John CURRAN

  Noted events in his life were:

• Census, 1891, Cardiff, Glamorganshire. 4 Godfrey Street with widowed mother

• Census, 1901, Cardiff, Glamorganshire. Mason apprentice lodging at16 David St with James and Ellen O'Brien his sister and her husband also his brothers Edward and Eugene

• Census, 1911, LlandeiloTalybont, Glamorganshire. Digby Villas Pontadulais visiting Alfred and Alice Palfrey with his wife Nora. They have been married less than 1 year and have no children he is working as a bricklayer at a new tinplate works

• Census, 1921, Cardiff, Glamorganshire. 22 Sandringham Road
John Curran head 35y 3m married works manager Curran Bros Hurman St cardiff
Nora Curran wife 35y.3m Newport Monmouthshire

Catherine W. Hafrin servant 20y 6m single Merthyr Glamorganshire general servant

• Census, 1939, Cardiff, Glamorganshire. 115 Penylan Road engineering works director?? with wife Nora and servant

• Probate, 1951, Cardiff, Glamorganshire. John Curran of Tig Eoin 115 Penylan Road Cardiff died 4 February 1950 Probate LLandaff 5 January to Nora Curran widow Effects £2,7484,8 14s 2d

• Biography: Cardiff, Glamorganshire. Awarded the CBE in 1943 'in recognition of his services in armaments production'. Joined Curran Brothers in 1908. Director of Edward Curran & Company Ltd. 1927. Managing Director of the Edward Curran Companies in 1937 and Chairman in 1940. He was instrumental in streamlining production processes in the hollow-ware and later in the munitions factories where he employed continuous production lines in place of the batch process.
During the second world war the factories turned out the following quantities of product. 248,450 tons of cartridge case brass; 66,215,286 brass blanks for cartridge cases; 54,857,940 large calibre brass cases; 2,972,566 steel incendiary bomb cases; 4,313,800 Hispano projectiles for fighter aircraft cannon; 15,000 jigs, tools and templates; 598 anti-mine flails for Sherman tanks; 1,314,413 tank track links; .........loads of other stuff and 26,500,000 pieces of enameled ware. (Source : The War Effort at the Curran Works.)
Friday 1st January 1943. Western Mail. New year's Honours List C.B.E.
Mr. John Curran, a native of Cardiff and youngest of seven sons of the late Mr. Charles Curran, who was civil engineer with the old Bute Dock Company, has been the pivot of all activities of the Curran enterprises in Cardiff since the death in 1937 of his brother. Mr. Edward Curran, who founded the business in 1904.

John married Nora MAHONEY in 1910 in Newport, Monmouthshire. (Nora MAHONEY was born on 16 Mar 1886 in Newport, Monmouthshire and died in Cardiff, Glamorganshire.)