Attridges of Cork
My great-grandfather was Arthur Attridge, son of Thomas and Margaret Attridge. Born in Cork between 1853-1865. A shipwright and probably a mariner, he married Bessie Riordan in 1891. They lived at 3 St James Place, St Luke's all their married life and had four daughters - May, Esther (Essie), Eva and Eileen (Ellen, Helena) who was my grandmother.
May married a McCann, went to America, had a daughter Betty who married a Driscoll in Cork.
Eva married Patrick Casey and they continued living at 3 St James Place, running a debt collection business.
Esther married Henry Raymond and ended up in Durham, northern England.
Eileen married John Percival Barrett, my grandfather - they spent some 20 years in India and returned to settle in Portsmouth, England.
Arthur died aboard the Inniscarra, sunk by a German U-boat in 1918 between Fishguard and Cork.
Bessie Riordan had a brother Michael, who was said to have been a diver in Cork harbour. She may also have had a sister Minnie Riordan, who married a Franks and moved to Plymouth.
It is possible but not yet clear that Arthur Attridge was the son of Thomas Attridge who married Margaret Hegarty - in which case his siblings would have included William Thomas, James, Dominick and Jeremiah Attridge, for whom I have collected a lot of information.
Happy to be in touch with anyone having an interest!