Mysterious newspaper cutting

[dermo]

That's actually a great help, Colur.  I would have been looking at the wrong end of the year.  It will be much easier to follow up with the exact date.  Thank you very much.

[grizzly1]

I assume the poor girl committed suicide, would a death cert be in existence if she was missing?
maybe drowned, im assuming this because of the Colimore Harbour/Dalkey address.

[Colur]

Sad news I am afraid Dermo,
The BMD records show that 26 year old Mary Anne Quinn was drowned on Easter Saturday 30th March 1918. Her body having been recovered off the Dalkey coast at Colimore Road.

[dermo]

Hi Colur
Well, that certainly is tragic.  One wonders what could have driven a young woman to such extremes. 
I think I may have found her in the 1901 census, a 10-year old living with her parents and siblings on a farm in Tullerstown, Co. Wexford.  Sad to think what lay before her.
Unfortunately, despite all the kind help, I am no nearer understanding why my grandmother preserved the press cutting.  I noticed, from the census links Shane provided, that the Carte household employed two servants - a cook and a maid.  Perhaps my grandmother knew whoever was the second servant in the house when Mary Quinn was employed there. 

[genseacher]

Hi Dermo
Such a tragic story.
I have Quinns from Carlow in my family genealogy but have not followed them up as yet .

My grandmother was born in Wexford and came to Dublin and was a domestic cook/servant in Dalkey and Glasthule area. The Family she worked for it appeared they were extremely good to her even after she left and married.

Thanks for sharing

Regards
Genseacher

[Colur]

Hi Dermo and Gensearcher,
I have continued to follow up on this sad story and to date can find no record of Mary Anne’s funeral having taken place to any of the three Dublin cemeteries, Deansgrange, Glasnevin or Mount Jerome. I live in hope that Mary’s parents were in a position to have her interred in her own parish or that the Cartes covered the expenses. I was surprised to discover that there was no mention of her disappearance or indeed her inquest in any other newspapers of the time other than the initial request for information of her whereabouts as posted in the Independent..
Atlanta still stands and backs onto the sea at Dalkey Island. There is no beach as such but there is a steep jetty leading from the rear of the house to the sea and there are traces remaining on the rear garden wall of a derrick used for lowering boats.