Patrick (Shaughnesay) Shaughnessy (1886 - 1912)

Born 10 May 1886 in Tynagh, Co Galway, Ireland

Died 15 Apr 1912 at age 25 in Atlantic Ocean, Titanic

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Biography

Pake (Shaughnesay) Shaughnessy was aboard the RMS Titanic.

NOTE - 'Last Name at Birth: Shaughnesay' was a typo entered onto WIKITREE when this profile was created. The correct last name at birth is SHAUGHNESSY.

Patrick 'Pake' SHAUGHNESSY was born in Tynagh, Co Galway.

Mother - Ellen (b. DONELAN ) SHAUGHNESSY

Father - Patrick SHAUGHNESSY (b. circa 1825 - d. 20 December 1885 )

Patrick's father was a farmer and horse dealer, but Patrick didn't get to meet his father as he passed away in 1885.

The 1901 census shows Patrick and his family living at house 9 in Tynagh, Co Galway and he was still a schoolboy at that stage. The family would be listed in the same locale at the time of the 1911 census, then house 14, and Patrick was described as an unmarried farm labourer under his brother Thomas. Like his father before him, he also traded horses.

Originally booked to travel aboard Cymric, the coal strikes forced his booking to the Titanic. He was intending to journey to New York where his sister Bridget lived and he boarded the Titanic at Queenstown (Cork / Cobh) on 11 April 1912 as a third class passenger (ticket number 370374 which cost £7, 15s). His destination address was recorded as 1509 Lexington Avenue, New York.

(The Titanic sank15 April 1912). Patrick Shaughnessy died in the sinking and his body, if recovered, was never identified.

His brother Thomas also remained in Tynagh where he married an *Anna Quinn and raised a family, one of his sons being named Patrick (b. 19 February 1900). He died on 18 September 1956 aged 85 and was buried in the village, with Patrick's loss on Titanic being commemorated on his headstone.

Notes

1/ The ship's manifest records his age as 20 whilst many lists give his age as 28. He appears on the 1901 census as a 15-year old and on the 1911 census as a 24 year-old.

2/ Mary died from diarrhoea on 10 May 1888 aged 6.

^[1] ( *note : One family history source says Thomas married Delia GARVEY. (Sometimes a Bridget is called Delia. ) And that Anna QUINN married a cousin. (So, maybe another Thomas SHAUGNESSY.) )

Family history says Patrick swapped his boat ticket to the Titanic because he was waiting on money he was owed from a sale of a horse. Pake changed his sailing plans because he was waiting for payment for a horse he had sold to a farmer. He was going to join his brother Willie in America. Due to some recent ancestry matches it has become apparent some of his Donlon (Donelan) cousins were also in NYC.^[2]

Galwegians aboard the RMS Titanic in 1912

By Riona Egan - Galway City Museum "Soon after the tragedy, a 'strange story' circulated around Banagher (on the Offaly-Galway border), which was reported in the Freeman’s Journal (27 May 1912) and other newspapers. It told of a young emigrant named Tynagh, who was aboard the ill-fated Titanic.

The story goes that at the time of the sinking the emigrant’s mother ‘heard a noise outside her house which startled her, and caused her to look towards the door. Just then she saw the figure of her son approaching her in the same attire that he wore the morning he left. She wondered very much at his return, and thinking he had changed his mind, with outstretched arms and gladness in her heart, she rushed forth to embrace him when suddenly the figure vanished’.

There was no-one by the name of Tynagh among the victims, but Patrick ‘Pake’ Shaughnessy, who hailed from the village of Tynagh, about 25km west of Banagher, was lost. He was survived by his widowed mother, Ellen."^[3]

Further reading - “The Irish Aboard the Titanic” by Senan Molony with research by Phil Gowan.

Sources

1. ↑ Encyclopedia Titanica. Patrick Shaughnessy https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-victim/patrick-shaughnessy.html
2. ↑ Encyclopedia Titanica. Patrick Shaughnessy https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-victim/patrick-shaughnessy.html
3. ↑ Galway City Museum. GALWAY HISTORY - Galwegians aboard the RMS Titanic in 1912 By: Riona Egan. April 15, 2022. https://galwaycitymuseum.ie/blog/galwegians-aboard-the-rms-titanic-in-1912/?locale=en

• *http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-victim/patrick-shaughnessy.html