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I think it's this fellow: "The Right Reverend George Henry Somerset Walpole (9 November 1854 – 4 March 1929) was an Anglican priest, teacher and author. After early service in the west of England he moved first to Auckland, New Zealand, and then to New York, before returning to England. After educational work in Durham and pastoral work in London he was elected Bishop of Edinburgh in 1910, and held the post until his death." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Walpole Dorothea Elizabeth Walpole (2/20/1887-11/16/1959) became a medical doctor in 1925 at the age of 38. Here is a detailed obituary: europepmc.org/articles/PMC1991424/pdf/brmedj02948-0094a.pdf and see: news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19620611&... This account has Bishop Walpole and his daughter (identified as Elise) arriving in New York aboard the Holland-America Line's SS Noordam on December 18, 1915. chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030272/1915-12-19/ed-... More on the Noordam: cruise.bwatts.org/HAL22808/Noordamhistory.htm Her brother was the novelist Sir Hugh Walpole en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Walpole

Thank you for your excellent research and citations, artolog. We will add some of this information to the record the next time we update.

Where is Carol Maddock a.k.a Priestfinder when you need her?

Ah well, I like to leave some for the others! ;)

Carol Maddock A likely story!

Though having said that, I'm just throwing out Cardinal Logue as a wild suggestion...

Carol Maddock Interesting, but I think I will hold on to the virtual buns for a little while:)

An excellent portrait of a very handsome and demure young couple. As the (Major) Bishops Bride Limerick would have had potentially unpleasant connections for the young lady. Another Bishops bride was made notorious in the great Limerick saga "Drunken Thady and the Bishops lady" which may be summed up by the few lines below! I am sure that this young lady was nothing like the other and I hope that she lived a long and happy life?

Tis true she lived, tis true she died,
tis true she was the bishops bride,
she lived like most ungodly ladies
spending his Reverend Lordships treasure
chasing the worlds evil pleasure.
In love with supper, cards and balls
and luxurious sin in festive halls
where flaming hearts and flaming wine
invite the passions all to dine!

I found Michael W Bishop, married in Rathdown, April-June quarter 1924, volume 2, page 610
familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FYNV-HPJ
Still trying to work out how to use the volume and page to find his spouse.
There is John Bishop, married in Rathdrum in the following quarter, vol 2, page 694.
familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FYNJ-CNR

Don't they look lovely! So nice to see such a happy looking couple! Makes my day! :D

Swordscookie Love those lines, who wrote them?

Hi Nick, Michael Hogan the "Bard of Thomond"
limerickcity.ie/media/drunken%20thady.pdf