Wolfestown

Michael Mullee and Family of Wolfestown, Co. Kildare

Michael Mullee was baptised on the 22nd December 1839 and his sponsors were Rev. Fr. Delaney and Catherine White. His father Michael, one of at least three sons of Darby Mullee, was born and reared in The Corn Mill in Manor Kilbride and he left there along with his brother John to take up leases on lands in Co. Kildare. He established his holding in the area of Wolfestown, on 53 acres of land leased from K. H. Digby. His house situated here was burnt down in 1883.

In 1895 he took over 82 acres and resided at Greenmount, where his late brother John had held the lease from 1856.  He maintained his birth name of Mullee and he was married to Mary Healy.

DETAILS OF THE CENSUS RETURNS FOR THE YEAR 1901,

MICHAEL MULLEE, Farmer aged 61 R.C. Born 1839

MARY  MULLEE, Wife aged 43 R.C. Born 1858

CHILDREN:

Michael          AGED 23  Born 1878

Teresa             =       19   =    1882

Edward            =       18   =    1883

Margaret          =       11   =    1890         See headstone No. 1 in Manor Kilbride

Winifred           =        9   =    1892         relevant to this family.

John                =        5   =    1896         Same family members still living in the

Joseph             =        3   =    1898         same house for the 1911 census.

Eliza                =        2   =    1899

Also Maria and Bridget.  Not present at time of census.

The eldest son Michael was for some reason or other deemed unable to take on the responsibility of inheriting

the farm.Teresa married Charles Connor in 1901, he was then aged 32 and she was 19. They settled in Eadstown, Co. Kildare. Edward died on the 17th February 1917 aged 34 years. Margaret and Joseph lived together on a farm also in Eadstown.Co. Kildare and neither of them married. Winifred married a man named Morrin. John married and inherited Greenmount and Wolfestown.

The estate then passed on to his son Edward, who has retired from farming but has retained the property and the land is leased to others. This farm of some eighty acres, which is situated at Greenmount, is the only land still in the ownership of any family named Mullee or Molloy or other variations of the names, that between them at one time held 700 acres, in the County of Kildare, as recorded in the Griffith Valuation of 1856.

We see from the headstone No.1, that whereas Mary had it erected in Loving Memory of her husband Michael, she herself is not recorded as having been buried there.