'Dolan Family
Ellen (Walsh) Dolan Adams, the
wife of .... John Quincy .... Adams …. was the
granddaughter of Lady
Mary Belling-
ham of Castle Bellingham ….
who eloped with Cap-
tain George Walsh of the English
army. Captain Walsh is said to
have
been a fine looking man; he came
to
Ireland, met Lady Mary Bellingham
and the elopement took place,
Capt.
Walsh was wounded, shot in the
el-
bow, and was retired on half pay;
He came with his wife and family
to
Canada, Saint Columbia, where he
built a fine home. His wife said,
that
she never regretted the
elopement.
They were the parents of fourteen
children, born at Castle
Belllingham,
Ireland; among these children
were
Thomas Walsh, Robert Walsh,
George
Walsh, Mary Walsh (the mother of
Ellen (Walsh) Dolan Adams who
was born at Castle Bellingham,
and was a splendidly educated
woman,
being a graduate of the Castle
Bel-
lingham high school, and of
Dublin
college. It was said of her, that
she
read Latin like English, and she
was a
great mathematician; when she
came
to Canada with her father and
moth-
er and there married Patrick
Dolan,
she became widely-known for her
splendid education and her
mathemati-
cal ability; and often
specialists in
mathematics from colleges in
Canada
came to consult her on
mathematical
problems. So well-loved was she,
that
at her death, in mid-winter,
people
came over twenty miles over the
frozen
snow to attend her funeral. She
died
at St. Jerome, Canada, and was
buried
at Columbia, Canada. The Records
of
her death, the birth of her
children,
and other facts may be found in
the
records of the Church of St.
Jerome,
Canada. She was married to James
Patrick Dolan, who was born in
Queen’s county [now County
Laois], Ireland, and who
came with his parents to the
United
States when he was seven years
old,
He became a naturalized citizen
of the
United States, and was the son of
---
Dolan and his wife Margaret
Deagan
Dolan, who kept a hotel inn, in
Queen’s Co., Ireland, which was
large-
ly patronized by the nobility,
(near
Dublin), and their children were:
a Ellen (Walsh)
Dolan, wife of
John Quincey …. Adams.
b Agnes Dolan Baird
of Rochester,
N.Y, (mother of Lydia Baird
Jones.)
c Mary Dolan Edgecomb
of Carson
City, Nev.
d Margaret Dolan Reed
(or Read),
wife of Clayton Reed of
Burlington,
Vt, and brother of Cassius Reed
and
sisters (proprietor of large
hotel in
New York City.).
e Katie Dolan
Scheffer [?] of St. Scho-
lastique, Pr., Quebec, Canada.
f John Dolan,
deceased.
g Lizzie Dolan Sauve,
wife of Jos-
eph Sauve, of Glenbrook, Nevada.