Mc Cabe family Rockville Street Belfast.

[Gerry Burroughs]

Great Aunt .

[bbart]

Great Aunt .

I am assuming that she is Jack's sister, and as the family thought her to be a McCabe, never married?

(Sorry for the questions, but it helps fill in a few things!)

[Gerry Burroughs]

Yes indeed. Eilish has just confirmed this.

[Gerry Burroughs]

No worries Eilish is really anxious to solve this. She was always asking me to find out about her family after I had mine sorted and her mother’s side done. So thank you she and I really appreciate all your help.

[Gerry Burroughs]

Yes she never married.

[bbart]

Tell her to be patient.... there are several bumps in the road in her tree!   

For example, I have found ANOTHER James McCabe R.I.C.  AFTER 1902 in the same area.
I will post it all up tomorrow (it's late at night for me), but it looks more and more like Gaffy hit the nail on the head with that 1901 census McKee family.

[aghadowey]

Re-reading through this thread several things strike me- nothing to solve this mystery but some puzzling things to consider.
1) So far, I think, the only place which gives Annie's maiden name as McKinstry seems to be her son's marriage record. So, that could be misleading if not her maiden name.
2) If Annie was married to a police constable then to apply for a pension after his death she would likely have to have submitted paperwork to substantiate the claim (marriage record, birth or baptism records for the underage children)
3) I think that RIC men were not stationed in their home county or that of their wife. John McCabe was born in County Monaghan then stationed, mostly, in Belfast according to report of his death. Would be interesting to know where he was stationed before Belfast. However, 1911 census Annie says she was born in Coutny Antrim and children in Belfast.

[Gerry Burroughs]

I checked out the pension with my friend Jim Herlihy and he states.
James Mc Cabe died in service & unless he died in the line of duty he wasn’t entitled to a pension. Had he been officially married at the time of his death his widow would have got a gratuity from the RIC widow’s &Orphans Fund but she would have to prove she was married to him ‘Married’ would have had to appear on his record and not Bachelor.
I can’t get my head around the fact it says Bachelor and the Police Gazette is able to state he was married with children .!! And the children been living as Mc Kee for god knows how long. I will try and get a copy of Kittys death certificate to see if Mc Kee is on it instead of Mc Cabe which my wife knew her as. Interesting that the copy of his service record Jim gave me says he was find 10 shillings ?? 4 months before he died. Doesn’t say what for.

[aghadowey]

Yes, all very confusing and mysterious.