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A QUIET WOMAN?

Family and friends

Born at 26 Leeson Road, Dublin in 1893, Averil, her twin
brother William and parents William and Ada Kate, moved
permanently to Greystones in 1910, a town with which they
already had connections. Ada Kate Statter Deverell was the only
daughter of Edward Statter Carr, a wealthy London solicitor and
property owner. He died in his 70th year in September 1898 at
Inniskeen, Killincarrig Road, apparently the house of his son in
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law, William. Edward’s estate, worth £98,000, was divided
between his five children, and included his house called
Rockmount, Dromartin Avenue, Dundrum, which was left to Ada
Kate.

It is not certain when the Deverells moved to Inniskeen, but
in 1903, wanting to buy a house in Greystones, the family were
reported to have swopped houses with Judge Brereton Barry: he
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moved into Rockmount, and they moved into his 'pretty house'.
It seems this was Inniskeen. Ada Kate, visiting relatives in
England in June 1903, sent a postcard to her daughter to that
address confirming (in mildly irritated tones) the date of her
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return. Furthermore, in April 1904 she was presiding over the
Ice Cream Stall at the Mirus Bazaar in Rathmines: 'Mrs. William
Deverell, of Inniskean, Greystones, whose husband is such a
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prominent worker in the Unionist cause'.
But in 1905 the family moved briefly to Rahan, Killarney
Road, Bray, no doubt to facilitate Averil’s attendance as a day

2 Irish Times
3 Irish Times
4 Postcard of the Old Church, Rottingdean, Sussex dated June 26 1903,
postmarked Hampstead, author’s archive thanks to Colin Love.
5 Weekly Irish Times, Saturday 02 April 1904.
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