Kathleen Mary SHEERIN [33754]

  General Notes:

Kathleen Sheerin had a varied and successful life after a less than easy start. She was orphaned at a young age on the death of her mother, then sent to an Aunt in Glasgow where she was treated more like a servant than a family member.
At the earliest opportunity she left her Aunt and set off working successfully in Glasgow, she met & married John Ryan a decorated WWI veteran, they started a family and moved to Manchester. The 1939 Register finds them living at 18 St Werburgh's Rd Manchester with young daughter Judith May 1939, and Robert C E Vanderzee.

Apparently Kathleen and Vanderzee were at that time estranged from their spouses and a relationship ensued¹.
1. At the end of her life Kathleen made known to a close relative that the father of her daughter Judith Ann Ryan was actually Robert Vanderzee.

Kathleen was an extroverted woman, but lacked a father figure. She had a short relationship with Henry Rushworth, but left him saying she couldn't keep him out of the pub across Wilbraham Road which was and still is the Lloyd's Hotel.
Ref: R Godwin

After that she teamed up with Cecil Upton, a stylish well dressed man. They bought a farm together, she was a keen horsewoman. Selling the farm they leased a run down pub, the Pack Horse Inn in Bircle Lancashire which they worked up to a very successful hostelry. Kathleen and Cecil were very happy but sadly he died relatively young in 1963.

Alone again Kathleen met Francis Knowles, like Cecil Upton a man of some style he owned a Jaguar car and liked to go to the races with a picnic hamper in the boot and some good champagne. Kathleen would no doubt have been pleased to join him, Francis died in 1987 and all who knew him declared him a lovely man.

Kathleen Mary Sheerin
Date of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar 1911
Registration District: Navan
Birth Country: Ireland
Volume: 2
Page: 810
FHL Film Number: 101074

Kathleen Mary Sheerin
Marital status: Single
Birth Place: Navan
Residence Date: 2 Apr 1911
House Number: 41
Townland/Street: Brew Hill
District: Navan Urban
County: Meath
Country: Ireland
Electoral District: Navan Urban
Religion: Roman Catholic
Relationship: Daughter

1939 Register
Kathleen M Ryan
Gender: Female
Marital status: Married
Birth Date: 16 Dec 1910
Residence Year: 1939
Residence Place: 18 St Werburghs Rd
Manchester, Lancashire, England
Occupation: Unpaid domestic duties
Line Number: 38
Schedule Number: 525
Sub Schedule Number: 2
Enumeration District: NJKG
Borough: Manchester
Registration District: 464/2
Inferred Spouse: John Ryan

  Research Notes:

Images courtesy of Ryan Goodwin - 2020

  Other Records

1. The Pack House Inn, Bircle Bury Lancashire.

2. Kathy Sheerin: Pics from her long life.
Kathy as a child 1914, 1947 the horsewoman, with her uncle Michael O'Reilly, with Trigger for a pint at the Packhorse Inn, Kathy with Diana Teresa on her shoulders outside the Packhorse Inn.
Photos courtesy R Godwin.

Kathleen had a relationship with Maj. Robert Cecil Ernest (Van) VANDERZEE [9085] [MRIN: 12087], son of Maj. Cecil Arthur VANDERZEE [5394] and Mabel Schultz CASE [5608]. (Maj. Robert Cecil Ernest (Van) VANDERZEE [9085] was born on 4 Jul 1898 in Fulham LND MDX and died on 7 Jul 1972 in Shirley Croydon.)

Kathleen had a relationship with Cecil Ashford UPTON [33773] [MRIN: 12098]. (Cecil Ashford UPTON [33773] was born in 1900 in Manchester and died on 21 Aug 1963 in Bury LAN.)

Kathleen had a relationship with Francis KNOWLES [33777] [MRIN: 12100]. (Francis KNOWLES [33777] was born in 1918 and died in 1987.)

Kathleen had a relationship with Harry RUSHWORTH [35530] [MRIN: 12872]. (Harry RUSHWORTH [35530] was born on 6 Feb 1896 in Manchester and died in 1962 in Macclesfield Cheshire.)

Kathleen next married John RYAN [33753] [MRIN: 12089] in 1932 in Glasgow Scotland. (John RYAN [33753] was born on 21 Dec 1896 in Clayton UK and died in 1974.)