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Many thanks for that as we don’t have anything back from Milltown about who actually is in the grave and we were wondering who is using the name Mc Kee or Mc Cabe since the headstone has Mc Kee/Mc Cabe ?? Annie’s grave in the City Cemetery which is literally a few minutes away on the other side of the  with a large tree in the middle !! We are going back to measure the circumference of the tree and dividing whatever it is by the recommended 2.5 to get a rough idea of its age for someone dying in 1936. Will let you know how we get on. Eilish thinks that John James Mc Cabe and his wife Alice are in a separate grave either in Milltown or in the City Cemetery. John James according to Eilish must have died 1953-1969 . We in 1962 and I remember meeting Alice her granny then but not John James. Alice must have died around 1967 as we got married then and she wasn’t at the wedding. It could be Eilish’s dad’s sister Eileen and her husband Michael Mc Cullough are buried with the 2 sisters May and Kitty Mc Kee. So really the headstone of Mc Kee/Mc Cabe doesn’t reflect who is in it. ??

After all that Eilish is reminds me the census says she was single. I tried to put a picture of Annie’s grave site with the large tree right in the centre of it but I have exceeded the limit for posting of it. I have asked Jim Herlihy if he can get further information on the whereabouts of the burial of James Mc Cabe RIC .

My wife Eilish told me that her Aunt Kathleen had told the rest of the family Kitty had left her money but it wasn’t a lot plus her Jewellery. From what I can gather Eilish’s father and his brother weren’t to happy about it. We were trying to work out when Kitty died in the City Hospital when she had checked in as Mc Kee and not Mc Cabe and was she buried as Mc Kee ?? As I said earlier we are going to Milltown Cemetery in the morning to try and locate the grave of her granny and grandad and see who exactly is buried there. One wee Question I have is the grave of Annie in the City Cemetery is recorded in detail in the Council records and there is a fee of £1.50 for a copy. Would this provide more detail information about her ??

We went to the City Cemetery where Annie has been buried. Thanks to the staff there they brought us to a grave she was buried. The strange thing is the grave details is not on their system as it is on the council records. The other problem was there are a lot of unmarked graves in that area as well as damaged headstones. The manager found a grave which had a number on it and from that he paced out to grave . 334. It was a grave with a twisted iron bars going into 4 concrete pillars.The grave had a very large tree growing right out of the centre which I questioned the manager on about as she was buried in 1936 !! But he insisted that was hers and only one person was buried there. The remains of a small stone tablet was buried in the grass which was attached to the grave was unreadable. However we will go back and try and make something of it. They then brought us to the other Grave of which we thought might be Mary Mc Cabe but from what we seen there was 2 others there a Maud and Frederick Mc Cabe which didn’t fit in. I am now looking for the name Mary Mc Kee and Kathleen Mc Kee as looked through all the street directories and they were using that name from 1955 onwards as well as 1910-24. The hospitable incident of Mc Cabe where Kitty had her name as Mc Kee. We are going to the Milltown Cemetery next week to see Eilish’s Grandad and her Granny’s grave as her cousin said there might be 5 people in a grave there. Will let you know what we find out.