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Titanc Victims [Bree, Wexford]

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Miss Lizzie Doyle, Bree, and Mr Robert Mernagh, Ballyleigh, Ballywilliam. 

Sincere and widespread regret was felt in Bree and the surrounding district when on Saturday week last it became known that Miss Lizzie Doyle, who was one of the passengers on the ill-fated Titanic, was not amongst the survivors. 

Poor 'Lil,' as she was familiarly called by her most intimate friends, was youngest daughter of the late Mr Martin Doyle, Bree, and was one of the most talented and popular young ladies in the district; her charming manners and bright, sunny disposition won for her the respect and admiration of all, and the untimely ending of her young life, so full of hope and promise, has cast a gloom over the whole district. 

She had been in Philadelphia two years previously, and only returned home last June in time to be present at the deathbed of her late lamented father. Having recovered somewhat from the shock occasioned by that sad event, she decided to return once more to America, and on the 10th April last she said good-bye to her host of friends in Bree, and in company with her cousin, Mr Robert Mernagh, Ballyleigh, Ballywilliam, set out for Chicago.....[the article claimed they travelled second class]...''

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Encyclopedia Titanica (2024) Titanc Victims [Bree, Wexford] ( ref: #768, published 4 April 2024, generated 5th October 2024 10:27:41 AM); URL : https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanc-victims-bree-wexford-eliza-doyle-prober-mernagh.html