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TOWNSEND, FRANCIS GERALD
- Born: 1875/76 Died: 1942/1943
Engineer, of Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh. Francis Gerald Townsend, who was born in Abersychan, Monmouthshire, Wales, in 1875 or 1876, was the elder son of FRANCIS EDWARD TOWNSEND , under whom he served a three-year pupilage. He was engaged on various projects in England as a contractor's engineer before coming to Ireland, apparently in the later 1890s, to work on the Buncrana to Carndonagh railway in Co. Donegal and on the Burtonport and Ballyshannon extensions. After living for a time in Ballyshannon, in about 1916 he moved to Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh, and entered into partnership with his father, who had settled there.(1) The partnership, known as as F.E. Townsend & Son, lasted until at least 1928,(2) but during the 1930s Francis Gerald Townsend appears to have been working on his own, his father having presumably died or retired. The Irish Builder records work by him for a number of district councils in Co. Fermanagh and the neighbouring counties and, towards the end of his career, for the Co. Fermanagh education authority.(3) He died in 1942 or 1943.(4) According to the 1911 census he married his Donegal-born wife, Kathleen Rosa, in 1900 or 1901 but had no surviving children when the census was taken.
ICEI: elected associate member, 3 January 1906;(5) raised to member, 1926.
Address: Main Street, Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal, 1905-1916; Forthill House, Enniskillen, 1913-14;(6) Victoria Terrace, Enniskillen, 1917-1927; 5 Orchard Terrace, Enniskillen, 1929-1934;(7) 1 Celtic Park, Enniskillen, 1936 -1942.
See WORKS. For works by F.E. Townsend & Son, see entry for Francis Edward Townsend.
References
Information in this entry not otherwise accounted for is from the English censuses of 1881 and 1891, the 1911 census of Ireland, http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/ (last visited Oct 2009), ICEI membership applications, IV, 2, ICEI membership lists and Thom's directories.
(1) IB 58, 25 Mar 1916, 143.
(2) IB IB 70, 27 Oct 1928, 924.
(3) See Works and IB 81, 10 Jun 1939, 504; 82, 22 Jun 1940, 419.
(4) TICEI 69 (1942-43), ?.
(5) TICEI 33 (1905-1907), ?.
(6) IB 55, 10 May 1913, 320;56, 17 Jan 1914, 48.
(7) IB 76, 28 Jul 1934, 642.
21 work entries listed in chronological order for TOWNSEND, FRANCIS GERALD
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| Building: | CO. DONEGAL, DONEGAL, INFIRMARY? |
| Date: | 1908 |
| Nature: | Open-air shelters for consumptive patients. |
| Refs: | IB 50, 28 Nov 1908, 737 |
| Building: | CO. DONEGAL, DONEGAL, MASONIC HALL |
| Date: | 1911 |
| Nature: | Extensive adds. & alts. |
| Refs: | IA & C 1, 29 Apr 1911, 186; IB 53, 13 May 1911, 326 |
| Building: | CO. DONEGAL, DONEGAL, TYRCONNELL STREET, SHOP & HOUSE |
| Date: | 1911 |
| Nature: | Tenders invited for erection of shop & house. |
| Refs: | IA & C 1, 22 Apr 1911, 172 |
| Building: | CO. DONEGAL, DONEGAL, CASTLE STREET, HOUSES (002) |
| Date: | 1911 |
| Nature: | 2 semi-detached villas. |
| Refs: | IA & C 1, 8 Apr 1911, 144 |
| Building: | CO. DONEGAL, GLENTIES, CHURCH (CI) |
| Date: | 1911 |
| Nature: | Tenders invited for carrying out alts. to church of 1860ca. |
| Refs: | IB 53, 16 Sep 1911, 630 |
| Building: | CO. LEITRIM, MANORHAMILTON, HOUSE |
| Date: | 1912 |
| Nature: | Tenders invited for erecting villa. |
| Refs: | IB 54, 16 Mar 1912, 172 |
| Building: | CO. CAVAN, COOTEHILL, HOUSES |
| Date: | 1917 |
| Nature: | 'Mr Townsend CE' appointed architect for labourers' cottage scheme by Cootehill No. 2 RDC. |
| Refs: | IB 59, 17 May 1917, 135 |
| Building: | CO. FERMANAGH, DERRYLIN, MAIN STREET, NO. 130, CALLOWHILL MASONIC HALL (FORMER COURT HOUSE) |
| Date: | 1923-24 |
| Nature: | Tenders invited for restoration (after fire of 18 Jun 1920), Apr 1923. Archts: 'F.E. Townsend & Son'. Contractor: Bloomfield (Brookeborough). |
| Refs: |
Irish Times, 5 Apr 1923; B 124, 6 Apr 1923, 584; History - Provincial Grand Lodge of Tyrone & Fermanagh, http://www.pgltandf.org.uk/historys/453hist.html (last visited, Nov 2018); Callowhill Masonic Lodge 1767-2017, https://www.irish-freemasonry.org.uk/CallowhillBooklet.pdf (last visited, Nov 1018). |
| Building: | CO. FERMANAGH, LACK, PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOL |
| Date: | 1934 |
| Nature: | Alts., new heating system, for Fermanagh Regional Education Committee. Tender of F.H. Brown, Enniskillen for alts.(£1,205) accepted, Jun 1934. |
| Refs: | IB 76, 19 May,30 Jun 1934, 438,560; Irish Times, 9 Jun 1934. |
| Building: | CO. FERMANAGH, ENNISKILLEN, CELTIC PARK, HOUSES |
| Date: | 1934 |
| Nature: | Land purchased by J.N. Carson, JP, Killyreagh, for erecting 20 detached villas, 1932. Tenders invited, 1934, for erecting 6,12 or 18 houses on ?same. (1932 and 1934 refs. may be to different pieces of land. FGT lived at No. 1 Celtic Park from circa 1936.). |
| Refs: | IB 74, 19 Nov 1932, 1057; 76, 16 Jun,28 Jul 1934, 518,642 |
| Building: | CO. FERMANAGH, FLORENCECOURT, HOUSES (002) |
| Date: | 1934 |
| Nature: | Tenders invited for building same. |
| Refs: | IB 76, 19 May 1934, 438 |
| Building: | CO. FERMANAGH, ENNISKILLEN, DUBLIN ROAD, DISTRICT MODEL SCHOOL |
| Date: | 1934-1935 |
| Nature: | Remodelled, with adds.(6 new classrooms, staff room, principal's office), by FGT. Reopened 27 Jun 1935. Cost: £4,000. Contractor: John Bloomfield, Brookborough. |
| Refs: | IB 76, 7,21 Apr 1934, 291,354; Hugh Dixon, Historic Buildings …in the town of Enniskillen (UAHS, 1973), 37; EMS 1867-1967, 39 (copy in IAA, RP.D.288.7). |
| Building: | CO. FERMANAGH, IRVINESTOWN, SEWERAGE |
| Date: | 1937 |
| Nature: | Tenders invited for construction of sewerage scheme. |
| Refs: | IB 79, 1 May 1937, 406 |
| Building: | CO. FERMANAGH, LISBELLAW, SEWERAGE |
| Date: | 1937 |
| Nature: | Tenders invited for laying of sewerage. |
| Refs: | IB 79, 27 Nov 1937, 1058 |
| Building: | CO. FERMANAGH, ENNISKILLEN, HOUSES |
| Date: | 1937 |
| Nature: | Housing scheme (for Enniskillen UDC?.) |
| Refs: | IB 79, 24 Jul 1937, 673 |
| Building: | CO. FERMANAGH, DERRYHARNEY, PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOL |
| Date: | 1938 |
| Nature: | Extension. |
| Refs: | IB 80, 5 Mar 1938, 198 |
| Building: | CO. FERMANAGH, DERRYGONNELLY, WATER SUPPLY |
| Date: | 1938 |
| Nature: | Improvements. |
| Refs: | IB 80, 15 Oct 1938, 874 |
| Building: | CO. FERMANAGH, ENNISKILLEN, COUNTESS OF ERNE PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOL |
| Date: | 1939 |
| Nature: | Repairs. |
| Refs: | IB 81, 28 Oct 1939, 904 |
| Building: | CO. FERMANAGH, BELCOO, SEWERAGE |
| Date: | 1939 |
| Nature: | Tenders invited for laying sewers. |
| Refs: | IB 81, 30 Sep 1939, 834 |
| Building: | CO. FERMANAGH, LISBELLAW, WATER SUPPLY |
| Date: | 1941 |
| Nature: | New. |
| Refs: | IB 83, 4 Jan 1941, 18 |
| Building: | CO. FERMANAGH, TEMPO, WATER SUPPLY |
| Date: | 1941 |
| Nature: | New water scheme. |
| Refs: | IB 83, 12 Apr 1941, 196 |