The death is announced as having taken place at St. Mary’s Priory, Princethorpe, of Mother Bertilie O’Connor, sister to the late Right Hon. the O’Connor Don. The O’Connor family claims to be one of the four oldest families in Europe. The present O’Connor Don, who is a grandson of the late Mr. Thomas Aloysius Perry, of Bitham, is a direct descendant of Turcough O’Connor, King of Ireland.

Banbury Guardian, May 1915