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About Emma (Amy) Mills
According to Debrett's Peerage (1820 ed.), the 1st Lord Massy had a daughter Amy, who died unmarried: there is no mention of his daughter called Emma. But the existence of Emma is clear from sources given below. Some contributors to ancestry.com call her Emma Amy Massy, but the basis for this is not clear; so the form Emma (Amy) Massy has been used in this profile.
According to the Journal of the Irish Memorials Association, vol. X, Oliver Mills's second wife was the Hon. Grace or Emma Massey, a granddaughter of the 1st Lord Massey. This is backed up by the Roscommon Messenger, 31 Jan. 1920, which states that Oliver married "Hon Grace Massey, daughter of Eyre Massey, and granddaughter of the first Lord Massey." Eyre Massey certainly had a daughter by the name Grace. But the title "Hon" is wrong for a daughter of Eyre, and other evidence contradicts this account.
Burke's Peerage (2003 ed.) states that Grace Massy married Oliver Mills of Castlelake, Co. Tipperary. Castlelake or Castle Leake is in the parish of Relickmurry and Athassel. But Crosslé Genealogical Abstracts state that in 1795 Oliver Mills, Captain in the Roscommon Militia, married the Hon. Emma Massey of Athassall (who would be an aunt of Grace) and the she was previously married to Quintin Barrett. A marriage licence bond in 1795 from the Diocese of Cashel and Emly is for Oliver Mills and the Honble. Emma Barrett. The Tipperary Vindicator of 14 Apr. 1847 records the death of the Hon. Emma Mills at Millbrook, Birr.
It seems unlikely that Oliver would have married Grace and subsequently her aunt Emma, or that two men called Oliver Mills would have been connected with the parish of Athassel.
In a court case of 1846 she is undoubtedly Emma: ""There was issue of the marriage, one son, the defendant George Mills. Oliver Mills, his first wife having died in 1790, married the plaintiff Emma Mills in 1795" - Irish Equity Reports Argued and Determined in the High Court... , vol. 9. In this report it subsequently becomes clear that there were children by Emma. There is a mention of "seven younger children" but it is not clear whether some of these seven were children by Alice.
Oliver Mills's other wife Alice was the mother of Oliver's daughter Alice (Registry of Deeds, 611-278-418059), so presumably also of George, Jane and Catherine..
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April 1847
Age 88
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Millbrook, Birr, County Offaly, Ireland
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