Mc Cabe family Rockville Street Belfast.

[Gerry Burroughs]

So if they never married was Annie really a Mc Kinley ??

[bbart]

I have no idea where she came up with McKinley, unless she married him at some earlier point in her life, and we can't find it.  If he had left her, she would still be stuck as "married", and unable to marry again.

[bbart]

1892 Directory has "Mrs. McKee" at 3 Fifth Street.

[Gerry Burroughs]

The police gazette states that his friends from Monaghan came up to collect his body for internment. Is it possible to see where he was buried and were there any death notifications in the papers about his death from family.

[bbart]

There was nothing I could see in the papers, and I did take a look for a burial, but didn't see one.

It's very odd that they did that; one would think Annie would have tried to stop it. (or maybe she just couldn't afford to bury him).

[Gerry Burroughs]

Now that is strange, you would have thought he would have close relations there?? His background on the police service record is Farmer ? and he was 18 and 4 months on appointment. Very young and he must have had at least one parent etc living. ?

[aghadowey]

Somehow I'm not surprised that James McKee the sailor is James McCabe the policeman  Well done bbart 

Regarding James McCabe's Co. Monaghan connection- the clipping sounds as though fellow policeman accompanied the body back to Monaghan for burial (as a sort of guard of honour) and he could quite possibly be buried with family there. It's possible that one or both parents were already dead. He may or may not have had siblings.
There may well have been an announcement of his death in the local Monaghan paper but it's possible that paper/issue is not online.

Do we know what religion James McCabe was? if Protestant perhaps one reason he and Annie didn't marry.

Off to Monaghan (in a manor of speaking) to check on a few things I saw earlier 

[Gerry Burroughs]

Yes James was RC but Eilish was talking to her cousin in England last night and as I said earlier on she was always in and out of Rockville St and she told Eilish that she believed Annie was a Protestant from Ballynure . Now I do know it was let’s say now popular in those days at all. !! I know that from my own background my father was English and C of E . However it was not popular for mixed marriages back then.

[aghadowey]

Interesting to hear mention of Ballynure as I did find a birth registration for an Annie McKinstry born in Ballynure (reply #84)-
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1867/03489/2282488.pdf