Alicia Echlin married Thomas Mitchell of Ballyroan in 1758
I am looking for any information that would expand what I already know about my 6xgreat grandmother Alicia Echlin.I know that she was the daughter and granddaughter of clergymen in Tuam, Galway and may have been connected with the Echlins of Kenure Park but the only information I have about her family is narrative accounts like the following:
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Prebendaries ofTUAM.
1686. ROBERT ECHLIN, M. A. presented June 30th [Lib. Mun.]; instituted August 21st. (FF.) He met with a sudden death, from the violence of some of his own servants, on Good Friday, April 18th, 1712. He was buried in the cathedral ; where a monumental tablet, placed on the north wall, commemorates the occurrence in these words:
" Hie juxta situm est Rev di . Viri ROBERTI ECHLIN, decani Tuamensis
quodcunque erat mortale ; qui die Passionis Dominican parricidali servorum
maim extinctus est, Aprilis 18, A. D. 1712. ^Etatis 73."
1731. JOHN ECHLIN, D. D. (son of the Rev. Robert Echlin, Dean of Tuarn), was collated June 2nd. (FF.) In 1734 he was made Vicar-General of the diocese. He resigned this prebend in 1762. He died on December 17th, 1763, aged 83; and was buried in the cathedral, where a marble tablet is erected to his memory.
any further information would be much appreciated.
Christine Ditchburn