A Working Bibliography



A Working Catalogue

of material relating to

Robert Tressell

and

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

compiled by

Dave Harker

May 2014

Contents

Introduction

The Croker, Noonan and Zumbühl Families

Samuel and Jane Usher Croker

Mary Ann Noonan alias Croker, later Zumbühl

Mary Jane Noonan (daughter of Mary Ann Noonan), later Meiklejon

Documents

Photographs

Henry John Croker (son of Mary Ann Noonan)

Teresa Croker (daughter of Mary Ann Noonan)

Ellen Croker (daughter of Mary Ann Noonan), later Maguire

Adelaide Ann Croker (daughter of Mary Ann Noonan), later Rolleston

Documents

Photographs

Robert Croker (son of Mary Ann Noonan), alias Noonan, alias Tressell

Documents

Photographs

Correspondence sent

Associated documents

Associated photographs

William Croker (son of Mary Ann Noonan)

Kathleen Noonan (daughter of Robert and Elizabeth Noonan), later Meiklejon, alias Lynne

Documents

Photographs

Correspondence received

Associated documents

Joan Irene Meiklejon later Johnson

Documents

Photographs

Correspondence received

Correspondence sent

Associated documents

Associated correspondence

Reginald William Johnson (husband of Joan Irene Meiklejon)

Documents

Photographs

Correspondence received

Correspondence sent

Associated correspondence

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Robert Tressell

Biographies

Reviews

Associated documents

Associated correspondence

Associated photographs

St Andrew’s Church mural

Walton gravestone

Plaques and associated documents

Associated correspondence

Liverpool Centenary

Associated correspondence

Manchester Centenary Year

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

Books

UK editions and reprints

Foreign English editions and reprints

Foreign language editions

Published extracts

Unpublished translated extract

Reviews

Associated correspondence

Associated documents

Critical and historical books, pamphlets and articles on RTP and Tressell

Dissertations

Associated correspondence

Talks and interviews about RTP and Tressell

Associated documents

Associated correspondence

Exhibition reports

References to RTP and Tressell in autobiographies, biographies, reviews and obituaries

References to RTP and Tressell in literature, literary criticism and literary companions

References to RTP and Tressell in works of politics, economics and history

Plays

Published playscripts

Associated documents

Unpublished playscripts and publicity

Reviews

Associated correspondence

Associated documents

References to stage productions in works of dramatic history and criticism

Audio, radio, film and TV

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Reviews

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Associated correspondence

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Introduction

Kathleen Noonan, the only child of ‘Robert Tressell’, was barely 18 when she inherited a few family items, after her father died, aged 40, in 1911. In 1914, soon after The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist was published, she went to Canada and married her cousin, Paul Alexander Meiklejon. Joan Irene was born in 1915, but Kathleen and Paul separated in 1918. In 1962, Kathleen and Joan moved to Europe and Joan married Reginald William Johnson in Germany in 1964. After Joan’s death in 2000, Mr Johnson inherited what he liked to call ‘The Robert Tressell Family Papers’, yet from 2001, virtually all the new items came from outside his family. Harold Smith, Barbara Salter and Jonathan Hyslop and others made important donations, while I contributed well over a dozen scarce RTP editions, several published RTP playscripts, scores of associated books and original and copied booklets, and hundreds of original and copied leaflets, cuttings, letters and emails, which form a substantial part of the collection.

The institutions which hold the originals of copied documents are identified by their full name or an acronym.

HM = Hastings Museum, Bohemia Road, Hastings, TN34 1ET - museum@.uk

HL = Hastings Library, 13 Claremont, Town Centre, Hastings, TN34 1HE - 0345 608 0196

TUCC = Trade Union Congress Collections, London Metropolitan University, Holloway Road Learning

Centre, 236-250 Holloway Road, London, N7 6PP - tuclib@londonmet.ac.uk

Mr Johnson did not reference many items, and much remains undiscovered, so uncertainties are indicated as follows.

? = uncertain or unknown

< = no later than

> = no earlier than

Since Mr Johnson's death in 2013, the University of Brighton has held all the items that are not otherwise located, but not the hundreds of original and copied items I have collected since 2011 - marked DH – or many other documents.

Jacqueline and Fred Ball pioneered research into Noonan’s life, but Jonathan Hyslop found vital information in South Africa, Marion Walls uncovered Noonan’s criminal record, Jim Herlihy researched his father’s military career and Nick Reddan updated The Irish Crokers - - in 2013. In 2014, the Kilmacud Stillorgan Local History Society published Bryan MacMahon’s Robert Tressell, Dubliner – which is available from tresselldublin@ - and added considerably to our knowledge. Unless otherwise attributed, official documents relating to the Croker, Noonan and Zumbühl families, except for some of those concerning Kathleen Noonan, are the result of genealogical research carried out by Fíona Tipple, a family historian based in Dublin, with the assistance of Bryan MacMahon of Dublin, and Brenda Douglas of Liverpool, the great grand-daughter of Robert's sister Ellen, who discovered the highly significant information in the 1881 census.

The locations of the official documents are identified here by their full name or an acronym.

GRO (D) = General Register Office, Dublin - irishgenealogy.ie/en/

GRO (L) = General Register Office, London - .uk/research-family-history

TNA = The National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 4DU - .uk/

Clive O’Connor constructed a family tree on the basis of this research and he has kindly allowed me to reproduce it.

Typing The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, RTP, Robert Croker/Noonan/Tressell/Tressall/Tressal or Tressol into a search engine will produce several million references, and while almost all contain opinions about the author and his book, and many offer opinions about other people’s opinions, almost none are based on any original research. Yet this level of interest is significant, and websites can vanish, so I have included references to some of them. I have also listed emails that throw light on the ‘Tressell story’ in the 21st century, though I cannot disclose the contents of those written by other people without seeing evidence of their informed consent.

I would be delighted to receive information that will resolve uncertainties, correct mistakes, reveal the whereabouts of items not yet located - NYL – and locate items not listed here. Hopefully, everything relating to ‘Robert Tressell’ and The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists will one day be under the same roof, or at least on the same website.

Dave Harker

d1harker@

The Croker, Noonan and Zumbühl Families

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Samuel and Jane Usher Croker

Samuel Croker was born in Woodville, Waterford, Ireland, around 1789. (Baptismal record: NYL)

Jane Usher Quin was born in Dungarvan, county Waterford, around 1811. (Baptismal record: NYL)

Samuel Croker reportedly enlisted in the Royal Irish Constabulary in Dublin Castle in 1820 and was an Inspector by

1825. He was posted to Dungarvan, county Waterford, in 1826, and married Jane Usher Quin, in Affane, county Waterford, on 4 Sep 1827. (Church record: NYL). Samuel Croker ‘Esq’ was a ‘Local inspector of the County Waterford Constabulary’ and the ‘Chief Officer of Police’ by 1828.

Samuel Croker junior I was born in Dungarvan in 1828 and baptised on 30 Jun. (Baptismal record: NYL)

Anne Elizabeth Croker was born in Dungarvan in 1829 and baptised on 7 Nov. (Baptismal record: NYL)

Samuel Croker, ‘Chief Constable’ and ‘Local Inspector of Police’, was moved in Apr 1830. The Dungarvan Magistrates

presented him with an address approving his conduct and regretting his removal, but he was the ‘Local inspector of Police’ at Carrick-on-Suir, county Tipperary, by May.

Arthur Robert Croker was born in Carrick-on-Suir around 1832. (Baptismal record: NYL)

John Wilson Croker was born in Carrick-on-Suir around 1834. (Baptismal record: NYL)

Samuel Croker junior I died in Dungarvan in 1834. (Burial record: NYL)

Samuel Croker senior was posted to Kilmacthomas, county Waterford, in 1834.

Samuel Croker junior II was born around 1836. (Baptismal record: NYL)

Samuel Croker senior was posted to Cappoquin, county Waterford, as a sub-inspector around 1837 and the Lord

Lieutenant appointed him as a ‘stipendiary magistrate’ in Ennis, county Clare, in Dec 1838. In Jul 1840, he was a character witness at the Clare Assizes trial of John Carthy, who was charged with administering an illegal oath. Croker became a Resident Magistrate in 1840, and was a member of the Tipperary Grand Jury trial of James Scully for murder in Dec 1842. (Freeman’s Journal [Dublin], 22 Dec 1838, 17 Jul 1840, 8 Dec 1842.) Croker retired on 1 Apr 1843 with a pension of £400 a year.

Melian Jane Croker was born around 1844. (Baptismal record: NYL)

Samuel Croker junior II reportedly joined the Royal Irish Constabulary in 1846.

Arthur Croker (? = Arthur Robert) was a student at Queen’s College, Cork, in 1852.

Samuel Croker senior, charged with ‘seduction’ by Mary Birney, appeared at the Court of Common Pleas Nisi Prius in

Dublin, in May 1853. (Freeman’s Journal [Dublin], 10 May 1853.) (Outcome: NYL)

John Wilson Croker, the son of ‘Captain Croker’, was a ship-owner in Liverpool, and married Rebecca Franklin, at

St. Anne’s Church, Dublin, on 27 Feb 1857.

Samuel Croker junior II lived in Parsonstown, King’s county, in 1858, and contributed to the relief of sufferers of the

Indian Mutiny. (The Times [London], 1 Apr 1858.)

Samuel Croker senior, a retired Resident Magistrate living in Clonmel, applied for shares in the Galway Transatlantic

Steam Navigation Company on 29 Sep 1859. (Freeman’s Journal [Dublin], 30 Sep 1859.)

Samuel Croker junior II married Josephine Johnstone in Dublin on 25 Nov 1859. Both lived at Alboro Cottage, Amiens

Street. ( ). (The Times [London], 26 Jan 1861, gave the date as 22 Nov 1860.)

Samuel Croker senior signed a petition requesting a shareholders’ meeting of the Atlantic Royal Mail Steam Navigation

Company (Limited) to petition the government to continue its subsidy. (Freeman’s Journal [Dublin], 28 Jul 1860.) He lived in Dublin by 1862 and had Inverine Castle, Galway, mortgaged to him on 21 Nov. (Registry of Deeds, Dublin, Index of Lands County Galway.) From 1864 to 1866, he lived at 6 Sandford Place, Ranelagh, Dublin.

Arthur Robert Croker married Frances Smith in autumn 1866. (Marriage Certificate: NYL)

Samuel Croker senior lived at 28 Sandford Road, Ranelagh, Dublin, from 1866 to 1869.

Melian Jane Croker and Richard Millington, a brewer’s agent, aged 40, of 109 Belgrave Road, Birmingham, married in

Dublin in 1872. (Marriage Certificate: NYL)

Samuel Croker R[etired] M[agistrate] lived at 1 Winslow Terrace, Rathgar, Dublin, by 1870. On 11 Aug 1873, he

conveyed 145 Great Britain Street (now Parnell Street), Dublin, to Mary Anne Noonan. (Registry of Deeds, Property Registration Authority, Henrietta Street, Dublin. No 1873.33.078.)

Samuel Croker junior II still lived in Parsonstown, King’s county, in 1874.

Samuel Croker senior had moved to London by summer 1874, and on 2 Jun he granted Mary Anne Noonan an annuity.

(Registry of Deeds, Property Registration Authority, Henrietta Street, Dublin. No 1874.33.090.) Croker died at 91 East India Road, [Poplar, London], on 6 Jan 1875. His Death Certificate gave his age as 86, his occupation as a ‘Retired Magistrate’ and the cause of death as ‘Debility, old age’. M.J. Noonan, his ‘Grand daughter’, was ‘in attendance’ at his death. (GRO (L): Poplar, Q1 1875, Vol 1C, 527.)

Anne Elizabeth Croker died in Dublin on 28 Mar 1880 and was buried in Mount Jerome Cemetery. (Death Certificate:

NYL)

John Wilson Croker lived in Toxteth Park, Liverpool, gave his age as 47, and his birthplace as Carrick-on-Suir, in Apr

1881, and Rebecca, aged 44, gave her birthplace as Limerick.

Arthur Robert Croker, aged 53, was a surgeon major and lived in East Blachington, Sussex, in Apr 1881.

Samuel Croker junior II of 26 Cambridge Road, Rathmines, Dublin, appeared in Dublin Police Court in Jun 1885,

charged with assaulting his wife. (Outcome: NYL)

Jane Usher Croker died at 32 London Grove, Princes-park, Liverpool, on 22 Jan 1887, aged 76. (GRO (L) Toxteth Park,

Q1 1887, Vol 8B, 193.) She was buried in Mount Jerome Cemetery, Dublin, alongside her daughter, Anne Elizabeth, and a death notice appeared in The Times [London] on 26 Jan. Her estate was valued at £2,267 on 25 Jun, but was 'Resworn’ in Oct 1888, at £1,397, and probate was 'granted to Arthur Croker of S[?] House Basingstoke, 'a Retired Surgeon Major in Her Majesty's army the Son and one of the Next of Kin.' (Death Certificate: NYL)

Samuel Croker junior II spent some time in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada, but died at 146 Upper Abbey-street, Dublin,

on 1 January 1889, and was buried in Mount Jerome Cemetery, alongside his mother and his sister Anne Elizabeth. His brother, John Wilson Croker of Liverpool, was granted administration of the estate. (Death Certificate: NYL)

Frances Croker of Claremont, Seaford, Sussex, died on 17 May 1896, and Arthur Croker, ‘gentleman’, was granted

administration of her ‘Effects’ of £3,126 on 8 Sep.

Arthur Robert Croker died in ? in Jul 1900. (Death Certificate: NYL)

John Wilson Croker was visiting his cousin at Rathgormac, Cappoquin, county Waterford, in Mar 1901, and gave his

age as 65 and his birthplace as Carrick Beg, county Waterford.

Rebecca Croker lived in Liverpool in Mar 1901. (Death Certificate: NYL)

Melian Jane, aged 59, and Richard Millington, a 60-year-old ‘Wine and Spirit Merchant’ born in Ireland, lived in Aston,

Birmingham, in Mar 1901, with their 27-year-old daughter, Jane E., born in Warwick.

John Wilson Croker died in Catherine Street, Liverpool, on 19 Mar 1903. He left £1,547 to Rebecca. (Death Certificate:

NYL)

Melian Jane Croker died in Aston, Birmingham, in Oct-Dec 1908. (Death Certificate: NYL)

Mary Ann Noonan alias Croker, later Zumbühl

Mary Ann Noonan was born in ? Dublin, Ireland, in ? 1832. (Baptismal record: NYL)

Sebastian Zumbühl was born in Lucerne, Switzerland, in ? 1849. (Census returns of England & Wales, 1881 and

1891, TNA.) (Baptismal record: NYL)

Mary ‘Nunan’ (sic), sold 38 Bessborough Avenue, Dublin, in Aug 1873. Mary Noonan of East India Dock Road, London,

sold 145 Great Britain Street (now Parnell Street), Dublin, in Mar 1875. The tenant, Robert Johnston, at an annual

rent of £27.13s.10 1/4d (Registry of Deeds, Property Registration Authority, Henrietta Street, Dublin. Documents 1873.30.145, 18 Aug 1873 and 1875.9.264, 1 Mar 1875.) Mary Noonan married Sebastian Zumbühl in St. Mary’s and St. Joseph’s [Catholic] Church, Pekin Road, Poplar, London, on 29 Mar 1875. The Marriage Certificate described Mary as a ‘widow’ (with ‘spinster’ scored out), aged ‘30’, who lived at 91 East India Road, Poplar, and her father, John Croker, was a deceased ‘Army Pensioner’. Sebastian, a 26-year-old cabinet-maker, lived at 40 Upper North Street, Poplar, and his father, Joseph Zumbühl, was a ‘Farmer’. (GRO (L) Poplar, Q1 1875, Vol 1C, 1027.)

Sebastian Joseph Zumbühl was born in St.Pancras, London, in Apr-Jun 1876. (GRO (L) Pancras, Q2 1876, Vol 1B, 60.)

(Baptismal record: NYL)

Leo Zumbühl was born in St. Pancras, London, in Jul-Sep 1878. (GRO (L) Pancras, Q3 1878, Vol 1B, 41.) (Baptismal

record: NYL)

Sebastian Zumbühl senior lived at 37 Fitzroy Street, St. Pancras, London, in 1877-1880. (London electoral registers

1832-1965. Parish of St. Pancras, Ward No 7, 621.) Sebastian, Mary, Sebastian Joseph and Leo Zumbühl lived at 27 Elmore Street, Islington, London, in Apr 1881. Mary gave her age as ‘34’ and her birthplace as Dublin. Sebastian senior, a 32-year-old cabinet-maker, was described as a ‘natural[ised] British sub[ject]’. Sebastian Joseph, a ‘scholar’, was five, and Leo was two. Robert was said to have been born in London, and was nine, but was not a ‘scholar’. The Elliott and Edgecombe families lived at the same address. (Census returns of England & Wales, 1881, TNA. Class RG11; Piece 250; Folio 75; Page 52.) Sebastian Zumbühl senior lived at 27 Elmore Street, Finsbury, [Islington] London, in 1883. (London electoral registers 1832-1965. Parish of St. Mary, Islington, Ward No 7, 823.)

Sebastian, described as ‘not naturalised’, Mary, Sebastian Joseph, an ‘apprentice cabinet-maker’, and Leo Zumbühl, a

‘scholar’, lived at 18 Chapel Place, Liverpool, in Apr 1891. (Census returns of England & Wales, 1891, TNA. Class RG12; Piece 2987; Folio 26; Page 48.)

Sebastian Zumbühl senior died at 18 Chapel Place, Liverpool, on 5 Jul 1894. (GRO (L) West Derby, Q3 1894, Vol 8B,

358.) (Death Certificate: NYL)

Mary Ann Zumbühl died at 18 Chapel Place, Liverpool, on 23 Jun 1896. (GRO (L) West Derby, Q2 1896, Vol 8B, 366.)

She was buried on 23 Jun 1896. (Parish Register of St. Francis Xavier [Catholic] Church, Liverpool.) (Death

Certificate: NYL)

Leo Zumbühl died, aged 19, at Dudley, Southcote Road, Bournemouth, on 16 Oct 1897, of ‘Phthisis Pulmonalis, 4

months’. His Death Certificate described him as an ‘Artist’, and Mary E. Wright was present at his death. (GRO (L) Christchurch, Q4 1897, Vol 2B, 398.)

Sebastian Joseph Zumbühl married 18-year-old Marie Rixon in Bebington, Cheshire, on 25 Mar 1900. (GRO (L),

Birkenhead, Q1 1900, Vol 8A, 789.) (Marriage Certificate: NYL). They lived in her father’s house in Birkenhead in Mar 1901. (Census returns of England & Wales, 1901, TNA. Class RG13; Piece 3397; Folio 188; Page 150). Sebastian Joseph, a cabinet-maker’, and ‘Marion’ Zumbühl lived in Birkenhead in Apr 1911. (Census returns of England & Wales, 1911, TNA. Class RG14; Schedule 22010.)

Sebastian Joseph Zumbühl died in Birkenhead in Jan-Mar 1915. (GRO (L), Birkenhead, Q1 1915, Vol 8A, 789.) (Death

Certificate: NYL)

Mary Jane Noonan (daughter of Mary Ann Noonan), later Meiklejon

Documents

John Bean Meiklejon was born in Stepney, London, in Oct-Dec 1852. (Baptismal record: NYL)

Mary Jane Noonan was born in Preaching Lane, Athlone, county Westmeath, Ireland, in 1858.

‘Marian Joannam Nonan’ (sic) was baptised at St. Mary’s Church, Athlone, on 24 Oct 1858. Her father was Samuel

‘Nonan’ and her mother was Mariae Croker. Her sponsor was Catherine Garvey. (rootsireland.ie)

M.J. Noonan, ‘Grand daughter’, was ‘in attendance’ at the death of Samuel Croker at 91 East India Road [Poplar,

London], on 6 Jan 1875. (GRO (L): Poplar, Q1 1875, Vol 1C, 527.)

Mary Ann (sic) Noonan married John Bean Meiklejon at the [Protestant] Parish Church of St. John, Fitzroy Square,

[London], Middlesex, on 27 Dec 1875. The Marriage Certificate described John as a 23-year-old ‘Draper’ and Mary as a 16-year-old ‘Spinster’. Both lived at 37 Fitzroy Street. Mary’s father, Samuel Noonan, was ‘Deceased’, and John’s father, also called John, lived at the ‘West India Docks’. The witnesses were Sebastian and Mary Zumbühl of 37 Fitzroy Street. (GRO (L) Pancras, Q4 1875, Vol 1B, 262.)

Edwin John Meiklejon was born in Stratford in Oct 1876. (Birth Certificate: NYL).

Alice Mary Meiklejon was born in ? Stratford in 1879. (Birth Certificate: NYL).

Ruby Florence Meiklejon was born in Stratford in Jan 1881. (Birth Certificate: NYL).

Alice Mary Meiklejon was ‘blind from birth' and lived at the Royal Normal College for the Blind, in Croydon, Surrey, in

Apr 1881.

Percival Harry Meiklejon was born in Stratford in Jan 1882. (Birth Certificate: NYL).

Olive Meiklejon was born in Stratford in Jul-Sep 1884. (Birth Certificate: NYL)

Paul Alexander Meiklejon was born in West Ham, Stratford, Essex, on 21 Jun 1889. (Birth Certificate: University of

Brighton.)

John Bean, Mary Jane, Edwin John, Ruby Florence, Percival Harry, Olive and Paul Alexander Meiklejon lived in Fritch

Street, Leyton, Essex, in Apr 1891. (Census returns of England & Wales, 1891, TNA. Class RG12; Piece 1344; Folio

18; Page 30.) Alice Mary Meiklejon lived at the Royal Normal College for the Blind in Croydon, Surrey.

John Bean Meiklejon, a ‘Grocer and Draper Shopkeeper’ ‘on his own account’, and Mary Jane and Paul Alexander

Meiklejon, lived at 38 Western Road, St. Leonards, Sussex, in Apr 1901. (Census returns of England & Wales, 1901, TNA. Class RG13; Piece 69; Folio 140; Page 11.) Alice Mary Meiklejon still lived at the Royal Normal College for the Blind in Croydon, Surrey.

Olive Meiklejon lived in ?, [London], Middlesex, in 1901.

Percival Harry Meiklejon married Elizabeth Alve ? in Hastings, in Jan 1911. He sailed from Liverpool on 20 Jan, aboard

the Corsican, and arrived in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, on 28 Jan.

Olive Meiklejon lived in ?, Winnipeg, Canada, by 1911, but crossed the border to the USA in Feb.

Mary Jane and Paul Alexander Meiklejon lived at 48-49 Kenilworth Road, St. Leonards, in Mar 1911, with Ruby

Florence, a 'School matron' and Alice Mary, a 'Blind' 'Head Teacher'. The Kenilworth School for Blind Boys was at

48 and the Kenilworth School for Blind Girls was at 49. Some pupils had been 'from birth', and several were described as 'Feeble-minded'. Mary Jane also ran a 'Residential School for Feeble-Minded pupils' at 37 Carisbrooke Road, Hastings. (Census returns of England & Wales, 1911, TNA. Class RG14; Piece 4755; Schedule No 210.)

John Bean Meikljon, a 'furniture salesman, retail', was a 'visitor' in the household of Russell Gordon Baxter, in

Romford, Essex, in Mar 1911.

Mary Jane Meiklejon lived at 12 Upper Maze Hill, St. Leonards, by late 1911.

John Bean Meiklejon lived in ?, London, by 1912.

Paul Alexander Meiklejon lived in ?, London, by 1912, but sailed from Avonmouth, Bristol, to Montreal, Canada, on 19

Jan.

Ruby Meiklejon had left St. Leonards by ? 1913.

Olive Meikljon left Bristol on the Royal Edward on 23 Apr 1913, and became a nurse in ?, USA.

Percival Harry Meiklejon lived in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, in 1914, where he was a ‘Sanitary Inspector’. He claimed

to have eight years’ experience in the militia when he enlisted in the Canadian Over-Seas Expeditionary Force on 25 Aug.

Olive Meikljon married Ernest Schilling in Apr-Jun 1917.

Percival Harry Meiklejon married again in Canada, in ? 1917. He ended the war as a sergeant stretcher-bearer and

sailed into Buffalo, New York, in Oct 1918.

Olive Schilling lived in Yarra, Australia, by 1924.

John Bean Meiklejon died in All Saints Hospital, Finchley Road, London, in Jun 1925. He left £762 to Mary Jane.

(Probate: Lewes, 15 Sep 1925.) (Death Certificate: NYL)

Mary Jane Meiklejon died, aged 67, at St. Paul’s House, Upper Maze Hill, St. Leonards, on 29 Jan 1927. The Death

Certificate described her as the ‘Widow of John Bean Meiklejon, House Furnisher’s salesman’, and the cause of

death as ‘(1) Spindle celled Sarcoma left leg & thigh, operation, (2) Recurrence Exhaustion’. Alice Mary Meiklejon was present at her mother’s death and made her mark. (GRO (L) Hastings, Mar 1927, Vol 2B, 51.) Mary Jane left £28,528 to Alice Mary. (Probate, Lewes, 11 Oct 1927.)

Ruby Florence Meiklejon died in St. George, Hanover Square, London in Jun 1931.

Paul Alexander Meiklejon died in ?, on ? 1942. (Death Certificate: NYL)

Olive Schilling died in Williamstown, Victoria, Australia, on 12 May 1956. She left £50. (Death Certificate: NYL)

Percival Harry Meiklejon died in Vancouver, Canada, on 18 Jun 1957. (Death Certificate: NYL)

Alice Mary Meiklejon died in ?, on ? 1962. (Death Certificate: NYL)

Photographs

Paul Alexander Meiklejon in St. Leonards in ? 1893.

Paul Alexander Meiklejon and Arthur Rolleston in Hastings in ? 1897.

John Bean Meiklejon in ? St. Leonards in ? 1900.

Mary Jane Meiklejon in ? St Leonards in ? 1900.

John Bean and Mary Jane Meiklejon’s gravestone. (Jim Herlihy)

Henry John Croker (son of Mary Ann Noonan)

Henry John Croker was born at 47 Montgomery Street, Dublin, Ireland, on 8 Aug 1860, and was baptised ‘Henricus

Joannes Croker’ at St. Mary’s [Catholic] Pro-Cathedral, Dublin, on 13 Aug. His baptismal record gave his father as Samuel Croker and his mother as ‘Maria’ Noonan. His sponsor was Maria Fitzgerald and the priest was Guillelmus Purcell. (irishgenealogy.ie.)

Henry John Noonan (sic) married Kate Eva Manley at Richmond Hill Congregational Church, Bournemouth, on 20 Feb

1883. The Marriage Certificate described Henry as a 21-year-old ‘Upholster’, living at West Hill House, West Hill Road, Bournemouth, and gave his father as ‘Samuel Noonan, Gentleman deceased’. Kate, a 25-year-old ‘Spinster’, also lived at West Hill House, West Hill Road, Bournemouth, and her father, John Manley, was a ‘deceased’ ‘Turner’. John Bean Meiklejon was a witness. (GRO (L) Christchurch, Q1 1883, Vol 2B, 914.) The couple lived in Great Marlow, Buckinghamshire, in Mar 1891. (Census returns of England & Wales, 1891, TNA. Class RG12; Piece 1140; Folio 33; Page 24). They lived in Alton, Hampshire, in Apr 1901. (Census returns of England & Wales, 1901, TNA. Class RG13; Piece 1098; Folio 12; Page 15.)

Henry John Noonan died in Holland park, London, on 7 Mar 1935. (Principal Probate Registry, Calendar of the grants of

probates and letters of administration made in the registries of the High Court of Justice in England.) (Death Certificate: NYL)

Kate Eva Noonan died in ?, on ? (Death Certificate: NYL)

[For their children, see Bryan MacMahon, Robert Tressell, Dubliner.]

Teresa Croker (daughter of Mary Ann Noonan)

Teresa Croker was born at 18 Mabbot Street, Dublin, Ireland, on 17 Feb 1862, and was baptised at St. Mary’s

Cathedral, Dublin, on 10 Mar. Her father was Samuel Croker, her mother was Maria Noonan, and her sponsor was Maria Fitzgerald. (irishgenealogy.ie) She died in ?, in ? (Death Certificate: NYL)

Ellen Croker (daughter of Mary Ann Noonan), later Maguire

William Maguire was born in Douglas, Isle of Man, in ? 1869, and was baptised in a Catholic church on 15 Aug. His

father was Johannis Maguire and his mother was Rebeccae Joanne Ball. (Isle of Man parish registers, 1598-2009, )

Ellen Croker was born ‘At Sea’ ‘ab[out] 1866’. (Census returns of England & Wales, 1891 and 1911, TNA.) Birth

Certificate: NYL)

Ellen Croker was a ‘domestic servant’ employed by Frederick Hoyer, at 19 Harlech Road, Great Crosby, Lancashire, in

Mar 1891. (Census returns of England & Wales, 1891, TNA. Class RG12; Piece 2983; Folio 20; Page 36.)

‘Ellie’ Croker married William Maguire in St. Simon's Parish Church, Liverpool, on 18 Apr 1892. She gave her age as ‘23’

and her father as ‘Samuel Noonan, pensioner’. (GRO (L) Liverpool, Q2 1892, Vol 8B, 266. Liverpool, England, Marriage and Banns, 1813-1921.)

Francis Maguire was born in Liverpool in ? (Birth Certificate and baptismal record: NYL)

William Maguire junior was born on 5 Jul 1895. (West Derby, Q3 1895, vol. 8B, p. 393.) He was baptised in St. Francis

Xavier’s Church on 10 Jul. (Liverpool catholic baptisms 1802-1906.) (Birth Certificate: NYL)

Leo Maguire was born in Douglas, Isle of Man, on 24 May 1897, and his mother’s forename was recorded as ‘Zellah’.

(Birth Certificate and baptismal record: NYL)

William Maguire senior died in Liverpool on ? 1898. (West Derby, Q4 1898, Vol 8B, 226.) (Death Certificate: NYL)

Ellen, Francis, a ‘grocers’ boy’, William junior, an ‘errand boy’ for a wine and spirit merchant, and Leo Maguire lived at

12 Bright Street, Everton Road, Liverpool, in Apr 1911. (Census returns of England &Wales, 1911, TNA. Class RG14; Piece 22540.)

Ellen Maguire of 42 Belmont Road, Liverpool, died on 27 Feb 1946, aged 80. Her Death Certificate, dated 28 Feb,

noted that she died of senility. She was the widow of William Maguire, but his trade is undecipherable. Ada Maguire, her daughter-in-law, of 173 Finch Lane, [West Derby], reported the death. Ellen was buried in Yew Tree Cemetery, Finch Lane, West Derby, on 2 Mar. (Liverpool Record Office, Yew Tree Cemetery (Roman Catholic) Liverpool, England, Catholic Burials, 1813-1988.)

Adelaide Anne Croker (daughter of Mary Ann Noonan), later Rolleston

Documents

? Rolleston was born in ? (Birth Certificate and baptismal record: NYL)

Adelaide Anne Croker was born at 53 Lower Wellington Street, Dublin, Ireland, on 3 May 1867. Her Birth Certificate,

dated 21 Jun, gave her father as Samuel Croker, a ‘ Military Pensioner’, and her mother as ‘Mrs Mary Croker ‘formerly Noonan’. Both lived at 53 Lower Wellington Street. (GRO (D) Dublin North, 1867, Vol 7, 660.) Adelaide Anne was baptised at St. Michan’s [Catholic] Church, Dublin, on 20 May 1867, and her sponsor was Mary Moore. (irishgenealogy.ie).

Adelaide Anne Croker was a ‘domestic servant’ employed by Frederic Hoyer at 19 Harlech Road, Great Crosby,

Lancashire, in Mar 1891. (Census returns of England & Wales, 1891, TNA. Class RG12; Piece 2983; Folio 20; Page 36.)

‘Miss Noonan’ sailed from Liverpool to Valparaiso, aboard the Guinea, on 6 Jan 1893. (UK outward passenger lists

1890-1960.) She married ? Rolleston in ?, Chile, on ? (Marriage Certificate: NYL)

Arthur Herman Rolleston was born in Valparaiso, Chile, in ? 1898. (Birth Certificate and baptismal record: NYL)

? Rolleston died in ?, Chile, in ? 1899 (Death Certificate: NYL)

Adelaide Anne and Arthur Herman Rolleston left Valparaiso aboard the ? on ? and arrived in London on ?

‘Mrs Rolleston’ and Arthur Herman left Southampton for Cape Town, aboard the Dunvegan Castle, on ? 1899. (UK

outward passenger lists 1890-1960.)

Adelaide Anne and Arthur Herman Rolleston and Robert and Kathleen Noonan left Cape Town, aboard the Galician,

and arrived in London on ? Jul 1901. (UK incoming passenger lists 1878-1960.) They all lived at 38 Western Road,

Hastings, with Mary Jane, John Bean and Paul Alexander Meikljon, and subsequently at 1 Plynlimmon Road and Flat 5, Grosvenor Mansions, 115 Milward Road, by 1902.

Adelaide Anne Rolleston lived in Hastings in Apr 1911. (Census returns of England & Wales, 1911, TNA. Class RG14;

Piece 4752; Schedule No 336.)

Arthur Herman Rolleston was an ‘Air Mechanic 1st Class, in the Royal Air Force, Service Number 13961. His Cremation

record noted that he had been born in ‘Valpariso, Chili’ [sic], and died in Fulham, London, on 18 Jun 1919, aged 21. His parent, Mrs. Adelaide Rolleston, lived at 39, South Hill Park, Hampstead, London. (Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty Details Golders Green Crematorium.) (Death Certificate: NYL)

Adelaide Anne Rolleston had at least seven London addresses from 1929, and was at 97 Shirlock Road, Holborn, in

1945, but died in Dec. (GRO (L) Pancras, Dec 1945, Vol 1B, 84.) (Death Certificate: NYL)

Photographs

Arthur Rolleston and Paul Alexander Meiklejon in ? Hastings in ? 1897.

Arthur Rolleston in Claremont, Cape Colony, South Africa, in ? 1900.

Robert Croker (son of Mary Ann Noonan), alias Noonan, alias Tressell

Documents

Robert Croker was born on 18 Apr 1870, at 37 Wexford Street, Dublin, Ireland, and was baptised ‘Robertus Croker’ at

St. Kevin’s Church, Harrington Street, on 26 Apr. His parents, Samuel Croker and ‘Maria Noon’ (sic), lived at 37 Wexford Street. The sponsors were Michael Noon and Maria Joannah [? = Mary Jane] Croker. The priest, Jacobus Baxter, noted: ‘Pater a Catholicus’ [Father not a Catholic]. (GRO (D.) Dublin South, 1870, Vol 7, 757.) Robert’s birth was registered in No 3 South City, Dublin, on 7 May. His father, Samuel Croker, was a ‘Pensioner’, and his mother was ‘Mary Croker’, formerly ‘Noonan’.

Elizabeth Hartel was born in South Africa in ? 1872. (Baptismal record: NYL)

Robert [? Croker] lived at 27 Elmore Street, Finsbury, London, in Apr 1881, with his mother Mary Ann Zumbühl and

her new family. (Census returns of England & Wales, 1881, TNA. Class RG11; Piece 250; Folio 75; Page 52.)

Robert Noonan of Queens Road, Everton, Liverpool, was in Walton Prison, Liverpool, on 21 May 1890, charged with

‘Housebreaking with larceny’ at the home of Charles Fay, a shipping agent, in Courtney Road, Great Crosby. Frances Wilson of Perth Street, Everton, was charged with ‘Feloniously receiving stolen property well knowing the same to have been feloniously stolen’. (Walton Prison Register, Liverpool, ‘Names of all Persons Committed or Bailed to appear for Trial’.) Noonan, a ‘sign-writer’, was convicted of stealing an electro-plated coffee service, teapots, cream jugs, and other articles, to the value of £50, and Wilson and he were sentenced to six months in jail. (See: ‘Theft of Plate at Great Crosby’ and ‘County Sessions’, Liverpool Mercury, 2 and 11 Jun 1890.) Noonan reportedly left Liverpool late that year. On 21 Nov, the Grantully Castle left Dartmouth for the Cape Colonies. (Birmingham Daily Post 22 Nov 1890.) On 27 Nov, the Doric left London for New Zealand, via Cape Town. On 27 Dec, the Arawa left London for New Zealand, via Cape Town. (Liverpool Mercury 22 Nov, 10 Dec 1890.)

Robert Phillipe Noonan (sic), a 'Decorator', aged '23', of 78 Strand Street, Cape Town, married Elizabeth Hartel, an 18-

year-old 'Spinster' living in Cape Town, at Holy Trinity [Protestant] Church, on 15 Oct 1891. The Marriage Certificate noted that both sets of ‘Parents’ gave their consent and the witnesses were M.G. Eckhardt and W.H. (or W.A.) Evershed. The priest’s name is illegible. The couple lived at Rosebank, Mowbray, Cape Town, but Robert worked in Johannesburg from 1895, and Thomas Lindenbaum paid Elizabeth for sex and she became pregnant by Dec. Robert began divorce proceedings against Elizabeth in Cape Town in 1896, on the grounds of adultery. (Divorce Proceedings, 1896-7, National Archives of South Africa, Cape Town Archives Repository, CSC 2/1/1/336 No 30, 1897.) On 9 Jan 1897, Robert gave his date of birth as 17 Apr 1871, his last place of residence as ‘Ireland’, and his date of arrival in Z[uid]-A[frikaansche] R[epubliek and in Johannesburg as 15 Aug 1896. (Archives of the Commissioner for Mines, Johannesburg.) Robert gained custody of Kathleen in Feb 1897. (Divorce Proceedings, 1896-7, National Archives of South Africa, Cape Town Archives Repository, CSC 2/1/1/336 No 30, 1897.) Robert lived in rooms in Pritchard Street in until 1899 and wrote ‘All Meals a Shilling’. (NYL). Robert Phillip Noonan (sic) registered a ‘Deed of Lease’ for Building Lot 16, at Forest Hill, Turffontein Estate, Witwatersrand, on 18 Jun 1898. (National Archives of South Africa, Pretoria WLD 5/45.) R.P. Noonan joined the Committee of the Transvaal 1798 Centenary Association and his name appeared on membership cards. (See: Standard and Diggers’ News, Johannesburg, 15 May 1899, and Transvaal Leader, Johannesburg, 2 May 1908.) (NYL)

‘Mr Noonan, painter’, and Kathleen, left Cape Town with Adelaide Anne and Arthur Herman Rolleston on the Galician,

on ? 1901. (UK incoming passenger lists 1878-1960.) ‘George Washington’ – Robert Noonan - wrote The Evening Ananias on board. (NYL)

Robert and Kathleen Noonan, and Adelaide Anne and Arthur Herman Rolleston, arrived in London in ? Jul 1901.

(UK incoming passenger lists 1878-1960). They subsequently moved to Hastings and lived with Mary Jane, John Bean and Paul Alexander Meikljon, at 38 Western Road, and subsequently at 1 Plynlimmon Road, and in Flat 5, Grosvenor Mansions, 115 Milward Road, by 1902. The Turffontein Estate Limited took Robert Philip Noonan to court in South Africa his absence in 1904. (Witwatersrand High Court papers, 1904-5, National Archives of South Africa, Pretoria WLD 5/45, 617/1904; 5/48, 698/1904; WLD Illiquid Case 14/1905.) Noonan wrote ‘The Evolution of the Airship’ in ? 1905 - spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Robert-Tressell-aviation.htm - and was in trouble with Hastings police late in 1905. (‘A Guy Fawkes Echo’, Hastings Observer, 11 Nov 1905.) Robert and Kathleen lived in Warrior Square and then St. George’s Road, Hastings, in 1906, and at 241 London Road, St. Leonards, by ? 1907. Noonan painted a Social Democratic Party banner in ? 1908. (NYL). He completed The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by 1910. (TUCC). (See: ragged/browse.php)

Robert Noonan lived at 35 Erskine Street, Liverpool, by Aug 1910, and was admitted to the Liverpool Royal Infirmary

on 26 Nov. (Admission Certificate: NYL). He died there on 3 Feb 1911, aged 40. The Death Certificate, dated 10 Feb, gave his occupation as ‘Sign Writer (Journeyman)’, his address as Erskine Street, and the cause of death as ‘phthisis pulmonalis’ and ‘cardiac failure’. He was buried in Plot T.11, Walton Cemetery, which belonged to the Overseers of the Poor for Liverpool, under a Relieving Officer’s order, on 10 Feb. Reverend A.V. Atkinson, a ‘Curate’, officiated. (Liverpool, Lancashire, Burial Register.)

Thomas Lindenbaum died in Johannesburg late in 1937. A death notice and a letter are dated 20 Nov. (National

Archives of South Africa, Pretoria, TAD, MHG 99820.) (Death Certificate: NYL)

Elizabeth Noonan died in ?, in ? (Death Certificate: NYL)

Photographs

Elizabeth Noonan in ? Johannesburg in ? 1895. (National Archives of South Africa, Cape Town Archives Repository, CSC

2/1/1/336 No 30, 1897.)

Robert and Kathleen Noonan in Johannesburg in ? 1896.

Robert Noonan’s mural in St. Andrew’s Church, Hastings, with a note from the Vicar, Henry Woolcott Jeanes, dated

‘Easter 1905’.

Robert Noonan and his model airship in Hastings in ? 1905. (The New Weekly, 15 Apr 1914.)

Robert Noonan and his advertisement on a gable end at the corner of Perth Road and Battle Road, St. Leonards, in ?

1907. (HM)

Robert and Kathleen Noonan at a Social Democratic Federation meeting outside the Queens’ Hotel, Hastings, in Jun

1907. (HM)

Robert Noonan at Old Roar, Hastings, taken by William Gower in ? 1908. (HM)

Correspondence sent

Robert Noonan to Kathleen Noonan, Aug-Dec 1910. NYL

Kathleen’s copied extract of Dec 1910 letter. (University of Brighton).

Robert Noonan to Bill Gower, ? Dec 1910. NYL

Associated documents

Edward and Phoebe Cruttenden’s advertisements in The Clarion, and ? Justice, in the 1890s. (NYL)

?, ‘Death of Mr. Toby King’, Hastings and St. Leonards Standard, ? Sep 1899. (HM)

Bruce & Co, Hastings, ledgers, 1902-1903. (NYL)

Burton & Co., Hastings, ledgers, 1903-1906. (NYL)

?, Weekly Dispatch, 13 Aug 1905. (NYL)

Alf Sellens, National Democratic League, Hastings Branch membership card, dated 18 Aug 1906. (HM)

?, ‘Hands and Brains’, Hastings and St. Leonards Weekly Mail and Times, 26 Aug 1906. (NYL)

?, Hastings Observer, 13 Oct 1906. (NYL)

Adams and Jarrett, Hastings, ledgers, 1906 -1910. (NYL)

Social-Democratic Party Programme and Rules, >1908. (HM)

C. Deadman, Hughenden Road, Hastings, Socialist Democratic Party membership card, ? 1910. (HM)

Len Green, British Socialist Party Membership Book, >1912. (HM)

C. Deadman, Queens’ Hotel, Hastings, British Socialist Party membership card, ? 1913-14. (HM)

Associated photographs

Hastings building workers, 1896. (HM)

Toby King, 1939. (NYL)

William Ward to Hubert Williams, ? 1942. (HM)

Fred Ball and Miss E.M. Hogg, >1942. (NYL)

Fred Ball and Grant Richards, ? 1942-May 1947. (NYL)

Fred Ball and the Marx Memorial Library, ? Jun 1943. (NYL)

Robert Partridge to Fred Ball, Nov 1945-Sep 1946. (Fred Ball, One of the Damned, 190-1.)

Fred Ball and Stewart Ogilvy, >1945. (NYL)

Fred Ball and George Bernard Shaw, ? 1948. (NYL)

Fred Ball and the Associated Society of Woodworkers, 1948. (NYL)

Lawrence & Wishart and Fred Ball, ? Jul 1948. (NYL)

Lawrence & Wishart to Fred Ball, Nov 1948. (Fred Ball, One of the Damned, 195.)

Fred Ball and Wortley Hall Memorial College, ? 1948. (NYL)

Fred Ball and the National Council of Labour Colleges, ? 1948. (NYL)

Arnold Knebel to Fred Ball, Jan 1949. (NYL)

Unity Theatre to Fred Ball, Aug 1949. (NYL)

‘A.B.C.’ to Fred Ball, ? 1949. (NYL)

?, to Fred Ball, Aug 1949. (NYL)

?, to Fred Ball, ? 1949. (NYL)

?, to Fred Ball, ? 1949. (NYL)

S. Horsfield to Fred Ball, ? 1949-Feb 1950. (NYL)

Fred Ball and Edward Cruttenden, 1967. (NYL)

Fred Ball and the BBC, >1967. (NYL)

Fred Ball and Len Green, ? Apr 1968. (NYL)

William Marsden to Fred Ball, Sep 1968. (NYL)

Mrs L.D. O’Nions to The Daily Mail Library, on behalf of Fred Ball, Mar 1969. (HL)

?, Hastings Public Library to the BBC, Feb 1971. (HL)

H.J. Brierce to Fred Ball, 18 Jun 1977.

John Nettleton, photographed at Walton Cemetery, Liverpool, 18 Jun 1977.

?, ‘Memorial tribute to author’, Liverpool Daily Post, 18 Jun 1977.

?, ‘Ragged man remembered’, ? The Guardian, 19 Jun 1977.

'Michael Nally’ [? = Joe Durkin], ‘Ragged author is honoured’, Observer, 19 Jun 1977.

?, ‘Tribute to a pauper’, Liverpool Daily Post, 20 Jun 1977.

?, ‘Unions, MPs remember Tressell’, Morning Star, 20 Jun 1977.

Ian Aitken, ‘Honouring the forgotten man of Socialism’, The Guardian, ? 20 Jun 1977.

?, ‘The homage march’, Walton Times, 23 Jun 1977.

Jim Arnison, ‘Monument for “ragged-trouser” author’s grave’, Morning Star, 20 Apr 1977.

J.C. Durkin, ‘The ragged revolutionary’, Irish Post, 9 Jul 1977.

Robert Tressell Memorial Committee photographed in Liverpool, 1977.

Plaques and associated documents

?, Robert Noonan plaque unveiling, 115 Milward Road, Hastings, 2 Jun 1962. Tape of a speech and a photograph of

the plaque.

?, ‘Hastings Trades Council’, Hastings Observer, 15 Feb 1964.

?, ‘Permanent Plaque in Memory of Author’, Hastings Observer, 11 Apr 1964.

?, ‘Tressell monument to replace Memorial?’, ? Hastings Observer, ? 1970s.

?, Robert Tressell (Liverpool: Robert Tressell Memorial Committee), ? 1985.

Robert Tressell Memorial Committee, Liverpool, ‘Robert Tressell’ unveiling programme, < 19 Oct 1985.

Robert Tressell Museum of Local History, Walton Park Cemetery, Liverpool, invitation to Grand Opening, 19 Oct 1985.

(TUCC)

Eric Heffer and others, photographed outside the Robert Tressell Museum of Local History, Liverpool, ? 19 Oct 1985.

Anon ‘Prisoner’s plaque honours author’, >19 Oct 1985.

Tony Birtill, ‘Liverpool makes amends’, Irish Post, 9 Nov 1985.

John Brophy, ‘Tribute to hero of labour’, Irish Press, 4 May 1991.

?, ‘Plaque to city author’, Irish Independent, 6 May 1991.

Michael Foley, ‘Robert Tressell is commemorated by Dublin plaque’, Irish Times, 6 May 1991.

?,?, Irish Post, 18 May 1991.

Irish Congress of Trade Unions, ‘May Work & Play Festival’, Dublin, May 1991. Programme and photograph. (HL). Draft

speeches by Michael Brennan and ? John Brophy.

?, undated photograph of 241 London Road plaque, St. Leonards, >29 May 1999.

?, photograph of Noonan Close street sign, Liverpool 9, ? 2003.

Rice Lane City Farm, Walton, Liverpool, photographs of the plan and ‘Tressell’ notices, ? 2003.

Robert Noonan’s gravestone, Walton, Liverpool, photographed by Alan Corkish, ? 2003.

Liverpool Trades Union Council and the Construction Safety Campaign (Merseyside). Leaflet about the plaque

Unveiling distributed at the Casa performance of Tom McLennan’s RTP on 5 May 2004. (DH)

Roy Bleasedale, Liverpool Trades Union Council and the Construction Safety Campaign (Merseyside) plaque, inside

the former Liverpool Royal Infirmary, Pembroke Place, Liverpool, ................
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