The Sharkeys in Scotland



  I'd guess Patrick and Sarah didn't wait around long in Derry after getting married, they had their first child, Elizabeth in June 1906 when they where living at 25, King Street, Port Glasgow. Elizabeth would always be known as "Lily" . Patrick had also become employed in the Ship Yards as a "Fitters Helper".

Next children where Sarah (known as Sadie) 1908, Kathleen (known as Betty) 1910, Patrick 1912, Annie 1914, Thomas 1918, Josephine 1921 and James 1925.

After Elizabeth was born the family moved into Glasgow itself, staying around Whiteinch/Scotstoun area. It was 1914 that the family moved out to Chalmers Street at Greenock, where i think they initially stayed with Sarahs brother who lived at 1 Chalmers Street before they got their own place at 5 Chalmers Street. I say Greenock, its actually a place called Bogston technically, which is inbetween Greenock and Port Glasgow. Their daughter Annie had been born in Glasgow in September and a week later they'd moved to Greenock.


Chalmers Street is the block closest to the big white hoarding on the right of this picture:

And here is the rear of the Chalmers street tenemants, complete with outside toilets:


Patrick Sharkey would pass away when they lived here, in 1929. Heart Disease. He was about 54 years old, his death certificate describes his occupation (as on all his childrens birth certs) as "Fitters Helper" at the Ship Yard. The family would continue to live here until the start of World War two,(1939).

On the face of it Patrick had a fairly mundane life, like most of us. A labourer, from Ireland, moves to Scotland works in the Ship Yards and had a big family. Then i discovered something amazing. His Military records. The reason why the family moved from Glasgow in 1914 to Greenock, was so Sarah and the children could be near her Brother James and family in Chalmers Street as Patrick had just signed up for Military Service for WW1.


Patrick signed up on 29th September 1914 and would serve until 1919, in France. Patrick was 39 years old in 1914 and he'd signed up and joined the  Mounted Military Police. Quite a thing given his age and the fact he was "just" a Ship Yard worker. But the reason he was able to do so was that Patrick had been in the Military before so he had enlisted as a "Special Reserve". He had previously been in the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, he joined up in 1892 and served until 1905, just before he was married.

He had served in India, South Africa and latterly at the Suez Canal.



Next................Outbreak of WWII




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