TS-EMOG-0357

Record Date: 
19 January 2016
Graveyard: 
Exact wording of epitaph: 

ERECTED BY

 THOMAS  MITCHELL,

GARRYiNATRUMP,

IN  MEMORY OF

HIS  FATHER, 

THOMAS  MITCHELL, WHO DIED

24TH NOV  1888, AGED  72. 

HIS SISTER, CATHERINE, 

DIED  13TH DEC  1902, AGED  54.

ALSO, HIS BROTHERS, 

MATTHEW,

DIED  9TH  FEBRUARY  1878, AGED  28.

JOHN 

DIED  23RD AUGUST  1912, AGED  56.

Added inscription on side reads :

TOM SAMPSON

HAMMONDSTOWN , KNOCKLONG

DIED  APRIL  1930

HIS  DAUGHTERS

ALICE  SAMPSON

DIED APRIL 23 1949

MARY  SAMPSON

DIED   APRIL 9  2015

Memorial Type: 
Cross
Grave location
County: 
Latitude: 
52.462595
Longitude: 
-8.3513066666667
Number of people commemorated: 
5
People commemorated: 
Name: 
Thomas
Surname: 
Mitchell
Address: 
Garryinatrump
Name: 
Thomas
Surname: 
Mitchell
Date of birth - year: 
1816
Date of death - day: 
24
Date of death - month: 
November
Date of death - year: 
1888
Age: 
72
Relationship with first person: 
Father
Name: 
Catherine
Surname: 
Mitchell
Date of birth - year: 
1848
Date of death - day: 
13
Date of death - month: 
December
Date of death - year: 
1902
Age: 
54
Relationship with first person: 
Sister
Name: 
Matthew
Surname: 
Mitchell
Date of birth - year: 
1850
Date of death - day: 
9
Date of death - month: 
February
Date of death - year: 
1878
Age: 
28
Relationship with first person: 
Brother
Name: 
John
Surname: 
Mitchell
Date of birth - year: 
1856
Date of death - day: 
23
Date of death - month: 
August
Date of death - year: 
1912
Age: 
56
Relationship with first person: 
Brother
Notes: 

NB. This  branch of the  Mitchell  family  farmed  in Ballylooby,  Duntryleague,  Galbally  parish,  Co. Limerick.   

Garryinatrump  is in the area where down the boreen  at  Billy Gleeson’s  cottage in Knockarron, it  forks  to the right.

Death of  Thomas Mitchell , Ballylooby, widower, farmer, aged  75,  on the 25-11-1887, due to heart  disease. Informant was his son  John Mitchell.

Death of  Matthew  Mitchell , Ballylooby, bachelor, farmer, aged  28,  on the 09-02-1878, due to typhoid  fever. Informant was  Mary  Howard.

Death of  Catherine Mitchell , Ballylooby, spinster, farmer’s daughter,  aged  55,  on the 13-12-1902, due to bronchitis.  Informant was  Robert  Sampson.

Death of  John  Mitchell , Ballylooby, bachelor, farmer, aged  60,  on the 20-8-1912, due to a head  injury from a fall . Informant was  William Sampson.

The  six children of  Thomas  Mitchell  and  Mary  Howard  were  Catherine  (1845-1902), Mary 1846, (married  Michael  Sampson  in Galbally RC on the 15-2-1873), Matthew  ( 1847-1878), Thomas  1849,  Sarah  1850 and  John  (1852 -1912)

 NB.  See   related   information   for   memorials    0358  &  0359.

Tom Sampson (1875-1930), son of Michael Sampson (1841-1923) and Mary Mitchell (1846-1919), married Margaret (Maggie) Batters (1893 -  ) daughter  Of Denis Batters & Mary Anne Harty of Ballyvistea, Emly on the 18-02-1925 in Emly RC.

Daughters were Alice Sampson 1927-1949 & Teresa Mary 1930-2015.