Author: MacCarthy, George
Biography:
MACCARTHY, George (1795-1882: ancestry.com)
He was baptised George David Richard MacCarthy on 14 Jul. 1795 at St. Andrew, Halstead, Essex, son of George MacCarthy and Charlotte (Jones) MacCarthy, who had married at St. Pancras, London, on 14 Jul. 1794. By 1816 when he published the subscription edition of his poem celebrating the Sunday-School movement, he was a surgeon practicing in Halstead. Among the subscribers are two army officers, Capt. E. MacCarthy and Lt. E. D. MacCarthy who do not appear to have been his brothers but might have been uncles or cousins. On 23 June 1826 he married Elizabeth Shuffrey at Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire. They were probably Methodists: they named their first son George Wesley MacCarthy and registered him and at least one other child (of at least four born to them) as non-conformists. MacCarthy moved his practice to Wrockwardine Wood, Shropshire, where the names of family members are recorded in the censuses of 1841, 1851, and 1861. His wife must have died shortly afterwards, for he married again on 4 Mar. 1862. His second wife was Elizabeth Moore (b c. 1813) and she appears in the 1871 Census, but by 1881 he was again a widower, living with his daughter Elizabeth Hyde and her family in Handsworth, Staffordshire, where he died in Dec. 1882. No other publications are associated with him. (ancestry.com 3 Feb. 2023; findmypast.com 3 Feb. 2023)
Other Names:
- George MacCarthy, Jr.