Strokestown House, Co. Roscommon: Married Three Months

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Olive Pakenham Mahon’s marriage to Captain Edward Stafford-King-Harman lasted only three months from their wedding day on 4th July 1914 until his death at Ypres on 6th November 1914. Even so, their brief union produced a daughter, Lettice Stafford-King-Harman who lived to the age of 97. Local historian Danny Tiernan tells the story beginning in Rockingham House, also in Co. Roscommon, where Olive was living when news of Edward's tragic death reached her. She was to leave and go back to the Pakenham Mahon’s ancestral home of Strokestown House, now Strokestown Park and home of the Irish Famine Museum. Location: Strokestown House, CO. Roscommon 53°46'37.5"N 8°05'52.8"W Image: Olive Pakenham Mahon and Capt. Edward Stafford-King-Harman Image courtesy of Strokestown Park