When Edward Telford was born on 6 April 1886, in County Longford, Ireland, his father, Robert Shaw Telford, was 38 and his mother, Sarah Elleanor Notley, was 18. He died on 3 August 1958, in Clonskeagh, Donnybrook, County Dublin, Ireland, at the age of 72.
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Irish War of Independence against Britain ending in the Anglo Irish Treaty.
In the Government of Ireland Act 1920, Ireland was partitioned, with the unionist-dominated north east becoming Northern Ireland.
De Valera founds the new Fianna Fail party.
English (northern): not, as its form would imply, a habitational name, even though there is a place in Shropshire so called, but a variant of Telfer , assimilated to the pattern of habitational names in -ford. The Shropshire place is a new town, named after the celebrated Scottish civil engineer Thomas Telford (1757–1834).
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