Ancestry of
Erskine Childers

4th President of Ireland

(Robert) Erskine Childers

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• • Father of Erskine Childers — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2 
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  • Birth Date:
  • 25 Jun 1870 
  • Birth Location:
  • Mayfair, London, England 
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  • Death Date:
  • 24 Nov 1922 
  • Death Location:
  • Beggars Bush, Dublin, Ireland 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Alden Osgood
  • Marriage Date:
  • 5 Jan 1904 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Trinity Church, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Erskine Hamilton Childers (Ahnentafel No:1 )

  • Notes: 

  • Author of The Riddle of the Sands

    Erskine Childers was an Irish nationalist who smuggled guns to Ireland in his yacht during the Irish Civil War. He was executed for possession of a fire arm.

• Sources for (Robert) Erskine Childers

  • ¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 94.
  • ² Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 23.
  • ³ Wikipedia, "Robert Erskine Childers", (accessed 10/23/2015).