ERECTED BY
EDMOND BOURKE OF COOLBOY,
IN MEMORY OF HIS BELOVED WIFE,
JOHANNA BOURKE, ALIAS PURCELL,
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE MARCH 19TH
1857, AGED 51 YEARS.
REQUIESCANT IN PACE AMEN.
Coolboy, Emly.
See memorials 0101 & 0396
Edmond Bourke married Johanna Purcell in Emly RC, Co. Tipperary on the 15th Feb 1831. Edmond died, aged 80 years at Coolboy on the 24th Jul 1881. NB. See memorial number 0396.
Children born to Edmond Bourke & Johanna Purcell were David Bourke 1832 -1893, Anne 1833-1903, William 1836, William 1837, Mary 1838 -1911, Edmond 1840 -1917, William 1842, Morgan 1844, Ellen 1847, Tobias 1848 & Julia 1849-1932.
David Bourke 1832-1893, see memorial 0101 for details
Anne Bourke 1833-1903 married Patrick Ryan of Coolnadown, Templebredon parish, Co. Limerick on the 5th Mar 1859 in Emly RC.
Mary Bourke 1838-1911 married William Carroll in Emly RC on the 30th Jan 1869. See memorial 0392
Edmond Bourke 1840-1917, see memorial 0396 for details.
Julia Bourke 1849-1932 married David Fitzgerald (1842-1915) son of Gerald Fitzgerald & Catherine O'Brien in Emly RC on the 17th Feb 1878. See memorial 0008.