RO-KLBG-0245

Record Date: 
14 May 2016
Graveyard: 
Kilbegley
Exact wording of epitaph: 

LEFT HEADSTONE

IN 

LOVING MEMORY OF

PETER WARD

DIED 21ST APRIL 1906

AGED 60 YEARS

ALSO HIS WIFE

CATHERINE WARD

DIED 8TH JAN 1918

AGED 72 YEARS

R.I.P

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-BASE OF STONE-

ERECTED BY HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN

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RIGHT HEADSTONE

IHS

PRAY FOR THE SOUL OF JOHN

WARD WHO DEPD THIS 

LIFE MAY 5TH 1763 AGD 80Y

AND HIS WIFE MARY

SEAVEUR WHO DEPD THIS

LIFE YE 1772  80T OF HER AGE

ERECD BY THEIR SON PETER WARD

1776

Memorial Type: 
Cross
Grave location
County: 
Roscommon
Latitude: 
53.3215875
Longitude: 
-8.1429236111111
Additional details
Stonecutter/monumental sculptor: 
K P EGAN
Number of people commemorated: 
4
People commemorated: 
Name: 
Peter
Surname: 
Ward
Date of death - day: 
21
Date of death - month: 
April
Date of death - year: 
1906
Age: 
60
Name: 
Catherine
Surname: 
Ward [née Byrne]
Date of death - day: 
8
Date of death - month: 
January
Date of death - year: 
1918
Age: 
72
Relationship with first person: 
Wife
Name: 
John
Surname: 
Ward
Date of death - day: 
5
Date of death - month: 
May
Date of death - year: 
1763
Age: 
80
Name: 
Mary
Surname: 
Ward [née Seaveur]
Date of death - year: 
1772
Age: 
80
Notes: 

The address for these headstones is Kidlawn. Peter Ward was the son of John Ward and Mary Caulfield. Catherine Ward was the daughter of Martin Byrne and Margaret Coughlan of Clondelara, Shannonbridge. Their daughter Teresa is interred in plot no. 222.

Peter's brother Michael Edward Ward is in interred in Melbourne General Cemetery in Australia. He was a detective involved in the capture of Ned Kelly (http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=89673201). Mary Seaveur may be a member of the Seaver family of Lusk, Co. Dublin.

Sr. Mary of Our Lady of Good Counsel or Margaret Ward was daughter of Peter Ward & Catherine Byrne born on the 7th May 1872. She emigrated to Australia with her brother Edward and entered the Good Shepherd Order in Abbotsford in 1897. She was professes in 1900. She worked all her life in an orphanage. She died 6th November 1933 aged 61 years and is interred in Bendigo Cemetery, Australia.

1901 Census:

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Roscommon/Ballydangan/C...

1911 Census:

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Roscommon/Ballydangan/C...