Thank you shanreagh
The child that died was NOT Frances.
Frances (Fanny) Dolan left home (probably shamed and/or with child) and never returned. It is thought she went to Northern Ireland, possibly Belfast.
Please advise who the child was. have you a link to the death please? .
Stories passed down can be powerful and also can be incorrect.
In my famaily for instance there were passed down stories about the uncles of my Irish grandmother
'who went to to the US and were never heard of again'
This was accepted as gospel unitl my mother and i were looking at an album passed down to my g'ma from her mother ie the sister of the missing uncles and there were many pictures of these two uncles in the US and later I found that one had actually returned to Ireland. My grandma lost her mother at age 10 and I can imagine a harried father with 5 motherless children under 10, saying in answer as to why these uncles are not in contact or here now, that 'they went to the US and were never heard of again'
The point being that stories may be just that, sometimes true and sometimes not. Sometimes true in part and not true in others.
If you are keen for help it is a given that we must suspend our belief in what we have been told, no matter how well meaning or how long hel in our family, until we have all had a go at exploring all angles and going down any by-ways.
