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ANDREWS FAMILY TREE

 

.1 Thomas Andrews                                                                .[ flax spinner]                                                                          ..= Eliza Pirrie                                                                       .[a sister of Viscount Pirrie, chairman of Harland and Wolff.]

.[four sons and one daughter]

..2 John Miller Andrews, CH, PC (Ire) (17 July 1871 Comber, ..County Down, Ireland – 5 August 1956)                                  ..[the second Prime Minister of Northern Ireland.]                        ..[He was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution. In business, Andrews was a landowner, a director of his family linen-bleaching company and of the Belfast Ropeworks.]

..= In 1902 he married Jessie (died 1950), eldest daughter of Bolton stockbroker Joseph Ormrod at ..Rivington Unitarian Chapel, Rivington, near Chorley, Lancashire, England.                              ..They had one son and two daughters.

..2 Thomas Andrews, who died in the 1912 sinking of the RMS Titanic, was managing director of the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast                                                                               ..2 Sir James Andrews, 1st Baronet, was Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland.                                                                 ..= married Jessie Ormrod's sister.

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