Irish John 1712

Irish, John 1712 – 1769				Father:	Irish,	John?		16??-17??
				Mother:	,	Elizabeth?		16??-17??

Birth date	Birth place	Registered	County	District	Parish	GRO ref.	Christening	Place	Borough
about 1712	unknown	n/a				n/a
Death date	Death place	Buried	County	District	Parish	GRO ref.	Cause
Mar 1769	Chobham	1 Apr 1769	Surrey	Chobham	St Lawrence	n/a

Mary 17??-1760	Marriage
	Date
	Place
	District
	County
	GRO ref.	n/a

Children		Birth date	Birth place	Death date	Death place	Marriage date	Marriage place	Spouse
Jane Irish		Mar 1733	Chobham	maybe 1759 or 1766	maybe Wokingham
Frances Irish^‡		Oct 1734	Chobham	Dec 1805	Egham	19 Dec 1763	Greenwich	Thomas Irish
David Irish		Feb 1736	Egham	Jan 1793	Egham
Ann Irish		Apr 1738	Chobham	1798-1802	Egham	1 Jan 1769 11 Jul 1777	Fulham Egham	John Bartholomew Henry Collett
John Irish		May 1740	Farnborough			17 Aug 1763 ^†	Wokingham	Mary Mogg
Teresa Irish		unknown		after Jan 1793
Sally Irish		Dec 1743	Chobham	after Jan 1793		17 May 1764	Egham	Thomas Chalcraft
Henry Irish		Feb 1750	Chobham	Nov 1778	Chobham


Records
Date	Source		Residence		Occupation
5 Apr 1764	Apprenticeship of John Chambers		Egham		Barber
16 May 1764	Sally Irish Marriage Bond		Egham		Apothecary and Surgeon

Additional Information
It is very likely that the parents of John Irish (1712-1769) were John and Elizabeth Irish of Oakingham (Wokingham), which would make John a brother of David Irish (1715-1774). There is no direct documentary evidence of this, but there are two strong pointers: (1) their common occupation as surgeons; (2) the marriage of John’s daughter Frances to David’s son Thomas. Also significant may be the Wokingham connection in the marriage of John Junior to Mary Mogg. The Wokingham link makes it likely that one of the burials in Wokingham in 1759 and 1766 was of John Irish’s daughter Jane. Her absence from her brother David’s will in 1793 would seem to confirm that Jane was already deceased by then. David Irish followed in his father’s footsteps in becoming a surgeon. Frances’ son Robert was also a surgeon, who married Marmaduke Willis’s daughter Jane in 1801. Sally Irish’s husband, Thomas Chalcraft, was an apothecary and surgeon. ‡ An infant Frances Irish was buried at Chobham in April 1735. It is possible, therefore that John and Mary Irish had another child named Frances after this. † John Irish Junior’s marriage to Mary Mogg is confirmed by the fact that their first son, born in Egham, Surrey in 1765 was christened John Mog Irish. Also Mary’s aunt, also named Mary Mogg, in her 1766 will made mention of Mary’s marriage to John Irish of Egham. John and Mary baptised their first child, Mary Frances, at Egham St John on 31 May 1764. Their third child, Jane, was baptised at Wokingham All Saints on 23 Oct 1766. It is likely she was named after her aunt Jane, whose burial possibly took place at the same church just 4 days earlier. The only reference to the existence of Teresa Irish is in David Irish’s Will, where she is mentioned as an unmarried sister. Follow this link for further discussion on ancestral links to the Irish family of surgeons.