Patrick Mortimer
Patrick Mortimer was born in Glasnevin on 28 March 1870. His father was Joseph, a carpenter, and his mother Mary Anne, née Conneely. [No Joseph and Mary jokes please.] The Mortimer family are thought to be originally from Yorkshire.
On 21 August 1901 he married Sarah Burgess and they lived for about two years on the southside where two of their four children were born. They then moved to the northside, to a newly constructed Dublin Artisans Dwelling Company estate (Mount Temple Road) where the remaining two children were born. They subsequently moved to Birr, Co. Offaly ( then King's County ) where Patrick managed a grocery and provisions store (possibly a branch of Lipton's). By 1916 they had returned to Dublin.
The two lads, Joe the eldest child and Pat the youngest, went into the civil service. The second eldest, Mary Anne, died of TB at 16 years of age, and the third eldest was Sarah Esther, Póló's mother.
Patrick was described in official certificates as a commercial traveller at the time of his marriage and then variously as a salesman and shop assistant. He returned himself as a grocery and provisions manager in the 1911 census.
He went missing in June 1918 and a week later was found drowned in the Liffey at Eden Quay. At that stage he was a canteen assistant in Richmond Military Barracks.