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The American heiress and the old Rossorry Church
Anne Marie hears how an old Fermanagh church was helped by an American department store heiress in the early 20th century.
Anne Marie hears how an old Fermanagh church was helped by an American department store heiress in the early 20th century. Caroline Henrietta Johnson was the wife of a Derrylin man who emigrated to the United States and married Caroline, who whose family owned the Arnold Constable department store in New York. She later visited Old Rossorry Church and is remembered as saying that her stables in New York were better appointed than Rossorry parish church.
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