James Dennan

Rank:	Private
Street:
Townland:	Coolbane,
Town/Village:	Corlismore, Co. Cavan
Civil Parish:	Dromard
Catholic Parish:	Dromard
Country:
Alternative Address:	Carrickmaguirk, Legga, Co. Longford; 5 Villiers Street, Glasgow; 7 Hargreave's (?) Street, St. Helen's
Census 1901:	Resident at Carrickmaguirk as James Dinnan www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Longford/Columbkille/Carrickmaquirk/1550368/
Census 1911:	N/A- possibly in Census of Scotland
Regiment/Unit:	Connaught Rangers, 5th & 3rd Battalion
Regiment Number:	5350
Date of Death:	15-05-1918
Cause:	Natural causes, phthisis pulmonalis
Memorial:	Commemorated at Brookwood 1914-18 Memorial, Brookwood Cemetery, Brookwood, Surrey, U.K.
Information:	It is believed that James was born James Dinnen in Carrickmaguirk, near Legga, sometime after on or around 30 December 1879, to Bartholomew Dennan (sometimes Denney) of Corrick, Moyne and Mary McGuire of Legga, who were farmers. Some time after April 1901, James emigrated to Scotland working as a labourer and miner. He married Martha Hamilton on the 26 August 1905 in St Mungo's Church, Glasgow and they both had an address at 5 Villiers Street in Glasgow. Their children Mary and Bartley were born in Glasgow. By the outbreak of WW1, it seems the family had moved to St. Helen's, Lancashire and James was working as a miner. James enlisted with the Connaught Rangers in February 1915 and entered the war in October 1915, serving at Salonika with the Meditteranean Expeditionary Force. In March 1916 James contracted tuberculosis (TB) during his service in Malta and was discharged from the army that July, retiring to Coolbane (Coolbawn), Co. Cavan where he had become totally incapacitated by November 1917. He died of the same at Coolbawn two years later. His age was given as 40 years, but it was likely that he was older. James is included in the IrelandsGreatWarDead.ie database and was acknowledged by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, as a result of the work by Mark Duffy on the 'In From the Cold' project
Parents Names:	Son of Bartley (Bartholomew) Dennan/Dinney and Mary (née McGuire)
Notes:	The details above are likely for a James Dennan born 1879 in North Longford, who was the same James that married Martha Hamilton in Scotland in 1905, as per the pensions and attestment sheets. The 1901 Census of Scotland states that both Martha and her mother Bridget (née Donohoe), were from Ireland. Martha died in Coolbawn in the Arvagh district in August 1925; her son Bartley registered her death. Although Bridget was likely a few years older than older than James, approximately 5-6 years, the pensions index and her death registration give a considerably older age, born in c.1864 rather than 1974.
Links:	Link to CWGC entry; link to likely Civil Record of Birth; link to Civil Record of Death (ensure link ends in .pdf); In From The Cold project database;