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Family Life
F.J McCormick was born on the 16th of June 1890. He grew up in Skerries, Co. Dublin. His father was Micheal Judge and his mother's name was Mary. Micheal Judge worked as Brewery manager and before that, a maltser. McCormick was raised in Skerries and attended the Holy Faith Convent for primary school. His mother died when he was two year old.He and his family moved to Dublin when he was ten or twelve years old. In this newsletter, it is said that F.J McCormick described his childhood in Skerries "as a very happy one".

McCormick enjoyed different things growing up such as writing and acting. Before he took up acting, he worked as a civil servant in Dublin and in London. F.J McCormick was not his birth name, he adopted 'F.J' so that his colleagues at work would not recognise the name while he acted on the side. His birthname was Peter Judge. . He did this because he did not want his employers to discover that he was acting on the evenings, "filling his evenings with amateur theatricals".

F.J McCormick married Alice Crowe on 2nd December 1925 in Rathdown. . They met at The Abbey Theatre .According to an Article written about F.J McCormick and Eileen Crowe's performances together, the writer says "F.J McCormick and Eileen Crowe lived a life together of perfect bliss". De Burca believes "she died from broken heart". F.J McCormick and Eileen Crowe had two children together. They had a son named David and a daughter named Marie.