Family Tree
A Detailed family tree will follow at some point! Please bear with me...
Meantime please find Dad's Vallely (Gwyn's Granny's side of the family) family tree site transcribed below - Thanks Dad
1.1 Thomas Vallely born about 1823 in (Ireland possibly Market Hill or Keady or Armagh). He married Fanny Hanna? about 1850?
2.1 Thomas Vallely (his son) born about 1851 in Ireland (possibly County Armagh or Belfast) which is during the time of the Great Famine in Ireland. He married Maria Campbell Drennan (born about 1853) on the 12 July 1872, in St Matthews Church, Belfast. They had 4 children.
3.2 William Drennan Vallely born 31st July 1874 in Belfast. He had sandy-red hair and moustache. He married Mary Logan (from Partick) at St Silas Mission Church, Partick on the 30 December 1898. He died in Porthcawl on the 25, August 1945. William Drennan was buried in the same grave as his wife in Bradninch. Their son's name, William, was also added to the gravestone. They had 7 children in total. The children were renowned for their sandy-red hair. The youngest is still living.
4.1 Jean Corbett Vallely was born 25, October 1899 at Partick but grew up in Maesteg. She was named after her Scottish great grandmother (Jeannie Corbett) and married Alf Robbins. They had 2 children. She lived much of her married life in Salisbury and died in her sleep at Bath, 8/1/1970
4.2 Wilhelmina Maria Campbell Drennan Vallely (Maria) (Gwyn's Granny) born 8 October 1900 at Belfast, moved to Maesteg when she was a few months old and grew up in Maesteg. She married Sydney Davies in the Salvation Army Citadel at Oswestry, 4, May 1927. She died 7, July 1982 at Canterbury, Kent. They had retired to Canterbury. They had 4 children, two girls and two boys.
5.3 Sydney George Davies born 21, April 1933 in Mosside Manchester. Died September 1998 at Maidenhead leaving behind a wife and two married daughters. Obituary to follow.
7.1 Richard James Hall born Wednesday 15, February 1983, died Monday, 7, January 1991 after a second hole-in-the-heart operation at Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital. He was a great grandson of Maria Vallely and first cousin (twice removed) of Bobby and Jacky Charlton. Jacky Charlton was the first (and only?) Englishman to receive the freedom of Dublin (for services to Ireland.)
4.3 Thomas Alfred Arun Vallely born 1903 and brought up in Maesteg. He married Elizabeth Alsop (photos) from Maesteg in 1925. They lived much of their married life in Bradninch. He died in his sleep in 1974 at Ottery St Mary where he had worked as a Salvation Army Envoy since his retirement from the Bradninch paper mills. They had two children (twins – a boy and a girl).
4.4 Olive Jean Vallely (photos) born 1905 at Maesteg and married in 1932 to George John Hales (b 01, June, 1909). They lived there in the family home until about 1940(?) before moving to Newton Abbot and then on to Torquay where she died in 1966. She had one child (a boy) 4.5 William Vallely born 1909 and brought up in Maesteg. He married Faith ------?, lived for many years in Wealdstone before emigrating to Melbourne (about 1948). He died suddenly at sea, of heart failure when returning to England, on 5, July 1955. He was buried at sea in the Bay of Biscay. His name was added to the gravestone of his father and mother at Bradninch. Faith returned to Australia and died some years later. They had one daughter who is still living.
4.6 John Vallely born about 1910 died in childhood (not infancy)
4.7 The youngest child of William and Mary Vallely is living in Sunbury Vic Australia. Date of Birth 3rd August 1923. Place of Birth Maesteg. Married Fred Clarke on the 13th June 1942 in Torquay Devon. Fred passed away on the 9th July 2004. They had three children Pamela, Pauline and William Drennan. Mildred has twelve grandchildren and sixteen great-grandchildren with two more on the way.
3.3 Maria Campbell Vallely born 15 July 1876 in Belfast no further details available as yet.
3.4 Thomas Alfred Vallely born 24 January 1881 in Govan Church, Lanark, Scotland. Believed to have been brought up, lived and died? in Belfast. Thought to have been a Presbyterian Minister. He had two sons.
4.1 Samuel Vallely born about 1910 and was married He served in the Navy during the 1939 – 1945 war
5.1 Samuel Vallely was a sergeant (sergeant is equivalent to corporal in the U S police) in the Royal Ulster Constabulary (Northern Ireland Police Force). He was murdered by IRA terrorists. An IRA rocket exploded under his car. His wife was pregnant with their second child at the time. She is said to have left Northern Ireland for Canada with her children under a different name.
4.2 Thomas Vallely born about 1920 (in Belfast?) thought to have been the Army Flyweight Boxing Champion of (Northern) Ireland during the war and was involved in the D-day landings.
5.1 Brian Vallely believed to be a son who is an exponent (?) on the Irish Pipes and has appeared on TV playing the pipes at a Televised Church Service.
2.2 James Vallely? born 1869 in Shankill.
3.1 Joseph (Joe) Vallely? born about 1910 married Queenie?
My grateful thanks to Diane E. Vallely Greene who very kindly provided the basis of much of this information.
Diane is an Accredited Genealogist with a special interest in anybody with the surname Vallely.