Individual Details
Luke "Frank" Grady / O'Grady (alias "Frank Collette")
(29 August 1867 - 26 December 1945)
Events
| Birth | 29 August 1867 | informant: William Grady, father - Church Lane, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England | |||
| Residence | 7 October 1867 | at the time of his birth - Church Lane, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England | |||
| Census | 2 April 1871 | 80, Temple Street, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England | |||
| Census | 3 April 1881 | 80, Temple Street, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England | |||
| Residence | 8 March 1888 | at the time of the birth of his son Frank - 2 Back 135, Brearley Street, Lozells, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England | |||
| Marriage | 26 December 1892 | witnesses: Samuel Tufft, Annie Meehan - St Clement's Church, Nechells, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England - Mary Ann "Polly" Titmus [O'Grady] | |||
| Occupation | 26 December 1892 | sign writer | |||
| Residence | 26 December 1892 | at the time of his marriage - 13, Lime Grove, Walter Street, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England | |||
| Residence | 12 April 1894 | at the time of the birth of his son Frank Loraine (later Francis Patrick) - 1, Commercial Street, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England | |||
| Census | 31 March 1901 | 4, Atalanta Street, Fulham, London, England |  | ||
| Residence | 1905 | according to the electoral register - 15B, Vera Road, Fulham, London, England | |||
| Residence | From 1906 to 1914 | according to the electoral register - 1, Lyndhurst, Vera Road, Fulham, London, England | |||
| Residence | 1910 | according to a street directory - 1, Lyndhurst, Vera Road, Fulham, London, England | |||
| Census | 2 April 1911 | 1, Lyndhurst, Vera Road, Fulham, London, England | |||
| Residence | 1920 | according to a street directory - 10, Halford Terrace, Granville Road, Southfields, Wandsworth, London, England | |||
| Residence | From 1921 to 1923 | according to the electoral register - 10, Halford Terrace, Granville Road, Southfields, Wandsworth, London, England | |||
| Census | 19 June 1921 | 10, Halford Terrace, Granville Road, Southfields, Wandsworth, London, England |  | ||
| Residence | 12 August 1921 | at the time of the birth of his son Patrick - 10, Halford Terrace, Granville Road, Southfields, Wandsworth, London, England | | ||
| Residence | 14 December 1923 | at the time of the birth of his son Denis - 10, Halford Terrace, Granville Road, Southfields, Wandsworth, London, England | | ||
| Residence | From 1924 to 1926 | according to the electoral register - 19, Granville Road, Southfields, Wandsworth, London, England | |||
| Residence | 1925 | according to a street directory - 19, Granville Road, Southfields, Wandsworth, London, England | |||
| Residence | 23 April 1926 | at the time of the birth of his daughter Margaret Sheila - 19, Granville Road, Southfields, Wandsworth, London, England | | ||
| Miscellaneous | Bet 10 June 1927 and 8 December 1927 | was admitted to the workhouse (on five separate occasions) - Wandsworth and Clapham Union Workhouse (the Swaffield Road Institution), Swaffield Road, off Garratt Lane, Wandsworth, London, England | |||
| Residence | 17 June 1927 | at the time his children were enrolled in school - 90, Ringford Road, Southfields, Wandsworth, London, England | |||
| Residence | From 1928 to 1930 | according to the electoral register - 33, Algarve Road, Earlsfield, Wandsworth, London, England | |||
| Residence | 19 April 1928 | at the time of the death of his daughter [Margaret] Sheila - 33, Algarve Road, Earlsfield, Wandsworth, London, England | | ||
| Residence | 24 August 1928 | at the time of the birth of his daughter Jean - 425, Garratt Lane, Wandsworth, London, England | | ||
| Residence | 1937 | according to the electoral register - 143, The Grove, Hammersmith, London, England | |||
| Residence | From 1938 to 1939 | according to the electoral register - 34, Queen Caroline Street, Hammersmith, London, England | |||
| Residence | 1938 | according to the electoral register - "The Cottage", Broomhill Road, Wandsworth, London, England | |||
| Residence | 29 September 1939 | at the time of the 1939 register - 34, Queen Caroline Street, Hammersmith, London, England | |||
| Residence | From 1940 to 1941 | according to a street directory - 34, Queen Caroline Street, Hammersmith, London, England | |||
| Residence | 1945 | according to the electoral register - 54, Comeragh Road, Fulham, London, England | |||
| Residence | Bef 26 December 1945 | at the time of his death - 54, Comeragh Road, Fulham, London, England | | ||
| Death | 26 December 1945 | cause of death: senile myocardial degeneration; informant: A. Collette, widow - Fulham Hospital, Fulham, London, England | | ||
| Alt name | Frank Collette | ||||
| Alt name | Luke O'Grady | ||||
| Alt name | Francis Luke O'Grady | ||||
| Alt name | Frank O'Grady |
Families
| Spouse | Emily Farley [Corr, Tillbrook] (1854 - 1919) |
| Child | Frank O'Grady (otherwise Frank Corr) (1888 - 1962) |
| Spouse | Mary Ann "Polly" Titmus [O'Grady] (1870 - 1940) |
| Child | Francis Patrick O'Grady (1894 - 1971) |
| Child | Mona O'Grady (1917 - ) |
| Spouse | Ada Jessett (otherwise Edith Johnson, alias "Mona Collette") [Collette] (1901 - 1963) |
| Child | Kathleen Jessett (otherwise Kathleen Mary T. Collette) [Mongard] (1920 - 1996) |
| Child | Patrick Collette (1921 - 2003) |
| Child | Denis Herbert Collette (1923 - ) |
| Child | Margaret Sheila "Sheila" Collette (1926 - 1928) |
| Child | Jean M. B. Collette (1928 - 1983) |
| Father | William Grady / O'Grady (1830 - 1884) |
| Mother | Jane Spooner [Grady] (1835 - 1878) |
| Sibling | Ellen O'Grady [Turner] (1860 - ) |
| Sibling | Mark O'Grady (1862 - 1889) |
| Sibling | Martha O'Grady (1864 - ) |
| Sibling | Agnes O'Grady (1871 - ) |
| Sibling | Ann O'Grady (1874 - 1874) |
| Sibling | Winifred Mary O'Grady [Horsley] (1876 - 1930) |
Notes
Census
From the time of the 1901 census onwards, he used the name "Frank Collette" as an alias. Under this name, he claimed to be born circa 1871 in Armagh, Ireland (in the 1901 and 1911 censuses) and circa 1881 in East Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A. (in the 1921 census).Endnotes
1. 1921 Census: England, London, Wandsworth, enumeration district 23, schedule number 22, Frank Collette [household]; image copy, "1921 Census Of England & Wales", database with digital images, Findmypast (https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=GBC%2F1921%2FRG15%2F02474%2F0045%2F01 : accessed 6 January 2022); citing The National Archives, Kew, archive reference RG 15, piece 2474.
2. Birth: England and Wales, birth certificate (certified copy) for Patrick Collette, born 10 August 1921; registered September Quarter 1921, Wandsworth registration district, volume 1d, page 1003; General Register Office, Southport.
3. Birth: England and Wales, birth certificate (certified copy) for Denis Herbert Collette, born 10 December 1923; registered December Quarter 1923, Wandsworth registration district, volume 1d, page 863; General Register Office, Southport.
4. Birth: England and Wales, birth certificate (certified copy) for Margaret Sheila Collette, born 19 April 1926; registered June Quarter 1926, Wandsworth registration district, volume 1d, page 806; General Register Office, Southport.
5. Death: England and Wales, entry in a register of deaths (non-certified PDF copy) for Sheila Collett, died 17 April 1928; registered June Quarter 1928, Wandsworth registration district, volume 1d, page 407; General Register Office, Southport.
6. Birth: England and Wales, birth certificate (certified copy) for Jean Collette, born 22 August 1928; registered September Quarter 1928, Wandsworth registration district, volume 1d, page 752; General Register Office, Southport.
7. Death: England and Wales, entry in a register of deaths (non-certified PDF copy) for Francis Luke O'Grady otherwise Frank Collette, died 26 December 1945; registered March Quarter 1946, Fulham registration district, volume 1a, page 383; General Register Office, Southport.
8. Death: England and Wales, entry in a register of deaths (non-certified PDF copy) for Francis Luke O'Grady otherwise Frank Collette, died 26 December 1945; registered March Quarter 1946, Fulham registration district, volume 1a, page 383; General Register Office, Southport.