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Inspector PerryJames Perry would have moved to Dublin around 1875, when he joined the Dublin Metropolitan Police. His personel records say that he was 5 feet 9 and a farmer by trade. He was appointed at the Phoenix Park depot on the north side of Dublin. he joined the Dublin Metropolitan Police. His official records say that he was recommended to the force by Sir E O'Loughlin, an MP in his native Clare. Although his records state that he was born in 1855, it is thought that he lied about his age in order to get around age restrictions on joining the police force.

James was promoted to Sergeant in 1880, Station Sergeant in 1884 and Inspector in 1890. He had a succesful career in the police force and was coach of the world championship DMP tug of war team. In 1880 he had married Sarah Caffery, the daughter of Edward and Catherine (nee Broughall) Caffrey in her native parish of Monasterevin, county Kildare. They probably met through Sarah's brother-in-law, John O'Toole, who was also a member of the police force. The couple lived in Dublin and had the following children:

James became ill in 1899 and went to stay with his wife's family in Monasteriven, in the hope that the country air would do him good. He never recovered and died there in August of the same year, at the age of 55. His wife, Sarah died shortly afterwards, leaving their young children orphans. Their daughters moved to Kildare to live with their aunts and the sons were sent to orphanages in Glasnevin and Marino, Dublin. James and Sarah are buried in an unmarked grave in Glasnevin Cemetery along with 2 of their children.

Read James Perry's obituariesSee illuminated address presented to James Perry, 1899
James and Sarah's children and grandchildren

Mary Josephine Perry

Mary Josephine Perry was born 24 May 1884 at 7 Curzon Street, Dublin. She was married to Jack Moore and died 28 May 1928 at 20 Rathdown Road, Dublin.

Kathleen Margaret Perry

Kathleen Margaret Perry was born 2 July 1885 at 31 Curzon Street, Dublin. She never married and died on the 23rd December 1954 at the Incurables Hospital in Dublin.

James Joseph Perry

James Joseph Perry was born 19 November 1886 at 5 Curzon Street, Dublin. He died on 13 April 1927 at Newcastle Hospital, County Wicklow.

Edward Perry

Edward Perry was born 22 January 1888 at 7 Curzon Street, Dublin. He died at the young age of 18 on 14 December 1906 in Harold's Cross, Dublin.

Francis Peter Perry

Francis Peter Perry was born 12 June 1889at 7 Curzon Street, Dublin. He married Eileen Agnes Buckley of Donaghmore, County Cork in 1918. He emigrated to America, where their four children were born. Francis died in 1973 and Eileen in 1980.

Elizabeth Perry

Elizabeth Perry was born 14 October 1890, although her birth certificate has not been located. She married Rudolf Lutchen in Monasterevin in 1913. They had two children: Rudoplh and Percy and are thought to have lived in Manchester, England.

Joseph William Perry

Joseph William Perry was born 29 April 1892 at 148 Belfield Terrace, Rathmines, Dublin. He died in November 1924 and is buried with hs parents in Glasnevin Cemetery.

Patrick John Perry

Sullivan Street, DublinPatrick John Perry was born 13 November 1893 in Dublin. He was sent to the Christian Brothers Orphanage in Glasnevin after the death of his father. In 1923, he married Mary Tobin, the Dublin born daughter of a Wexford couple, and they spent the first few years of their married life living with her parents on Sullivan Street on the north side of Dublin. Mary had been born on Sullivan Street herself and their first child, Gerard James was born there on 20 January 1924. The next child, Dorris, was born in 1927, but sadly died at the age of two years, following a fire. Five more children followed, two boys and three girls, four of whom emigrated to Canada. The oldest surviving daughter still lives in Dublin today. Gerard James Perry left home at the age of 17 to travel to Belfast to join the British Army during the Second World War. Although he was not old enough, he lied about his age in order to join the Parachute Regiment. In 1944, he was captured at Arnhem and spent his 21st birthday in the Belsen-Bergen prisoner of war camp. After the war had finished, he settled in Grantham, Lincolnshire, where he and his wife produced 14 children, 30 grandchildren and (so far) 10 great grandchildren. Gerard James Perry died in 1994.

Michael Christopher Perry

Michael Christopher Perry was born in December 1895 and only lived to be three weeks old. He is buried with his parents in Glasnevin Cemetery.

Sarah Frances Perry

Sarah Frances Perry was born 15 Janaury 1899. She never married and died in Alphington, Victoria, Australia in 1988.

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