Private Jack Melia of the Worcester Regt, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Melia, 58, Fleet Street, Bury, died from wounds on July 10th at Salonica. He received his wounds on April 29th and that was the third occasion on which he had been wounded. He has also been attacked with dysentery, and had only returned to his battalion after recovering six days before receiving his mortal injuries. He was 21 years of age, and before enlisting he was a butcher in the employment of the Argenta Meat Co. Stanley Street; and his name is on the role of honour in Bury Parish Church. He was also a playing member of the Bury Shop Assistants Football Club. Private Melia’s brother (Private W. Melia) also of the Worcester Regt died twelve months later from wounds received in France. Information taken from the Bury Times Obituary Saturday 14th July 1917 || Certificate paying tribute to Private Jack Melia, from the Mayor, Alderman and Burgesses of the County Borough of Bury.

Cornelius Kennerk was born at home in the Coombe on Friday 16 September 1898. His red hair made him stand out since the rest of the extended family was dark-haired. He may have inherited this distinctive trait from his mother’s side. The family had five children, one of whom died in infancy. Other children recorded on the 1911 census are Stephen Kennerk (aged 10), Margaret (aged 6) and Michael (aged 4). None of them could read which reflects the poor standard of education amongst Dublin’s working class. Mick’s wife could read but was unable to write, as evidenced by her ‘x’ on Con’s birth certificate. When she was pushed to it, she could attempt a signature. Con's parents had married just a year previously on Sunday, 17 January 1897. His mother was a blonde-haired servant girl from no. 35 Watling Street named Elizabeth Cleary. Despite a short sojourn on the North side of the city, the young couple moved to the south side where Elizabeth set up home with the domestic skills she had learned at her mother’s County Dublin fireside. She made excellent brown bread and was very house proud despite the paralysis in her hand. In 1900, the family moved to no. 4 Hackett’s Court and the following year to no.1 The Coombe. By 1911, they were lodging at no. 23 Hendrick Street, not far from Usher’s Quay.

A reissue of Bill's baptismal certificate in the 1950s.