Eileen Carroll

Eileen Irwin (née Carroll; 25th April 1930 - 25th Dec 2007) was an Irishwoman, and the daughter of Thomas Carroll and Hannah Ivis, she was the sister of twelve siblings, she married David Irwin, and was the mother of Catherine, Thomas, Nora, Charles and Bernadette. She died in Bristol, in 2007.

Biography

Irwin was born in Cork, Ireland, one of thirteen children born to Thomas Carroll and Hannah Ivis, she had two older sisters named Molly (real name Mary) and Anne (real name Hannah), she also had ten brothers. At the age of 17, she gave birth to a daughter named Catherine Carroll, who was the result of an affair with John Bulman. She married David Irwin, in Cork, in 1954, together they had two children named Thomas and Nora, both born in Cork, she and David then moved to Swindon, England, along with their children, and had a third child named Charles, born in Wiltshire. In 1964, her daughter Catherine came to live with her and David in Swindon, leading to the affair between David and Catherine, which resulted in the births of two children named Peter and Elizabeth. Sometime during the 1960s, Irwin and her family moved to Bristol, where her's and David's fourth and final child Bernadette was born. She and David separated sometime in the 1970s, before he went to live back in Ireland, with his brother.