She married
Symon Biddulph on the 8th of September 1821 in the church at
Killaghey, now known as Killoughy. Symon was the son of Sir Theophilus
Biddulph, Bt., and a member of the 25th Regiment. He died young in 1823.
Death: Died Friday
se'nnight, at the house of his aunts, the Misses Biddulph, where he was visit
for his health, Captain Simon Biddulph, of the 25th regiment, the 30th year of
his age.[1]
Anne
married again, four years later, in 1827. Her second husband was James Moilse,
a solicitor, of 23 North Frederick
Street, Dublin.
Their
daughter, Susan Elizabeth Moilse was born at 23 North Frederick Street, Dublin, on the 14th January 1830, but not baptised
until 1832. There is a note in the church register where her father James is
recorded as deceased.[2]
Known as Elizabeth, she married
Thomas Wilkinson, M.D., of Clonaslee, Queen’s County, on the 16th
July 1863.[3]
1863 21 July: Dr Wilkinson & Elizabeth Moilse. At St. Peter’s Church Dublin Dr Wilkinson, of
Clonaslee to Elizabeth daughter of the late James Moilse, Esq., solicitor,
North Frederick Street, Dublin. [4]
They had five children.
Anne and James Moilse may have had
another daughter, Charlotte Frances Moilse.
She died in Kingstown, County Dublin,
in 1887, naming Elizabeth Wilkinson as the executor of her will.
After the death of James Moilse,
Anne married a third time, Robert Frederick Graham, in the parish of St.
Mary’s, Dublin,
on the 8th of December 1835.[5]
Anne’s sister, Elizabeth, is
buried in Deansgrange Cemetery, County
Dublin. On her gravestone
Elizabeth is
remembered as the eldest daughter of Francis Biddulph.
Sacred to the Memory
of Elizabeth Biddulph eldest daughter of Francis Harrison Biddulph, Esq., of
Rathrobbin, King's Co., late Registrar of the Court of Equity Exchequer in
Ireland.
But it was Anne who was the eldest
daughter. Like many of her younger siblings who emigrated to England, America
and Australia,
she was forgotten.
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