Mary Dolan

Mary Dolan (b1866) who was from Westmeath in Ireland was my great great grandmother. After moving to England she met and married Englishman William Maxted (1863-1933). Their marriage was at the time of the severe snowstorms of 1887.
As an Irish lady Marys family would have had to endure the potato famine of 1845-1851 in which more than a million people died. In 1879 when Mary was a young teenager the potato blight returned though didn't have such devastating effects as before.
Marys father Michael Dolan was an engineer, so could well have come to work in the industrial environment of London too, but I know very little about that side of the family.
Marys husband William was a boiler maker, the same industrial profession of his father, Charles Maxted (1827-1898), who had left the rural villages of Kent to live in the big city. As WIlliam was a journeyman worker for the railways, Mary Dolan got to live in various places around Britain; Lambeth, Chiswick and Hammersmith in London, Darlington in Devon, Sunderland in County Durham, and finally Eastleigh in Hampshire.