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Francis Moss

Francis Moss was born on August 20, 1870 in County Meath, Ireland. Different sources give different places of birth (Cushinstown, Garristown, Dunshaughlin) all located in County Mealth. He was the son of George Moss and Julia McKeown and was baptised as an infant in Garristown, County Meath.

On April 23, 1899 he married Mary Ellen Gleeson who was nine years

younger than Francis at St. Paul, Arran Quay.

In that same year Moss was incarcerated in Kilmainham (or  Mountjoy*)

for embezzlement of 10s/-  ; at that time he lived in 54 Lower Wellington Street, as recorded by the prison's register.

The Next record is given by the census of 1901, Moss and his wife were living in the house 89.2 in Howth; both are registered as Roman Catholics.

In 1903 he was incarcerated another time for “Maliciously Broke Glass Value £7 “, this time his place of residence was recorded as not fixed.(3)

In 1911, according to the census of that year, he was living as a family's Swan boarder in Main Street, 33 (Swords East, Dublin); his wife is not recorded in that place.(4)