RO-CLBU-0004

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

EVER WITH THE LORD

TO THE BELOVED MEMORY

OF

JOHN BOOKLESS

DIED JAN 1ST 1920

AGED 72 YEARS

ALSO HIS WIFE KATHERINE

DIED NOV 2ND 1939

AGED 89 YEARS

IN DISTANT GRAVES

NEVER FORGOTTEN THEIR SONS

ARCHIBALD & JOHN JAMES BELL

DAVID BOOKLESS

DIED 22ND JUNE 1964

AGED 72

ERECTED BY THEIR FAMILY

Memorial Type: 
Headstone
Grave location
County: 
Latitude: 
53.313831944444
Longitude: 
-8.0520969444444
Additional details
Stonecutter/monumental sculptor: 
M HAWTHORN CASTLEREA
Erected by: 
ERECTED BY THEIR FAMILY.
Number of people commemorated: 
3
People commemorated: 
Name: 
JOHN
Surname: 
BOOKLESS
Date of birth - day: 
11
Date of birth - month: 
April
Date of birth - year: 
1847
Date of death - day: 
1
Date of death - month: 
January
Date of death - year: 
1920
Age: 
72
Address: 
FALTY
Name: 
KATHERINE
Surname: 
BOOKLESS (nee BELL)
Date of birth - year: 
1850
Date of death - day: 
2
Date of death - month: 
November
Date of death - year: 
1939
Age: 
89
Relationship with first person: 
WIFE OF JOHN
Name: 
DAVID
Surname: 
BOOKLESS
Date of birth - year: 
1891
Date of death - day: 
22
Date of death - month: 
June
Date of death - year: 
1964
Age: 
72
Relationship with first person: 
SON OF JOHN & KATHERINE
Notes: 

The address for this plot is Falty, Ballydangan, Athlone, Co Roscommon.

John Bookless was born on the 11th April 1847 in Kyloe, Northumberland, England to parents Archibald Bookless & Margaret Hendry. He married Katherine Bell daughter of John & Isabella Bell, Eckford, Roxburghshire, Scotland on the 11th March 1879 in Marchcleugh, parish of Eckford. They became parents to 8 children, Isabella Bell [1879-1956], Margaret Henry [1881-?], Agnes [1883-1974], Archibald [1884-1939], John James Bell [1887-?], Jane Katherine [1889-1974], David Wight [1891-1964], Mary [1894-1983].This family moved to Falty in late 1800's to work on the Estate of Daniel Mathers, a Scottish Landlord. John Bookless was a steward and was regarded as better than any Vet in dealing with sick animals. His son David Bookless married Rose Mullins, Dromalga on the 8th October 1928 in Moore Church. Rose Bookless died 27th Jan 1977 aged 80 years and is interred in Moore New Cemetery.  Archibald Bookless death record is 10-april-1939 in Church Village, Pontypridd, Glamorganshire, Wales. No death record for John James Bell Bookless. Mary Bookless married James Whyte & is interred in the same cemetery plot no 5. 

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Roscommon/Ballydangan/Faltia/1654890/

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Roscommon/Ballydangan/Faltia/776854/