Talk:William Walsh (bishop of Dover)

Background of William Walsh
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"His mother was Augusta Junietta Thwaites (1797-1873) and his father was Irish born Lieutenant William Walsh (1798-1839) of the 7th Royal Fusiliers. Walsh was born in 1836. In 1866 he married Catherine Banchory Pickering (1840-1915), daughter of Agnes Norris and General W. H. Pickering. Catherine and William Walsh had two children: William Trevor Hayne Walsh  who was an educationist and in 1920 was a sub-section director in the Ministry of Munitions, and Leslie Herbert Walsh who became a surgeon and apothecary. "

Storye book (talk) 16:17, 24 February 2017 (UTC)


 * Returned paragraph to main article. The citation giving family details is Burke's Landed Gentry of Ireland and the entry is as follows:

William, of Willfield, Blessington, Lieut. 7th Royal Fus.,b.1798, m. 1826, Augusta Junietta, Dau. Of Major J. W. G. Thwaites, and d. 1839, leaving issue, William (Rt. Rev.) D.D., Bishop of Mauritius, and of Dover 1898-1916, Canon and Archdeacon of Canterbury, b. 13 Dec. 1836, educ. St Albans Hall, Oxford (B.A. 1859, M.A. 1862) m. 1 Aug. 1865, Catherine Banchory (d. 8 Dec. 1915) dau. Of Gen, W. H. Pickering, R. A., by his wife, Agnes, dau. Of T. Norris, Governor of Cape Coast Castle, and d. 27 Oct 1918, leaving issue, 1a William Trevor Hayes, b. 26 June 1866, educ. Oxford Univ. (M.A.), m 1907 Eva Catherine, dau. of C.N. Wareing and d. in Italy 1937. 2a Leslie Herbert M.D., b. 4 Aug. 1867; d. 25 Nov. 1949. Sidpickle (talk) 18:54, 25 February 2017 (UTC)