Julia Eliza Bancroft
- Born: 25 Aug 1820, Kingston, Jamaica 2
- Baptised: 19 Aug 1823, Kingston Parish
Church, Jamaica 3
- Marriage (1): Major John O'Flanagan on 16 May
1854 in St. Andrew's Church, Kingston, Jamaica 1
- Died: 15 May 1858, Grange Cottage, Fermoy,
co. Cork aged 37 4
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Little information has survived about Julia.
Helena — her only child to reach adulthood — was only three years old
when her mother died so, unsurprisingly, she makes little mention of
her in the notes she left about the family, restricting herself to
writing, "Julia Eliza Bancroft was the other daughter of Dr and Mrs
Bancroft. She married Lt John O'Flanagan afterwards Major O'Flanagan,
late 9th Regt. They had 2 daughters: one died in childhood, the other
(myself) Helena Ursula Bancroft O'Flanagan is still alive." 5
Interestingly enough, Julia is mentioned rather
uncharitably by Catherine Bancroft in her letter to Julia's younger
brother William in February 1852; it appears that like her sister
Augusta, she was easily worried about reports or signs of ill health.
In that matter, of course, she followed the "fashion" of upper-class
ladies of that time but sadly, in her own case, she was probably wise
to be worried, dying as she did at a relatively young age of 37.
6
Julia married Major John O'Flanagan, son of
John Fitch O'Flanagan and Eliza Glissane, on 16 May 1854 in St.
Andrew's Church, Kingston, Jamaica.1 (Major John O'Flanagan was born on 22 Jan
1823 in Fermoy, co.Cork 7 and died on 31 Mar 1893 in 6, Llanion
Terrace, Pembroke Dock, Pembroke 8.)
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Sources
1 Dublin
Evening Mail, Wednesday 21 June
1854, Page 3 — MARRIAGES. …
May 16, at St. Andrew's Church, Kingston. Jamaica, by the Rev. A.
Campbell, and
afterwards by the Abbe Dubeyron, at The Retreat, the residence of P. A.
Espent,
Esq., Member for Kingston, brother-in-law of the bride, John
O'Flanagan, Esq.,
Lieutenant in her Majesty's 3d West India Regiment, to Julia Eliza,
second
daughter of the late Dr. Bancroft, Deputy Inspector-General of
Hospitals.
2 Parish
Registers of Jamaica, Kingston
parish, Jamaica — Baptisms — Vol 2, Page 400.
3 Parish
Registers of Jamaica, Kingston
parish, Jamaica — Baptisms — Vol 2, Page 400. Aug 19 1823... Julia
Eliza
daughter of Edward Martha [ sic] Bancroft M.D. and Ursula his wife late
Hoseason spinster... [ b ] 29 Aug 1820......
Marianne Augusta daughter of the above... [ b ] 13 Novr 1822.
4 Dublin
Evening Mail, Wednesday 19 May 1858,
Page 3 Col D — DEATHS. ...
May 15, at Grange Cottage, Fermoy. Julia Eliza, wife of Captain
O'Flanagan.
H.M.'s 3d West India Regiment.
5 Helena
O'Flanagan, "Helen O'Flanagan's family
notes" (Notes written about her Bancroft ancestors and descendants
dated
December 11th 1926.).
6 Various,
"Surviving Family Letter", Letter from Catherine Bancroft to her
nephew William Charles Bancroft dated Coblenz, 28 February 1852.
7 The
National Archives, Kew (Formerly known
as The Public Records Office), Records of Officers' Services;
Reference: WO
76/381. ...
John O'Flanagan — Norfolk Regiment (9th Foot).
8 Evening
Standard (London), Monday 10 April
1893, Page 2, Col D
— DEATHS. …
O'FLANAGAN. — On the night of Good Friday, suddenly, of heart disease,
at 6,
Llanion-Terrace, Pembroke Dock, Major John O'Flanagan, late 31st and
9th
Regiments, youngest son of the late Captain O'Flanagan, of Aboudhou
Grange,
Fermoy, co. Cork, and his wife, née Eliza Glissane, of Mount Glissane,
co.
Cork. R.I.P.
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