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Resting place of Chief Petty Officer P M Clancy at Milton Cemetery, Portsmouth |
Patrick Michael Clancy (b. 16 Sep 1904), son of Patrick Michael Clancy and Elizabeth Flynn, married
Rosina Kathleen Stone (b. 14 Apr 1903), daughter of
Tom Stone and Margaret Knapman, in Plymouth, in 1926.
In 1901, the bridegroom's father, Patrick Michael Clancy (25), Stoker, from
Whitegate, County Cork, was aboard
HMS Renard (1892) (an Alarm-class
torpedo gunboat), in Devonport, while his wife Lizzie Clancy (27) was boarding at 14,
Second Avenue, Devonport along with her two eldest children, Julia Kathleen Clancy (b. 1899) and Mary Elizabeth Clancy (b. 1901). None of the Clancy family turn up anywhere in the records of 1911. Patrick's sister, Mary Elizabeth Clancy died, at 19, in 1920 M Quarter in DEVONPORT Volume 05B Page 441, but there are no further clues to the rest.
In 1921, Patrick Michael Clancy (16) R N Boy was a visitor in the household of Peter Cassidy (47) from Meath, Ireland, Labourer at H M Dockyard, at
88, Pembroke Street, Devonport. (Cassidy's son, Francis Noel Cassidy, also 16, was also an R N Boy and his elder son a Leading Seaman, so he may have been staying with a shipmate's family, if no family of his own was left.)
Patrick Michael Clancy had joined the
Royal Navy on 16 Mar 1920, when he was aged 15, as a Boy 2nd Class, he became an Able Seaman on his 18th birthday, 16 Sep 1922, and a
Leading seaman by the time of his marriage.
Patrick and Rosina had two children:
- Theresa Margaret Clancy b. 28 Aug 1927, in Devonport
- Patrick Michael Clancy b. 1929, in Portsmouth
The entire family seemingly evade the 1939 Register.
With
HMS Renown from 1 Sep 1939, on 10 Mar 1944, Patrick was promoted to Chief Petty Officer and assigned to
HMS Cyclops.
Patrick Michael Clancy was invalided in June 1945 at
Royal Naval Auxiliary Hospital, Southport. Patrick Michael Clancy of
50 Mayles Road, Southsea, died on 18 July 1946, aged 41, at the
Infectious Deseases Hospital Portsmouth (presumably
Priorsdean Infectious Diseases Hospital in Portsmouth, across Milton Road from
St Mary’s Hospital).
Chief Petty Officer Patrick Michael Clancy, Son of Patrick Michael and Elizabeth Clancy; husband of Rosina Kathleen Clancy, of
Paulsgrove, Portsmouth,
is buried in Portsmouth (Milton) Cemetery,
Plot M. Row 17. Grave 55.
Then
Patrick Michael Clancy,
son of Mrs. R. K. Clancy, of Milton, Portsmouth, Constable in the
Palestine Police Force, died, on 4 Jun 1947, aged 18. He was buried at
Haifa (Sharon) British Civil Cemetery,
Haifa,
Israel, Plot 4. Grave 6.
Both father and son's gravestones are united by the same inscription:
"IN THE SHELTER OF THY SACRED HEART, DEAR JESUS, MAY HE REST".
In 1951, Rosina K Clancy remarried, in Portsmouth, to a Cyril West.
Rosina Kathleen West died in 1979, aged 76, in her native Plymouth.