CAVAN WEEKLY NEWS, Friday, January 5, 1877 MARRIAGE. MONYPENNY and BARNES - On St. Stephen's Day, at Dalkey Parish Church, William Edwin, eldest son of the Rev. Arthur MONYPENNY, Vicar of Lavey, to Elizabeth FERGUSON, eldest daughter of Isaac BARNES, Esq., of Sandycove. DEATHS. COWLEY - January 2nd, at her residence, 117, Lower Gardiner-street, Dublin, Sarah, relict of the late William B. COWLEY, Esq., and daughter of the late David FINLAY, Esq., county Cavan; sincerely regretted by her family and friends. FAUSSET 0 Jan. 2nd, at Armagh, Robert FAUSSET, Esq., County Inspector Royal Irish Constabulary. During Christmas night or St. Stephen's Day, two female inmates escaped from Richmond Asylum, Dublin, dressed in the ordinary asylum clothes, and one of them went to the Lock Hospital, was received there as a patient, allowed to mix with the other patients, and stayed two or three days. The most extraordinary part of the whole affair is, that she continued to wear the lunatic asylum dress. - Dublin Paper. THE MURDER OF A SOLDIER IN GALWAY. - The body of the soldier, William STRINGER, a private of the 876th Regiment, alleged to have been murdered here on the morning of the 9th December, and for which crime a man named LAFFY and a prostitute are in custody, was yesterday evening found near the lighthouse by some Claddagh fishermen. The body is in an advanced state of decomposition, and was visited on being conveyed ashore by large crowds of people. An inquest will be held to-day. The only evidence, I understand, is that of a prostitute who, it is stated, saw the occurrence take place. Much excitement prevails here. "Hardening" Children. - A registrar of a parish in the west of Ireland states that the absurd custom still prevails with the peasantry of dipping infants in cold water to harden them, "and (he remarks) so it does, for I registered two or three this quarter, killed, I am sure, by the same thing." - The Sanitary Records. SAD DEATH OF TWO OLD MEN. J. C. RUTHERFORD, Esq., R.M., and Captain WEST, J.P., _____ in the unavoidable absence of Mr. T. PEYTON, one of the coroners for the county Roscommon, held an Inquest ib Saturday on the bodies of two old men named LYONS and MALLON respectively, whose deaths took place some days ago at their residence, Newton, near Tarmonbarry, under very distressing circumstances. For some time past, the two men, who were wretchedly poor, and each upwards of eighty years of age, lived together in a small cabin, trusting chiefly to the charity of their neighbors for sustenance, Lyons receiving the munificent sum of 1s. per week outdoor relief. On Tuesday morning a man named CASEY, passing the way, casually entered the hut and was shocked to discover the body of Mallon apparently lifeless, lying just inside the door; and on taking another look the man saw the body of Lyons close to the fire with the legs, arms and other parts of the body burned in a frightful manner. Poor Lyons was quite dead, and had been so evidently for hours before the discovery was made, but Mallon lingered in an insensible condition for a little time. Nothing by way of explanation could be elicited from him, and so far all is conjecture as to the manner of their melancholy end. The police, accompanied by Sub-Inspector O'LOGHLEN, were quickly on the spot, and made a diligent search in and around the hut. There was nothing discovered, however, to excite suspicion, nor were there any marks of violence on the bodies. Not a single drop of intoxicating liquor, or trace of any, was found on the premises, the only things being some cold bacon and a little tea. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death from injuries by fire in the case of Lyons, and in the case of Mallon of death from exhaustion. During the examination of one of the witnesses it was stated that both men had been in a very weakly state for some days before the sad occurrence, and had been attended by their priest, who administered the last sacrament in anticipation of a fatal termination of their illness. (County Cavan Newspaper Transcription Project)

Thanks again for this wonderful service, Kay. I am asking for help in finding information about my Scots-Irish family from Newry/Dundalk, and Crossmaglen in the first half of the 19 century. The story is this: My grandmother kept the family legends and I was just smart enough to write them down back in the 1960s and 70s. She told of William Donaldson and his wife Harriet, daughter of an officer in the British Army in India. They married in 1831 against her father s wishes, had three children( John, 1833, Ann 1837 and Will jr in 1838), emigrated in New Brunswick Canada in 1839, and homesteaded on the Saint John River where my family still has land. One of their oroginal houses is in a historic village museum. In following up recently with on line genealogy sources, I have been able to discover that not only was the legend accurate, but that Harriet s father was Robert Grenville Wallace, solicitor and lieutenant on the 64th regiment, serving in Calcutta,Seringapatum and Seroor among other places, retiring early on half pay. He published two autobiographical novels that have greatly enriched the family history, and died in Newry in 1851. He is buried in St Patrick's Graveyard, Dundalk. William and Harriet had three more children in New Brunswick, and son Will moved to Boston where he became a successful builder. Eventually, in 1884, his mother Harriet joined him, then moved to Blackstone MA where she died in 1889. They are buried in Mt Hope Cemetery, Mattapan. The town clerk in Blackstone has no further information. I am hungry for any details about the family either in Ireland , NB or Massachusetts. I am guessing that one of her sisters may have married someone who moved to Blackstone and that could be why she went there to end her days, but I have ne evidence. I would love to know their marriage date, and locaion of births of their children in Ireland. Correspondance, legal documents that RGWallace may have signed, mentions in any papers, church records, anything like that. If anyone has ideas, suggestions or information for further research, I would be most grateful. I cannot sleep for this mystery! Beverley Clarkson Halifax, NS