James Joyce: Genealogical Appendix

Joyce forebears
Joyces putatively descended from Norman Josses who settled in N. Wales; THOMAS DE JORCE arrived in Ireland in 13th c. and m. Nora, dg. of the O’Brien [prince] of Thomond, 1283; became estab. as one of 14 tribes of Galway; JSJ owned an engraving of the Joyce coat of arms, properly those of the Joyces of Corgary in Connacht, pernobilis et pervetusta familia [‘most famous and ancient family’] in the formula of an 18th c. Ulster King-at-Arms; eponymous ancester GEORGE JOYCE, presum. a tenant farmer, purchased property at 16 White St., Cork, from Charles O’Connell, July 1830; his son JAMES JOYCE (?1800-?1855), called ‘the handsomest man in Cork’ [AP], was anti-clerical and nationalist, being condemned to death for involvement in Whiteboy agitation in 1823, but reprieved; estab. a lime business at Fermoy; m. Ann McCann, with whom a son and only child, JAMES AUGUSTINE JOYCE (1827-Oct. 1866; b. Rose Cottage, Fermoy, d. Cork); James Joyce Snr. purchased land with Jeremiah O’Connor at Carraigeeny, nr. Cork, 1835, re-selling it in 1842 (£500); estab. a contracting [building] business; acquired slum housing off White St. [named Joyce’s Court]; purchased the rere plot of South Terrace from Sir Thos. Deane, 7 Jan. 1846; f. and s. declared bankrupt in 1852; acquired prop. at Anglesea St., Cork from Wm. Pennefather, also land at Skahard and Goat Island (Douglas River); James Joyce Jnr. became a horse trainer, estab. at Winthrop St., and lost money through betting; m. Ellen O’Connell (1816-1881; b. & d. Cork), 29 Feb. 1847 at SS Peter and Paul, in Paul St., Cork, with post-nuptial settlement of £1,000, 28 Feb. 1848, answered by a trust in White and Anglesea props. by James Joyce, Snr.; settled at 6 Angelesea St.; owned brickfields nr. Cork in 1850s; kept up family at Sunday’s Well in spite of second bankruptcy; appt. Inspector of Hackney Coaches; fell ill, Sept. 1866, and d. from inflammation of the lungs, 28 Oct. 1866; a son JOHN STANISLAUS JOYCE (1849-1931; f. of JAMES AUGUSTINE JOYCE, 1882-1941).

Joyce’s father
JOHN STANISLAUS JOYCE (1849-1931): b. 4 July 1849, and intended as James but misnamed in the baptismal register; ed. St Colman’s, Fermoy, March 1859-Feb. 1860, under direction of Dr. Thomas Croke, later Archb. of Cashel and a fndr. of GAA; tuition unpaid; poss. moved to Christian Brothers; sent out on pilot ships for reasons of health; briefly ed. at school of Daniel O’Sullivan; JSJ matriculated in Arts, 1865; sends JSJ to hear Mario singing in [prob. in Dublin Theatre Royal, Oct. 5-6th 1866]; suffered the death of his father, 28 Oct. 1866; enters Queen’s College, Cork, 1867; passed first year medicine and won certificates, by his own account; treated himself with carbolic acid for a suspected chancre on penis c.1867 [i.e., syphilis]; joined Dram. Soc. and participated in charity show at Royal Theatre, Cork, March 1869; played the lead in The Mummy (16 April 1869); became leading actor and sportsman; failed 2nd Yr., June 1869; repeated in 1869-70 and failed again; income of £315 p.a.; received £1,000 from estate of John O’Connell on coming of age, 4 July 1870; attempted to join French side in Franco-Prussian war, with three others, Aug. 1870; followed to London by his mother and brought back home; was involved with Fenians in Cork, befriending Joseph Theobald Casey [Kevin Egan in Ulysses] and Richard Burke, both recently released from Clerkenwell; separated from their company by his mother, who moved with him to Dublin, 1874/75, settling at Monkstown; JSJ engaged in yachting in Dalkey; named ‘the successor to Campinini’; sang at Antient Concert Hall in hearing of Barton McGuckin; sunk £500 in Dublin and Chapelizod Distillery, in enterprise incl. as investors Peter Paul McSwiney, John Daly, Henry Joseph Alleyn, et. al.; involved in management, with refreshment at Chapelizod House [hotel; man. Robert Broadbent]; JSJ holds meeting to contest Alleyn’s gratuitous share of £20,000 in the company capital of £80,000, 31 July 1876; credit failed, 1 Aug. 1877; company wound up by Master of the Rolls, with criticisms of the memos of the earlier meeting, Jan. 1878; JSJ set up as accountant [concerned with bad debts] at 13 Westland Row, 1879; served as sec. of United Liberal Club, Dublin (54 Dawson St.; formerly the Liberal Registration Assoc., supported by Peter Paul McSwiney and Fr. Edward O’Connell, et. al.) in 1880 Gen. Election; managed successful election of Robert Dyer Lyons and Maurice Brooks (Lib.) in place of Sir Arthur Guinness and James Stirling (Cons.), 5 April 1880; awarded £100 by successful candidates at celebrations in the Oval Bar; entered marital engagements with Hannah Sullivan and Annie Lee, each ending in jealousy; received post of Collector of Rates for Inns Quay and Rotunda Wards (later for N. Dock ward), paid c.£430 p.a. on ‘poundage rate’; Dublin, from Liberal Govt. in recompense with £500 p.a; met May Mary Jane Murray (“May”; b. 15 May 1859; d. 13 Aug. 1903), pianist; dg. John Murray, agent for wines and spirits, orig. from Co. Longford, and Margaret Theresa (née Flynn; 1832-1881), then living at 7 Clanbrassil St.; JSJ moved to 15 Clanbrassil St. to be in proximity to May; m. May Murray, 5 May 1880, at Rathmines Church, contrary to wishes of both their parents (‘O weeping God, the things I married into’: Simon Dedalus in Ulysses); JSJ unforgiven by his mother Ellen; May was a fellow pupil with Katharine Tynan at Misses Flynn School, 15 Usher’s Island, teachers of dancing, politeness and piano; her br. William Augustus Murray (1857-1912; Richie Goulding in Ulysses) m. Josephine [née Giltrap] Murray (1863-1924), with children inc. Mabel Florence (1896-1986), m. Arthur C. Walls (1897-1987), with whom Arthur Walls & 6 others; another br. John Murray (employed in Freeman’s Journal, hence “Red” Murray in Ulysses); JSJ and May settled at 47 Northumberland Ave., Kingstown, on return from honeymoon in London; a first child (John Augustine Joyce) born and died, 1881; mortgaged Cork properties, 2 Dec. 1881 [to Edward Byrne; deed of release, Sept. 1884]; JAJ, 2nd child, b. 2 Feb. 1882, at home, 41 Brighton Sq. W., Rathgar; registered as James Augusta [sic] Joyce; took out mortage in 1882 and again on 13 Dec. 1883 [to Joseph Carroll]; a sixth mortgage, 21 April 1887, paid off three previous mortgages and a loan from the National Bank; family moved to 23 Castlewood Ave., 1884; May sang in concert at Mount Argus with Misses Dillon and Misses Bloom, dgs. of the dentist Max James Bloom; JSJ take out further loan from National Bank and another from Walter Morragh, April-May 1887; moved to 1 Martello Tce., Bray, May, 1887; JSJ defends his collector’s pouch from thieves in Phoenix Park, 1887; moved to North Dock Ward rates area, 1888; placed on probation at work; threatened with dismissal for bad behaviour, but retained, 1888-90; JSJ travelled to Cork to canvas his tenants’ votes for Parnellites in General Election and incurs reproof from Rates Office, July 1891; lost action against James Reuben Dodd for £22.15.0 in Queen’s Bench Division, 22 June 1892; lost other actions against him taken by Richard Dawson, corn and potato merchant, Bolton St. (£30 and costs) and Francis H. Caulfield, moneylender of Fownes St. (£13 and costs), in 1893; appeared in Stubb’s Weekly Gazette and Perry’s Gazette, 2 Nov. 1892, arising from loan of £130 secured furniture [bill of sale] with John Lawler (110 Middle Abbey St.); suspended by Collector-General, 3 Nov. 1892; family moves from Blackrock when Lawler collects on bill of sale. [Nov.] 1892; removal to Fitzgibbon st., prob. with furniture to prevent destraint; wrote to Chief Sec. Morley to seek commutation of pension into capital for purposes of paying Reuben and refused; Cork property sold by auction, 14 Dec. 1893, realising c.£2,000 [£475 & £1,400, from emptors Mullins & Murphy and another sum from McMullen]; Dodd releases JSJ from mortgage on full repayment (14 Feb. 1893) [...]; JSJ commutes half his pension to buy house at 7 St Peter’s Tce. [now 5 St Peter’s Rd., Cabra], 24 Oct. 1902; repayments made by means of insurance and a loan with Eagle Star (£650 and £550), with repayments to these at a rate of £12.6.3 p.m. made directly from pension; takes out further mortgages amounting to £100 from Sheridan, Oct. 1902, with a further mortgage £50, 18 Dec. [& another, £50]; forced to sell up at St. Peter’s Tce., 1905; writes reproachful letter from Millmount Tce., Drumcondra to JAJ, 24 April 1907, announcing imminent eviction and necessity of moving into solo lodgings; [Letters, Vol. II (1966), p.221-23]; living at Whitworth Place, May 1906 [vide letter to James Joyce, dated 16 May 1909 in Letters, Vol. II, p.228ff., thus addressed but containing circumstantial evidence associated it with the earlier period]; living at 44 Fontenoy St., nr. Dorset St., in 1909 (when JAJ and Giorgio come to stay); suffered the death of Mabel [‘Baby’], 1911; latterly settled with the Medcalf’s on Claude Rd., c.1920; subject of portrait by Patrick Tuohy, commissioned by his son, May 1924; d. 29 Dec., 1931, at Drumcondra Hospital, following a short illness at the Medcalf’s [ ‘I’ve got more out of life than any white man’]; cause of death give as ‘senile decay and Endocarditis’; his son JSJ sole legatee, received estate of £665.0s.9d. based on Eagle Star insurance which rendered, after debts paid, £36.12s [var. £32];

JSJ was obituarised in Irish Press and Chicago Premier, the latter calling him a master of the vernacluar and a fine storyteller: ‘His versatility enabled him to adapt his style to all surroundings, whether that of a drawing room or a saloon. He was full of reminiscences of Irish life in the last half century, and his stories were usually embellished with rare artistry.’ (See excerpt from Gordon Bowker, Joyce: A Biography, Weidenfeld & Nicholson 2011, in The Irish Times, 21 May 2011.)

Note: In A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Stephen Dedalus describes his father Simon - for whom John Stanislaus Joyce was the model - as having been ‘[a] medical student, an oarsman, a tenor, an amateur actor, a shouting politician, a small landlord, a small investor, a drinker, a good fellow, a storyteller, somebody’s secretary, something in a distillery, a taxgatherer, a bankrupt and at present a praiser of his own past.’ (Corrected Edn., p.244; Chap. 5.) See also Joyce's letter to Harriet Shaw Weaver of 17 Jan. 1932 following the death of JSJ [infra].

O’Connells (JAJ’s paternal-maternal line)
JAMES AUGUSTINE JOYCE m. ELLEN O’CONNELL (1816-1881; b. & d. Cork), dg. of JOHN O’CONNELL, of the Tarmon branch (desc. from Daniel’s br. Maurice), and hence a ‘cousin’ of the Liberator, owning a large drapery at Gt. George’s St [now Washington St.]; ed. Ursuline Convent; Ellen, with her sister Alicia (siste Xavier; d.1872), had become a novitiate at S. Presentation Conv., leaving after four months (Oct. 1836-Jan. 1837) though her sister remained to become Mother Superior before her death; JOHN STANISLAUS JOYCE cousin to John Daly (Mayor of Cork in 1871 & 1872), through common gf. Charles O’Connell, and with Peter Paul McSwiney, co-prop. of Clerys with George Delaney and Mayor of Dublin associated with the Home Rule Party in 1864 and 1875, a nephew of John O’Connell; a br. Charles, ord. 1854 and suspended purportedly for refusing to accept income from parish dues while curate at Iniskeen, c.1863; John O’Connell elected Alderman for St Patrick’s Ward, 1850; secured Inspectorship of Hackney Coaches for his son-in-law; also William O’Connell, son of John, and prop. of Gt. George’s St. business from 1854; later bankrupt; managed prop. in trust for Ellen (Mrs Joyce); removed to London; a dg., May O’Connell (2 Feb. 1883; Sister Ita), entered Presentation Convent, Crosshaven.

Murrays (JAJ’s maternal-paternal line)
WILLIAM MURRAY (?1800), of Leitrim family around Mohill, became farmer at Tulcon, nr. Lough Rinn, m. BRIDGET BYRNE, settled in Co. Longford; corn and whiskey merchant; their children JOHN MURRAY (1829-94; g.f. of JAMES JOYCE), PATRICK MURRAY (b.1830-1912; ed. by Rev. Patrick Murray, his uncle, 1800-1854; b. Tulcon; ord. June 1827, PP of Mullahoran, Co. Cavan, where he ran a school), ord. 1857, became PP at Carraig Finea, nr. Granard; fnd. Finnea branch of United Land League, 1879; HUGH MURRAY (1820- ), farmer in Gortletteragh, evicted from Tulcon by Lord Leitrim. JOHN MURRAY m. MARGARET THERESA MURRAY (b.?1832-Feb. 1881), prop. of The Eagle House, Terenure Rd., with whom children JOHN (1856-1910), WILLIAM MURRAY (1857-1912; d. of syphilis), and MARY JANE [May] MURRAY (May 1859-1903; mother of JAMES JOYCE); pub held in wife’s name in 1860, poss. by reason of bankruptcy; John Murray Jr., then lodging at 39 Lwr Abbey St. [aetat 35], m. ELIZABETH HARRIS (aetat. 16), 1891, [“Lillie” and poss. model for Polly in “The Boarding House”], after pre-marital conception of a dg. Lilla, followed by children Elizabeth Mary, Isabella Margaret, Valentine John Gerard, and Walter (1895-97; died in accident with tub of hot water); settled at 39 Drumcondra Rd.; WILLIAM MURRAY, m. JOSEPHINE (née Giltrap), ed. convent in Derby, and dg. of JAMES J. GILTRAP, law-agent and William's employer, owner of “Garryowen”, first Irish red setter (b.1871; vide “Cyclops”); settled at 77 Haddington Rd., with abused son HUBERT [“Bertie”; models for “Counterparts”], with whom six surviving children, at addresses in Holles St. and Ontario Tce.; acted as agent for Chapelizod Distillery, and settled at Clanbrassil St., where JOHN STANISLAUS JOYCE met MAY MURRAY; on death of Margaret Theresa, John Murray, then residing at Church House, Chapelizod, living as a traveller for Power’s Whiskey and later for a T. G. Begge’s tea and wine merchants (Bachelor’s Walk), remar. Christina Margaret O’Neill (née O'Donohoe; neice of his first wife), dg. of William O’Donohoe [‘the old fornicator’ acc. JSJ; later committed suicide], hotel owner and one of the [former] Miss Flynns (?Mary; d.1891).

Flynns (JAJ’s maternal-maternal line)
PATRICK FLYNN (?1790-?1865; master of spirit store and later starch & blueing factory, 53 Back Lane, formerly Rochelle St.; his sons PATRICK FLYNN (d.1874) and James removed factory to Thomas St. and later Francis St.; located at 16 Ellis Quay in 1830; Patrick Flynn m. ELLEN, with a son PATRICK FLYNN (1833-189[6]), still working at 79 Thomas St.; subject of the story of the horse that obsessively drives round the statue of William III; sisters, ELIZABETH and ANNE (b.1845), ran schools for piano and singing, modelling for the Miss Morkans of “The Dead”; Elizabeth poss. sometime governess at court of Louis Napoleon; Ellen Mary, m. Matthew Callanan, sec. of Irish Farmers’ Club, Sackville St., with whom dg. Mary Ellen (b.?1871); MARGARET THERESA FLYNN (b. ?1832), m. JOHN MURRAY of Longford; also Julia Clare (1829-1905), m. Martin Lyons (d. 113 Lwr. Gardiner St., 2 Feb. 1871), paper & hide merchant and legal stationer at 6 Ormond Quay with factory at 16 Usher’s Court; their children FREDERICK M. LYONS and JAMES JOSEPH LYONS owned stationer at 56 Grafton St.); on early deaths of their husbands sisters of PATRICK FLYNN moved to 15 Usher’s Island, property of Roe’s distillery, and held by caretaker Tallon with dg. Elizabeth (b.?1880; Lily of “The Dead”); also Maria O’Donohoe [Maria of “Clay”], dg. of [?]MARY FLYNN & WILLIAM O’DONOHOE [n.dd.].

Nora Barnacle Joyce (b. 21/22 March 1884; d. 10 April 1951); b. Sullivan’s Alley, Galway, on 21 March, 1884. Marriage certificate details: 4 July 1931; ended by death. Marriage solemnised at the district of Kensington in the County of London; No. 166; Fourth July 1931; James Augustine Joyce 49 years; bachelor; independent means; 28B Campden Grove W8; John Stanislaus Joyce [father]; Government Clerk (pensioned); Nora Joseph Barnacle; 47 years; Spinster [-]; 28b Campden Grove; Thomas Barnacle (deceased); Baker; married in the register Office by Licence before me This marriage was solemnised between us James Joyce/Nora J. Barnacle in the presence of F. R. D’O Monro; L. Clark; A. J. Tuner, Registrar; F. W. Turner, Superintendent Registrar. Certified true copy Kensington 21st day of Nov. 2001. MXA911215 [App. No. PA5000]; d. 10 April 1951, Zurich (uremic poisoning), and bur. with Joyce.

Nora Barnacle’s relatives
Mrs Thomas Barnacle [mother of Nora], d.1940; Michael Healy, uncle of Nora (d.7 Nov. 1935); Kathleen Barnacle. sister of Nora, m. John Griffin.

Joyce’s siblings
Margaret Alice (‘Poppie’; b. 18 Jan. 1884; d. March 1964, New Zealand); John Stanislaus (‘Stanislaus; Stannie’; b. 1884; d. 16 June 1955; m. Nelly Lichtensteiger, with whom James Joyce, b.1943, Trieste); Charles Patrick (‘Charlie’; b. 1886; d. 18 Jan. 1941; entered seminary in reaction to George's death, 1902, and left it in 1903, becoming truculent and despairing; moved to Boston with a girl whom he had made pregnant, 1908; d. in London); George Alfred (b. 1887; d. 9 March 1902; typhoid & peritonitis directly caused by ill-considered medical advice to feed him); Eileen Isabella Mary Xavier Brigit (b. 22 Feb. 1889; d. 27 Jan. 1963; , m. Frantisek Schaurek (d.1927, by suicide), 12 April 1915, with whom two children); Mary [‘May’] Cathleen (1890-1966; m. Monaghan; with whom a son, Ken Monaghan); Eva Mary (b. 1891; d. 25 Nov. 1957; joined the Joyces briefly in Trieste, 1909, but soon returned and trained in business school, funded by Stanislaus); Florence Elizabeth (b. 8 Nov. 1892; d.1973); Mabel [‘Baby’] Josephine Anne (b. 27 Nov. 1893; d. 1911, of typhoid in a Dublin hospital), Freddie (18-30 July 1894; died in infancy); also two miscarriages, in 1883 & 1885.

Joyce’s children
GIORGIO (‘Georgie’; later ‘George’) b. 27 July 1905, Trieste, m. Helen Fleischman (d. 9 Jan. 1963, USA) 1930, with one child, Stephen James Joyce (1932- ); divorced and remarried Dr. Asta Jahnke-Osterwalder, 24 May 1954, no issue; d. Konstanz, 1976. STEPHEN JOYCE, m. Solange Raytchine. LUCIA ANNA JOYCE (26 July 1907-12 Dec. 1982), b. Trieste; ed. Trieste (2 years); lost year learning German in Zurich; 4 years at Volksschule; entered Scuola Evangelica, Trieste, 1919; private school in Paris, learning French; entered Lycée Duruy; attended Académie Julian for drawing lessons; dancing courses with teachers incl. Jacques Dalcroze, Jouan Borlin, Madika, Raymond Duncan, Egorova, Lois Hutton & Helene Vanel, and Margaret Morris, passed war in Pornichet, nr. La Baule, France [...] d. Northampton; “Lucia Day” (26th July) was adopted by Schizophrenia Ireland as national schizophrenia awareness day in 1998.

Joyce’s cousinage
Eileen Joyce (b. 1889; d. 27 Jan. 1963), m. Frantisek Schaurek (d.1927), 12 April 1915, with whom two children.