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Frances Monroe Countess of Ely was born to Henry Monroe of Roe's Hall in Down.
In 1745 Henry Loftus 1st Earl of Ely (age 35) and Frances Monroe Countess of Ely were married.
On 31st December 1763 [her father-in-law] Nicholas Loftus 1st Viscount Loftus (age 76) died. His son [her brother-in-law] Nicholas (age 55) succeeded 2nd Viscount Loftus of Ely, 2nd Baron Loftus of Loftus Hall in Wexford.
On 23rd October 1766 [her brother-in-law] Nicholas Hume-Loftus 1st Earl of Ely (age 58) was created 1st Earl of Ely in Wicklow.
On 31st October 1766 [her brother-in-law] Nicholas Hume-Loftus 1st Earl of Ely (age 58) died. His son Nicholas (age 28) succeeded 2nd Earl of Ely in Wicklow, 3rd Viscount Loftus of Ely, 3rd Baron Loftus of Loftus Hall in Wexford.
On 12th November 1769 Nicholas Hume-Loftus 2nd Earl of Ely (age 31) died. Earl of Ely in Wicklow extinct. His uncle [her husband] Henry (age 59) succeeded 4th Viscount Loftus of Ely, 4th Baron Loftus of Loftus Hall in Wexford. Frances Monroe Countess of Ely by marriage Viscountess Loftus of Ely.
In 1771 [her husband] Henry Loftus 1st Earl of Ely (age 61) was created 1st Earl of Ely in Wicklow. Frances Monroe Countess of Ely by marriage Countess of Ely in Wicklow.
1772 Angelica Kauffmann (age 30). "The Ely Family Group". Portrait of [her husband] Henry Loftus 1st Earl of Ely (age 62) and Frances Monroe Countess of Ely, and their nieces Frances Monroe, seated at the harpsichord playing an aria from 'La Buona Figliuola' by Niccolo Piccini, a popular hit in Dublin at the time and Dorothea "Dolly" Monroe.
Frances Monroe: she was born to Henry Monroe of Roe's Hall in Down.
Dorothea "Dolly" Monroe: she was born to Henry Monroe of Roe's Hall in Down.
In 1774 Frances Monroe Countess of Ely died.
On 8th May 1783 [her former husband] Henry Loftus 1st Earl of Ely (age 73) died without issue. Earl of Ely in Wicklow, Viscount Loftus of Ely and Baron Loftus of Loftus Hall in Wexford extinct. His estates passed to his nephew Charles Tottenham aka Loftus 1st Marquess Ely (age 45), the son of his sister [her former sister-in-law] Elizabeth Loftus, who adopted the surname Loftus.