The house on Leinster Road, Rathmines, where Emily McArthur lived before she married.

Emily McArthur became the second Mrs William John Burke on October 2nd 1861. The couple married in  St. Peter’s Church, Dublin, by witnessed by Henry Ashe and John Galbraith. The  marriage was solemnized by Rev Burke’s old friend Rev Hyacinth D’Arcy.

All that remains of St. Peter’s Church, Dublin. (Photo by Ciarán Parkes

Emily McArthur was living at an address on Leinster Road, Rathmines, possibly the one that the family lived in before her father’s death in 1829. Her new husband Rev Burke stayed in a rectory on Harrington Street, though it stated on their marriage certificate that his home address was still in his native Galway. It appeared that Rev Burke and his new wife did not return there but stayed on in Dublin, where their first child was born a year later.

The house on Harrington Road, where Rev Burke stayed before her married Emily’s mother

Rev Burke’s previous life in the West of Ireland was far from ideal. He had a long and controversial history there, and perhaps did not want to subject his new wife to it. Shortly after their marriage and birth of their child the couple moved on to Edenderry, Co. Offaly, where they had a better chance of living a peaceful existence. Their tranquility was lived, as it did not take long for the Rev Burke’s past to catch up with him…

 Thanks

Thanks to Ciarán Parkes for photo of stained glass window from St. Peter’s Church Aungier Street, Dublin.

Sources

http://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/details/991b890574938

After her mother’s death Emily McArthur returned to Ireland. She lived in Virgemount, Co Dublin (modern day Clonskeagh). Her brother Richard was still living in Yorkshire where he was a curate in the Ripon area, but shortly afterwards he would emigrate to Canada, leaving Emily without any intimidate family in Dublin.

Emily McArthur could not have anticipated that when her only brother left for Canada in 1856, it would be the last time she would see him. His destination was in the Ontario district, where he was Reverend “St. George’s Parish Church, St. Catherines. He was there scarcely six months, when he contracted Scarlett fever, which took his life. Richard Lyons McArthur was about 31 years old.

There is a dedication to him in  the churchyard with the inscription:

Here lieth the body of Rev. Richard Lyons McArthur, M.A. Trinity College, Dublin and for some months, curator of St. George’s Church in this town, departed life, 1857.

St George’s Church, where Richard Lyons McArthur was Reverend

Sadly Emily would never get to meet her grandmother or uncle.

Sources

http://www.nationalarchives.ie/genealogy1/genealogy-records/wills-testamentary-records/

Indexed by William Cooke – See more at: http://geneofun.on.ca/names/photo/1657812?PHPSESSID=c57b85dcb92a5737ef3c1bb74af9ec03#sthash.kz87qqjn.dpuf

http://www.stgeorgesanglican.ca/

The 1851 Census details the McArthur family as follows:

Mary McArthur – Head of household – age 51- Fund holder -Born Dublin

Richard L McArthur – Son – age 24 – Curate of Ordinance – Born Dublin

Emily McArthur – Daughter – age 22 – Fund holder – Born Co Down

The household had one servant, a local middle age woman called Isabella and a cousin Mary A Hudson also from Dublin Seemed to live with The McArthurs.

England

Mary McArthur moved again to a house on South George’s Square in Worcester. This was to be Emily’s grandmother’s last home. She died at the same address on July 27th 1855 of apoplexy (a stroke) she was only in her late 50’s.

Sources

http://search.findmypast.ie/results/united-kingdom-records-in-census-land-and-substitutes 1851.