My stepmother Margo’s Mum was affectionately known as “Batty Nan” by her grandsons (Tony & Mike). Rose Fitzgerald Meredith had a colorful family on her mother’s side, but until a week or so ago, I didn’t know much about the colorful characters on her father’s side of the family.

Rose’s father, William Thomas Meredith, born in 1847 in Armagh, Ireland,  was the oldest child of Manus Blake Meredith, an engineer, and his wife Anne. Dicks Grove House, above, where Manus grew up, was the Kerry Merediths’ family home.  Continue reading William T Meredith and his colorful family →