Nelson Trafalgar Foley, 18501909 (aged 59 years)

Name
Nelson* Trafalgar /Foley/
Surname
Foley
Given names
Nelson Trafalgar
Birth
about 1850 45 43
Occupation
Marine-Ing.
Death of a paternal grandmother
1859 (aged 9 years)
Death of a brother
Death of a father
Death of a wife
Death of a mother
Marriage
Death of a son
January 3, 1909 (on the date of death)
Death
Family with parents
father
18051878
Birth: 1805 34 Irland
Death: June 2, 1878Irland
mother
18071893
Birth: about 1807
Death: October 26, 1893Irland
Marriage Marriage1832Irland
12 years
elder brother
18431873
Birth: about 1843 38 36 Irland
Death: October 15, 1873Großbritannien
8 years
himself
18501909
Birth: about 1850 45 43 Irland
Death: January 3, 1909Großbritannien
Family with Agnes Jane Ross
himself
18501909
Birth: about 1850 45 43 Irland
Death: January 3, 1909Großbritannien
partner
son
7 years
daughter
Foley, Claire
18831976
Birth: 1883 33 Großbritannien
Death: 1976USA
1 year
child
Family with Jane Adelaide Rose Doyle
himself
18501909
Birth: about 1850 45 43 Irland
Death: January 3, 1909Großbritannien
wife
18751937
Birth: March 16, 1875 42 37 Großbritannien
Death: July 1, 1937Großbritannien
Marriage MarriageDecember 17, 1895Thornton-in-Lonsdale, England, Großbritannien
3 years
son
18981974
Birth: September 29, 1898 48 23 Italien
Death: 1974Großbritannien
4 years
son
19021983
Birth: December 5, 1902 52 27 Italien
Death: May 20, 1983Großbritannien
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Carlo Henze: "Equally compelling and interesting is mother’s family history and her love affair with Italy. Born 1883 in Southampton to Nelson Trafalgar Foley and his first wife Jane Ross of Glasgow, Scotland, she was the younger of two siblings and named Claire Barbara (Ross) Foley. Her brother, equally named Nelson Trafalgar after his father, was a few years older. The choice of names over at least three generations points in the direction of a seafaring trait (Battle of Trafalgar Oct. 21, 1805). Grandfather Foley was indeed a “naval person” working as managing engineer for a major shipbuilding enterprise in Southampton, specializing in building propulsion units for merchant and warships.

It seems to me that in conformity with the times, his wife Jane, whom the children hardly got to know, succumbed very early to the ravages of tuberculosis, leaving the young family without maternal care and making it necessary for the two children to be placed with assorted aunts and uncles in Ireland, where my mother acquired her distinct accent.

It came, I am sure, as a welcome stroke of luck when grandpa Nelson (Pash to his children) received word from his company to go to Naples for an extended stay to supervise the installation of giant British steam engines in the ships of the Italian Navy, among them the first Italian battleship, the Duilio, the pride of the Italian Navy.

Grandpa Foley decided to remarry and took as his bride one of the younger sisters of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle of Sherlock Holmes fame, Ida Doyle. The second marriage issue were two boys, Percy and Innes Foley Doyle, nephews of Sir Arthur and our mother's step brothers."
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Verwandtenfoto 1904: http://www.gaebler.info/ahnen/foley_doyle.pdf

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