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He worked as a clerk for Lawrence Murphy, and by 1874 the two men were business partners in a mercantile and banking operation. The venture was highly successful and profitable, mainly due to there being no other competition.
Dolan was known as a hot-tempered man. In May 1873, Dolan attempted to shoot US CavalryCaptain James Randlett at Fort Stanton, resulting in "L. G. Murphy & Co." being evicted from the fort. On May 9, 1877, Dolan killed Hilario Jaramillo, claiming that the latter had charged him with a knife. George Peppin, a recent friend, later married Jaramillo's widow, and many suspected that the two had planned the killing of her late husband.
US LINCON JAMES1848, Born in Clonfort, Ireland, on April 22,
John Dolan and Martha Feron
John Dolan was born in Southern Ireland around 1835. Few facts are known about him and it is very clear that he left his home country and went to Cumberland in North West England to find work.
.John met and married Martha Feron before 1857 in Brampton, Cumberland and they subsequently had nine children. These are listed on the family tree from left to right (note: still in production) in age starting with Sarah and ending with Michael.
Sarah (b 1857)
Martin (b 1860)
Mary
John (b1865)
William
James (b 1870)
Thomas (b 1872)
Catherine (Kate) (b1875)-CUMBERLAND BC CANADA
Michael (b 1876)
Census information shows a John Dolan (of Irish birth)in a boarding house in Crosscanonby in Cumberland in 1861 this may or may not be the same person as our relative was married and living 50 miles away by 1857
ONE OF nine children.
John Dolan spent a lot of time horse dealing and inevitably this was done in public houses. On 2 May 1909 he left home in a pony and trap to do some trading and it is presumed he had crossed the river Tyne between Clara Vale and Wylam and gone further afield. What was known was that he left home with a large amount of cash in his pocket, as all deals were done in cash.
He never returned. The police were informed and no doubt foul play was suspected when the pony pulling the trap returned home - without John Dolan. Apparently he was well known in the Wylam pubs for his ability to “sponge” a pint or two through his Irish gift of the Blarney.After his disappearance (Lavina’s account to son Clive), a Gypsy woman called at the house (24 South View, Clara Vale) to tell Mary Dolan that her husband had been drowned and his back was all bruised from boot marks. Also there was no money in his pockets, no rings on his finger and no watch or chain in his waistcoat pockets.
She also said that his body would be found at the dockside in Newcastle. Martha’s account to daughter Mary said that the Gypsy woman appeared after he had been found confirming what had happened.
DOLANS UK The most famous part of John Dolan’s life was in fact his death! Some of his family knew the details but they were certainly not freely discussed. Information was only passed on with deep discretion to a selected few. Lavina and Martha knew the details and passed them on to myself and Mary Smith (Martha’s daughter).
The Gypsy’s predictions were correct. John Dolan’s battered body was found on the quayside in Newcastle minus any money, rings or watch and chain on 16 May 1909. He was buried in May 30, 1909 at Greenside.
The police never solved the mystery so his murderer went free. It was presumed that he fell from his trap (under the influence of too much drink) when the pony negotiated the ford across the Tyne on his way back to Clara Vale. Presumably that’s what the criminals wanted the police to think.
The family doubtless received embarrassing publicity over the event and especially the part “the drink” was presumed to have played in the story. And this latter point no doubt strengthened their eternal hate and suspicion of the bottle. This was the reason no doubt why so few of the family members were subsequently told of the event.
John being Irish was a staunch Catholic but Martha was an equally staunch Anglican. As was the practice, the children were all brought up as Catholics and John was buried a Catholic in Cumberland (date unknown).
John Dolan’s occupation was described on his son’s James’ birth certificate as a “hawker” and they lived at Bewcastle in Cumberland, in North West England.
It appears that all the children were brought up in Cumberland and as they married and had their own children, they moved to find work on Tyneside in the newly and rapidly-developing Clara Vale coal mines at Crawcrook, about 20 miles west of Newcastle upon Tyne. Some left Britain for foreign shores. This was probably between 1880-1893.
. Dolan died there of a cerebral hemorrhage on Febraury 26, 1898, and was buried at his Spring Ranch in the Fritz family plot In 1888, widower Dolan remarried. The Lincoln wedding seemed a matter of convenience; it was to his children's longtime nurse, Maria Eva Whitlock. They had no children. By the time of his second marriage, he had already acquired Tunstall's old ranch on the Rio Feliz, where he built a home in 1894. Dolan died there of a cerebral hemorrhage on Febraury 26, 1898, and was buried at his Spring Ranch in the Fritz family plot.[p-7 -*f
The 1901 census shows a household led by John Dolan (aged 66) and Martha (aged 65) living in the Crawcrook parish, with Bewcastle born sons Thomas and Michael, plus a Martha Ann Dolan (all in their early 20's) at home the evening the census-taker called.
John Dolan was a smart dapper little man. His “cantankerous” ways were well know in Clara Vale and he had a running hate campaign with the children who used to call him “Old Dolan” so he would chase them.
Like many a Geordie pitman, he preferred the pub to the pit, and true to pitman custom, the day his eldest son was old enough to go down the pit, he came up. Here was Isaac’s role as the fist to go underground to earn money, as John Dolan spent time “on the sick” as far as the official record went.
Once free from the drudgery of the pit, he could concentrate on the inherent skills of all Irishmen of “dealing”, especially in horses. He clearly passed these skills on to his son John who became a noted horse dealer.
He was remembered in Clara Vale for sitting on the doorstep watching the world go by – and no doubt planning his next good deal. The doorstep would be a better place than indoors which would be full of bairns, womenfolk and their problems m- many of which would have been created by him!