Áine Malone Fitzgerald - deathless

[alpinecottage]

Áine's mother, Mary Malone, formerly Connor, gives her age as 45, and the number of years she was married as 30 in the 1911 census, which suggests that she was 15 when she married.
In Theo's peripatetic addresses, I forgot to add one request to send his pension to Ballycotton Lighthouse, which he was painting at the time…
Here's Áine and Theo's grave in Glasnevin, with the Leeson Park Ave address; she was obviously a little discreet about her age at a time when marrying a man a couple of years younger than you was not done https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/249364350/aine-fitzgerald

Two points:  people before the twentieth century were much less aware and concerned about their ages than we are today, and my experience with my own Irish ancestors suggests the Irish were particularly unconcerned. Or maybe they thought they'd be economical with the truth on official forms just to confuse the authorities!!
Secondly the death notices and registrations were not done by the deceased themselves; if several people were involved, the notices were even more likely to be inconsistent.  The marble slab on the grave looks quite new, so whoever had it made may not have personally known much about Aine and Theo.

[Abhanliath]

True dat. I wonder about their children, though; maybe they all emigrated?

[alpinecottage]

Wonder where you're looking?  Civil births are only available until 1922 and marriages until 1947. Probably too early for the Fitzgerald children, who would have been born after 1928 and marrying after 1948 .

[Abhanliath]

Or 1946 anyway. I generally try for marriages from the age of 18. But that should give a few years…

[Sinann]

Their daughters married surnames are on Theo’s obit in 1962 (Irish Press)
Possible death of one on RIP.ie but not the other so I’ll PM them to you in case they are still living.

[Abhanliath]

Thank you!