Marion "Minnie" O'Shea Roosevelt (1850 – 1902) was an Irish writer and second wife of

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Early life

Marion O'Shea Roosevelt was born in 1850 in

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, County Tipperary. Her parents were John and Mary Anne O'Shea (née Gill) of Summerhill, Nenagh. Her father was a journalist with ''The'' ''Nenagh Guardian''. Her mother was a sister of the editor-proprietor of the '' Tipperary Advocate'', Peter E. Gill, and the aunt of

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. Her older brother

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was a soldier, journalist and novelist, and her sister

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was a writer who emigrated to India. Another sister, Margaret (Mrs Kelly) (1854–1927) was noted as being fluent in a number of languages, and translated French works, and her brother Robert Gabriel (1854?–1882) was the London political correspondent for the ''

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''.

Family

Some accounts state that Roosevelt was married first to Robert Fortescue and widowed, others have stated that this was an alias of

, the uncle of Theodore Roosevelt, who she later married on 14 August 1888. They had three children who were referred to as Robert's stepchildren: * Kenyon Fortescue (1871–1939), who became an attorney. * Major Granville Roland "Rolly" Fortescue (1875–1952), who married Grace Hubbard Bell (1883–1979), niece of

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. * Maude Fortescue (1880–1961), who married Ernest William Sutton Pickhardt in 1900 and moved to London. Pickhardt was the son of Manhattan millionaire Ernest W. Pickhardt and the brother of Baroness Irene von Colberg. They divorced before Pickhardt's suicide in 1909. In 1945, she married Brigadier General Richard L. A. Pennington. Roosevelt published articles and poems in American journals. She died on 10 April 1902 in

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