St Nicholas’s Churchyard, Dundalk
The following is an extract from the Louth Parochial Magazine, January 1897. (W.Tempest, Dundalk).
ST NICHOLAS’ BURIAL GROUND, DUNDALK.
An Inquiry was held by Dr. Stafford, Local Government Board Inspector, in the Town Hall, Dundalk, on Thursday, the 5th March, 1896; and an Order was issued, dated 17th June, 1896, closing the Churchyard against all burials, with certain exceptions, in the following terms, viz. : - “Now, therefore, we, the Local Government Board for Ireland, acting in exercise of the powers given to us under and by virtue of the said Act, do hereby order that on, from and after the 1st day of August, 1896, burials shall be discontinued, and they are hereby prohibited, in the said burial ground of St. Nicholas, Dundalk, subject to the following exceptions or qualifications, that is to say – Interments in the vaults at present in existence are not prohibited; and there shall be reserved to the persons named or described in the 3rd column of the schedule hereto the right of sepulture or interment in their respective family graves in the said burial ground. Provided no burial shall be permitted in any vault, or any of the said family graves, unless there be ample room and accommodation therein.”
PERSONS TO WHOM THE RIGHT OF SEPULTURE IS RESERVED:
[All were from Dundalk, unless otherwise stated. Those who were buried in St Nicholas’s are in bold. Additional information is in italics._ _Dates of death are sometimes found in the burial register and/or on gravestones. Burial dates are as recorded in the register, which does not always state clearly whether the burial took place in St Nicholas’s Churchyard or in St Patrick’s Cemetery, Dowdallshill. If the burial service was held in St Nicholas’s, and the deceased had a right of burial in the churchyard, it is assumed that the burial probably took place there. This is often confirmed by gravestone inscriptions. Gravestone reference numbers are as allocated by HG Tempest in 1944.]
- Adams, Mrs Sarah
- Armstrong, Mrs Mary d 20.7.1896, b 22.7.1896
- Armstrong, Mrs Elizabeth
- Barker, Samuel, 13 Talbot Street, Dublin
- Barton, James d 13.1.1913, b 16.1.1913 (Gravestone no 264)** **
- Barton, Mrs Mary d 23.1.1933 (Ipswich), b 31.1.1933 (ashes) (Gravestone no 264)
- Bell, Richard
- Carlton, Edward 5.4.1901 (Gravestone no 322a)
- Chapman, Mrs Margaret 3.4.1910
- Coe, Mrs Sarah d 12.3.1899** **No record of burial, but death recorded on gravestone no 243.
- Connolly, Mrs Henrietta 9.4.1921
- Corcoran, Mary, Belfast
- Coulter, John d 20.5.1901, b 22.5.1901 (Gravestone no 202, now missing)
- Coulter, Joseph A. d 3.10.1901 No record of burial, but death recorded on gravestone no 8.
- Coulter, Mrs Elizabeth 10.9.1928 (Gravestone no 8)
- Cox, Mrs Mary Anne 31.8.1905 (Gravestone no 107)
- Dalzell, Mrs Eliza 19.4.1899
- Dougan, James
- Duff, John
- Duncan, Mrs Catherine, Rostrevor
- Edmondson, Alice
- Edmondson, Hannah
- Elliott, Mrs Eliza 25.4.1914
- Fulton, Victor
- Giffney, Mrs Jane, Lurgan d 1.2.1905, b 3.2.1905 (Gravestone no 173)** **
- Garratt, Mrs Sophia Allen d 12.4.1915, b 19.4.1915 (Gravestone no 41)
- Garratt, James
- Gordon, William d 26.3.1911, b 29.3.1911 (Gravestone no 304)** **
- Gray, Mrs Anne 28.2.1904** **
- Greer, Mrs Margaret
- Hesse, Max
- Hill, Robert William d 29.10.1903, b 31.10.1903 (Gravestone no 223)
- Hill, Mrs Anna Maria d 4.2.1925 b 6.2.1925 (Gravestone no 223)
- Hill, Charles Edward
- Hoey, Mrs Catherine
- Kennedy, John, Park Street
- Ladley, Charles d 24.4.1898, b 26.4.1898
- Logan, Robert E., C.E. 29.4.1902 (correctly R P T Logan, Civil Engineer)
- Logan, Mrs Edith Rose
- Loudon, Joseph
- Loudon, Charles
- McKenna, Richard d 3.4.1899, b 5.4.1899 (Gravestone no 131)** **
- McCutcheon, John 24.11.1914 (former sexton)
- McCutcheon, Mrs Catherine 22.3.1904 (Sexton’s house)
- M’Cleary, John
- Mellon, James Henry (possibly Mrs Olivia Mellon, b 9.2.1903, in her daughter’s grave, no 266)
- Moneypenny, Mrs Marion 28.3.1911
- Mouritz, Letitia 10.4.1902
- Murray, Malcolm B.
- Murray, Mrs Charlotte
- Parker, Joseph d 24.4.1898, b 26.4.1898 (address given in register as Chapel Street)
- Parker, George 14.1.1900 (Gravestone no 39)
- Parker, Joseph, Dublin 4.9.1900 (address given in register as Dundalk)
- Park, Mrs Mary E., Belfast d 11.11.1919, b 14.11.1919 (Gravestone no 188)
- Parks, Mary Anne
- Parks, Samuel d 27.1.1907 No record of burial, but date of death on gravestone no 95.
- Parks, Mrs Elizabeth d 22.11.1911, b 24.11.1911 (Gravestone no 95)** **
- Rainsford, Rev. Joseph G. d 21.7.1908 b 24.7.1908
- Rainsford, Mrs Maria d 24.2.1915** **No record of burial, but death recorded on gravestone no 83.
- Reid, Mrs Mary, Lurgan, formerly Killencoole 19.9.1898** **
- Shimeld, William d 4.1.1905, b 6.1.1905 (Gravestone no 259)
- Smith, Joseph
- Twibill, Mrs Margaret Anne, Dublin d 6.1.1897, b 12.1.1897 (Gravestone no 63)
- Warren, James, sen. (New cemetery)
- Warren, Matthew
- Warren, James
- Williamson, Mrs Mary, Dublin 24.5.1907
- Williamson, Thomas (New cemetery)
- Williamson, Heuston M.
- Wissett, Mrs Barbara 20.1.1909
- Woods, George d 20.4.1903, b 22.4.1903 (Gravestone no 228; also Sarah 1884; Maryanne 1930)
- Woods, Mrs Sarah
Not on the above list, but interred in St Nicholas’s Churchyard:
- Turner, Mrs Eleanor 23.5.1899
- Shankey, Mrs Esther d 30.3.1900, b 2.4.1900 (Gravestone no 323)
- Molony, Mary, Tandragee 17.1.1901 (St Nicholas Church vault)
- Geoghegan, Elizabeth, Belfast 22.2.1901 (St Nicholas Church vault)
- Woods, Mary Anne d 18.11.1930, b 21.11.1930 (in her parents’ grave, no 228)
The burial services of the following may have been followed by interment in family vaults:
- Eastwood, Francis Eastwood, Castletown 10.1.1902
- Geoghegan, Mrs Hannah Elizabeth, Belfast 31.3.1904 (probably church vault – see above)
- Molony, Elizabeth, Tandragee 14.11.1922 (probably church vault – see above)
- Bigger, Mrs, Falmore Hall 20.11.1909
- Bigger, John I. Eastwood, Falmore Hall 18.9.1013