From Ballyboyle to Corglass... a Boyle family's story
Part 2 - Corglass
Terence Brady - Finale
Terence died at his home, Leinster House on 30 September 1934, aged 69.
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In his will, his assets amounted to over £70,000 (worth about £6.3 million today). Most of his estate was divided between his three children, half to his son and a quarter to each daughter. He left £500 and £5000 in trust for his wife, stating that this benefit would be "more than ample to provide for her, having regard to her financial means derived from properties in Dublin", and "I therefore make the said bequest as some evidence of my loving appreciation of our happy married life". He left £1000 each to each of his seven grandchildren, and amounts from £50 to £300 to his domestic employees.
Of particular interest is a bequest of £500 to his nephew Peter Boyle. It seems that Peter might have worked for Terence for some time in Liverpool before going to the USA 12 years earlier, where on entering, he had given Terence as his next of kin,
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Regarding Terence's family, he and Josephine had no children. Josephine survived him by over 30 years, dying in Liverpool in 1967.
His eldest daughter Annie Kathleen, stayed in Ireland on marrying Larry Reynolds of Ballinalee on 21 June 1911. The celebrant of the wedding was the Bishop of Ardagh, Joseph Hoare, indicating the high status of the couple in Catholic society in Longford. Larry was the only surviving son of Henry Reynolds, described as 'merchant and farmer' who had a substantial store in Ballinalee servicing the needs of the local farming community. In the 1911 census the return shows four live-in shop assistants as well as two domestic servants. Annie and Larry had three children, Henry James (b. 1912), Anne Winifred (known as Oonagh, b. 1914) and Dorothy May (B. 1919).
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In 1932, Oonagh married Conal J. O'Ferrall of Camlisk. This family claimed direct descent from the O Fearghail sept which controlled modern Co. Longford in the Middle Ages, and who managed to retain some of their land despite the subsequent confiscations. Their son, Conal Henry is the honorary "Chieftain of the O'Farrell Clan", a modern association that promotes the family history of the Farrells and O'Ferralls.
Wedding of Oonagh Reynolds and Conal O'Ferrall. The flower girls are Dorrie, Oonagh's sister, aged about 13, and her cousin Beatrice Mallon aged about 8. The celebrant was Rev. John Brady, Oonagh's grand-uncle
Terence's two younger children seem to have returned to England. In 1922 Mary Frances married Dr. Edward Aloysius Mallon, born in Sligo in 1887 and son of a sergeant in the Royal Irish Constabulary. They had two daughters, Beatrice and Ann. Edward Mallon died on 7 September 1934 at the early age of 47, just three weeks before Terence Brady. himself.
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Mary Frances survived her husband by fifty years, dying in 1984, aged 80. They are buried in Allerton Cemetery in Liverpool.
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Terence Edward Jr. is described in some reports as an engineer. In 1919 he married Ella Hawes in High Wycombe, Bucks. Though he is listed on electoral rolls as living in Coningsby Road, High Wycombe in the early 1930s, he may have moved back to Liverpool later, as he seems to have been involved on the fringes of Liverpool local politics.
He was an active supporter of Helsby Moss, who campaigned against 'wasteful' expenditure by the local council on any initiatives he perceived to be socialist- or communist-inspired. In 1936, 18 months after his father's death, Terence was nominated as a candidate for the City Council.
The party he and Moss allied with, the National Citizens Union , was associated with various right-wing groups, including Mosley's British Union of Fascists, but it petered out at the start of World War II. I found no evidence that Terence was successful in his bid for election, or that he sustained an interest in politics.
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"Mr. F.(sic) E. Brady" is described as one of Moss's principal supporters, and one of those who accompanied him to present a petition against a rate increase to the Mayor. The man on the right is probably Terence Jnr.
Terence Jnr's daughter, Dorothy (1921-2002) married Edward John Mostyn(1922-2002), a Flight Lieutenant in the Royal Air Force and a descendant of the Mostyn baronets of Talacre, Wales on 18 June 1945. The Mostyns were among the most prominent landed gentry families of North Wales, and were unusual in that they remained Catholic after the Reformation. Edward's grandfather's first cousin, Francis Edward Mostyn (1860-1939) was Archbishop of Cardiff, and a more remote family member Francis George Mostyn (1800-1847) was a Vicar Apostolic in the years before the restoration of the English Hierarchy.​
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The Mostyn estate of Talacre is not very far from Parkia and it seems likely that through Terence Brady's tenancy of Parkia, and their common bond of Catholicism the families would have would known each other.
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​The Mostyn family has a long and complicated connection with Ireland. Many Mostyns sought to enrich themselves as officers in the English armies during the 16th century Elizabethan wars. One of them, William, was responsible for the sack of Donegal Abbey and the murder of its Guardian, Tadhg O'Boyle in 1588. But their Catholicism must have presented them with a dilemma; the name of another, Hugh Mostyn became a byword for treachery when he defected to the Irish side in 1600, and he followed Hugh Roe O'Donnell to Spain where he served in the Spanish army of Flanders. (Morgan, 2011).
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