Thank you ddee for your answer (even though it seems to have been several years ago).
This is the first time I'm writing anything here. I found the site because I was looking for the (misspelled) last name Delashery.
My grandmother Ellen Monk (née Wright) always mentioned the family as ddee has described them: the people who owned all the land in and about Donaghadee, which they leased out (as was the custom) for 99 years. My grandmother, born on Carnathan farm outside the town, moved into town when she married Alexander Monk, my grandfather. I'll be visiting in July and would like to get in touch with anyone who could orient me to just where on Bridge Street they lived and my mother was born. I, too, have many beautiful old photos that are as yet unidentified, but both my mother and grandmother have passed away and, if I don't get some help with them, they, too, will pass into the mists of time. It would be a shame.
