Ellen Jennings [1834-1870], North Street, Newry, County Down

Ellen was the second daughter of Andrew Jennings [1793-1869], North Street, Newry, County Down and his wife Mary Anne Clarke daughter of Edward Clarke. She was baptised in Newry two weeks after her cousin Ellen Jennings daughter of Charles and Sophia.

2 March 1834 Ellen of Andrew Jennings and Marianne Clarke sps. John O'Callaghan and Elizabeth Markey. £0.10.0.[1]

She died at 2 St Paul’s Terrace, Goldsmith Street, Phibsborough, Dublin on the 14^th of September 1870. She was 36 years old.

Jennings, Sept. 14 at 2 St Paul’s Terrace, Goldsmith Street, Dublin, Ellen, second daughter of the late Andrew Jennings, distributor of stamps, Newry.[2]

Her brother Charles Clarke Jennings died three months later on the 15^th of December at the same address.

Ellen is buried in Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin[3] together with Anty Markey from Sea Point, Drogheda, who died in 1832. Elizabeth Markey had been Ellen’s baptismal sponsor. Anty [Anthony] Markey had married Ellen's aunt Martha Clarke in 1817 in Newry.

The grave is close to the gate into the Botanic Gardens and is one of the earliest graves in the cemetery which opened in February 1832.

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[1]   NLI Pos 5502 Baptism Register Newry.

[2]  The Evening Freeman, 15 September 1870

[3]  Glasnevin Cemetery S 63 Garden