Re: Milltown Cemetery in Belfast
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Re: Milltown Cemetery in Belfast
peggy murphy 5/02/05
Hello Peggy
I've checked the inscriptions and found the following:
TRAINOR
(In a railed enclosure) Erected by John Trainor in loving memory of his sons Charles died 1st March 1897 aged 24 years and William John who died in infancy.Also his wife Ellen Trainor who died 11th Decr. 1918.
(John Trainor was a french-polisher at 119 Falls Road.)
TRAINOR is also mentioned under two other names:
MATTHEWS
(White headstone and broad iron enclosure) I.H.S. Erected by Thomas Matthews in memory of his daughter Ellen Jane who died 21st April 1886 aged 5 years.Also his son James who died 9th Feby. 1897 aged 3 years and his son Joseph who died 8th June 1899 aged 7 years and 6 months.Also his daughter Mary Ann Reid who died 13th March 1909 aged 28 years.Also his son Francis who died 28th June 1918 aged 31 years.Also the above named Thomas Matthews who died 3rde March 1922 aged 68 years and his death wife Many Ann Matthews died 4th June 1947 aged 86 years.Also his daughter Sarah Trainor nee Matthews died 7th Aug. 1947 aged 56 years. R.I.P.
RYER
(Granite headstone with surround) I.H.S. In memory of Eliza Tyer who died 27th Nov. 1883 aged 75 years.Also Patrick McShane died 11th Feb 1886 aged 72 years.Also Mae Donnelly died 21st July 1932, Catherine James Donnelly (sic) 1957, Mary McShane 1938 and Gertrude Trainor 24th Aug 1962. R.I.P.
Family burying ground of Patrick McShane.
(In the 1870's and 1880's Patrick McShane was an auctioneer and furniture dealer at 17 Smithfield (east side) which premises had been earlier occupied by the Dawson family.)
MURPHY
(White headstone with iron railing)In loving memory of Michael Murphy who died 4th Augt 1860, aged 40 years.And his wife Ellen who died 17th March 1879 aged 48 years.Also their son Thomas who died 10th September 1902.Also their daughters Mary who died 13th December 1903, Catherine Ann who died 30th August 1906, Julia Mary Murphy who died 8th June 1928. R.I.P.
MURPHY
(Marble headstone) Erected by Thomas Murphy, ex-sergeant R.I.C., in loving memory of his beloved wife Catherine who died 24th July 1882 aged 56 years.Also the above Thomas Murphy who died 21st Jany. 1897 aged 77 years and his beloved daughter Ellen MacCaffrey who died 18th Novr. 1919.
(Thomas Murphy was a clerk, living at 14 Milford Street, near Falls Road, after he retired from the police.He moved to 18 Ardmoulin Street, in the late 1880's.)
MURPHY
(White headstone with iron surround) Sacred to the memory of Richard henry (Dickie) Murphy who died 15th Feb 1883 aged 7 years.Also his brother Frederick who died in infancy, children of Charles O'Brien Murphy, late of St James St., Antrim Road.
(Charles Murphy was a newspaper reporter)
MURPHY
(Small headstone with small cross with statue of Our Lord on it)Erected by Mary Murphy ......... remembrance of her husband Patrick Murpny who died 21st Dec ........... years.also her.................... who died 1st ....1888.
MURPHY
(White headstone and surround) Erected by James Murphy in loving memory of his wife Margaret died May 9th 1891 aged 57 years.Also his daughter Margaret died 3rd Sept 1894 aged 26 years.Also the above James Murphy who died 22nd June 1902, and his son Hugh Murphy who died 2nd Decr. 1926.Also Ellen, wife of above Hugh Murphy, who died 11th Feby. 1950. R.I.P
CARNEY
(Sandstone headstone with surround) I.H.S. In loving memory of our dear mother Sarah Carney died 5th February 1956.And our dear father Richard Carney died 21st July 1957.Also their infant son Richard died 4th April 1900, R.I.P.
The book I have contains all the readings that are legible from the cemetery.I'm sorry not to have found anything obvious although you may find a connection.I was thinking that if your grandfather deserted his children perhaps he wasn't the sort of man to erect a gravestone.Not all graves here are marked with gravestones as it depended totally on whether or not the family could afford it.
The book I have was first published in 1984 by the Ulster Historical Foundation, 66 Balmoral Avenue, Belfast BT9 6NY and printed by Graham & Sons Ltd., 51 Gortin Road, Omagh, Nr Ireland.I can't say whether these addresses are current or not but the Ulster Historical Foundation can be found at http://www.ancestryireland.co.uk/http://www.ancestryireland.co.uk/If you go to this site and click on the bookstore tab at the top and put 'Milltown Graveyard' into the search box it comes up with a microfiche that you can buy for about £6.
Regards
Patricia
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