Weir Family Tree
Family Tree of Irvine, Harry & Edith "Edie" Weir, et al
Dublin, Ireland

Parents:

Father: William Caldwell Weir (1848-1931)
Mother: Susan (Tinkler) Weir (1852-1923)
Married March 1873
See Photo taken 2 years after marriage
Home: 21 Upper Baggot Street, Dublin, Ireland
1901 Irish census shows Weirs were Methodist.

Children: Reportedly, there were 11 Weir children, 10 survived.

1873: William Frederick Weir (born Dec. 2, 1873, Rathfarnham, Dublin, Ireland). Was not a 2x2.
Went into business with father in 1900. Died in 1956.
Married Grace Lillian Hunt (1880-1917) in 1911.
[NOTE: This is NOT the Wm. Weir listed on the 1905 workers list who was from Scotland and Overseer of Sweden.]

1875: Susan Elizabeth Weir (born July 20, 1875, Dublin; died Sept 13, 1959). In 1908, married Samuel Delmedge Douglas Trimble (born Sep. 9, 1857, Enniskillen; died April 1, 1947 Armagh); Susan was his second wife. Three children, Edith Nestie Stewart (1910-2003); Letty (1913-1913), Lionel Irvine Trimble (1915-1918).

1876: Rebecca Edith (Edie) Weir (born Nov. 4, 1876 on Beechward Ave, Dublin. Died Feb 21, 1959 in Ireland). She went in the work in 1905 and is listed on the 1905 Workers List. In 1911, age 34, she went to California to preach. She and her brother Irvine can be traced through 1912 in the "When the gospel came…" to California accounts. Reportedly Edie left the work due to bad health and returned to her home in Dublin; never married; and lived above shop on Baggot Street til her death in 1958. The FIRST Sunday meeting in Dublin was held over Weir's Store on Baggot Street and remained there until Edie died in 1959. The store is still in operation and is still called Weirs. See Photo in TTT Photo Gallery. (Scroll to right for more photos)

1878: James Irvine Weir (born September 7, 1878 in County Dublin, Ireland). Died October 18, 1957 (fell off a ladder) in Boston and is buried in North Weymouth, Massachusetts. Was in the work 1900–1918, which included time in California, Ontario, and Kentucky. He is listed on 1905 Workers list. He was friends with Carrolls, who invited him from Dublin to Nenagh to hear Wm. Irvine. Went on 1899 bicycle trip (see photo). He was one of the first three workers to come to America in 1903, the other two being Geo. Walker and Wm. Irvine. Irvine Weir was the first worker to go to California. He was put out of the work by George Walker. He married Mary Elizabeth Lillian Reid (1894-1985) on Jan. 16, 1921, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US; they had 3 children, Geroge Irvine, Kathleen Winifred and William Judson.

1880: Walter Caldwell Weir (born July 26,1880 in Rathmines, Dublin; died Feb. 4, 1974 in Santa Cruz, CA.) On Dec. 5, 1927, he married widow Rose Ann (Mackman) Jackson in Berkeley, California (1888-1989, aged 101). They professed. She had two daughters by her previous marriage.

1882: Harry Cecil Weir (born Dec 25, 1882; died Jan 23, 1964 in Alameda Co., CA). See photo of grave. Harry was a companion of John Long in July 1901, per Long's Journal. Harry married (1908) Agnes (Aggie) Josephine Carroll (1882-1940), sister of Bill, Jack, Fannie & May Carroll. See photo of grave. Harry & Agnes came to America in 1911. They were both 28 yrs old when they arrived. (See Ellis Island records; Agnes brought infant Gladys with her) They had 4 children: Gladys, born Dec. 18, 1909 in Dublin who went in the work in 1940 in California, died Dec. 22, 2005; Primrose, born May 28, 1913, who went in the work in 1947 in California, died June, 2004. Son Bill married Joanne, never professed, had one daughter; and Edith/Edie married Norman Leen,both professed, had 3 children. After Agnes' death (May 20, 1940), Harry remarried Ethel Mabel Waite (1903-1968), and they had one child, a daughter, Jean.

1884: Arthur Matchett Weir (born Dec 14, 1884; died Sept 26, 1885) Dublin, Ireland

1886: Gerald Weir (born October 15, 1886 in Dublin - died October 31, 1946, Weymouth, Massachusetts). Married Eva Estelle Stewart (1885-1961). Imigrated to USA. Were not 2x2s.

1889: Emma Kathleen Weir (born September 21, 1888 in Dublin - died Sept. 1981 in Yeovil, Somerset, England)
Married Oswald Mortimer Telfer Clarke (1888-1972). She professed after being widowed.

Dublin : This information is contained on the Weirs Store brochure:

"For over one hundred years Weirs has served the people of Dublin. The present-day product range far exceeds the original ironmongery and sanitary ware with which Wm. Weir opened for business in 1885…At three thousand square feet, Weirs of Baggot Street is amongst the largest hardware stores in the country…Weirs is still in the same Georgan building in which William Weir opened for business. In 1900 William Weir was joined by his son, William to form William Weir & Son…in 1956 Wm. Weir Jnr. Died and the shop was closed…In 1977 , the premises were purchased by Curust Industries Ltd and reopened as "Weirs o Baggot Street. The opening ceremony was performed by Mrs. Catherine Weir, widow of Wm. Weir. The façade was newly restored in 1998 to its original appearance and represents with its elegant hand-made russet-red bricks the last flowering of the Georgian style for which Dublin is world-renowned "

1791 Richard Lord, Viscount Fitzwilliam, grants building lease to Thomas Carroll Esq.
1885 Mr. William Weir opened as 'William Weir, Ironmonger and Sanitary Engineer'.
1900 William Weir joined by his son, William, to form 'William Weir & Son'.
1956 William Weir Jnr. died. Shop closed.

See Store Photo