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RO-CLBU-0003
Record Date:
27 June 2015
Graveyard:
Exact wording of epitaph:
IN LOVING MEMORY OF
MARY STEVENSON WISEMAN
FALTY, BALLINASLOE AND SPRINGBURN, GLASGOW
DIED DECEMBER 30TH 1916 AGED 32 YEARS
HER HUSBAND JOHN LINDSAY BOMPHRAY
DIED JUNE 19TH 1942
(INTERRED IN KILMARNOCK, SCOTLAND)
RESTORED BY HER GRANDDAUGHTER
LORRAINE C BOMPHRAY 2015
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(LEFT SIDE OF HEADSTONE)
ERECTED BY
JOHN LINDSAY BOMPHRAY
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(RIGHT SIDE OF HEADSTONE)
AND IN GODS HOUSE FOREVER MORE
MY DWELLING PLACE SHALL BE
Memorial Type:
Cross
Number of people commemorated:
2
People commemorated:
Name:
MARY
Surname:
STEVENSON WISEMAN BOMPHRAY
Date of death - day:
30
Date of death - month:
December
Date of death - year:
1916
Age:
32
Address:
FALTY
Name:
JOHN LINDSAY
Surname:
BOMPHRAY
Date of death - day:
19
Date of death - month:
June
Date of death - year:
1942
Address:
KILMARNOCK, AYRSHIRE.
Relationship with first person:
HER HUSBAND
Notes:
John Bomphray, his wife Mary Stevenson Wiseman and his two children Mary Cameron (born in Dublin 18/09/1907) & George (born in Dublin 11/12/1909) came from Scotland to work on the Mathers estate in Falty as a steward & mechanic. Sadly Mary and her 3rd child (infant son Francis) died during the childbirth on the 30th December 1916 at the young age of 32 years.They were both interred here in Clonburren Graveyard . After the death of his wife, John returned to Scotland where he died on the 19th June 1942 in Kilmarnock, Atreshire, Scotland. John & Mary Bomphray's daughter Mary (May) Cameron went to Canada in 1952. She died in Etobicoke, Toronto aged 69 on the 30th May 1977. George Bomphray died in Ayrshire, Scotland aged 55. Lorraine C Bomphray - daughter of George Bomphray had visited Clonburren Cemetery on two occasions but was unable to locate the resting place of her grandmother. Following the mapping and recording of Clonburren Graveyard by Moore History Group and putting it up on Historic Graves contact was made with Lorraine and in July 2016 Lorraine came again, this time she knew she knew the exact headstone of where her grandmother was interred.
Lorraine had the inscription renewed and had her grandfather's name and date of death added. This was a very special visit for Lorraine as she celebrates the 100th anniversary of her grandmother's death in December 2016.
