Anne Archbold

Born 1830 in Clontarf to Peter and Catherine (Murray), per RootsIreland extract of Roman Catholic record; parents had two other children but nothing further known of them. Probably the same person who was married 1850 in Clontarf to Edward Rourke, per another RootsIreland extract of Roman Catholic record. (Where are the originals of these records?) Son John born in 1851 in Howth/Baldoyle. Husband died early, but record not found. Anne married again, in 1854 to John Dunne in St. Nicholas parish. They had six sons, two of whom died young, with the next two sons given the same names. Surviving sons Michael William James and Christopher all emigrated to New England. In 1889 Anne and John Dunne emigrated to Quincy, Massachusetts, with her son John and his two surviving children Anne and Henry, whose younger sister and mother died in Stepaside earlier in the decade. Son John died in 1896. Husband John died in a house fire in 1902, at 11 Wilson St (later renamed Westford), an address associated with my grandmother Anne Rourke. Two sons died shortly thereafter. While a resident at her son James's house, she died in 1916 and was buried at St. Mary's in West Quincy. James died soon after. (Michael Dunn [sic] resided in Quincy for a time, but his further adventures have not been found.) John Rourke and the various males surnamed Dunne/Dunn were stonecutters. ... ASPILL and certain variants are alternates for ARCHBOLD in some records; in New England, the surname was spelled with three syllables, ARCHIBALD etc.