Son of Henry Joseph Molyneux and Elizabeth Hearn, born on the 13th of March 1837
Married Agnes Eliza Keogh on the 5th of February 1863 in St John's Wood Church, London
Children
Edward (soldier, artist, India)
Justin (married Lizzie Kenny, children Eileen, Edward (designer))
Kathleen
May
George (South Africa)
Robert (Natal)
Bessie (married Fitzgibbon, 2 sons)
John, born 12 August 18793 (Central Africa)
Died 19062
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1 Many internet mentions relative to Lafcadio Hearn. (See note 4)
2 Marriage of Agnes Eliza Keogh and Henry Hearn Molyneux registered in the first quarter of 1863 at Marylebone 1a 813; Death of Henry H Molyneux aged 69 registered in the first quarter of 1906 at Hampstead 1a 407 (FreeBMD)
3 Balliol Collece Register 1832 - 1914 "Molyneux, John Hearn b Aug 12 1879 son of H.H. Molyneux .."
4
"In 1863 Henry
Hearn Molyneux (1840-1906) married Agnes Keogh. His family had been
significant landowners in County Waterford. The Rev. Thomas Hearn
was involved in the founding of Waterford Catholic Cathedral and
College. On Henry's marriage Mrs. Brenane made a settlement "some
thousands of acres of land, the bulk of her estate, to the newly
weds". This course of action was agreed as a consequence of family
connections with Justin Brenane.
Mrs. Brenane held an annuity of 400 pounds on herself and went to
live in Surrey. Lafcadio was sent to boarding school that Autumn
for four years. He may also have spent some time at school in
France. The school selected was St Cuthbert's Ushaw, which was run
by diocesan priests. The school was probably chosen because of its
distance from Surrey and it is significant that Lafcadio also spent
at least some of his vacations there.
During his time at Ushaw Lafcadio while playing "giant's stride"
sustained an eye injury which despite surgery in Dublin resulted in
the loss of sight in that eye and a disfigurement which effected him
for the rest of his life.
Henry Molyneux's business interests collapsed in 1866 bankrupting
both himself, Mrs. Brenane and the Hearn family who had incurred
debts to Mrs. Brenane. This resulted in the retirement of the
Molyneuxs and Mrs. Brenane to Tramore [she died there in 1871] and
the removal of Lafcadio from Ushaw.
This sudden and drastic loss of fortune and prospects greatly
effected Lafcadio and embittered him. He moved to London and lived
in abject poverty until his departure to the United States."
http://www.waterfordcountylibrary.ie/library/web?task=WAIVersion&art_id=12
I have been unable as yet to establish the relationship between Henry Molyneux and Justin Brenane.
5 "Baptised Henry Joseph after his father, he took early in his career the name Henry Hearn Molyneux"
Henry Molyneux [born on. March 13, 1837 to
Henry Joseph Molyneux and Elizabeth Molyneux (née
Hearn)...
www.cairn.info/load_pdf.php?ID_REVUE=RLC&
Young Hearn by Orcutt William Frost - 1958 - 222
pages
His great-grandfather Molyneux, a cousin of the Earl of
Sefton, had seven sons
... for Henry Joseph Molyneux died without even
leaving a will, and his widow ...