James Doran                                    1815 – 1877 (61)

  b        24.10.1815 

  bap    16.11.1815          Workington

  d        19.10.1877          Java, East Indies

          Married 1867

         New Zealand 

  Elizabeth Griffiths                                    1834 – 1909 (75)

 

  bap    21.02.1834      Ludlow, Shropshire

  d        ond 1909          Malpas, Cheshire

 

  1841      James Doran (mariner) married Eleanor McGee (spinster) on 30.09.1841 in St Bride’s Church, Percy St, Toxteth, Liverpool

  Children             all baptised at St Michael's Church, Workington

  Ann Hutchinson Doron           bap   25.08.1844

  Richard Doron                         b     13.09.1845             bap     5.10.1845

  Mary Ann Doron                     bap     28.05.1848

  Eleanor Wilson Doron            bap     17.08.1852

  James McGee Doron              bap     16.09.1855         bur    2.12.1858  (3)

  C1851   James Doran (35, mariner) with wife Eleanor (37) and son Richard (5) and Daughter Mary A (2) at Sewells Lane, Workington

                 Mary Ann Thomas (22) with husband James (22, Pilot) living at home of parents Robert and Ellen Routledge at Cumberland St, Liverpool

                 Elizabeth Griffiths (17, milliner) with mother Catherine (52) and siblings at Ludlow

  1859      Death of Eleanor Doran at Workington                                   bur   7.01.1859   (46)

  1861     Death of James Thomas, pilot - 8.03.1861 - (fell into River Mersey when boarding the 'Satellite' from mail steamer 'Canada' and drowned)

  C1861  Mary Ann Doran (13) with brother Richard (15) living with grandmother Mary (65, widow) in Church St, Workington

                Possible but unlikely :    James Doran (42, ship’s cook, b Workington) on board HMS Liffey in Malta

                Mary Ann Thomas (33, widow) with children Margaret Jane (9), William Henry (7), Eleanor (3) and Mary (1) visiting brother-in-law Evan Richard Thomas (35, Wine merchant) and family in Church St, Beaumaris, Anglesey

                Elizabeth Griffiths (26, school mistress) living at the School, Hatfield

  1862       Marriage of James Doran (widower, master mariner) to Mary Ann Thomas (widow) at the parish church of Walton, Liverpool on 12.10.1862

  1865       Death of Mary Ann Doran (second wife of James Doran) in June                        W Derby  8b  356

 

  1867       Marriage of James Doron to Elizabeth Griffiths  -  New Zealand

    Children         James                             b   jas  1868        bap  28.07.1868        d    jas  1868  (infant)                   W Derby,  Liverpool

                           Catherine Elizabeth        b    jas  1871       bap  10.11.1871                                                              W Derby,  Liverpool

                           Alice Jane                       b    jas  1874                                                                                               W Derby,  Liverpool

  C1871     Elizabeth Doron (34, wife of master mariner, b Ludlow ~ 1837) living at Hicks Rd, Seaforth, Litherland, Nr Liverpool with husband’s daughter Mary A Doran from his first marriage and his step daughters Eleanor (13) and Mary (11) Thomas from his second marriage

  1877       Death of James Doron, Master of the ship “Frederick”, from dropsy at Anger, Prov. of Bantum, Java, East Indies  on 19.10.1877

  1878      Will of James Doran, estate under £1500, left to wife Elizabeth of Blundell Sands, Crosby proved with  Howel Davies  of Wrexham

  C1881    Elizabeth Doron (46, widow, bookseller, b Ludlow ~ 1835) with daughter, Alice Doron (6, b  Walton, Lancs), living at 10 Bridge Road, Great Crosby, Lancs

                   Kate Doron (9, scholar) boarder at Bank Ho, Seaforth Vale, Litherland, Lancs. Head – Ann Mawdsley

  C1891    Elizabeth Doron (57, widow, living on own means) and daughter Catherine E Doron (19, b Seaforth) with sister  Lucy Jones  (55, widow) living at Malpas

  1893      Catherine E Doron married Joseph Dodd at St Oswald’s church, Malpas

  C1901    Elizabeth Doron (67, widow, living on own means) at home of daughter Catherine E Dodd (29) and her three daughters at  25 Great Witley, Martley, Worcs.

                   Alice J Doron (26, dressmaker’s assistant)  boarding at  184 Piccadilly, St James Westminster, London

  1909      Death of Elizabeth Doron  (76)    ond 1909        Whitchurch S.  6a 449  

  C1911     Joseph Dodd (40, farmer)  and wife  Catherine Elizabeth (39)  with children   Dorothy May (17), Catherine (11), Thomas James (6), Josephine Mary (14m)  at  Marley Lodge, Marley Green, Marbury, Whitchurch, Shropshire

      Alice Jane Doron (36, single, b ~ 1875 Walton, Lancs) (no occupation given) visitor at 46 Beauchamp Place, Kensington, London

  1917      Marriage of  Dorothy M Dodd  and  Sydney Williams        jfm  1917    Whitchurch dist, Shropshire

  C1921    Joseph Dodd (51, farmer) and wife  Catherine Elizabeth (49)  with children  Catherine (21),  Thomas James (16)  and  Eva Joan (6)  and  5 others at Marley Lodge, Marley Green, Whitchurch, Shropshire

                Sydney Williams (26, Dairy farmer)  and wife  Dorothy May (27)  with sons  John Harold (4)  and  Sydney Derek (2m)  and 3 others at  Cross Hill, Marbury, Whitchurch, Shropshire

   1951     Death of  Joseph Dodd  of  Marley Lodge, Marbury  on  26.10.1951   (81y)

   1954     Death of  Catherine Elizabeth Dodd  of  Marley Lodge, Marbury  on  23.12.1954   (83y)

   1954     Death of  Alice Jane Doron  of  Marley Lodge, Marbury  on  24.01.1954   (79y)  at  Deermoss Hospital, Whitchurch

 

  KENT       These records may be irrelevant but refer to another James Doran born in Workington about 1816.  My research has only found one suitable baptism for the two James Dorans which poses a mystery I am keen to solve. 

  C1871    James Doran (53, seaman pensioner, b Workington) with wife Anne (40) and sons Thomas (4?), John (7?) and Charles Henry (6m) living at Britton St, Gillingham

  C1881    James Doran (65, farm labourer, b Workington) with wife Ann (56), sons William (25), John (14), Charles (10), Michael (8) and daughter Ann (5) living at 29 Britton St, Gillingham

  C1891    James Doran (76, living on own means, b Workington) with wife Ann (60) and son John (24) living at 94 Alma St, Minster in Sheppey, Sheerness

  1898      Death of James Doran (84)      bur  10.09.1898  at Sheppey Cemetery

  C1901    Ann Doran (60?, widow, b Queenstown) with two boarders living at 21 Ranelagh Rd, Sheerness

  1905      Death of Ann Doran (75)    bur  4.04.1905  at Sheppy Cemetery