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(Unknown) Colleton
18?? - 1???
This unknown member of the Colleton family was Calum's and Jamie's great great
great great grandfather.
All that is known of this Mr Colleton was that he had at least two sons.
CHILDREN of (UNKNOWN) COLLETON and (UNKNOWN):
(Unknown) Colleton
b: 18?? d: 18??
Calum's and Jamie's great great great grandfather -
see below.
Martin Colleton
b: 18?? d: 18??
The existence of Martin was revealed by his brother's great grandson, Martin
Colleton, but no more is as yet known about him.
(Unknown) Colleton
1830 approx - 1???
(Unknown) Colleton was Calum's and Jamie's great great great grandfather.
All that is currently known is that he had at least two sons and that he lived
in Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary, Ireland.
There is a possibility his name was Thomas Colleton. In
Griffith's Valuation 1851 - 1853, there is only one Colleton listed, and that is Martin Colleton, who is
known to have been a brother to Calum's and Jamie's great great great granddad. From a trawl on the internet, it has been
established that there was a girl called Bridget Colleton born on January 26th 1871 in Carrick-on-Suir. Her
parents were Thomas Colleton and Margaret Daniel.
CHILDREN of (UNKNOWN) COLLETON and (UNKNOWN):
Michael Colleton
b: 18?? d: ????
Michael Colleton was a baker by trade, based in Carrick-on-Suir. In the 1901 census in Carrick,
he is recorded as living at 2 O'Donnell's Lane, alongside his wife Bridget, and his two sons Patrick
and John. The family are also found there in the 1911 census, although Patrick had moved away at
this point.
CHILDREN of MICHAEL COLLETON and BRIDGET (UNKNOWN):
Patrick Colleton
b: 18?? d: 19??
John Colleton
b: 18?? d: 19??
Martin Colleton
b: 18?? d: 19??
Martin was Calum's and Jamie's great great grandfather - see
below.
Martin Colleton
1856 - 12/6/1922
Martin Colleton was Calum's and Jamie's great
great grandfather.
Martin was born in Carrick-on-Suir, Co. Tipperary, Ireland, in
approximately 1856 (deduced from his age at the time of his death in 1922, which was 66 years old).
At some stage after 1877 he married Catherine Dalton, more colloquially known as Kate.
In his daughter Ann's wedding certificate, it is learned that Martin was
a baker by trade. In the 1901 census, he is listed with his wife and children Martin, Annie, Maggie, Marianne,
John and Patrick, as living at 30 Greystone Street in Carrick. In 1911 Martin and the family are
further recorded as being at number 20 Greystone Street, (with Marianne simply listed as Mary in this census). Martin's
wife Kate was famous in the town for producing a type of bread roll known as "Colle's Baps"!
In 1914, Martin's eldest son, also called Martin, enlisted with
the army, joining the 2nd Battalion of the Connaught Rangers to fight for the British. He travelled to France and then
Belgium, but within weeks, on November 2nd 1914, he was tragically killed in action at the first battle of Ypres, an
event that must have been deeply distressing for the Colleton household back home in Tipperary.
In March 1922, Martin and his wife suffered another huge trauma with the death
of two of their daughters, Maryanne and Margaret, one day apart from each other. The cause
is as yet unknown, but the possibility may be that they died accidentally at such a young age. A search of contemporary newspapers
may throw some light on this in the future.
Just three months later, a heartbroken Martin died on June 12th 1922 in
Carrick-on-Suir, the cause as yet unknown. His wife followed two years later. They were both buried in Carrickbeg, across
the river Suir from Carrick-on-Suir, in St. Mary's Cemetery. The headstone still stands, and reads:
In loving memory of
Martin Colleton died 12th June 1922 aged
66 years
and his wife Cathrine died 21st June
1924 aged 60 years
also their daughters Maryanne and Margaret
died 25th and 26th March 1922 aged 28
and 30 years
R.I.P.
CHILDREN of MARTIN COLLETON and CATHERINE DALTON:
Martin Colleton
b: 1885 d: 2/11/1914
In the 1901 and 1911 censuses, Martin is listed as
living with his parents in Greystone Street, Carrick-on-Suir, Tipperary, Ireland.
At some point in 1914, Martin joined the 2nd Battalion
of the Connaught Rangers, based at Barossa Barracks, Aldershot, Hampshire (in 5th Brigade of 2nd Division). On August
14th 1914, the battalion embarked on their journey to the Continent, as part of the original British Expeditionary Force,
landing at Boulogne, France. From their, the battalion made their way to Le Touret, Bethune, and soon after found
themselves at the the Belgian war theatre known as the Ypres Salient.
Full of confidence, singing their newly composed
regimental song "It's a Long Way to Tipperary" (see Favourite Songs page), Martin and his colleagues were led to believe that the whole crusade would be over by Christmas,
and that it would be "the war to end all wars".
Having reached France, the
2nd Battalion saw action at the Battle of Mons (23rd to 24th Aug 1914), The Retreat from Mons, the Rearguard Action of Le
Grand Fayt (26th Aug 1914), the Battle of the Marne (6th to 9th Sept 1914), and the Battle of Aisne (13th to 26th Sept 1914).
On October 19th 1914, the battalion was to embark on its first major push to block the German offensive, at the Belgian area
of Ypres.
When Martin saw action at the first battle of Ypres in Belgium, he tragically lost his life
there in the opening salvoes of the war. His body was never recovered from the muddy fields of Flanders, and he is now remembered
with nearly 55,000 other missing British troops at the Menin Gate Memorial in Ypres (now Ieper).
A memorial internet site for Irish soldiers from Tipperary
has the following listing for Martin:
COLLETON Martin. Reg. No. 7585. Rank:
Private - Connaught Rangers 2nd Batt. Killed in action November 2nd 1914. Born: Carrick-on-Suir, Co. Tipperary.
Martin was subsequently
awarded the Victory Medal and the British Campaign Medal for his actions (PROEng:WO/372/4/914655/30100).
On the Commonwealth War Graves Commission
website, the following memorial is also to be found:
In Memory of
Private Martin Colleton
7585, 2nd Bn., Connaught Rangers
who died age 29
on 02 November 1914
Son of Catherine Colleton, of Mill St., Carrick-on-Suir,
and the late Martin Colleton.
Remembered with honour
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Commemorated in perpetuity by
the Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Annie Colleton
b: before 1892 d: 1927
Calum's and Jamie's great grandmother
- see below.
Margaret Colleton
b: 1892 d: 26/3/1922
Maryanne Colleton
b: 1894 d: 25/3/1922
John Colleton
b: after 1894
John married and had three sons.
CHILDREN of JOHN COLLETON and (UNKNOWN):
Valentine Colleton
b: 19??
Val settled in County Kilkenny and married a lady by the name, it is believed,
of Biddy Conneely. They have several children, but only one is known about for definite.
KNOWN CHILDREN of VALENTINE COLLETON and BIDDY CONNEELY:
Ann Colleton
b: 19??
Ann married a gentleman by the surname of Kerwin.
Martin Colleton
b: 19??
Nothing is as yet known of Martin.
John Colleton
b: 19??
Nothing is as yet known of John.
Patrick Colleton
b: 1901 approx d: 1942
Patrick married Margaret Cahir and set up home in Carrick-on-Suir,
Co. Tipperary, raising a family of six children, three of whom tragically died in infancy of meningitis.
In the 1901 census for Carrick-on-Suir, Paddy was listed as being a baker.
Paddy died quite young, at the age of 42, and according to his son Martin
he had not been in the best of health for a few years before he died. His wife must also have died young, as Martin
was raised with his cousins in Carrick.
CHILDREN of PATRICK COLLETON and MARGARET CAHIR:
Martin Colleton
b: 1932
Martin was born in Carrick-on-Suir, Co. Tipperary, Republic of Ireland. As a
young lad he was raised by his mother and father until the age of ten, when his father died. It is not known if his mother
had also died by then, but Martin was raised by cousins in Carrick.
As a young boy, Martin worked as a messenger boy in Carrick, and then became
a shop assistant, a job he held until approximately 1994 when he was made redundant. It is believed that this may have been
Cleary's shop in carrick, but that remains unconfirmed.
Martin never married, and still lives in Ard Mhuire, Carrick-on-Suir to this
day. Thanks go to Martin for a conversation in August 2004 with Calum's father, which gave him much information on the
Colleton family.
(Unknown) Colleton
b: 1934 approx
Died in infancy.
(Unknown) Colleton
b: 1936 approx
Died in infancy.
(Unknown) Colleton b: 1938 approx
Died in infancy.
Mary Colleton
b: 1939
Mary now lives in Dublin. It is believed that she may have married, but
nothing more is known of her.
Margaret Colleton
b: 1942
Margaret now lives in Dublin. It is not yet known if she married.
Anne Colleton
18?? - 1927
Anne was Calum's and Jamie's great great grandmother.
Annie was born in Carrick-on-Suir, Co. Tipperary, Ireland, at some stage prior to 1900, and entered service in the
town as a domestic servant.
Annie married Patrick Giles in the Roman Catholic church of St. Nicholas in Carrick-on-Suir on June 28th 1922, the service carried
out by Father Michael O' Byrne, with the witnesses being her brother John Colleton and Katherine
O'Neill. She was Patrick's second wife.
The couple went on to have two children, but Annie
tragically died when her son Patrick was only six months old. The cause of death is not yet known.
CHILDREN of ANNE COLLETON and PATRICK GILES:
Patrick Joseph Giles
b: 13/8/1926 d: 19/4/2001
Calum's and Jamie's grandfather - see Giles page.
Josephine Giles
b: between 1922 and 1925 d: 1980
Josephine married Harry Fox in 1946
in Irvine, Scotland. They had three children, Joanne, Ann and James.
Connecting to Calum and Jamie
Anne Colleton married John Patrick Giles before
1926.
Son, Patrick Joseph Giles, married Mary Pauline Prendergast on 16/8/1960.
Daughter, Claire Patricia Giles, married Christopher
Mark Paton on 24/6/2000.
Sons, Calum Graham Paton and Jamie Christopher Paton.
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