Ellen Conway

Ellen Ivory from Killandrew married Laurence Conway on June 5th 1849 in Mullinavat Co. Kilkenny. Various spellings Ellen, Eleanor or Elenor appear on records. The witnesses were James Walsh and Margaret Walsh.

It is unlikely that Ellen's father Richard or her brothers Dan and Richard survived the famine years of the 1840's as Ellen and Laurence Conway were the leasee's of the farm in Killandrew by 1850 (Griffith's Valuation).

Richard Ivory is listed as a farmer in Killandrew townland in the "Tithe Defaulter" list of 1831.

Ellen gave birth to nine children in the 1850's and1860's and her husband Laurence died in 1872 before their youngest son Thomas was three years old.

Ellen Conway's death was registered in the Civil Death Register in Kilmackvogue in 1899, her son Thomas Conway being the informant.

She is buried in a grave close to Chapel wall in Mullinavat cemetry with her own headstone. This apparently was the plot attached to the Ivory farm in Killandrew.

Her husband Lawrence is buried in the Conway family plot close by with his parents James and Johanna.