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Ellen Victoria King-Irwin

Ellen Victoria King-Irwin

Female Abt 1887 - Abt 1980  (93 years)  

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  • Name Ellen Victoria King-Irwin  [1
    Birth Abt 1887  Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Female 
    Religion Irish Protestant  [1
    • Church of Ireland
    Death Abt 1980  Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
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    Person ID I113863  The Williams Family Tree
    Last Modified 21 Oct 2019 

    Father John King-Irwin
              b. Abt 1860, Glenties, County Donegal, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. Yes, date unknown 
    Family ID F33002  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family William Baker Rothwell
              b. Abt 1878  
              d. Abt 1930 (Age 52 years) 
    Children 
     1. Living
     2. Living
     3. Living
     4. George Rothwell  
              d. 1953
     5. William Rothwell
              b. Abt 1911  
              d. Yes, date unknown
     6. Alfred Irwin Rothwell
              b. 1906, Dublin, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. Yes, date unknown
    Family ID F32999  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 21 Oct 2019 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - Abt 1887 - Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - Abt 1980 - Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • Ellen Victoria came from the Irish ecclesiastical King-Irwin family which included an Archbishop Charles King-Irwin and an eminent DD, John King-Irwin.

  • Sources 
    1. [S10447] Rothwell, Timothy, Email from Tim Rothwell, 21 Oct 2019>, "Re: Proposed Change: Alfred Irwin Rothwell (I20922)," (Reliability: 3).
      Hi Phil, my paternal grandparents were William Baker Rothwell (an Ironmonger's assistant) and Ellen Victoria Rothwell (nee King-Irwin, born 1890) They had 6 children, William, Samuel, Alfred, Muriel,Doris and George. George was the organist at the Theatre Royal in Dublin in the late 1930's. Ellen Victoria came from the Irish ecclesiastical King-Irwin family which included an Archbishop Charles King-Irwin and an eminent DD, John King-Irwin. All were Irish protestant from the Church of Ireland. My Father was christened in St.Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin. He served in WW2 with the Royal Irish Fusiliers as a Captain on the home front. I have a photograph of his wedding in 1945

      William Baker Rothwell died in the 1930's and Ellen Victoria lived till 93 years old and died in the early 1980's in Dublin, having lived with her son Sam for many years.
      William Baker, Ellen Victoria and William(junior) appear in the 1911 census for Terenure, a district of Dublin in a street called Oakland Terrace.

      Hope this information helps, there is, I am told, a link to the irish Auchinleck family in Ellen Victoria's past but I haven't followed this up.

      Alfred (my father) divorced in 1962ish and was remarried at some point to the pianist Josephine Rayner. This union produced 2 children, Brendan and Ellen. I lost touch with the rest of my family quite a while ago so have little information on their current status.

      An outstanding coincidence is that if one searches on line for cinema/theatre organists, one of the things that appears on the screen is a series of pictures of famous organists including George Rothwell who was killed in a railway accident in 1953. Right next to his picture is another photo of one Austin Rayner, a Bradford cinema organist.

      He was the father of Josephine Rayner who went on to marry my father!! The two organists never knew each other, is is a pure coincidence.

      Hope this helps,
      Best wishes
      Tim Rothwell.