Mary Ann (Butler) Donnelly (1848 - 1922)

Born 8 Sep 1848 in Howick, Auckland, New Zealand

Wife of Henry Owen Donnelly — married 25 Jun 1872 in St Patrick's Cathedral, Auckland, New Zealand

Descendants

Died 1922 at about age 73 in Auckland, New Zealand

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Biography

She was the eldest daughter of William and Mary Butler of Howick, Auckland.

Marriage

The Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 152, 29 June 1922, Page 9 reported:

GOLDEN WEDDING. The fiftieth anniversary of the wedding of Mr. Henry Donnelly and Mary Ann Butler, now of 422, Mount Eden Road, was celebrated on Sunday [25 Jun 1922]. Mr. Donnelly arrived in Auckland from Coolee County [sic], South Ireland, in June, 1864, in the clipper ship Queen of the Deep (Captain French), after a voyage of 130 days. Mrs. Donnelly's parents, who came from Kanturk, left Ireland in 1847, and reached here in November of the same year by the troopship Sir Robert Sayles, and settled in Howick, where Mrs. Donnelly was born on September 8, 1848, the second white child born in the settlement. The marriage ceremony was celebrated in St. Patrick's Cathedral by the Rev. Father Fynes, of Howick.

Death

Mary Ann Butler Donnelly died in 1922, aged 74. ^[1]

The list of Catholic removed graves in Symonds Street Cemetery Notes has Mary Ann Donnelly died 1924 as well as Mary Agnes from 1907.

Sources

1. ↑ Death reg 1922/8130.

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