GA-STNL-0213

Record Date: 
20 May 2024
Graveyard: 
St Nicholas' Collegiate Church and Graveyard
Exact wording of epitaph: 

BORN OCT 8th 1875 DIED JULY 29th 1876 . LILIAN AGNES PERCY JESSON ALSO HERBERT PERCY JESSON BORN 11th JANry 1871 DIED 27™ JANry 1877 REGINALD PERCY JESSON BORN AUGT 26th 1873 DIED OCT 10th 1877 UNA GERTRUDE PERCY JESSON BORN MARCH 19th 1877 DIED NOVR 14th 1877

Grave location
County: 
Galway
Latitude: 
53.27303
Longitude: 
-9.0533763888889
Additional details
References: 
See Vestry Minute Books. February 23rd. (1877), 65. "That the attention of Thomas Jesson be called to his having constructed a vault in the churchyard without the sanction of the Select Vestry and that he be informed [that] the usual fee for such is ten pounds per scale of fees approved by the Council in Tuam". / (//xj-4Ls6ir < fit C i^. csit fJ? 2/^t ^. See also ibid-, February 2nd (1877), 76 and also December 21st. (1877) when his attention was again brought to the resolution of February 2nd 1877. Bur. Reed. Vol. 2 (1876), "Lillian A.P. Jesson, abode Killeen, buried July 31st 1876 aged 9 months". Bur. Reed. Vol. 2 (1877), "Herbert Percy Jesson, abode Dominick St. Galway, buried Jan 31st 1877, aged 6 years". Bur. Reed. Vol. 2 (1877), "Reginald Percy Jesson, abode Dominick St., buried in 1877".
People commemorated: 
Surname: 
PERCY JESSON
Notes: 

A sub-rectangular slab with chamfered edges. A long bevel is cut from the top comers and shorter ones from the bottom ones. The stone is broken in five pieces and part of the left side is missing. Two fragments were found in the former boundary wall of the graveyard and in the graveyard itself in 1984 and 1990 respectively. A wedge-shaped segment has been cut from the back of the lower edge. Inc'd. Ins.. The stone is set on a base consisting of a single, large, roughly-worked slab. It is set on a line of decayed red bricks and is set on top of a small red brick vault.