William Ramsay Birney (abt. 1862 - 1943)

Ancestors

Husband of Mary Jane (Todd) Birney — married 2 Aug 1899 in Dublin, Ireland

Died 6 Dec 1943 at about age 81 in Matlock, Derbyshire, England

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Biography

William was born about 1862, the son of Oliver Norris Birney and Anne Ramsay. On the 2nd August 1899, he married Mary Jane (May) Todd in Dublin.^[1] William's and Mary Jane's household was enumerated in the 1911 census of Ireland as follows:

- William Ramsay Birney, head of family, Church of Ireland, reads and writes, age 49, Shipping agent, married, born in county Tipperary

- Mary Jane, wife, do., ..., married 11 years, no children, born in county Kerry

- John Charles Boshell, servant, Roman Catholic, do., age 33, Servant, single, born in county Dublin

- Census place: Ailesbury Park, Dublin^[2]

William Ramsay Birney died on the 6th December 1943 at Matlock, Derbyshire, aged eighty-one years;^[3] his name was memorialised on the gravestone in the family plot in Mount Jerome Cemetery in Dublin.^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ Warder and Dublin Weekly Mail, 12 August 1899, pg. 4. Marriage notice: “Birney and Todd—July 29, at Adelaide road Presbyterian Church, Dublin, by the Rev. R. M’Cheyne Edgar, D.D., William Ramsay, youngest son of the late Oliver Norris Birney, Bank Agent, Clonmel, to Mary J. (May), youngest daughter of the late William Todd, 11 Seville place, Dublin, formerly of Ballysheen House, Co. Kerry.” Digital image online at The British Newspaper Archive, www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk (accessed by Alison Kilpatrick, 2017-01-26, by subscription).
2. ↑ Ireland 1911 Census; William Ramsey Birney and wife, Mary Jane, both aged 49, in Ailesbury Park, Dublin (Pembroke East census district, house no. 13); source: The National Archives of Ireland, in a joint venture with Library and Archives, Canada; www.census.nationalarchives.ie (accessed by Alison Kilpatrick, 2018-01-28).
3. ↑ Index of Civil Registrations of Deaths, England. William R Birney, age 81 years [born c.1862], died in the 4th quarter ending 31 December 1943 in Bakewell Registration District (Derbyshire), vol. 7b, pg. 1062. Original record: England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes. London, England: General Register Office. Digital image online at ancestry.ca (accessed 2018-01-28, by subscription).
4. ↑ Ireland Genealogy Projects Archives. Headstones: Mount Jerome Cemetery, Dublin (Part 29, ref. no. 4277). Gravestone inscription: “Erected / by / W. R. Birney / In Loving Memory of / his parents / OLIVER NORRIS & ANNE BIRNEY / Also their children / ALEXANDER, OSBORNE, / (GEORGE & LISSIE) / interred elsewhere) / Also the above W. R. BIRNEY / died 6th Dec. 1943 / Interred at Matlock England.” Transcribed by Yvonne Russell; and posted to www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/ire/dublin/photos/tombstones/1headstones/mt-jerome16.txt (accessed by Alison Kilpatrick, 2018-01-28).