Two years after William dies, Mary marries a labourer named Jeremiah Buckley. Her first husband was 20 years older than her; her second husband is four years her junior!

They proceed to have five children, Two, Jeremiah and Denis, do not survive.

This is particularly important to me as the middle child, Margaret, will become my grandmother.

In between all this birthin’ babies, Mary and Jeremiah also manage to rouse some rabble: