably meaning unmarried)
Disability: View image
Registration district: Pancras
Sub-registration district: Regents Park
ED, institution, or vessel: 17
Neighbors: View others on page
Household schedule number: 52
Household Members: Name Age
Jane Foley 34 (listed on census as sister)
John H Foley 32 (head)
Mary A Foley 25 (wife)
Eliza Gregory 30 (servant)
Elizabeth Hunt 21 (servant)
[NI12] Commision Agent (Colonial)
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Source Information:
Dwelling 5 Belsize Park
Census Place London, Middlesex, England
Family History Library Film 1341037
Public Records Office Reference RG11
Piece / Folio 0170 / 4
Page Number 2
[NI15] not listed in the 1881 UK Census
[NI16] not listed in the 1881 UK Census
[NI18] not listed in the 1881 UK Census
[NF02]
PANCRAS REGISTRATION DISTRICT
Registration County : London.
Created : 1.7.1837.
Abolished : 1.1.1902 (succeeded by St. Pancras district).
Sub-districts : Camden Town; Gray's Inn Lane; Kentish Town; Regent's Park; Somers Town; Tottenham Court
GRO volumes : I (1837-51); 1b (1852-1901).
Township or Civil Parish
County
From
To
Notes
St. Pancras
MDX 1837 - 1889
transferred to London in 1889
LND 1889 - 1901
transferred from Middlesex in 1889
Registers now in Camden district.