Hello, I am interested in the names as I have DNA matches to them and the area of Leitrim also.
John Lawrence married Ellen Bolton in Dublin in 1861, he was a widower and she was the daughter of a revenue officier, her fathers name was William Bolton and his was Richard Lawrence, there are 4 children to this marriage registered in Leitrim, Susan Mary 1864; James Bolton 1866; Anne Elizabeth 1868 and Ismal Robert in 1871.
His first marriage to Elizabeth Heaney was in Mohill in 1859, they had one child baptised in May, 1860, William Richard, she died age 27 and was buried on the 11th April, 1860, assume the baptism was delayed and she died in childbirth, this was not unusual for ladies who grew up through the famine years.
The family were Church of Ireland.
Pat