Godbey, Peter

Year of burial: 1812

Grave number: 198Find it on the map

Inscription:

Erected to the memory of Mr Peter Godby of Dundalk who departed this life May the … 1812.

Bio:

In 1804 Peter Godbey along with James Reid, Malcolm Brown and James Gillichan established a distillery at Roden Place called Reid, Brown & Co. The distillery went on to become Malcolm Brown & Company. Years later Malcolm Brown became the solo proprietor of the distillery, through his marriage in to the Gillichan family. It not known if Peter Godbey's children had any involvement after his death.