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It was Friday, October 14th, 1892, and the schooner Mersey was in danger of breaking up alongside the jetty she was moored to as the storm rose, and
At some point, he returned to Ireland. (Possibly this was the voyage: passenger records for the Prince of Wales sailing from Calcutta in 1852 list a ‘Mrs. McEntagart and two children’ bound for London – the children being John George and
John George married twice; firstly to Esther Jones of Conway in
Erected | by J. G. McENTAGART | Empire Restaurant | “Asleep until Christ comes”
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t was one of the greatest tragedies Greystones has ever witness, the loss of 
three lives, as the Doyle brothers drowned in a storm here in 1892.
so owner John McEntagart decided to drive her on to the beach.
John George McEntagart was born in Kolkata (Calcutta), India on July 18 1847, the first child of Henry McEntagart and Rebecca Browne, both of Dublin. Henry was a sergeant in the East India Company Army.
Elizabeth. A death notice dated March 13 1851 for ‘Sergeant McEntaggart’ at Meerut – Henry and Rebecca’s second child Caroline Mary was born and died in Meerut in 1848 – and a burial certificate confirms this to be Henry, aged 35 years. So Rebecca returned to Ireland a young widow with two small children. )
North Wales; and secondly to Sarah Montgomery Gilmore from Belfast.
For a time he ran a grocery and coal business in what is now the Beach House in Greystones Harbour. He owned the Mersey which, while trying to beach her in a storm in 1892, the three Doyles were drowned. McEntagart had tried unsuccessfully to pull one of the Doyles out of the water. In the early 1900s the business was taken over by William H. Dann.
