Abraham Jennings Wolfe 1840-1888

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 Abraham Jennings Wolfe was my great great grandfather. On March 29 1860 he married Mary Mahony, daughter of Edward D Mahony of Cork. With brother Alleyn, he witnessed the June 11 1863 wedding of Joseph Morris (Bandon
) and Catherine Jennings (Sunday's Well) in St Mary’s Shandon.
Catherine was daughter of their uncle, William Jennings.Guy's Ecclesiastical Directory lists him as a churchwarden of St Peter's Cork. He was a draper in Cork by 1870. He had a shop at 35 North Main Street in Cork. After 1875 he acquired the pawnbrokers business and premises of Thomas Ring at 16 Lavitts Quay.
His politics might be defined by the following entry from the ‘Cork Constitution’ newspaper published November 5
1886: "His Worship the Mayor yesterday resumed the revision o f the Municipal Franchise. Messrs. J. C. Blake, solicitor, and Thomas Babington, senr., solicitor, sat as legal assessors, and Mr. H. Barry represented the Town Clerk. The following new Conservatives were put on the burgess roll: NORTH CENTRE WARD.  Abraham Woulfe, 16, Lavitt's Quay.

 

Draper, then

Pawnbroker of Lavitts Quay- his son in law, A P Rainsbury, inherited his business, likely took it over from his widow, Mary, when she died in 1914, though he was already a Pawnbroker by 1905

1840. Abraham Jennings Wolfe was born to Alleyn Wolfe and Jane Jennings

1860. Abraham Wolfe married Mary Mahony on 29/3/1860 in Cork City. His father Alleyn Wolfe, hers Henry ( actually Edward!) D Mahony- FMP Ireland marriages 1619-1898. Marriage not on Irishgenealogy- Odd

 

Her father was actually Edward Duke Mahony . . With brother Alleyn, he witnessed the June 11 1863 wedding of Joseph Morris (Bandon) and Catherine Jennings (Sunday's Well) in St Mary’s Shandon.. Catherine was daughter of their uncle, William Jennings. Guy's Ecclesiastical Directory lists him, Abraham, as a churchwarden of St Peter's Cork. He was a draper in Cork by 1870. He had a shop at 35 North Main Street in Cork. After 1875 he acquired the pawnbrokers business and premises of Thomas Ring at 16 Lavitts Quay.

His politics might be defined by the following entry from the ‘Cork Constitution’ newspaper published November 5 , 1886,
The following new Conservatives were put on the burgess roll:

North centre Ward Abraham Woulfe, 16 Lavitt's Quay

10 Children: Jane Wolfe 9/3/1861 married William Finnegan, an RIC head constable from Clare; Alleyn William Wolfe 6/12/1863-1887;Edward Richard Wolfe, 24/6/1866 at 35 North Main St, father accountant: Ann Maria Wolfe, mother named as Minnie Mahony, 28/8/1868 at North Main St, father accountant: Abraham Joseph Wolfe , married Ellen Whelan in 1898. All children listed on the The Wolfes of Cork site - b.cs on Irishgen

1880. Minnie Wolfe was born to Abraham & Mary

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A J Wolfe and his family, likely ~1886 - courtesy of Gary Acheson.- he descended from Annie Maria Wolfe 1868: her daughter Memmie McNay/Acheson his grandmother

Standing back (L R) Abraham Joseph (16), Edward Richard (20), Annie (18).

Seated (LR) Alleyn William (22) with Minnie (6), mother Minnie, Sophie (3) seated on Abraham Jennings' lap, Charles William (10).Lying front Robert (13)

1885. He was fined £20 for assault

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1885. An Alleyn Duke Wolfe, 26, dies Cork ???- Irish civil records

1887. His eldest son, Alleyn William Wolfe M.D. aged 24, died, after a short illness, at sea near Aden on 16/7/1887 . He was never very strong and took a position as doctor on the steamship Oriental on 25/5/1887. He died of cholic and was buried at sea -- 2 articles in Cork Constitution newspaper on 17/8/1887 FMP

1888. Abraham Jennings Wolfe, pawnbroker, 49, died of pneumonia on 23/4/1888 at 16 Lavitts Quay, Cork . Informant Willian Finnegan, son in law ( husband of Jane 1861)

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His Will, pawnbroker of Lavitt's Quay, written 1887, leaving everything to his wife Mary. If she remarried then she got £1000 and his children the rest

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His family continued living at Lavitts Quay his wife carrying on as a pawnbroker

1914. His widow dies on 24/4/1914 - Ancestry trees

16 Lavitts Quay, although threatened with destruction over the years, survives. As a protected structure representing a fine example of an early nineteenth century merchants home it was incorporated in a development in late 2008

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Lavitts Quay~ 2010, number 16 towards the left . . . . . . . . . . . .

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