Mary McCann

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Elderly lady - Mary McCann. (JM - photos of Mrs McCann in the Derry and Antrim Yearbooks of 1939 and 1940, describe her as a local folklorist from Greysteel and a known resident of Faughanvale, who died in October 1939. she was also referred to as a bookworm because she had 30-40 books, which were the remnants of a collection of 700 that she had been forced to sell. She was a correspondant of the novelist Compton Mackenzie who thought highly of her)