Individual Details
Winifred (Una) CASSIDY
(Abt 1878 - 3 Oct 1950)
Winifred was known as Una. She is listed with the family of her husband, Patrick, in Frenchpark, Co. Roscommon in the 1901 census, two months after their marriage. Patrick was working at that time with the RIC in New Ross, Co. Wexford (Royal Irish Constabulary). She is listed with her widowed mother in Dublin in the the 1911 census, which strangely has Cork as her birthplace, although the 1901 census tells us she was born in Fermanagh. I have been unable to find a birth record for her in either county on the Irish Genealogy website.
Jim Herlihy's 'Royal Irish Constabulary Officers: a Biographical Dictionary and Genealogical Guide 1816-1922' includes an entry for Una's husband, Patrick, that includes information about Una herself:
"Gordon, Patrick; RIC 56624...born 6/4/1870, Co. Roscommon; son of John Gordon, Sheepwalk, Co. Roscommon; clerk of the Petty Sessions, Frenchpark, Co. Roscommon; married on 30/1/1901...Winifred Una Cassidy, a native of the Graan, Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh; 3rd DI 29/12/1894; pensioned 23/6/1911; died 14/11/1912 at 4 Rosemount Cottage, New Ross, Co. Wexford...Winifred Gordon went to Paris and joined the American Ambulance Service and returned to Dublin in 1916, nursed the wounded of the 1916 Rising as a nurse in the Royal City of Dublin Hospital in Baggot Street. She joined Cumann na mBan and sheltered Austin Stack (1879-1929), Deputy Chief of Staff of the IRA (1919-1922) during the War of Independence, whom she married in 1925 and he died in the Mater Hospital, Dublin on 27/4/1929."
We also know that Una was imprisoned in Dublin in 1922 for about nine months for her anti-Treaty activism during the Civil War.
Jim Herlihy's 'Royal Irish Constabulary Officers: a Biographical Dictionary and Genealogical Guide 1816-1922' includes an entry for Una's husband, Patrick, that includes information about Una herself:
"Gordon, Patrick; RIC 56624...born 6/4/1870, Co. Roscommon; son of John Gordon, Sheepwalk, Co. Roscommon; clerk of the Petty Sessions, Frenchpark, Co. Roscommon; married on 30/1/1901...Winifred Una Cassidy, a native of the Graan, Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh; 3rd DI 29/12/1894; pensioned 23/6/1911; died 14/11/1912 at 4 Rosemount Cottage, New Ross, Co. Wexford...Winifred Gordon went to Paris and joined the American Ambulance Service and returned to Dublin in 1916, nursed the wounded of the 1916 Rising as a nurse in the Royal City of Dublin Hospital in Baggot Street. She joined Cumann na mBan and sheltered Austin Stack (1879-1929), Deputy Chief of Staff of the IRA (1919-1922) during the War of Independence, whom she married in 1925 and he died in the Mater Hospital, Dublin on 27/4/1929."
We also know that Una was imprisoned in Dublin in 1922 for about nine months for her anti-Treaty activism during the Civil War.
Events
| Birth | Abt 1878 | Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh | |||
| Marriage | 30 Jan 1901 | St. Michael's Church, Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh - Patrick GORDON | |||
| Marriage | 10 Aug 1925 | Church of the Assumption, Blackrock, Co. Dublin - Augustine (Austin) STACK | |||
| Death | 3 Oct 1950 | 167 Strand Road, Sandymount, Dublin | |||
| Burial | Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin |
Families
| Spouse | Patrick GORDON (1870 - 1912) |
| Child | Aileen Jane GORDON (1903 - 1903) |
| Spouse | Augustine (Austin) STACK (1879 - 1929) |
| Father | Anthony CASSIDY (1835 - 1910) |
| Mother | Jane MCGURGAN (1840 - 1915) |
| Sibling | Mary CASSIDY (1866 - 1866) |
| Sibling | Margaret CASSIDY (1866 - 1866) |
| Sibling | Maurice CASSIDY (1867 - 1928) |
| Sibling | Mary CASSIDY (1869 - 1911) |
| Sibling | John Paul CASSIDY (1870 - 1922) |
| Sibling | Anthony CASSIDY (1873 - 1875) |
| Sibling | Henry (Harry) Harry CASSIDY (1874 - 1905) |
| Sibling | Anthony CASSIDY (1876 - 1883) |
| Sibling | Louis Laurence CASSIDY (1877 - 1928) |