Thank you, folks. I found the hospital a/d and already emailed them today. I will try the Rector of the church too. - Alison >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Message: 1 >> Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 06:52:36 +0100 >> From: "alison moyra - BT Total Broadband email account" >> <alison.moyra@btinternet.com> >> Subject: [DUBLIN-CITY] Stella DOWSE >> To: <irl-dublin-city@rootsweb.com> >> Message-ID: <AE48144FDE764580852677F97DD0279E@HP1> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" >> >> Hello there. >> I have a new mystery. I found, on 'New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957' >> in >> Ancestry, a record of my father's cousin Stella DOWSE, in 1947, going to >> Jerusalem from the US. On the 'Marine Carp' an American government ship >> at >> the time. >> Definitely her, as the address and next of kin (Florence Dowse, nee >> Andrews) is just visible on the original. >> >> She was born in 1908 and lived at 5, Ardbrugh Villas, Dalkey, Dublin, all >> her life, dying only in 2008 at nearly 100. >> We have some vague family stories of her hush WWII work, but then a lot >> of >> things were 'hush' at the time - but what was this trip about? I know >> very >> little about her life or work, she's down as a governess on this record, >> but this seems a bit unlikely to both me and my sister. >> >> - any ideas, anyone? - Alison >> >> Looking for LITTLE, ANDREWS, MEMERY, BIRMINGHAM/BERMINGHAM in Dublin >> - esp. John ANDREWS b about 1820, pawnbroker. >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Message: 2 >> Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 16:17:18 +1000 >> From: "Cara" <cara_links@bigpond.com> >> Subject: Re: [DUBLIN-CITY] Stella DOWSE >> To: <irl-dublin-city@rootsweb.com> >> Message-ID: <0CE024C8EF5D4371B75C8D618616D18D@ColmTOSH> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >> >> http://notices.irishtimes.com/2410402 >> >> Will give you her death notice >> >> >> The death has occurred of Stella DOWSE of Leopardstown Park Hospital and >> Ardbrugh Villas, Dalkey, Dublin >> >> Stella donated her body for the purpose of medical science. A Memorial >> Service will be held in Holy Trinity Church, Killiney on Sunday next, >> April >> 13, 2008 at 12 noon. >> >> >> The heading on this suggests perhaps that Stella was with the Hospital is >> this so? >> >> http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=78249788 >> >> Lovely lot of information on the family at this site. >> >> Cheers >> C >> >> >> Date published: Friday, April 11, 2008 >> Date of death: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 >> >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> IRL-DUBLIN-CITY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >> the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> ----- >> No virus found in this message. >> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >> Version: 2012.0.2171 / Virus Database: 2425/4995 - Release Date: 05/12/12 >> >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> To contact the IRL-DUBLIN-CITY list administrator, send an email to >> IRL-DUBLIN-CITY-admin@rootsweb.com. >> >> To post a message to the IRL-DUBLIN-CITY mailing list, send an email to >> IRL-DUBLIN-CITY@rootsweb.com. >> >> __________________________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> IRL-DUBLIN-CITY-request@rootsweb.com >> with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the >> body >> of the >> email with no additional text. >> >> >> End of IRL-DUBLIN-CITY Digest, Vol 7, Issue 83 >> ********************************************** >