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Owen Phelim O'Conor Don
1 of 2 portraits of Owen Phelim O'Conor Don
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Owen Phelim O'Conor Don
by Bassano Ltd
bromide print, 17 October 1919
7 7/8 in. x 5 7/8 in. (199 mm x 149 mm) overall
Purchased, 1996
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NPG x84116
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- Bassano Ltd (active 1901-1962), Photographers. Artist or producer associated with 42746 portraits.
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- Place made: United Kingdom: England, London (photographer's studio, 25 Old Bond Street , London)
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Susan F. Tollemache
11 February 2019, 14:49
The Portrait is of my maternal Grandfather Owen Phelim O'Conor.
He was born on 10th December 1870 at 10.45am at home, in Clonalis House, Castlerea, Co. Roscommom, in Ireland. It was a very cold day when the roads were almost impassible. The Doctor arrived an hour after he was born. A cow for milk was bought in Elphin a nearby town & arrived on 11th December. He was the second son & never expected to inherit his Title of O'Conor Don. His elder brother Denis died in 1917 without heir resulting in Owen inheriting the title then.
He married his first wife Mary Catherine Mc Laughlin in October 1913 in Paris.
Their only child a daughter (my Mother) Eileen Frances Mary O'Conor was born on 11th June 1916 in Niece, France. Her mother Mary died on the following Sunday 19th June. Mary is buried in la Chateau Cemetery, Nice (above the old town) in France.
Owen later married a cousin Gertrude Gwendolyn O'Conor in December 1919. There were no living issue from that marriage. Owen died in Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin on 3rd March 1943 & was buried in the Family Plot of the Cemetery in Castlerea, Co Roscommon. His title then passed to his nephew the Rev. Father Charles O'Conor S.J.
As my mother being a female was not able to inherit.
Susan F. Tollemache