Re: Lundbergs From Ireland to America
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Re: Lundbergs From Ireland to America
Sarah Lundberg 4/18/04
William Lundberg (1803-1868)was my great-grandfather. I have been coducting research on my family for very many years and established that William Lundberg was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1803. I have found no record yet of either his parents or siblings.
WilliamLundberg was said to have been born at sea as his father was a ship's captain. Their first port of call had been Bristol so the child was registered as English.
William Lundberg became a silversmith and jeweller and was said to have had a shop in both Bristol, England and Dublin, Ireland.
On 2 Mar 1828, aged 25, William Lundberg married Mary Clarissa Dwyer, born 1811 in Dublin, the daughter of Patrick Dwyer and Margaret Dwyer nee Clarke. She was aged 17 when they were married at St Werburghs in Dublin. The witnesses were Patrick Dwyer and H Holden. They had the following children:
James Patrick Lundberg, born in 1829 in Dublin.
William Lundberg, born 1832 in Dublin.
Clarissa Lundberg, born 19 May 1835 at 29 St Aungier Street, Dublin.
Emily Jane Lundberg, born 6 Mar 1838 in Dublin.
Virginia Robertson Lundberg, born 13 Mar 1842 at 14 William Place, Dublin.
Margaret Johannae (k/a 'Ada') Lundberg, born on 12 Oct 1843 in East Street, St Paul's, Bristol, Somerset, England.
John Lundberg, born 1845 in Dublin
Mary Clarissa Lundberg nee Dwyer died in 1845, the same year as their son John was born.
William Lundberg who died in Dublin in 1868, aged 65.
There is an unconfirmed report that the 1851 Census lists Emily Jane Lundberg (aged 13) and John Lundberg, (aged 6) as living at Stapleton, Gloscestershire, England. This is not far from Bristol where William Lundberg was reported to have had a shop and where Margaret Johannae(k/a 'Ada') Lundberg was born in 1843.
John Lundberg married Mary Josephine Toler at St Mark's in Dublin on 26 Mar 1862 and had 4 children Margaret, Mary, Henry and Thomas who were all born in Dublin.
Wlliam Lundberg married Emily in South Dublin in 1853 aged 21.
Emily Jane Lundberg, my grand-mother, married Hugh Falconer, a silversmith and jeweller from Edinburgh, Scotland on 27 Jul 1857, in Dublin. Hugh Falconer was employed at the time by her father William Lundberg in his jewelry shop in Dublin. Hugh Falconer and Emily Jane Lundberg had several children in Dublin before Hugh Falconer returned with his family to Edinburgh between 1857 and 1859. Their children were:
Margaret Johannae Falconer, who became a Music Hall Comedienne and died on 30 Sep 1899, aged 56, at 52 The Chase, Clapham, London, England.
Elizabeth Mary Falconer, born 1863, who remained a spinster and had been the governess to the Maharaja of Cooch Behar, died in July 1938. Aunty Betty, as she was known, visited her nephew Colin Falconer Flint at his then home in Southport, Lancashire, England and spoke about her memories of her family, the Falconers. She told him that:
Hugh Falconer (1781-1845), her grandfather and Colin's great grandfather, had been a cabinet maker and a Burghess of Edinburgh, as had his forebears. He is believed to have had a shop on the High Street in Edinburgh. She told Colin that Hugh's second wife had been Isabella Christie (born 1789-), a Fifeshire woman and daughter of Alexander Christie and Margaret Robertson. They had had three children - Hugh (1830-1889), George and Jessie.
Hugh Falconer and Isabella Christie had died while the children were still quite young and they had been brought up by a guardian, a friend of their father's named Richardson or Robertson.
The Guardian paid the premium to appretice the boys, Hugh and George Falconer, to a jeweller in Edinburgh and their sister Jessie Falconer to a first class dressmaker in George Street in Edinburgh.
Hugh Falconer, the eldest son, went to Dublin when his apprenticeship finished and was employed by a silversmith and jeweller named William de Lundberg.
William de Lundberg, a Protestant, had according to Aunt Betty eloped with and married Mary Dwyer,a Catholic girl from Dublin who was only 15 at the time and with whom he had several children : Caroline, Virginia, Margaret, Emily Jane and John and possibly others.
In due course young Hugh Falconer married his employer William de Lundberg's daughter Emily Jane Lundberg on 27 Jul 1857, in Dublin - possibly at St Thomas' Church in the city. According to Aunt Betty the clergyman had forgotten to read the banns and had had to marry them by special licence. Hugh had been aged 26 and Emily Jane was 17. Their children Jessie, John Campbell, Elizabeth Mary, George Albert and Isabela Clarrisa ('Aunt Ella') were all born in Dublin between 1858 and 1867. Their daughter Emily Jane Falconer, my grand-mother, and subsequent children were born in Edinburgh, to which Hugh Falconer had returned with his Irish wife Emily Jane Lundberg and their children between 1867 and 1869.
Mary Dwyer had kept a seminary for young ladies in Bristol where she died and was buried in the churchyard of St Mary Ratcliffe in Bristol. Mary Dwyer had been the daughter of Patrick Dwyer, a merchant tailor of Sackville Street, Dublin who married Mary Clarke, a farmer's daughter from Limerick with whom he had a family of 13, three of whom were girls - Mary, Joanna and Elizabeth. Both Patrick and his wife Mary died of cholera circa 1832 and were buried in Glamevin Cemetry in Dublin. Both were Catholics. William de Lundbergand his wife Mary Dwyer took in Elizabeth Dwyer after her parents Patrick Dwyer and his wife Mary Clarke died.
Elizabeth Dwyer eventually went to live in Australia with her sister Joanna. She married Peter Young, who was believed to have been a good deal older, and had three children. After Peter Young retired the family returned to Scotland wehere he bought an estate called Craigmacarine in Perthshire. On Peter Young's death, Elizabeth went to live in Edinburgh to educate her sons. She contacted her relatives in Ireland and discovered that her god-daughter Emily Jane Falconer nee de Lundberg had married Hugh Falconer.
Some years later Elizabeth Young nee Dwyer advised Emily Jane Falconer nee Lundberg and her husband Hugh Falconer to return to Edinburgh with their four children all of whom had been baptized at St Thomas' Church in Dublin. On his return to Edinburgh Hugh Falconer was made a Burghess of the city and was employed by a jeweller and goldsmith in Princess Street named Marshall & Co.
Emily Jane FALCONER (known as Emmy) was born on 16 Feb 1869, the 6th of the 8 children born to Hugh Falconer and Emily Jane Lundberg. The family were living at 5 Allison Square in the Pettrow district of Edinburgh at the time of her birth, having returned to Edinburgh from Dublin sometime between 1867 and 1869.
The 1871 Census lists the following members of the family living at 12 Royal Exchange, Edinburgh:
Hugh Falconer, head of house, goldsmith, aged 38, born Edinburgh, St Giles Parish
Emily Jane Falconer, his wife, aged 30, silver burnisher, born in Dublin, Ireland
John Campbell Falconer, his son, aged 8, born in Ireland
George Albert Falconer, his son, aged 6, born in Ireland
Isabelle Clarissa Falconer, his daughter, aged 4, born in Ireland
Emily Jane Falconer, his daughter, aged 2, born in Edinburgh
Margaret Johanna, his daughter, aged 1 month, born in Edinburgh
The 1881 Census lists the following members of the family living at 12 Royal Exchange, Edinburgh:
Hugh Falconer, head of house, goldsmith, aged 49, Jeweller, born Edinburgh, St Giles Parish
Emily Jane Falconer, his wife, aged 40, Jeweller's wife, born in Dublin, Ireland
George Albert Falconer, his son, aged 16, Mercantile Clerk, born in Ireland
Isabelle Clarissa Falconer, his daughter, aged 14, Scholar, born in Ireland
Emily Jane Falconer, his daughter, aged 12, Scholar, born in Edinburgh
Florence Ruth, his daughter, aged 5, born in Edinburgh
We know little about their childrens' early life though they must have hadreasonably good educations they all went on to have successful careers as accountants, bank managers, dentists, and teachers. Emily Jane is said to have been a governess to a Doctor in Shanghai before returning to England where she met and married Arthur Ernest Flint, a commercial traveller employed by the large hosiery manufacturers Messrs I & R Morley of Wood Street in the City of London. He was, according to his son Colin Falconer Flint, "always very smartly dressed - in pre-1914 days he wore a silk hat and a frock coat. After 1918 dress fashions changed to lounge suits and soft hats, but were still formal and he was always very well groomed".
Arthur Ernest Flint and Emily Jane Falconer were married on 4 Aug 1900 at Christ Church, Brondesbury, Willesden Lane, London, England and they went to live in a terraced house named 'Oraphasa' at 72 Dyne Road, Brondesbury, London which belonged to other members of the Falconer family. Their first son Colin Falconer Flint was born there on August 12th 1904.
The house at 72 Dyne Road was, recalled Colin many years later when he was in his 70's, a tall Victorian terrace house with a basement lit by an area in the front and with French windows onto the garden at the back. Nominally, the house belonged to his grandmother Emily Jane Falconer née Lundberg (1840-1911). Actually, her sons probably owned it and may have bought it for her as a investment and source of income as she was by then a widow. Her husband, Hugh Falconer (1830-1889) had died on 21 Mar 1889 at 35 East London Street, Edinburgh, Scotland and she had then come down to London, England to live with some of her children at 72 Dyne Road. "When I knew the house" wrote Colin "my grandmother had the basement flat and the other 3 or 4 floors of this big house were used as apartments by other members of grandma's family. We had a flat at the top, and I recall looking out of the window a long way down to the garden".
Colin Falconer Flint stated that he and his parents, Arthur Ernest Flint & Emily Jane Falconer, "left grandma's house when I was 3 years old in 1907 and we settled in at "Dorisdene" 20 Priory Road , Hornsey in North London. Colin's brother George Angus Flint, who was my father, was born 3 years later on 7 May 1910.
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