Katherine O'Byrne

1851 - 1933  (82 years)

• Name	Katherine O'Byrne
  Born	1851	Co. Wicklow, Ireland
  Gender	Female
  Died	11 Sep 1933	Co. Longford, Ireland
  Person ID	I0020	Cousins Family Tree
  Last Modified	2 May 2021

  
  

  Father	? O'Byrne
  Mother	Margaret O'Brien
  Family ID	F066	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Joseph W. Wilson,   b. 12 May 1838,   d. 3 Mar 1919  (Age 80 years)
  Children	1. Catherine Amelia Wilson,   b. Longford, Co. Longford, Ireland ,   d. 7 Jan 1963   2. Lena Wilson,   b. Longford, Co. Longford, Ireland ,   d. 1 Sep 1965   3. Georgina Wilson,   b. 11 Nov 1879, Longford, Co. Longford, Ireland ,   d. 26 Oct 1954  (Age 74 years)   4. Henrietta Wilson,   b. 11 Nov 1879, Longford, Co. Longford, Ireland ,   d. 9 Jun 1970  (Age 90 years)   5. Theodora Wilson,   b. 27 Dec 1884, Longford, Co. Longford, Ireland ,   d. 28 Dec 1967, Dublin City, Co. Dublin, Ireland  (Age 83 years)   6. Patrick Wilson,   b. 13 Feb 1881, Longford, Co. Longford, Ireland ,   d. 10 Oct 1965  (Age 84 years)   7. Thomas George Wilson,   b. 14 Dec 1882, Longford, Co. Longford, Ireland ,   d. 24 Jan 1970  (Age 87 years)   8. Hubert Joseph Wilson,   b. 9 Dec 1886, Longford, Co. Longford, Ireland ,   d. 8 Jun 1978, Longford, Co. Longford, Ireland  (Age 91 years)   9. Irene Wilson,   b. 19 Jul 1889, Co. Longford, Ireland ,   d. 23 Feb 1976, Dublin City, Co. Dublin, Ireland  (Age 86 years)   10. John Joseph Wilson,   b. 19 Jul 1889, Longford, Co. Longford, Ireland
  Last Modified	2 May 2021
  Family ID	F006	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map	Load the map	Born - 1851 - Co. Wicklow, Ireland Died - 11 Sep 1933 - Co. Longford, Ireland  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Photos

  Katherine O'Byrne with her children Hubert, Irene and Theodora Wilson

  
  

  Census Records

  Joseph Wilson and family in the 1901 Census Joseph is 62, occupation Auctioneer. Catherine is 55. The three children at home are George (18, Post Office Clerk), Theodora (16, Scholar) and Hubert (14, Scholar). Joseph and Catherine are listed as born in County Dublin, with the three children born in County Longford. All can Read & Write.

  
  

• Notes

  "My grand aunt Kate and my uncle Joe were politically very conscious as well as very religious. My aunt had been an active anti-Parnellite. She was reputed to have shown up at one of the Parnell meetings with a hatchet under her cloak and had been dissuaded from throwing it at the platform by her very gentle husband. "Aunt Kate was a formidable woman. She was almost the exact opposite of her sister, my gentle grandmother. She spoke with very precise diction and had an air of authority and decision. She fully approved of the rebellion, having lost faith in the Irish Party. Once my uncle remarked to me in his mild voice and kindly manner that, despite evrything, Parnell was a good man. In her most level tone, putting the matter beyond dispute or further discussion, Aunt Kate said 'Sir, Parnell was not a good man, he was a thoroughly bad man.' I was frozen by the intensity of her feeling and had no difficulty in resisting the temptation to ask about the truth of the hatchet story." 'Dublin Made Me' by C.S. (Todd) Andrews, p.93 When Walter Cousins was to first meet his in-laws, he drove Irene to Longford in the sidecar of his motorcycle. Irene asked her mother what she thought of Walter. "Isn't he very small, Irene?" (source: Nancy Cousins)