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of 23 April 1983 has a short death notice – ‘peacefully in a Dublin nursing home in his 95th year. The
Marchese Peter M., beloved husband of May, Shrewsbury Road, Dublin 4.’ He is buried in Deansgrange Cemetery. May Malacrida died later that year, on 11 September 1983 at 28 Shrewsbury Road, Dublin 4.
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