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In there somewhere, I guess: maps.google.ie/maps?q=powerstown+kilkenny&hl=en&l...

There's Grattan-Bellews in the 1911 census. Are these people marrying their cousins? www.census.nationalarchives.ie/search/results.jsp?census_... Or does the title only reflect one party to this matrimonial alliance?

From this article in the Kilkenny People, I think this is Bettina Idrone Dorothy Loftus marrying Thomas Henry (Hal) Grattan-Bellew, a great great grandson of Henry Grattan, the great irish patriot.

Niall McAuley Beat me to it!

London Times, June 14th 1933

Bettina Idrone Dorothy Loftus was the daughter of Major John Edward Blake Loftus.2 She married Thomas Henry Grattan-Bellew, son of Sir Henry Christopher Grattan-Bellew, 3rd Bt. and Lady Sophia Maria Elizabeth Forbes, on 1 June 1933.1 She died on 10 March 1995.1 From 1 June 1933, her married name became Grattan-Bellew.

I started an entry in Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Stewart_Cutting

Her IMDb entry (she wrote scenarios for a couple short silent films in 1916): www.imdb.com/name/nm1945253/ Her story "The Blossoming Rod" as an ebook: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14946 She also contributed a chapter titled "The Daughter-in-Law" to a collaborative novel, The Whole Family in 1916; other contributors included William Dean Howells, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman... The Librivox recording of that novel is here: librivox.org/the-whole-family-by-various/

onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=... supplies links to page images of several of her books.

sorry to kick this off on a sombre note - Times (London) deaths Dec 22nd 1941: ANDERSON Dec 19th 1941, at her residence Grace Dieu Manor, Waterford, SUSAN ALICE, daughter of the late T. W. ANDERSON, DL

All the hallmarks of privilege and wealth and yet a very handsome pair of pairs. Lovely photograph and an excellent composition.

From the NUIG site: "In the 1870s Thomas William Anderson of Grace Dieu Lodge, county Waterford, owned 836 acres in county Cork, 600 acres in county Waterford and 1,704 acres in county Kilkenny." and "This house is labelled on the 25-inch Ordnance Survey map of the 1890s as Grace Dieu. In 1848 it was leased by James Anderson from the Carew estate and valued at almost £49. It is still extant and run as a retreat centre by a religious order."

This says that Susan Alice was the only daughter of TW, so who is the other Miss Anderson? A cousin?

In the 1901 census, Susan Anderson was 20, born in Kilkenny, and a scholar. Her father was 48, widowed, and listed his occupation as "Interest of Money". Nice one. By the 1911 census he was a magistrate and had remarried. Ellen Carew from Limerick, was the new Mrs. Anderson. Three years married. Susan Alice was still single.