Ernest Shackleton's Family
The Shackleton family originally came from Yorkshire. Abraham Shackleton, who was the father of the family, was a Quaker who moved to Ireland in the early eighteenth century and started school at Ballytore, near Dublin.
Henry Shackleton, Earnest's father, was Abraham's direct descendant in the fourth generation. He was brought up an Anglican, not a Quaker, of the first generation apostates. He tried to enter the army but sickness stopped him, and he became a farmer instead.
Ernest Shackleton shared his birthday, Febuary 15,1874, with Galileo Galilei Ernest was the second child and elder son of a family that eventually numbered two brothers and eight sisters. Numbers, however, did not mean distress.There was always enough to eat and a comfortable home.
Shackleton's mother, Henrietta Letitia Sophia Gavan with Anglo-Irish lineage married Henry in 1872. It was said that she knew how to manage her husband and children, giving them a secure and happy home, wherever that might happen to be.
Henry Shackleton, Earnest's father, was Abraham's direct descendant in the fourth generation. He was brought up an Anglican, not a Quaker, of the first generation apostates. He tried to enter the army but sickness stopped him, and he became a farmer instead.
Ernest Shackleton shared his birthday, Febuary 15,1874, with Galileo Galilei Ernest was the second child and elder son of a family that eventually numbered two brothers and eight sisters. Numbers, however, did not mean distress.There was always enough to eat and a comfortable home.
Shackleton's mother, Henrietta Letitia Sophia Gavan with Anglo-Irish lineage married Henry in 1872. It was said that she knew how to manage her husband and children, giving them a secure and happy home, wherever that might happen to be.
