RO-CLBU-0027

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

O LORD HAVE MERCY ON THE

SOUL OF ANTONY ROCK WHO

DEPd THIS LIFE JULY 4th 1848

AGED 78 YEARS ALSO HIS WIFE

MARGARET ROCK DEPd JUNE

9 1848 AGED 60 YEARS ALSO

THEIR SON JOHN ROCK DEPd

APRIL 10th 1848 AGED 29 YEARS

ERECd BY HIS SON ANTON ROCK

ANTHONY ROCK DIED JAN 1904

CATHERINE ROCK DIED 24 DEC 1919

GLORIA IN EXCELSIS DEO

Memorial Type: 
Headstone
Grave location
County: 
Roscommon
Latitude: 
53.313764444444
Longitude: 
-8.0516363888889
Additional details
Erected by: 
Erected by his son Anton Rock.
Number of people commemorated: 
5
People commemorated: 
Name: 
ANTONY
Surname: 
ROCK
Date of death - day: 
4
Date of death - month: 
July
Date of death - year: 
1848
Age: 
78
Address: 
CAPPALEITRA
Name: 
MARGARET
Surname: 
ROCK nee [KENNY]
Date of death - day: 
9
Date of death - month: 
June
Date of death - year: 
1848
Age: 
60
Relationship with first person: 
WIFE of ANTHONY
Name: 
JOHN
Surname: 
ROCK
Date of death - day: 
10
Date of death - month: 
April
Date of death - year: 
1848
Age: 
29
Relationship with first person: 
SON of ANTHONY & MARGARET
Name: 
ANTHONY
Surname: 
ROCK
Date of death - month: 
January
Date of death - year: 
1904
Relationship with first person: 
SON of ANTHONY & MARGARET
Name: 
CATHERINE
Surname: 
ROCK nee [KENNY]
Date of death - month: 
December
Date of death - year: 
1917
Relationship with first person: 
DAUGHTER in LAW of ANTHONY & MARGARET
Notes: 

The address for this grave is Cappaleitra.

Census record 1901:

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Roscommon/Cloonburren/Cappaleitrim/1655113/ 

Census record 1911: 

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Roscommon/Cloonburren/Cappaleitrim/777065/

Anthony Rock [1770-1848] married Margaret Kenny [1788-1848]. Their son John also died 1848 & is interred with his parents.

Another son, Anthony Rock [1818-1904] married Catherine Kenny [1837-1919] daughter of Michael Kenny & Catherine Malone about 1862. They were parents to 9 children: Ellen 1863-1946, John 1864-1944, Catherine 1865, Sarah 1867, Elizabeth 1869 Elizabeth 1870-1946, Anthony 1872-1873, Bridget 1875-1933, Ann 1877.

Headstone 26 is the memorial to John Rock [1864-1944]& Bridget Kenny [1869-1940] Cappaleitra, another son of Anthony Rock & Catherine Kenny.