Judith Ann Treacy van der Kaay webpage
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Our family documentation begins with J.W. Treacy who was either a Captain or
Colonel in the Army and he married Elizabeth Blockey in County Clare, Ireland. In 1860-1 there was the company of ‘Blockey, Joseph Treacy, and Thomas Remnant’, wine
merchants, at 104 Ebury street, Pimlico, Middlesex.
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John Treacy (b. Ireland) married Flora Johnstone (daughter of William Dunbar
Johnstone). 26th July 1861 at Christ’s Church, Rangoon, West Bengal, India. He
was a district commissioner. John Treacy died on the 9th July, 1872
of chronic dysentery on the S.S. Killarney. At the time of George Tracy’s
admission to Christ’s Hospital in 1874, both his mother and father were dead
1873 London Wills
John
Treacy - Effects under £200
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February. Administration of the effects of John Treacy late of Sandoway British
Burmah in the East Indies Deputy Commissioner a Widower who died 9 July 1872 at
Port Said in Egypt was granted at the Principal Registry under the usual
Limitations to Elizabeth Treacy of 8 Park-avenue Lower Norwood in the County of
Surrey Widow the Grandmother and Guardian of Elizabeth Treacy Spinster and Hugh
Treacy Minors and of George Treacy and Mary Treacy and Flora Treacy Spinsters
Infants the Children and only Next of Kin.
1.1.1 Elizabeth Treacy b. 21 August 1862 India Office Ecclesiastical Returns-Bengal Presidency, Misc, India May have married ??? Carter.
1.1.2 George Treacy born in 1866 in Mandalay, Burma (b. 20 May 1866 Moulmein,
West Bengal, India d. 1929). He attended "Christ’s Hospital School"
Newgate St., City of London from 1874 to 1882. In the 1881 British Census, at
age 14, he is listed as attending there. His second wife was Annie Kate Jopp
(daughter of Alfred & Annie Jopp of Aberdeen). In the 1901 census, he was
listed as living in Islington London, working as a furniture salesman.
1.1.1.1. Eric Treacy
(b. 2nd June 1907, 63 Kings Road, Willesden, London
d. 13th May 1978) MBE, Bishop
of Wakefield and renowned English railway photographer. Also known as the
Railway Bishop. He married his wife Mary (May) Leyland Shone
(1902-1985) on 16 June 1932, daughter of James Arthur Shone. They had no
children. (see listing below).
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Twin sister or brother to Eric but who died a few days after birth.
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Mary Treacy (b. c. 1910) wed to Dirk van der Kaay in
Maracaibo, Venezuela 1938
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Judith Ann Treacy van der Kaay
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Erik
K. Van Der Kaay, (b. 12/16/1943, d.
10/02/1990), US Army, SSG, Res: Tarpon Springs, FL, Plot: 301 0 628, bur.
10/05/1990
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Mary Treacy b. August 8, 1867 in Akyab, West Bengal, India. Mother thinks possibly tuberculosis was the culprit.
1.1.4 Hugh (born 1864 in Burma, appointed to NSW Police 7th January
1892???). Was in the mounted police in Sydney in 1893
1.1.5 Florence. We do have a photograph of “Aunt Flo” who has a
diminutive and slender person standing by a piano.
1.2 Jane (who married Alfred Lane, a
stock broker)
1.3 Eliza (who married am
Admiral Mullock (my nephew has a painting done on glass of Admiral Mullock)
1.4 Joseph Stevens Treacy
(father of Alfred)
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Alfred Stevens (1817-1875) artist: has painting in the Tate
Britain in Pictures , Aspects of British Arts,(Collins London – published in
1947) in a commentary about British Drawings, a Michael Ayrton commented on
p.53 that “The divers draughtsmen, illustrators, topographers and the rest, are
the real, almost the only artistic fruits of the age. Painting and
sculpture were either ineffectual or deplorable, but drawing continued
doggedly to keep its end up in some sort. Alfred Stevens, a grandiose
practitioner in the arts of painting, architecture, sculpture and general
decoration, was a carefully trained artist in all that was “traditional” in the
Greco-Roman manner current in his time. The fact remains that he
was a superficial and facile draughtsman of very little value to his
contemporaries, though he has gained something of a reputation since, for
reasons best known to the dealers.” (Ayrton sounds a bit pompous! – my
comment) .
A kinder commentary by John Russel (British
Portrait Painters) on page 148;
“Alfred Stevens is of all British artists the
least well known in proportion to his talent. In an age of easel painting
he painted few pictures, giving his time instead to the vast decorative
conceptions by which St. Paul’s and other of our public buildings might now be
embellished. Stevens knew Italy very well; he had been sent there are the
age of sixteen, along and with sixty pounds to keep him until he could keep
himself. … and as a native of Blandford (mother wrote above that ‘Dorset,
England’) he had every chance of seeing how the first instruments of communal
life …. Painting as fine as that of the heads and hands in his Mother and
Child – painting of this considered and monumental quality is rare in
British art.”
1.5 Katherine Stuckey Treacy
[b. 1838] who married Henry Barrow, Commander HM Bengal Marines
Katherine
Stuckey Treacy (d. of John Treacy, 22 years) m. Henry Barrow (s. of Henry
Barrow, 37 years) 03 Dec 1860 Rangoon,
Bengal, India
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Mary Treacy wed to Dirk van der Kaay in Maracaibo, Venezuela 1938 |
Judith Ann Treacy
Renee Treacy Klein Leah
Treacy Klein 3
generations 02-03-2002 |
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January 26, 1893 ..145 Tufnea Park (?) “My dear Bess,
How have you been getting on all this long time: all solutions
hope? I don’t know whose turn it is to write, but I thought it a very
favorable opportunity for me to as we are so very slack, that it is hard to
find a means of passing the time away and yet appear to be doing
something. They say no news is good news, so I presume you are jogging
along comfortably. I hope you will write as soon as you receive this as
Flo and I are both anxious to know how you are going on. You will be
pleased to hear that Flo has left Miss Sandlands and is now living with me at
Tufnea Park. We have taken apartments with some people named
Jaffray. There are 3 sisters and a brother. The sisters keep a
school for children and the brother is at Marplis. They are very decent
people so there it is quite a home for Flo. She is at present learning
the typewriter in hopes of getting something to do in that time. I wish
you could see our rooms, we have made them look so nice. Of course it
has meant the outlay of money but I think is worth it to have a decent place
to call your own. Hughie as I think I told you is in the mounted police at Sydney and
writes to say he was never more comfortable and happy in his life. Some
few months ago he had a nasty fall from his horse or rather his horse fell on
him and bruised his leg very badly, but he has quite recovered from
that. We do not hear very much from him but we don’t worry as he always
comes down on his feet, as the saying goes. Did you send your photo as promised, because it has never reached
me. Will you please send one in your next letter : if you wish
it. I will promise not to send it round for general inspection only do
send me as I am longing to know what you are like after so many years
absence. I don’t think I have any news to give you. Every body seems to
be jogging along just the same way. Your friend Harry Donnly (?) is
going to be married shortly. Alfred Barrow is a full blown actor and is
now touring the provinces. Eva talks of going to New York
some time this year to be married. Her fiancée has just departed after
a month’s holiday and wants her to follow later on. Don’t know as to whether
it will come off or not. Well good bye Bess. Write as soon as you can and don’t forget to
let me have a photo. With love, your affectionate brother, Geo Treacy Flora sends her love to you. |
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Eric Treacy
(b. 2nd June 1907 Willesden, London d. 13th May 1978) MBE, Bishop of Wakefield and
renowned English railway photographer. He had two passions in his life: his church and
photographing railway locomotives. He
attended a small private school in Willesden Green, and Haberdashers’ Aske’s
School, Hampstead, from 1918 to 1925. He left school with below average
matriculation results, but was excellent at sport, especially rugby and
cricket, and had been heavyweight boxing champion for two successive years.
Six feet tall, weighing over 14 stones, he had a burly physique, with blue
eyes and fair hair. In 1932 he was made a Deacon and in 1933 a priest
in the Church of England at Liverpool parish church. From 1936 to 1940, he was
vicar of Edge Hill, Liverpool, and his excellent relations with his
railwaymen parishioners gave him a great start with his hobby. He was an Army Padre during the Second World War with a Lancashire regiment, for which he was awarded an MBE. On demobilisation he became Rector
of Keighley and in 1949 was appointed Archdeacon of Halifax. In 1961 he
became Suffragen (or deputy) Bishop of Pontefract. In 1968, when the
Bishopric of Wakefield became vacant, the Prime Minister and Archbishops were
bluntly told by the people of Wakefield that they would accept none but Eric
Treacy, and he was enthroned on 17th March 1968. He played a large part in
the life of Wakefield, not least by his visits to Wakefield Prison; the
inmates there regarded the fortnightly arrival of "Bishop Eric" and
his wife as a high spot. He once preached, using as a pulpit, the tender of
Stephenson's Locomotion, which for many years graced Darlington Bank
Top station. He remained in the post in until he retired on the 31st of October 1976. He
was considered to be progressive in some ways but basically conservative in
other ways. He accepted the ordination of women. He took up railway photography after being inspired
by a visit to Liverpool Lime Street. His photographic work appeared in
various magazines during the 1930s. He published his first book of images in
1946. Throughout
the years he was gradually making his reputation as one of the world’s
greatest railway photographers, his eye for composition meant that you could
often distinguish a Treacy from any other photographer’s work. He died from a heart attack on Appleby Station on the Settle-Carlisle
Railway waiting for BR 92220 Evening
Star on 13th
May 1978, doing what he enjoyed most: photographing trains. Visitors to Appleby
Station will find a plaque commemorating his
memory. Ericy
(along with writer Alan Bennett and others) was a fierce opponent of those
who wished to close down his beloved Carlisle-Settle railway line, and it was
perhaps fitting that it was there that he died. He
is buried at St Kentigern's Church Crosthwaite, Keswick. He
has the rare, probably unique distinction of having two locomotives named
after him, a steam locomotive No.45428 Eric Treacy (currently on the
North Yorkshire Moors Railway) and an electric locomotive No.86240 Bishop
Eric Treacy. The Treacy Collection of 12,000 photographs
forms part of the National Railway Museum's archive of over 1.4 million
images. The following are albums of his photographic
work: Eric Treacy. (1976) Roaming the Northern
Rails Eric Treacy (1977) Roaming the East Coast
Main Line Ian Allan. Eric Treacy (1969) Lure of Steam Ian Allan Eric Treacy (1981, reprint?) Glory of Steam
Ian Allan G. Freeman Allen, (1982) Great Railway
Photographs by Eric Treacy Peerage Books, London P.B.Whitehouse & G.Freeman Allen (1982)
Eric Treacy: Railway Photographer P.Whitehouse & J.Powell (1985) Treacy's
Routes North P.Whitehouse & J.Powell (1990) Treacy's
British Rail Eric Treacy (1991 reprint) Portrait of Steam Eric Treacy (1994) The Best of Eric Treacy
Atlantic Transport Publishers David Jenkinson & Patrick Whitehouse
(1988) Eric Treacy's LMS Oxford Publishing Company Ref: Matthew,
H.C.G. & Harrison, Brian Howard (2004) Oxford Dictionary of National
Biography. p. 243-5 |
ex-LMS black five number 45428 has been named Eric Treacy in preservation |
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November 1856 London Gazette
We the
undersigned do hereby give notice, that we have this day mutually dissolved the
Partnership heretofore sunsisting between us carried on at No. 104,
Ebury-street, Pimlico, Middlesex, under the name, style and firm of John
Blockey and Son, as Wine and Spirit Merchants. - Dated this 10th day
of November, 1856.
28 July
1857 London Gazette
Notice is
hereby given that the Partnership heretofore existing between John Blockey and
Joseph Treacy Blockey, carrying on the business of Wine and Spirit Merchants,
at No. 104, Ebury-street, Pimlico, Middlesex, under the name and style of John
Blockey and Son, has been this day dissolved by mutual consent. – Dated this 18th
day of July, 1857.
John
Blockey
Josh T.
Blockey
23 April
1861 London Gazette
Joseph Treacy
Blockey, late of No.20, Ebury-street, Pimlico, Middlesex, carrying on business
in copartnership with Thomas Remnant at No.104, Ebury-street aforesaid, Wine
Merchants.- In the Queen’s Prison.
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September 1861 London Gazette
Thomas
Remnat (sued with one Joseph J. Blockey, sued as John Blockey and William
Remnant) formerly of No. 10, Belmont, Lee, Kent, then of No.104, Ebury-street,
Pimlico, and next and late of No.20, Pembroke-place, Vauxhall-bridge-road, both
in Surrey, Wine Merchant, carrying on business in copartnership with one Joseph
Tracey Blockey, under the style or firm of Blockey and Remnat, at No.104,
Ebury-street, Pimlico, part of the time letting a portion of said premises, and
since the 1st June 1861, merging said business for one Walter McMullen.