Premonition in Bow Lane
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- Titel:
- Premonition in Bow Lane
- Opretterens fornavn
- Barry
- Opretterens efternavn
- Kennerk
- Beskrivelse
- Cornelius Kennerk was born at home in the Coombe on Friday 16 September 1898. His red hair made him stand out since the rest of the extended family was dark-haired. He may have inherited this distinctive trait from his mother’s side. The family had five children, one of whom died in infancy. Other children recorded on the 1911 census are Stephen Kennerk (aged 10), Margaret (aged 6) and Michael (aged 4). None of them could read which reflects the poor standard of education amongst Dublin’s working class. Mick’s wife could read but was unable to write, as evidenced by her ‘x’ on Con’s birth certificate. When she was pushed to it, she could attempt a signature. Con's parents had married just a year previously on Sunday, 17 January 1897. His mother was a blonde-haired servant girl from no. 35 Watling Street named Elizabeth Cleary. Despite a short sojourn on the North side of the city, the young couple moved to the south side where Elizabeth set up home with the domestic skills she had learned at her mother’s County Dublin fireside. She made excellent brown bread and was very house proud despite the paralysis in her hand. In 1900, the family moved to no. 4 Hackett’s Court and the following year to no.1 The Coombe. By 1911, they were lodging at no. 23 Hendrick Street, not far from Usher’s Quay.
- Sprog
- English
- Type
- Official document
- Tema
- Cornelius Kennerk
- Oprettet d. / Startdato
- 1898 september 16
- Keywords
- Remembrance
- Theatres
- Western Front
- Kilde
- Leaf
- Medie
- Paper
- Samlet antal sider
- 1

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- Titel:
- Premonition in Bow Lane
- Coverbillede
- yes
- Side
- Front
- Opretterens fornavn
- Barry
- Opretterens efternavn
- Kennerk
- Beskrivelse
- Note the standard-issue 1902 trench-cap and 5-button tunic with closable collar
- Sprog
- English
- Type
- Photograph
- Tema
- Cornelius Kennerk
- Oprettet d. / Startdato
- 1917
- Keywords
- Remembrance
- Theatres
- Western Front
- Kilde
- Photograph
- Medie
- Photographic paper
- Samlet antal sider
- 1

Total: 2
- Beretning
- Cornelius (Connzer) Kennerk was born in 1898. He lived with his family at No. 17 Bow Bridge - a small red-brick house near James' Street which they shared with a widow named Farrell and her daughter. The Farrells lived on the top floor . Over the heads of hens pecking in the yard, Mrs Kennerk could often be seen hanging out snuff handkerchiefs. Con’s father Michael was a stout but dapper man who worked in Dublin as a bricklayer. During his youth, he had served with the British Army (Royal Irish Rifle Corps) in India. According to a work-card kept in the archives of the Bricklayers' Guild; he re-enlisted with his son in October 1914 and returned to active service. The walls leading up the nearby steps at Cromwell's Quarters were daubed with the posters of the general recruiting office encouraging young men to sign on and, following in his father's footsteps, young Con was assigned to the Royal Dublin Fusiliers as Private 29352. Initially, he was sent to the Regimental Depot in Naas, County Kildare for training. There was a river at the back of the barracks that some of the lads renamed the 'Madras River”, a reference to the former title of the Regiment - the 102nd Royal Madras Fusiliers. On 30 April 1915, having been shipped overseas, Con was assigned to the 1st Battalion Royal Munster Fusiliers. The Dublins and Munsters had sustained heavy losses in the landing at V Beach, Gallipoli and afterwards, a composite battalion was formed, known as the 'Dubsters'. Later, when the battalions resumed their own identities, Con stayed on with the Munsters. During the months of January and February 1917, the men were holed up in trenches in the Spanbrock sector. These were hard times as they had little protection from the elements, apart from being able to dig a small shelf in the trench to sleep on. They pressed on nevertheless and in June were engaged in battle at Wytschaete ridge and later in November at Cambrai. Towards the end of August 1918, Con's mother had a dream in which she saw her son lying on a battlefield. He died on Sunday, 1 September. Some say that he was killed by a sniper's bullet but there is no known grave. He was just two weeks away from his twentieth birthday and two months away from Armistace. Mrs Kennerk never fully recovered from the loss of her son and she still spoke of him with sadness in old age. Her husband Mick made it home - a father without his son.
- Bidragyder
- Barry Kennerk
- Person 1
- Cornelius Kennerk
- Person 2
- Michael Kennerk
- Sammenfattende beskrivelse af genstande
- Birth certificate Photo of Con Kennerk
- Beretningen begynder ...
- 1898 – 1918
- Sprog
- English
- Keywords
- Propaganda, Recruitment and Conscription, Remembrance, Trench Life og Women
- Theatres
- Western Front

