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Resting place of Chief Petty Officer P M Clancy at Milton Cemetery, Portsmouth |
Rosina Kathleen Stone, youngest child of Tom Stone and Margaret Knapman, sister of Frederick Thomas Stone, married Patrick Michael Clancy (b. 16 Sep 1904), son of Patrick Michael Clancy and Elizabeth Flynn, 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 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 born 28 Aug 1927, in Devonport
- Patrick Michael Clancy born 1929, in Portsmouth
Yet again, this family seemingly evade the 1939 Register.
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, back in her native Plymouth.