Tom Lavin

ML 's father died, and with her inheritance she purchased Abbey Farm in Bective as her family's home.

Mary had a close relationship with her father, Thomas or Tom Lavin , who was an enterprising, self-made man. He was twenty years older than his wife, and fifty-one when Mary was born He worked...

ML 's father, Tom Lavin , was hired by his former American employer to manage an estate of three hundred acres at Bective in County Meath, the house empty except for the hunting season...