Hello, I am new to using this website. I do not know who posted this or when it was posted. This family is on my family tree. At the end of the post you ask about the three children. I have Donald Daniel Walsh as 1921 and dying 1940-1945 in the UK which may mean he died in WWII. I could not find him on the registry of UK military losses but there are a ton of Walsh. THomas lived 1926-1936. Anne Joyce is not on my family tree but I will put her there today and see if anything pops up. The mother, Anne Joyce Walsh I have dying in England in January of 1950.
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Annie Joyce was born on 1 August 1891 on Lettermore Island, County Galway, Ireland.
I am not sure when she came over, however, she landed in Boston and on 25 January 1914 she married a Coleman Kelley. Coleman died of the flue on 22 September 1918. So, Annie went back to Ireland with her three daughters to live with her father Thomas Joyce who was living in RosMuc, County Galway. In court documents after four weeks of living with her father she married a Daniel Walsh. They would have three children together: Donal 1922, Thomas 1924, and Annie 1926. Daniel Walsh died in RosMuc on 31 May 1928. It was ruled an accident, however, they exhumed the body and ruled it murder. Annie was having an affair with her cousin Martin Joyce and her three children from her first marriage testified against their mother. Martin and Annie were both sentenced to the death penalty. Annie was the second women in Ireland to be sentenced to death. However, on appeal due to some technicality, their sentence was commuted, and they were given prison time instead. I believe Martin got ten years and Annie got eight.
I am very frustrated as I don’t know who took the three youngest children or where they went after the conviction. Martin went back to live in RosMuc. Speculation has it that Annie went to England, however I can’t find any proof. So, what I’m looking for is what happened to Annie and her children, Donal, Thomas, and Annie.
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Alex
Thursday 29th October 2020 02:52PM -
Hi Alex
I posted the above. Annie (Joyce) Kelly Walsh is an interesting person. I believe she died before 1952 when her sister Barbara's obit was published. Or she could have been a sister they didn't want to mention. There is no documentation of where/when Annie died, but my family said England. If so, I'm thinking she went to join her brother Martin in England after she got out of prison. What I find weird is that Martin Joyce who killed Walsh went back and lived in Ros Muc. Donal (not Donald) did die during WWII, Thomas died when he was 10, and Anne Joyce Jr. went by Nancy for some reason. When she was of age she supposedly went to England to live with her mother. I found out a lot of information after that first post. Thanks for responding. Are you related to Annie Joyce? If so, let me know.
Kelbelle3201
Tuesday 16th March 2021 10:11PM -
Anne Joyce Kelly Walsh is on my family tree as are her six childen. An ill-fated family it would seem. I do not see that I am related by DNA to Anne but I am to siblings of her second husband, Daniel Walsh. The emigrants of the whole Lettermore area went en masse to either Pittsburgh or Boston. The only living descendants that I know from those three daughters by Anne Joyce Kelly are in Denver. Anne Walsh (geb 1926) is the one child from husband #2 Daniel Walsh that I have no information of. Anne Joyce's children by her first husband go with her back to Ireland and then to England and two return to the USA. When Rita Kelly marries husband #2 in 1946 near Boston, she lists her mother (Anne Joyce) as alive and in England. Some siblings of the slain Daniel Walsh emigrated to Pittsburgh or Boston. I am the spawn of McDonagh in Pittsburgh and I have people intermarried with the Walsh. All for now, Alex
Alex
Wednesday 17th March 2021 12:49PM -
Hi Alex
Feel free to contact me at kellyleary@msn.com . It's my family research email. I'm related through Anne, the sister of Coleman who was my father's grandfather. I was told by Denver that Mary Margaret Kelly died during WWII in England, but I don't have a death date for her. Catherine Anna Kelly is strange. She was in the Army and ended up in Los Angeles. She changed her last name to Griffin and is buried in the same cemetery next to Charles Griffin who was also in the army. The problem is that the informant on his death certificate was his wife Eileen Griffith who is buried in a different cemetery than Charles and Catherine. If you know more about that situation, please let me know. Then there is Rita Veronica Kelly who was too young to testify at her mother's trial and was in a convent until she was age. She returned to the US and married Norman Wellington Childs and had two children with him; Raymond & Thomas. I do not have Raymond's death date so if you do, that would be helpful. Norman died via a train accident? I would have to look at my notes on her mother. She then married a James Junior Sledge and had a daughter with him named Gloria Jean Sledge. I have no idea when Gloria died so if you know that, that would be very helpful. I was told that Rita died in MA in 1950 and her body was not claimed so she is buried with the unknown. I was contacted by a Scottish researcher who was researching the death penalty in Ireland and Anne Joyce Kelly Walsh was the second woman to be sentenced. On appeal it was commuted. I am the Joyce family historian and genealogist and I'm re-writing my first "Joyce Family HIstory" since I have gathered so much information since then. The sheriff who investigated the murder wrote a book and Daniel Walsh's murder case has about 13 pages of Anne. I also have about 14 newpapers articles someone from the Irish Times pulled for me that mention the trial on a daily basis and later the appeal and new sentence. If you would like, when I redo the section on Anne, I would be happy to send you her section. I am working on their parents right now. Thanks, Kelly
Kelbelle3201
Thursday 18th March 2021 09:22PM
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