Dennis James McCarthy aka James Carter
 

Birth/baptism not found could be Marylebone or Holborn according to censuses, and his putative parents Callaghan and Mary McCarthy had a daughter who was born in Marylebone.

Putative parents: Callaghan McCarthy, greengrocer, born Fermoy, Cork, Ireland and Mary, born Kilkenny, Ireland.

1841 - not found
Too many Dennis McCarthys and James McCarthys around but none with a Callaghan.

Marriage: Dennis McCarthy & Elizabeth Alice Goodwin, married 19 June 1848 at Trinity Church, Holborn. Dennis's age is given as 20 giving a birthyear of 1827/28. His occupation is cooper, father is Callaghan McCarthy, wagonner and his address 16 Saffron Terrace, Saffron Hill.

1851
3 Peter Street, Clerkenwell
James McCarthy 33 [1829] cooper b Marylebone
Elizabeth wife 23 b Long Acre
Emily Alice daur 2 b Clerkenwell
William son 1 b Clerkenwell

1861
5 Wellington Place, Southwark
James McCarthy 31 [1830] cooper b. Holborn
Elizabeth and children Emily, William, Richard (blind), Eliza, James, Mary A.

In 1866 his son Charles James McCarthy was born, but between registering the birth and the next census he changed his name to Carter. Possibly as a result of anti-Irish feeling after a Fenian bomb explosion in Clerkenwell in 1867.

1871
5 Vincent Street, Mile End Old Town
James Carter 40 [1831] cooper
With wife and children William, Eliza, James, Mary A,. Charles, Henry and Alfred.

1881
16 Yattan Street, Poplar
James Carter 51 [1830] cooper b Holborn
with Elizabeth and sons William, Henry, Richard, Charles & Edward, and boarder Charles Goodwin aged 55.

1891
46 Poole Street, Shoreditch
James Carter 61 cooper b Clerkenwell (!)
Elizabeth wife 61 b Clerkenwell (!!)

1901
23 Bridgewater Street, St. Pancras
James Carter [1829] 72 grocer (own account) b Clerkenwell
Elizabeth 72 wife b Long Acre
{in the next household, same address is their blind son Richard and his wife Emma who was also blind, but their surname is McCarthy}

Death
Dennis James McCarthy aged 77, died 19 March 1907, Union Infirmary, West Ham, of morbus cordis, syncope.

In 1911, James' widow Elizabeth McCarthy is with their married daughter Mary Ann Layton and her husband and family, and Mary Ann registered James' death so it is likely that both parents were living with the Laytons prior to James' death in the infirmary.

Burial not found

Link to x gt grandfather: http://www.genealogistsforum.co.uk/f...Charles+Albert