Alice & Maurice Growney
Alice and Maurice on their Wedding Day.
They were married at St Charles Borromeo Church in Heath Road Weybridge, Surrey, UK, on 11th October 1941.
The church, for a long time known as St Charles Borromeo, has a long and interesting history. Built in 1835, it later became a chapel and crypt for the exiled Louis Phillipe and some 13 family members, who fled to Claremont in Esher after the French Revolution in 1848. They were buried in the crypt before their coffins were returned to the family crypt in Dreux in France.
St Charles Borromeo, one of the first Catholic churches built after the Reformation, was the principle seat of Catholic worship in Weybridge until the late 1980s.
It has been home to the World Mission Korean Presbyterian Church since 1993 when Ho Keun Kim took over as pastor.
More details have been updated in our 'Ancestry' pages... ancestry.co.uk
A Photograph from 1966
From left to right
Maurice (Jnr) - Eileen - Jim - Peter - Kathleen - Maurice (Snr) - Alice - Christine - Irene - Elizabeth
And in the front - Gerard
Early 1990's Penwortham - Preston
Picture taken at Mum and Dads 50th Anniversary. Penwortham - Preston. Early 1990's
Left to Right :
Christine, Michael, Elizabeth, Jim, Dad, Peter, Mum, Irene, Maurice, Shaun & Gerard... Kath and Janet couldn't make it that weekend.
Alice and Maurice Growney
Alice and Maurice Growney outside O'Growney Drive on a visit to Ireland.
Mullingar, Co Westmeath, Eire
Google Maps Ref
Link to O'Growney Drive, Co Westmeath
History
GROWNEY
This interesting Irish name is an anglicised form of 'Carraghamhna' generally found as Carron or Carroon and usually prefixed ' Mac '. The name derives from 'gamhan' meaning 'calf' and 'carr' - a rock. One of the many unusual features of Growney is that it is usually prefixed ' O ' rather than ' Mac ' but this is one of the delightful complexities of Irish names.
The name originates in Co. Westmeath, being recorded in the Irish census of 1659 as O'Gramhna, although the main clan of MacCarron is almost exclusively from Ulster.
The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Margaret Growney (aged 18) which was dated 1846 on a ships register to New York from Liverpool, during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837 - 1900).
Birth Certificates held with our family show that a Margaret Growney had twins, Mary and James Growney, Mary was born at 4 pm and James was born at 5 pm on 24 November 1857 at Springfield Street, Liverpool. Their parents were James and Margaret Growney. Both parents signed their names with an X.
James was a general labourer and Margaret's former surname was Tully.
HISTORY POINT
Family names as hereditary surnames did not come into general use until after the Norman Conquest of 1066. The Norman's introduced National taxation to England which they called the POLL TAX (Poll=Head), in consequence the need arose for surnames for identification purposes.
Scotland, Ireland and Wales obtained formal records later than England, and this is reflected in the recording of names. All surnames of every Country have been subject to changes owing to dialect, Civil War and in many cases poor spelling!
Growney Related Links
Old Photographs Maurice Growney Brothers
Visit the GROWNEY Stadium, Rochester NY, USA.
( With special thanks and acknowledgements to JIM GROWNEY, Naples, FLA)
This Link takes you to the USA page.
The Full Ancestry Tree in one 2 page PDF file. There is a lot of data in this so you will have to zoom in to see all of the relationships on the Tree. I hope you enjoy! (You will need PDF Reader Software, free download is available here)
To read some thoughtful words on Friendship and Getting Old please click here..