On this day (23rd January 1860) in the Church of Ireland parish church of Donnybrook, Dublin, the marriage took place between Thomas Bird, a private in the 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment, based at Beggar’s Bush Barracks in that parish, and Mary McCague, then residing at Merrion Strand, of the same parish.
What makes the date of some 159 years ago, and the couple involved (Thomas, the son of James Bird, a labourer, and Mary, the daughter of Francis McCague, a farmer) so auspicious is that they were the great–great–great grandparents of Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex.
The marriage entry of…
