With all the help I have received here previously, the details on the family tree are filling in quite nicely, so I am very appreciative .
This time I am looking for information on my g.g.g.grandfather, Peter Monks. b. 1826 d. 1884 and buried in Glasnevin.
His first wife was Anne - surname unknown, but she is my ancestress. Her son Nicholas was born in 1850, so presumably they married about a year or two before that
His second wife was also Anne - Hyland.
Again, I have no date of birth for Anne Hyland. However, the story in the family is that her father was manager of the Gaiety Theatre in Dublin. She died in either 1889 or 1890 and was buried in Peter's grave (with his first wife!).
The Glasnevin record on the net shows a burial in respect of an Anne Monks in 1889 and another in 1890. I have no idea which one refers to my family. However, I can find no record for the burial of Peter in 1884. Perhaps they have not digitised back that far yet.
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Peter's & Anne's son, Nicholas, born in 1850, married Mary Lister (or Lester) b.1851 d. 1915 who was the daughter of a Church of Ireland father, but she was brought up as a Roman Catholic. The presupposes her mother was Catholic. Mary's first cousins were the Cahills of Wellington Quay. In my late father's notes there is a strange comment that they were "opticians to the Popes". For a while I had visions of spectacles travelling back and forth to Rome, as though there were no eye doctors there. Then it dawned on me that this might in fact refer to a family called Pope.
I googled Cahills Opticians and sure enough they were on Wellington Quay - may still be???
Anyway, Mary Lister as the sole wife of my g.g.grandfather Nicholas Monks, is my ancestress, so I would also like to find out anything I can about her and her family.
Thanks for all help.
David Monks