RO-CLBU-0001

Record Date: 
27 June 2015
Graveyard: 
Exact wording of epitaph: 

IN LOVING MEMORY

OF

WILLIAM TURNBULL FERGUSON

WHO DIED 21st DEC 1899

AGED 22 YRS

HIS END WAS PEACE

Memorial Type: 
Obelisk
Grave location
County: 
Latitude: 
53.313837222222
Longitude: 
-8.0520066666667
Additional details
Stonecutter/monumental sculptor: 
BEEGANS BALLINASLOE
Number of people commemorated: 
1
People commemorated: 
Name: 
WILLIAM TURNBULL
Surname: 
FERGUSON
Date of death - day: 
21
Date of death - month: 
December
Date of death - year: 
1899
Age: 
22
Address: 
RATHPEAK
Notes: 

WILLIAM TURNBULL FERGUSION SENIOR WAS BORN ON THE 17TH APRIL 1838 IN LILLIESEAF, ROXBURGH, SCOTLAND TO JOHN FERGUSON AND AGNES KERR. HE MARRIED ELIZABETH (ELSPETH) BLACK ON THE 22ND JUNE 1860 AT YETHOLM, ROXBURGH, SCOTLAND. HIS WIFE ELIZABETH (ELSPETH) WAS BORN 17TH DECEMBER 1829 TO JOHN BLACK AND MATTILDA MARTHA MILLAR AND WAS CHRISTENED IN JEDBURGH, ROXBURGH, SCOTLAND. THEY MOVED TO IRELAND AND TO THE MATHERS ESTATE IN FALTY, MOORE AND HE WAS EMPLOYED AS A SHEPHERD.THEY FAMILY RESIDED IN RATHPEAK.THEIR DAUGHTER JAMIMA WAS BORN 12TH JANUARY 1870 AND DIED 35 DAYS LATER ON THE 17TH FEBRUARY 1870. THEIR SON WILLIAM TURNBULL FERGUSON WAS BORN ON THE 16TH JANUARY 1877 AND DIED 12TH DECEMBER 1899 AGED 22 YEARS AS RECORDED ON HIS MEMORIAL HERE IN CLONBURREN CEMETERY.

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