Mary Whelan b. 13 May 1918 Ballyvolane, Bruff, Kilmallock, Limerick, Ireland d. 16 Sep 1988 9 Warnham House, Upper Tulse Hill, Brixton, London, England: Cumberbatch Family History & Genealogy

Cumberbatch Family History

1918 - 1988 (70 years)

Name	Mary Whelan
Birth	13 May 1918	Ballyvolane, Bruff, Kilmallock, Limerick, Ireland [1, 2]
Birth		Ireland Birth Certificate Mary Whelan Media Date: 13 MAY 1918 Keywords: Picture
Gender	Female
Emigration	Limerick, Ireland
Residence	13 May 1918	Ballyvolane, Bruff, Kilmallock, Limerick, Ireland [3]
First Communion	24 Jun 1929	Bruff, Limerick, Ireland [4]
Immigration	London, England
Occupation	30 Oct 1943 [3]
Occupation	Engineer's Machinist
Residence	30 Oct 1943	Critchett Terrace, Chelmsford, Essex, England [5]
Residence	2 Jul 1945	Ballyvolane, Kilmallock District, Limerick, Ireland [6]
Occupation	1946
Occupation	Bus Conductress for London Transport
Custom Reference Number	0006174
Residence	11 Apr 1948	Hut 8, Recreation Ground, Chelmsford, Essex, England [7]
Death	16 Sep 1988	9 Warnham House, Upper Tulse Hill, Brixton, London, England [8, 9]
	Cause: Heart attack
		Death Certificate Mary Flack Media Date: 16 SEP 1988 Keywords: Picture
		Death Certificate Rear Media Date: 16 SEP 1988 Keywords: Picture
Burial	5 Oct 1988	Plot N, Streatham Cemetery, Garratt Lane, Wimbledon, London, England [10]
		Grave of Mary Flack Media Date: 1988 Keywords: Picture
		Streatham Cemetery Grave Map for Grave of Mary Flack Media Date: 1988 Keywords: Picture
Person ID	I6174	Cumberbatch
Last Modified	27 Aug 2018

Father	William Whelan, b. 26 May 1872, Baggotstown, Bruff, Kilmallock, Limerick, Ireland d. 20 Nov 1918, Ballyvolane, Kilmallock, Limerick, Ireland (Age 46 years)
Mother	Jane Dunworth, b. 22 May 1875, Knockaney Hill, Bruff, Kilmallock, Limerick, Ireland d. 3 Aug 1956, Ballyvolane, Kilmallock, Limerick, Ireland (Age 81 years)
Marriage	30 Nov 1912	Church of Dromin, Kilmallock, Limerick, Ireland [11]
Marriage		Marriage Certificate William Whelan & Jane Dunworth Media Date: 30 NOV 1912 Keywords: Picture
Photos » Slide Show		Marriage Certificate Media Date: 30 NOV 1912 Keywords: Picture
		Church of Dromin Media Date: 2001 Keywords: Picture
		Church of Dromin Altar Media Date: 2001 Keywords: Picture
Family ID	F2198	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Patrick Septimus Flack, b. 4 May 1922, 24 Summerhill, North City 1W, Dublin, Ireland d. 10 Dec 1988, 47 Corporation Road, Chelmsford, Essex, England (Age 66 years)

Marriage 30 Oct 1943 Immaculate Conception (R.C.), New London Road (B1007), Moulsham, Chelmsford, Essex, England [12]

Our Lady

Marriage Patrick Kevin Flack & Mary Whelan 30 Oct 1943
Media Date: 30 OCT 1943
Keywords: Picture

Divorce Filed 18 Nov 1971 Southend County Court, Southend, Essex, England [13]

Southend County Court - Case No D792/71

Divorce 21 Feb 1972 Southend County Court, Southend, Essex, England [13]

Decree Absolute granted at Southend County Court - Case D792/71

Notes

In 1969 the law changed allowing divorce to be granted based on 'irreconcilable differences'. In order for a divorce to be granted atleast one of the five faults must occur: (1) Adultery, (2) Unreasonable Behaviour, (3) Desertion, (4) Two years separation with consent of both parties and (5) Five years? separation without consent of both parties.

In order to obtain a divorce the ?Petitioner? files their petition for divorce and the 'Respondent' can choose to fight the petition for divorce, agree to it or to ignore it. The petition remains secret. A Decree Nisi is issued by a judge and when the specified period elapses then a Decree Absolute can be granted, again by a judge. It is illegal to remarry before a Decree Absolute is issued as this is the point when the marriage has officially ended.

On 18th November 1971 Patrick Kevin Flack, the Petitioner, was granted a Decree Nisi and three months later on 21 February 1972 a Decree Absolute was granted at Southend County Court and the marriage was dissolved under case number D792/71.

We speculate that Patrick took advantage of the change of law and filed a petition under the grounds of five years of separation. Mary probably ignored the petition and then the due course of three months had to elapse before the court considered it safe to dissolve the marriage. Had the law not changed then Mary may have never agreed to a divorce.

Children

	1. Margaret M. Flack, b. 31 May 1944, Chelmsford, Essex, England d. 31 Dec 2016 (Age 72 years)
	2. Living
	3. Living

Photos

» Slide Show

Our Lady Immaculate / Immaculate Conception
Media Date: 7 MAY 2001
Keywords: Picture

Family ID F1836 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 15 Jul 2016

Event Map

	Birth - 13 May 1918 - Ballyvolane, Bruff, Kilmallock, Limerick, Ireland
	Emigration - - Limerick, Ireland
	Residence - 13 May 1918 - Ballyvolane, Bruff, Kilmallock, Limerick, Ireland
	First Communion - 24 Jun 1929 - Bruff, Limerick, Ireland
	Immigration - - London, England
	Residence - 30 Oct 1943 - Critchett Terrace, Chelmsford, Essex, England
	Marriage - 30 Oct 1943 - Immaculate Conception (R.C.), New London Road (B1007), Moulsham, Chelmsford, Essex, England
	Residence - 2 Jul 1945 - Ballyvolane, Kilmallock District, Limerick, Ireland
	Residence - 11 Apr 1948 - Hut 8, Recreation Ground, Chelmsford, Essex, England
	Divorce Filed - 18 Nov 1971 - Southend County Court, Southend, Essex, England
	Divorce - 21 Feb 1972 - Southend County Court, Southend, Essex, England
	Death - Cause: Heart attack - 16 Sep 1988 - 9 Warnham House, Upper Tulse Hill, Brixton, London, England
	Burial - 5 Oct 1988 - Plot N, Streatham Cemetery, Garratt Lane, Wimbledon, London, England

= Link to Google Earth

Photos » Slide Show		Mary Whelan & work friends Media Date: EST 1939 Keywords: Picture
		Mary Flack Media Date: EST 1946 Keywords: Picture
		Mrs. Basham & Mary Whelan. Mrs. Basham is Wendy's Grandmother and Margaret's mother. Media Date: EST 1960 Keywords: Picture
		Angela Brennan, Mary Flack & Susan Brennan at Jaywick Media Date: 1974 Keywords: Picture
		Mary Whelan at David Cumberbatch's Baptism Media Date: 1984 Keywords: Picture
		Grave of Mary Flack Media Date: 5 OCT 1988 Keywords: Picture
		Whelan Coat of Arms Keywords: Picture
		Grave of Mary Flack Media Date: 5 OCT 1988 Keywords: Picture
		Grave of Mary Flack Media Date: 1988 Keywords: Picture
		Mary Whelan 1st Holy Communion Certificate Media Date: 24 JUN 1929 Keywords: Picture
		Streatham Cemetery Grave Map for Grave of Mary Flack Media Date: 1988 Keywords: Picture
		Mary Whelan 1st Holy Communion Certificate Media Date: 24 JUN 1929 Keywords: Picture
		Mary Flack Nee Whelan Keywords: Picture

Notes

BIRTH: Mary was the youngest of five children.

SURNAME_HISTORY: Whelan, along with its common variant Phelan, comes from the Irish Ó Faoláin, from a diminutive of faol, "wolf". Taken together, the two names come among the fifty most numerous in Ireland. The family originated in the ancient kingdom of Decies, part of the modern county of Waterford, where they were rulers up to the Norman invasion. A minor branch also settled in the adjoining county of Kilkenny. From this centre, the surname has now spread to the adjoining counties of Kilkenny, Cork, Wexford and, further north, Laois and Carlow. It is also to be found throughout the country, however. Although Whelan is the more common of the two versions, Phelan is the one which has left its mark on Irish placenames, with Kilphelan in Co. Cork and Raheenphelan and Rathphelan both in Co. Laois. .Leo Whelan (1892-1956) was well known as a portrait painter. Seán O'Faoláin, (1900-1991) was born in Cork John Francis Whelan. He was internationally famous in particular for his short stories which present unsparing but compassionate pictures of life in modern Ireland. He was bitterly opposed to the censorship and narrow Catholicism of Ireland in the 1940s and 1950s. His daughter, Julia O'Faoláin (1932 - ) is also a successful novelist and translator. Nuala O'Faoláin (1942 - ) has had a varied career as a feminist, academic and film-maker. She is best known now for her role as an influential and respected social commentator with The Irish Times. Bill Whelan (1950-) is a composer, songwriter and record producer. He is best known now for the music he composed for the hugely successful dance show, Riverdance.

Whelan/Phelan - The O Faoileain (O'Phelan) chiefs, of Waterford and Kilkenny, were Princes of the Decies. The name Whelan must be dealt with in conjunction with Phelan, as they are anglicized variants of the same Gaelic surname, viz. o Faolain, which itself has variant forms such as O Faoileain and O hAolain. Whelan is more numerous than Phelan: it alone stands seventy-ninth in the list of the hundred commonest names in Ireland; with Phelan added the name takes forty-forty place, with an estimated population of about twelve thousand persons. In the last year for which such statistics are available 214 births were registered for Whelan and 93 for Phelan. Eighty per cent of the latter belonged to Counties Waterford, Kilkenny and adjacent areas; while Whelans extended further into Wexford and Carlow. many, of course, were born in Dublin, but in considerations of this kind the metropolitan area can be disregarded. it is natural that the present day representatives of the sept of O Faolain should be found in the places mentioned, because their chiefs were Princes of the Decies before the Norman invasion, while a branch of the sept was settled a little further north in the south-west part of Co. Kilkenny. One of these, John Phelan, was Bishop of Ossory at the time of the Catholic resurgence under James II. The gentleman who styles himself "O'Phelan, Prince of the Decies" (a claim not allowed by the Genealogical office), was born Whelan; the well-known writer Sean O'Faolain is the son of Denis Whelan. Another distinguished Whelan was Leo Whelan, R.H.A. (1892-1956), the portrait painter. Of those using the form Phelan the best known are Edward Joseph Phelan, the Director-General of the International labour Office, of Co. Waterford, and Frederick Ross Phelan, a distinguished Canadian soldier. In the United States, Phelans have been prominent, notably James Phelan (1824-1892), Leix-born pioneer, and his son James Dubal Phelan (1861-1930), senator and mayor of San Francisco. The 1890 census for Kilkenny noted 18 births in that year for the surname Phelan (source: http://www.rootsweb.com/~irlkik/ksurnam2.htm).

RESIDENCE: There is a townland in the Parish of Bruff called Ballyvulhane, Baile Uí Choilleáin in Irish, which means 'the town of O'Collins' (http://www.limerickdiocese.org/heritage/bruff/index.htm). Is this the same as Ballyvolane?

Her grave is in Streatham cemetery, Garratt Lane, London, SW17, England. On entering the gates either take the immediate right, pass the toilets and follow the road around to the left until you reach a crossroads. The grave is immediately on your left under the big tree. Alternatively, through the entrance gates and straight ahead, second exit on at the round-about with chapel on the left-hand-side of the roundabout, there is another on the right-hand-side also, you should see a WWI memorial roundabout ahead. Turn right and at the next crossroads the grave is immediately to your right under the big tree.
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Sources

[S7411] Irish Government, Birth Certificate - Ireland, (Name: Registrar General;), Qtr 30 Jun 1918 Vol 5 Page 244; Whelan Mary. Kilmallock was one of 8 entries with the same name in the index for this quarter. This is a BIG certificate.
EIRE IRELAND
Birth Certificate issued in pursuance of the Births and Deaths Registration Acts 1863 to 1996
Births Registered in the District of Bruff in the Superintendent Registrar's District of Kilmallock in the County of Limerick Ireland

Column (1) No. : 227
Column (2A) Date of Birth: 1918 Thirteenth May
Column (2B) Place of Birth: Ballyvolane
Column (3A) Forname(s)(if any) of Child: Mary
Column (3B) Surname of Child: -
Column (4) Sex: Female
Column (5A) Name and Surname of Father, Address of Father: William Whelan Ballyvolane
Column (5B) Any former Surname (s) of Father: -
Column (5C) Occupation of Father: Labourer
Column (6A) Name and Surname of Mother, Address of Mother: Jane Whelan
Column (6B) Any former Surname (s) of Mother: Douworth
Column (6C) Occupation of Mother: -
Column (7A) Signature and Qualification of Informant(s), Address of Informant(s): William Whelan Father Ballyvolane
Column (7B) -
Column (8A) Date of Registration: Twenty-first May 1918
Column (8B) Signature of Registrar: J.Mortell asst Registrar
Column (9) Forname(s), if added after registration of birth, and date: -
Column (10) Notes: -

Certified to be a true copy taken from the Certified Copies of Births in Oifig an Ard-Chlaraitheora, Dublin.
Given under the Seal of Oifig an Ard-Chlaraitheora this Twenty-Fourth day of January (month) 2001 (year)
The year of Birth shown in the above Certified Copy is One Thousand Nine Hundred and Eighteen Copied J.S. Examined MJ.
TO ALTER THIS CERTIFICATE OR TO USE IT ALTERED IS A SERIOUS OFFENCE 21 May 1918
[S7411] Irish Government, Birth Certificate - Ireland, (Name: Registrar General;).
[S77] British Government, Marriage Certificate - England, (Name: London;), Year 1943 Quarter Dec District Chelmsford Vol 4a Page 1360.
[S7398] Church Authorities, 1st Holy Communion Certificate.
REMEMBRANCE OF FIRST HOLY COMMUNION Mary Whelan received firt Holy Communion in Bruff on the 24th day of June 1929 Jery Reo J. Canon Lee P. Priest.
[S77] British Government, Marriage Certificate - England, (Name: London;), Year 1943 Quarter Dec District Chelmsford Vol 4a Page 1360.
Critchett Terrace is off of A1060 Rainsford Road and Primrose Hill
[S7411] Irish Government, Birth Certificate - Ireland, (Name: Registrar General;).
TO ALTER THIS DOCUMENT OR TO UTTER IT SO ALTERED IS A SERIOUS OFFENCE M357 EIRE 11 REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES
Certified Copy of Entry in the Register Book of Births deposited in the Superintendent Registrar's Office. - (See Endorsement)
Births Registered in the District of Croom in the Superintendent-Registrar's District of Croom in the County of Limerick
No. (1) 408
Date and Place of Birth (2) 1945 (Fourty Five) Second July Co. Hospital Croom
Name (if any) Catherine
Sex (4) F
Name and Surname and Dwelling-place of Father (5) Ballyvolane Bruff
Name and Surname and Maiden Name of Mother (6) Mary Flack formerly Whelan
Rank or Profession of Father (7) Labourer
Signature, Qualification, and Residence of informant (8) Dr. M. Anastasia Occupier Co Hospital Croom
When Registered (9) Seventh July 1945
Signature of Registrar (10) Wm Kederman (or Kidirman) Registrar
I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the entry No 408 in the Register Book of Births in my Office.
Office (STAMP): Office of Superintendent Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages Newcastle West Co. Limmerick
Date 7th June 1945 THE YEAR OF BIRTH SHOWN IN THE ABOVE CERTIFIED COPY IS One Thousand, Nine Hundred & Fourty Five
Superintendent Reistrar of Births and Deaths. for the District (struckout) replaced with County of Limerick. EIRE Stamp 7 Jun 1945
[S7412] General Record Office, Birth Certificate - UK, (Location: Southport, Merseyside;), Flack Peter June Qtr 1948 Chelmsford Vol 4a Page 686.
Certified Copy of an Entry of Birth. Given at the General Register Office. Application Number R009890. Registration District Chelmsford. 1948 BIRTH in the Sub-district of Chelmsford in the County of Essex. No. 45; Column 1: When and where born: Eleventh April 1948 Hut 8 Recreation Ground, Chelmsford; Column 2: Name: Peter; Column 3: Sex: Boy; Column 4: Name and Surname of Father: Patrick Kevin Flack; Column 5: Name, and Surname of mother: Mary Flack formerly Whelan; Column: 5: Occupation of father: Gunner R.A. [Royal Artillery] (Builders Labourer); Column 7: Signature, description and residence of informant: M. Flack, Mother, Hut 8 Recreation Ground Chelmsford; Column 8: When Registered: Twentieth April 1948; Column 9: Signature of Registrar: JW Crane Registrar; Column 10: Name entered after registration: /. Certified to be a true copy of an entry of an entry in the certified copy of a Register of Births in the District above mentioned. Given at the GENERAL REGISTER OFFICE, under the Seal of the said Office, the 13th day of February 2002. BXBZ 416119.
[S7437] General Register Office, Death Certificate - UK, (Name: Local Authority;), Yr 1988 District Lambeth Reg 0988 Vol 14 Page 0227 Entry 84.
CERTIFIED COPY of an ENTRY of DEATH
Issued at a reduced fee in pursuance and for the purposes of the First Schedule to the INDUSTRIAL ASSURANCE AND FRIENDLY SOCETIES ACT 1948 and the Fifth Schedule to the FRIENDLY SOCIETIES ACT 1974
DEATH Entry No. 84
Registration District LAMBETH Administrative area London Borough of Lamnbeth
Sub-district LAMBETH
1. Date abd place of Death Sixteenth September 1988 9 Warnham House, Upper Tulse Hill S.W.2.
Name and Surname Mary Flack 3. Sex Female 4. Maiden surname of woman who has married WHEELAN
5. Date and Place of Birth 14 May 1918 Irish Republic
6. Occupation and usual address --- 9 Warnham House, Upper Tulse Hill S.W.2.
7. (a) Name and surname of informant Peter David Flack (b) Qualification Son
(c) Usual address Flat 6, Crowhurst, 37 Lancaster Road, S.E.25
8. Cause of Death
1a Coronary occlusion
b Coronary athenoma
Certified by Montague B Levine Coroner for Inner South London after post mortem without inquest.
9. I certify that the particulars given by me above are true to the best of my knowledge and belief P.Flack signature of informant
10. Date of registration Twentieth September 1988 11. Signature of registrar CR Cull Registrar
Certified to be a true copy of an entry in a register in my custody.
CRCull (signed) registrar 4.10.1988 Date
Person to whom issued Name and Surname Catherine Brennan Address 64 Tomkyns House, Distin St S.E.11
Relationship to deceased: child, stepchild or grandchild (struck through) (delete those inapplicable)
Note: Child includes a child who has been adopted by order of a court under the Adoption Acts in England and Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man, or any of the Channel Islands, or one of the countries or territories listed in the Schedule to the Adoptions (Designation of Overseas Adoptions) Order 1973.
CAUTION.-Any person who (1) falsifies any of the particulars on this certificate, or (2) uses a falsified certificate as true, knowing it to be false, is lia
[S7437] General Register Office, Death Certificate - UK, (Name: Local Authority;).
[S7483] Tombstone, Streatham cemetery, Garratt Lane, Wimbledon, London, SW17, England.
[S7462] Irish Government, Marriage Certificate - Ireland, (Name: Registrar General;), 1912 Qtr 31 Dec District Kilmallock Vol 5 Page 159.
Eire Ireland Registration of Marriages Act, 1863. Form A. 1912 Marriage Solenized at the Catholic Church of Dromin in the Registrar's District of Bruree in the Superintendent Registrar's District of Kilmallock in the County of Limerick. Column 1 No. 199, Column 2 When Married: 30th November 1912, Column 3 Name and Surname: William Whelan Jane Donworth, Column 4 Age: Full Full, Column 5 Condition: Bachelor Spinster, Column 6 Rank or Profession: Labourer Servant, Column 7 Residence at the time of Marriage: Ballyvolane Ballyvolane, Column 8 Father's Name and Surname: Edmond Whelan David Donworth, Column 9 Rank or Profession of Father: Labourer Labourer. Married in the Catholic Church of Dromin according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Catholic Church by me Michael Connor County PP. This Marriage was solemnized between us, William Whelan Jane Donworth in the Presence of us Edmond Whelan Ellie O'Dwyer. Certified to be a true copy taken from the Certified Copies of Entries of Marriages in Oifig an Ard-Chlaraitheora, Dublin. Given under the Seal of Oifig an Ard-Chlaraitheora this Fourtheenth day of March 2001. H205/62 Marriage No. 199, Registered by me, this 7th day of December 1912 JJ Byrnes Registrar. Copied GL Examined MF TO ALTER THIS DOCUMENT OR TO UTTER IT SO ALTERED IS A SERIOUS OFFENCE
[S77] British Government, Marriage Certificate - England, (Name: London;), Year 1943 Quarter Dec District Chelmsford Vol 4a Page 1360.
CERTIFIED COPY OF AN ENTRY OF MARRIAGE GIVEN AT THE GENERAL REGISTER OFFICE Application Number B005244, 1943. Marriage solemnized at The Church of the Immaculate Conception Moulsham Chelmsford in the District of Chelmsford in the County of Essex Columns:- 1 No. 175 When Married Thirtieth October 1943 Columns:- 2 Name and Surname. Patrick Kevin Flack Mary Whelan, Columns:- 3 Age 21 years 24 years,Columns:- 4 Condition. Batchelor Spinster Columns:- 5 Rank or Profession Gunner 11256981 Pr Regiment Royal Artillery (Builders Labourer) Engineers Machinist, Columns:- 6 Residence at time of Marriage. Critchett Terrace Chelmsford Critchett Terrace Chelmsford Columns:- 7 Father's Name and Surname. Ernest Flack William Whelan (deceased), Columns:- 8 Rank or Profession of Father. News Vendor General Labourer, Married in the Roman Catholic Church according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Roman Catholics by me can't read Registrar, This Marriage was solemnized between us Patrick K. Flack Mary Whelan in the Presence of us, Elizabeth Flack Martin? Can't Read, CERTIFIED to be a true copy of an entry in the certified copy of a register of Marriages in the Registration District of Chelmsford Given at the GENERAL REGISTER OFFICE, under the Seal of the said Office, the 19th day of December 2000, MXA 744679 This certificate is issued in pursuance of section 65 of the Marriage Act 1949. Sub-section 3 of that section provides that any certified copyof an entry purporting to be sealed or stampedwiththe seal of the General Register Office shall be received as evidence of the marriage to which it relates without any further or other proof of the entry, and no certified copy purporting to have been given in the said Office shall be of any force or effect unless it is sealed or stamped as aforesaid. CAUTION: THERE ARE OFFENCES RELATING TO FALSIFYING OR ALTERING A CERTIFICATE AND USING OR POSSESSING A FALSE CERTIFICATE CROWN COPYRIGHT WARNING: A CERTIFICATE IS NOT EVIDENCE OF IDENTITY
[S7433] Court Service, Court Records, Southend County Court Case no: D 972/71.