Individual Details

Luke "Frank" O'Grady (alias Frank Collette)

(29 August 1867 - 26 December 1945)

Events

Birth29 August 1867informant: William Grady, father - Church Lane, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England
Residence7 October 1867at the time of his birth - Church Lane, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England
Census2 April 187180, Temple Street, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England
Census3 April 188180, Temple Street, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England
Residence8 March 1888at the time of the birth of his son Frank - 2 Back 135, Brearley Street, Lozells, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England
Marriage26 December 1892witnesses: Samuel Tufft, Annie Meehan - St Clement's Church, Nechells, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England - Mary Ann Titmus
Occupation26 December 1892sign writer
Residence26 December 1892at the time of his marriage to Mary Ann (Polly) Titmus - 13, Lime Grove, Walter Street, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England
Residence12 April 1894at the time of the birth of his son Frank Loraine (later Francis Patrick) - 1, Commercial Street, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England
Census31 March 19014, Atalanta Street, Fulham, London, England
Residence1906according to the electoral register - 15B, Vera Road, Fulham, London, England
ResidenceFrom 1907 to 1915according to the electoral register - 1, Lyndhurst, Vera Road, Fulham, London, England
Residence1910according to a street directory - 1, Lyndhurst, Vera Road, Fulham, London, England
Census2 April 19111, Lyndhurst, Vera Road, Fulham, London, England
Residence1920according to a street directory - 10, Halford Terrace, Granville Road, Southfields, Wandsworth, London, England
ResidenceFrom 1921 to 1923according to the electoral register - 10, Halford Terrace, Granville Road, Southfields, Wandsworth, London, England
Census19 June 192110, Halford Terrace, Granville Road, Southfields, Wandsworth, London, England
Residence12 August 1921at the time of the birth of his son Patrick - 10, Halford Terrace, Granville Road, Southfields, Wandsworth, London, England
Residence14 December 1923at the time of the birth of his son Denis - 10, Halford Terrace, Granville Road, Southfields, Wandsworth, London, England
ResidenceFrom 1924 to 1926according to the electoral register - 19, Granville Road, Southfields, Wandsworth, London, England
Residence1925according to a street directory - 19, Granville Road, Southfields, Wandsworth, London, England
Residence23 April 1926at the time of the birth of his daughter Margaret Sheila - 19, Granville Road, Southfields, Wandsworth, London, England
MiscellaneousFrom 10 June 1927 to 11 June 1927was admitted to the workhouse - Wandsworth and Clapham Union Workhouse (the Swaffield Road Institution), Swaffield Road, off Garratt Lane, Wandsworth, London, England
MiscellaneousFrom 13 June 1927 to 14 June 1927was admitted to the workhouse - Wandsworth and Clapham Union Workhouse (the Swaffield Road Institution), Swaffield Road, off Garratt Lane, Wandsworth, London, England
Residence17 June 1927at the time his children were enrolled in school - 90, Ringford Road, Southfields, Wandsworth, London, England
MiscellaneousFrom 18 July 1927 to 19 July 1927was admitted to the workhouse - Wandsworth and Clapham Union Workhouse (the Swaffield Road Institution), Swaffield Road, off Garratt Lane, Wandsworth, London, England
MiscellaneousFrom 19 July 1927 to 20 July 1927was admitted to the workhouse - Wandsworth and Clapham Union Workhouse (the Swaffield Road Institution), Swaffield Road, off Garratt Lane, Wandsworth, London, England
MiscellaneousFrom 7 December 1927 to 8 December 1927was admitted to the workhouse - Wandsworth and Clapham Union Workhouse (the Swaffield Road Institution), Swaffield Road, off Garratt Lane, Wandsworth, London, England
ResidenceFrom 1928 to 1930according to the electoral register - 33, Algarve Road, Earlsfield, Wandsworth, London, England
Residence19 April 1928at the time of the death of his daughter [Margaret] Sheila - 33, Algarve Road, Earlsfield, Wandsworth, London, England
Residence24 August 1928at the time of the birth of his daughter Jean - 425, Garratt Lane, Wandsworth, London, England
Residence1937according to the electoral register - 143, The Grove, Hammersmith, London, England
ResidenceFrom 1938 to 1939according to the electoral register - 34, Queen Caroline Street, Fulham, London, England
Residence29 September 1939at the time of the 1939 register - 34, Queen Caroline Street, Fulham, London, England
ResidenceFrom 1940 to 1941according to a street directory - 34, Queen Caroline Street, Fulham, London, England
Residence1945according to the electoral register - 54, Comeragh Road, Fulham, London, England
ResidenceBef 26 December 1945at the time of his death - 54, Comeragh Road, Fulham, London, England
Death26 December 1945cause of death: senile myocardial degeneration; informant: A. Collette, widow - Fulham Hospital, Fulham, London, England
Alt nameFrank O'Grady
Alt nameFrank Collette

Families

SpouseEmily Farley (1854 - 1919)
ChildFrank O'Grady (otherwise Frank Corr) (1888 - 1962)
SpouseMary Ann Titmus (1870 - 1940)
ChildFrancis Patrick O'Grady (1894 - 1971)
ChildLiving
SpouseAda Jessett (otherwise Edith Johnson, alias Mona Collette) (1901 - 1963)
ChildKathleen Jessett (otherwise Kathleen Mary T. Collette) (1920 - 1996)
ChildLiving
ChildLiving
ChildMargaret Sheila Collette (1926 - 1928)
ChildJean M. B. Collette (1928 - 1983)
FatherWilliam Grady / O'Grady (1830 - 1884)
MotherJane Spooner (1835 - 1878)
SiblingEllen O'Grady (1860 - )
SiblingMark O'Grady (1862 - 1889)
SiblingMartha O'Grady (1864 - )
SiblingAgnes O'Grady (1871 - )
SiblingAnn O'Grady (1874 - 1874)
SiblingWinifred Mary O'Grady (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).