Caesar was a Paperstainer (wall paper printer) by trade , and Church of Ireland. There is an early reference to his business with an advertisement in the Cork Evening Post dated 30th April 1773. In 1787 he lived and operated his business on Castle Street (Lucas's Cork Directory). The business survived in Cork until the mid-19th century run by family members , likely a son or sons , until new mechanical methods of wall paper printing ended the old traditional wood block hand printing method. There were at least two generations of Fanning family in Cork bearing the unusual first name "Caesar" , with various different spellings. Caesar senior most likely had other sons but the one recorded in Burke's Landed Gentry (18th edition , vol 3 , 1972) is William (1785-1859) who emigrated to England within a few years of graduation from Trinity College , Dublin in 1807 and where he spent the rest of life. William is my three great grandfather. My main research interest is to try to establish either way the claimed brother relationship between Caesar and American born General Edmund Fanning (1739-1818) , colonial administrator. Evidence of Caesar's parents has so far drawn a compete blank.
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| Date of Birth | 1st Jan 1748 (circa) | |