TS-EMOG-0058

Record Date: 
25 May 2015
Graveyard: 
Emly
Exact wording of epitaph: 

I.H.S.

 IN  MEMORY  OF

 GEORGE  DOWNES,

HOSPITAL,

DIED  NOV  19  1945.

DANIEL   DOWNES

DIED  NOV  1938. 

 

 R.I.P.

Memorial Type: 
Headstone
Grave location
County: 
Tipperary
Latitude: 
52.462728305556
Longitude: 
-8.3518399722222
Number of people commemorated: 
2
People commemorated: 
Name: 
George
Surname: 
Downes
Date of death - day: 
19
Date of death - month: 
November
Date of death - year: 
1945
Address: 
Hospital
Name: 
Daniel
Surname: 
Downes
Date of death - month: 
November
Date of death - year: 
1938
Relationship with first person: 
Brother
Notes: 

NB.  George  Downes (1866-1945)  was  a  skilled  slater & plasterer  born  in  Hospital,  Co. Limerick  on  the  30 -07 -1866.  He  also  had  a grocer's  shop  in  Hospital.  He was the contractor who in 1927 undertook the restoration of the old RIC barracks in Pallasgrean, Co. Limerick which had been burned down in 1922 by republican forces during the Irish Civil War.

The  correct  date  of  death  for  his  brother  Daniel  Downes  was  the  30 -09 -1938  in  Hospital,  Co.  Limerick. Daniel's  age  at  death  was  recorded  as being  77  years  old.

 Their  parents  were  Daniel  &  Susan   Downes  (nee)  Harris.

Daniel  Downes died in Hospital, Co. Limerick on the 01-11-1885. His age at death was recorded as being 69 years old

His widow, Susan  Downes  ( nee)  Harris ,  died  in  Hospital ,  Co.  Limerick  on  the  11 - 02 - 1895.  Her  age  at  death  was  recorded  as being  64  years  old.

George  Downes  (1866-1945)  married   Bridget  Ryan, daughter of Thomas Ryan  on  the  01-04-1894  in  Hospital  RC, Co. Limerick.

Their  children  included  Susan Downes  b. 13-02-1895,  Daniel Downes  b. 08-10-1896  &  Ellen Downes  b. 11-07-1897,  who  died, aged  11 of  tuberculosis on  the  29-11-1909.

Following  the  death of  his  wife  Bridget Ryan,  George  Downes  remarried  to  Catherine  ( Kate )  Mortell, daughter of Martin Mortell & Hanora Rourke of  Ballyvoodane, Ardpatrick, Co. Limerick on  the  29-04-1903  in  St . Mary’s  RC,  Cork  City.

Catherine  Downes  ( nee Mortell ), 2nd  wife  of  George  Downes, died  on  the  01-02-1945  in  Hospital,  Co. Limerick.  Her  age  was  recorded  as  being  74 years  old  at  the  time  of  her  death.

Their  daughter, Hanora Mary  Downes, known as Mary , born 11-06-1904,  married  John  Heelan  of  Ballycahill, Hospital  on  the  24-01-1939  in  Hospital R.C. Children born to them included Michael  Heelan 1940, Catherine 1941, Bridget 1944, Mary 1946 & Susan 1949.