Patrick signed up for the army in Pontefract, Yorkshire. Once he had joined the army they would have made arrangements for him to travel to Regimental Headquarters in Ashton-under-Lyne. I do not know how Patrick travelled from Yorkshire to Lancashire. The most likely option would have been by rail. Rail travel meant steam locomotives in…
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From Yorkshire to Lancashire
Patrick signed up for the army in Pontefract, Yorkshire. At the time (1902) he was living in Dewsbury. The two towns are 16 miles apart. A route planner will tell you to allow 39 minutes for the journey. This assumes that you have access to a modern vehicle. I don’t know what means of transport…
The missing Muldoons
There is a record of the death of Patrick Muldoon in Dewsbury in Q2 1900. I will come back to this later. John Muldoon, age 23, died in the third quarter of 1910, in Dewsbury. I am confident that this is the son of Patrick and Mary. The 1911 census records five children born alive…
Mary Muldoon
Mary Muldoon, nee Stanley, next appears, together with her husband Patrick, on the 1891 census. As is widely known, the records from the Irish census of 1891 (and all earlier years) were destroyed in a fire. It is just as well that they moved. Patrick and Mary Muldoon were living at 23 Swallow Road in…