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m. Est 1846
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John Delowery was born around 1816-1825 in Mallow, County Cork, Ireland (different sources imply different approximate birth dates). Throughout his life his surname was spelled various ways, including De Lowry, Delhery, Delory, Delury and Delowery. Baptism records for Mallow from 1809-1817 and part of 1820 are missing but there's a baptism record that could possibly be his of a John Delouhery, son of Timothy Delohery and Margaret Buckley, baptised in Mallow on 19 Feb 1818 (see Delury in County Cork, Ireland). No record has yet been found before the 1851 birth of his son Michael which definitely refers to John. That birth record as well as daughter Annie's, give his wife Johanna's maiden name as Connors, and there is a possible marriage record between a John Delury and Johanna Conners recorded in Mallow on 7 Nov 1835, with witnesses Edward Conners and Margaret Deluhery. If this record refers to John he would have been aged 19 (at the oldest) when he married. The earliest indication of a child born to John and Johanna is Edward in 1846 (from Edward's 1891 census record) and if the couple married in 1835 it would be unusual for them not to have any children for 10 years after marrying, so perhaps this isn't the right record. Marriages in Mallow 1 Feb 1842-1 Feb 1844 seem to be missing from the records, so perhaps John and Johanna married during this time and the record was lost. Census records for John's eldest known son Edward give his birthplace as Fulham, London, with the birth date being between 1846 and 1851 (no birth record has yet been found for Edward). So John and Johanna moved from Ireland to London by the late 1840s, possibly to escape starvation in the great potato famine which began in 1845 and eventually killed around a million people. This article on MallowTown.com describes how the famine effected Mallow. More than half the town's population, including John Delowery, were landless labourers and famine relief was meagre and limited, with many of the townspeople dying of starvation. The first records that definitely refer to John and Johanna are the 1851 birth and death certificates for their son Michael, who died of diarrhoea at just 3 weeks old at 14 Parson's Green Lane, Fulham. His death was likely the result of cholera which was prevalent in Parson's Green where many Irish lived in squalid, overcrowded illegal lodging-houses. A newspaper article at the time said Parson's Green Lane was "inhabited by the lower order of Irish, all of whom were employed in the market gardeners' grounds", and other articles describe the lack of sanitation and clean water such that "300 inhabitants... are obliged to fetch their water from the other side of Parson's Green". (For more information on the Irish in Parson's Green see this list of records and articles). There were a number of other Delury families living in Fulham who may be related in some way to John. Gardener John Joseph Delury was born in Mallow around 1841 and lived in Parsons Green Lane in 1871 and 1881, and in 1871 the family of Patrick Delury were living at 5 Parsons Green Lane. For more information on Delury families in London in the mid-1800s see this page. John's wife Johanna may have been some relation to the Callaghan family who shared houses with the Delurys in the 1850s and 1860s. Johanna Callaghan's maiden name was also Connors and she was born in County Cork around 1814. The Callaghans were living at 14 Parson's Green Lane in the 1851 census and Michael Delury was born there the same year. The Callaghans stayed at no. 14 until at least 1854 when their daughter Johanna was born. The Delowery family moved to 13 Parson's Green Lane before daughter Annie was born there in 1859, and the Callaghan family followed them to no. 13 before the 1861 census. The Delowery family hasn't yet been found at this location or any other in the 1861 census. No baptism record has been found for any of the Delowery children in London's Church of England records, likely because the family were still of the Catholic faith. The next record for the Delowery family is the 1871 census, which shows John, Hannah, Edward and Ann De Lowry lived in Fulham on Matyears Land. The Matyear family were the last farmers in Fulham, having been market gardeners in the area for more than a century. John worked as an agricultural labourer, Hannah as a laundress, Edward as a messenger, and 12 year-old Ann is listed as a scholar (implying she attended school). Living near the Delowerys in 1871 was Emily Lloyd, daughter of rug-maker Edward R. Lloyd. On 5 Aug 1872 Edward Delowery married Emily Lloyd at St. Luke's Church in Chelsea, witnessed by Henry Barnes and Susan Lloyd. On Christmas Day 1879 Annie Delowery married boot salesman James Chambers. Edward and Annie's marriages each produced a child who died in their infancy, but both siblings soon moved on to other relationships which eventually gave John and Johanna grandchildren who survived childhood. With both children grown up and married, by 1881 John and Johanna had moved in to the Matyear's farm house with the 84 year-old widow Jane Matyear and her adult unmarried children. Although they were in their 60s, John still worked as a farm servant and Johanna worked as a servant to the family. By 1890 John and Johanna moved in with their daughter Annie at 18 Everington Street in Fulham with John still working as a domestic gardener. Johanna died of "myxedema bronchitis" on 15 March 1890 aged 70 years at the Workhouse Infirmary on Brook Street in Lambeth. John died just over a month later on 1 May 1890 in the Fulham Union Infirmary due to "senile decay" with his daughter Annie at his side. [edit] DNA GenealogyIf you are a descendant of John Delowery and would like to compare autosomal DNA results please contact Jocelyn_K_B (at) yahoo.com for kit numbers References
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