Joseph SHEERIN [33755]

  General Notes:

Joseph Sheerin
Birth Date: 8 Dec 1876
Birth Place: Meath, Ireland
Father: James Sheerin
Mother: Kate Sheerin Hickey
FHL Film Number: 255971

Ireland, Catholic Parish Registers
Joseph Sheean
Baptism Age0
Event TypeBaptism
Birth Date1876
Baptism Date10/12/1876
Baptism PlaceIreland Beauparc Meath
DioceseMeath
FatherJames Sheean
MotherKate Hickey

Marriage
Joseph Sheerin
Date of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep, 1910
Registration District: Navan, Ireland
Volume: 2
Page Number: 741
FHL Film Number: 101262
Records on Page:
Name
Mary Anne Reilly

Ireland, Census, 1911
Joseph Sheerin
Marital status: Married
Age: 30
Birth Year: abt 1881
Birth Place: Navan
Residence Date: 2 Apr 1911
House Number: 41
Townland/Street: Brew Hill
District: Navan Urban
County: Meath
Country: Ireland
Electoral District: Navan Urban
Literacy: Read and write
Occupation: Labourer
Religion: Roman Catholic
Relationship: Head

Joseph joined the British Army to fight the Germans hoping as many Republican Irish did that such a loyal act would be rewarded by Westminster with Irish Home Rule. Sadly it did not, many republicans that served were villified by their community upon returning to Ireland. Irish resistance hardened to demanding independance from Britain and "the troubles" continued for most of the century.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Home_Rule_movement#:~:text=The%20Irish%20Home%20Rule%20movement,end%20of%20World%20War%20I.

Sadly Joseph was killed.

Ireland WWI Casualties.
Sheerin Joseph Reg No 12284,
Rank Pvt,
8th Royal Irish Fusilies;
Killed in action, France, July 7th, 1916;
Born Yellow Furze Co Meath.

Joseph Sherrin
Birth Place: Yellow Furze, Co. Meath
Residence: Beauparc, Co. Meath
Death Date: 7 Jul 1916
Death Place: France and Flanders
Enlistment Place: Navan, Co. Meath
Rank: Private
Regiment: Princess Victoria's (Royal Irish Fusiliers)
Battalion: 8th Battalion
Regimental Number: 20131
Type of Casualty: Killed in action
Theatre of War: Western European Theatre

Private Joseph Sheerin
Death 7 Jul 1916
Burial Loos Memorial at Dud Corner Cemetery
Loos-en-Gohelle, Departement du Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
Plot Panel 124.
Memorial ID 15759548
Service No: 20131
Regiment/Service: Royal Irish Fusiliers, 8th Bn.

UK, World War I Pension Ledgers and Index Cards, 1914-1923
Joseph Sheerin
Rank: Pte
Record Type: Card
Death Date: 7 Jul 1916
Service Number: 20191
Corps, Regiment or Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers
Title: Pension Record Cards
Description: Other Ranks Died Shea J-Shefford RR
Reference Number: 1/WS/1919
Next of Kin:
Mary Anne Sheerin Widow
Kathleen Mary Sheerin Child

  Research Notes:

Image courtesy Godwin Family Tree Ancestry - 2020

  Other Records

1. Joseph Sheerin: Memorial Card, 1916.
A memorial card commemorating the death in WWI of Joseph Sheerin, in action in France.
One of the millions who died in "The War to end all Wars" a disgraceful piece of Western History.
Ref: R Godwin his Gt Grandchild - 2023

Joseph married Mary Ann REILLY [33761] [MRIN: 12090] in 1910 in Navan IRL. (Mary Ann REILLY [33761] was born in 1889 in Meath IRL and died in 1920 in Meath IRL.)