Letitia Dunbar-Harrison - Life After Mayo Controversy

Life After Mayo Controversy

She had met a Methodist Minister, Rev. Robert Crawford while in Castlebar and they married a few months after she started work in the Military Library and became known as Aileen Crawford. Because of the marriage bar she had to resign her post.

The couple lived in Waterford, Tipperary, Louth and Antrim and had no children. After being widowed in the 1950s, she remained in Northern Ireland.

She attempted to become a Methodist Minister, but was failed on one of her written exams for the post. She remained an active member of her church for many years and died in 1994.

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