ME-ARCH-0271

Record Date: 
27 August 2021
Graveyard: 
Ardcath
Exact wording of epitaph: 

I.H.S.

PRAY FOR THE SOUL OF
JOHN COLLIER WHO DEPd.

THIS LIFE OCTOBER THE 18th

1759 IN THE 67th YEAR OF 
HIS AGE AND HIS
WIFE MARGRIT COLLIER
WHO DEPARTED THIS
LIFE THE 16th OF JULY
1759 IN THE 67th YEAR
OF HUR AGE
ALSO THE BODY OF 
MARY COLLIER WIFE
TO LAURENCE COLLIER
WHO DEPd. THIS LIFE Y.20th OF JANURY
1775 AGED 62 YEARS. ERECTED
BY THEIR SON LAURENCE
COLLIER

Memorial Type: 
Cabinet
Grave location
County: 
Meath
Latitude: 
53.607336111111
Longitude: 
-6.3932388888889
Additional details
Inscription legible: 
No
People commemorated: 
Name: 
John
Surname: 
Collier
Date of birth - year: 
1692
Date of death - day: 
18
Date of death - month: 
October
Date of death - year: 
1759
Age: 
67
Name: 
MARGRIT
Surname: 
Collier
Date of birth - year: 
1692
Date of death - day: 
16
Date of death - month: 
July
Date of death - year: 
1759
Age: 
67
Relationship with first person: 
Wife
Name: 
MARY
Surname: 
COLLIER
Date of birth - year: 
1713
Date of death - day: 
20
Date of death - month: 
January
Date of death - year: 
1775
Age: 
62
Relationship with first person: 
Daughter-in-law.
Name: 
Laurence
Surname: 
Collier
Relationship with first person: 
?
Notes: 

Fragile and some damage from someone scraping the surface - Urgent transcribing closure and a careful rubbing taken asap.

Headstone inscription reviewed by Colm Matthews and Guillaume and Christelle Gombert on 18th August 2021 and re-transcribed here on 20th August 2021.