Mary
Catherine was the eldest 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.
1826 July 22nd. Mary Catherine Jennings of
Andrew and M. Anne. S. Peter Jennings and Eleanor Clarke.[1]
Her
baptismal sponsors were likely to have been an uncle, Peter Jennings, brother
of her father Andrew, and an aunt, Eleanor Clarke, sister of her mother Mary
Anne Clarke.
Mary
Catherine died aged 38 in Dublin
in 1864, presumably at 35
Goldsmith Street.
Deaths Jennings August 19, at Phibsboro’,
Dublin, Mary Catherine, eldest daughter of Andrew Jennings Esq., Newry.[2]
She is
buried at Newry Old Chapel Catholic Cemetery. Plot Section- Old C Plot- 461. Her father had bought four
graves after her death. The purchase is noted in the burial registers.
List of graves...1864
Sept. 4. Four graves for Mr. Andrew Jennings.[3]
It’s possible that tuberculosis, so prevalent at that time,
was a factor in the deaths that followed her death so closely. Her niece Ellen
McDonald died in 1866. She is also buried in Newry. Her father Andrew died in
1869, her brother Charles died in Dublin
a year later in 1870.
Distant relative Richard Jennings from Ironpool, Kilconly, County Galway,
was to die at 3 Richmond Place
North, Dublin in
December 1870. His daughter, Harriet, and his son, Richard, both died at the
same address in 1872. Harriet was 23,
Richard was 22. Their mother, Mary St Clair Lyster, died in 1877.
Mary Catherine’s cousin Daniel Corley Jennings would lose
two of his children in Clontarf, Dublin.
Ellen Jennings died in 1878 aged 26, her brother John Bray Jennings in 1881
aged 27.
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