Assorted Headstone Extracts

Contributed by Karen Bell

jessandrak@netscape.net

 

1)  KILCOOLY Cemetery - next to newer church

 

Erected by James HAYDEN 

ST. JOHNSTOWN 

In Memory of my beloved 

Mary HAYDEN alias SUTCLIFFE 

Died March 20th 1884 

Aged 36 years 

ALSO 

Their only son EDWARD 

died April 8th 1884 

Aged 11 months 

... They will be done ...

 

2)  SLAINESTOWN Graveyard – this is all on one stone

 

Erected by
MICHAEL QUIGLEY
of St. Johnstown
In Memory of his Wife
CATHERINE QUIGLEY
died June 13th 1910, Aged 60 years
ALSO HIS SONS
MICHAEL
died Nov. 27th 1907, aged 23 years
PATRICK
died Dec. 5th 1907, aged 20 years
THE ABOVE MICHAEL QUIGLEY
died Sept. 21st 1917, aged 74 years
AND HIS DAUGHTER MARY
died Dec. 10th 1945, aged 56 years.
HIS Son JAMES QUGLEY
died 31st May 1950 aged 68 years
His wife MARY QUIGLEY
died 30th Sept. 1980 aged 98 years
Their son PATRICK QUIGLEY
died 26th Dec. 1985 aged 62 years.
R.I.P.

 

3)  SLAINESTOWN Graveyard – this is all on one stone

WILLIAM SPARROW
St. Johnstown died September 20 1860 (?)
aged 17 years
MARGARET SPARROW
St. Johnstown, died June 20 1864
aged 21 years
JOHN SPARROW
Graystown
died November 10th 19??
aged 82 years
For Ever With The Lord
JESSIE VIOLET SPARROW
died December 26th 1935 (1939 ?)
JANE SPARROW
died September 27th 1941
FRANCIS SPARROW
died June 2nd 1931 (?)
MARY SPARROW
wife of FRANCIS SPARROW
died June 11th 1952

ERECTED BY MARIA PERRY

Graystown

 

4)  BALLINURE Graveyard

 

Sacred to the memory of

THOMAS PERRY

Of GRAYSTOWN

Who departed this life

Sunday July 10^th 1904

PERRY

Aged 78 years

Also his wife

MARIA PERRY

Died 19^th March 1923

Aged 88 years

 

(NOTE: Maria Perry’s maiden name is SPARROW)

 

5)  BALLINURE Graveyard

 

In Loving Memory of

ELIZA NORRIS

Wife of

WILLIAM NORRIS

Curraheen

Died Sept. 20^th 1888

Aged 86 years.

Erected by her daughter

M.A. PERRY

 

(NOTE: Mary Anne Perry)

 

6)  LANESPARK Cemetery

In loving memory
of my mother
ELINOR GRIFFITH PHIPPS
who died Nov. 6th 1923
Erected  by
MACOR (Major?) CECIL NICHOLSON

 

 

7)  LANESPARK Cemetery

 

FRANK BILMUR SANKEY

Died 1915 (was shot)

Also AGNES S??  SANKEY

Wife of Commander BILMER SANKEY

(writing isn’t readable on my photo sorry)

 

 

 

8)  BUOLICK Cemetery

 

Erected by Catherine FITZGERALD

Of Pointstown

In Memory of her husband

JOHN FITZGERALD

Who died Feb. 17^th 1874

Aged 80 years

Also two children

JOHN and CATHERINE

Who died young

His wife CATHERINE – died 10^th Feb. 1888

EDMOND FITZGERALD – died 22nd June 1917

His wife ELLEN – died 2nd Oct 1919

THOMAS FITZGERALD – died 10^th June 1904

THOMAS FITZGERALD – died 18th May 1919

JAMES FITZGERALD – died 10^th Apr.  1945

JOHN FITZGERALD – died 20^th June 1957

His son TIMOTHY FITZGERALD

Died 10^th Jan. 1961

Also his wife JOHANNA FITZGERALD

Died 7^th Nov. 1968

 

9)  MAGORBAN Graveyard

 

Sacred to the Memory of

THOMAS TOPPIN

Of Buffanna

Who died November

The 14^th 1872 aged 70

Years

Erected by his nephew

RICHARD RYALL

Also the children of Richard RYALL

ANNIE MARIA RYALL died Feb. 7^th 1900

Age 2 years

KATHLEEN RYALL died

Nov. 18^th 1904 age 14 years

JOHN RYALL died July 18^th 1905 age 16 years

MAUD RYALL died Dec. 4^th 1905 age 19 years

SUSAN SUTELIFFE died Apr. 29^th 1908 age 28 years

Also the above RICHARD RYALL

Died Dec. 24^th 1918 aged 68 years

And his wife ANNIE died Nov. 5^th

1915 age 58

THOMAS RYALL died 1^st Nov. 1948

MATTHEW RYALL died 19^th Apr. 1978

Age 85 years, his wife

GRACE RYALL (nee STANLEY)

Died 14^th Nov. 1983, age 68 years.