TS-EMOG-0388

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

SWEET  JESUS  

HAVE  MERCY  ON  THE  SOULS  OF

 PATRICK  FITZGERALD,  

EMLY,

WHO  DIED  23   APRIL  1879, AGED  47  YEARS. 

HIS  WIFE, 

HELEN,

DIED  12  MARCH  1904, AGED  62  YEARS 

AND  THEIR  SON 

JAMES 

DIED  12  MARCH  1904,  AGED  36  YEARS.

 R.I.P.

 

PRAY  FOR  THE  SOULS  OF 

WINIFRED   DUHIG,

DIED  30TH MARCH   1947. 

ALSO  HER  SISTER,  

MARY  HENNESSY 

DIED  23RD  AUGUST   1932.

 R.I.P.

Memorial Type: 
Celtic Cross
Grave location
County: 
Tipperary
Latitude: 
52.462663333333
Longitude: 
-8.3513016666667
Additional details
Inscription legible: 
Yes
Number of people commemorated: 
5
People commemorated: 
Name: 
Patrick
Surname: 
Fitzgerald
Date of birth - year: 
1832
Date of death - day: 
23
Date of death - month: 
April
Date of death - year: 
1879
Age: 
47
Address: 
Emly
Name: 
Helen
Surname: 
Fitzgerald
Date of birth - year: 
1842
Date of death - day: 
12
Date of death - month: 
March
Date of death - year: 
1904
Age: 
62
Relationship with first person: 
Wife
Name: 
James
Surname: 
Fitzgerald
Date of birth - year: 
1868
Date of death - day: 
12
Date of death - month: 
March
Date of death - year: 
1904
Age: 
36
Relationship with first person: 
Son
Name: 
Winifred
Surname: 
Duhig
Date of death - day: 
30
Date of death - month: 
March
Date of death - year: 
1947
Relationship with first person: 
Daughter
Name: 
Mary
Surname: 
Hennessy
Date of death - day: 
23
Date of death - month: 
August
Date of death - year: 
1932
Relationship with first person: 
Daughter
Notes: 

A kerbed Celtic cross.

NB. Ellen (Helen) Fitzgerald  was the sexton of St. Ailbe’s  church in Emly.  Both she and her son James Fitzgerald died on the same day..

Helen's  daughter, Winifred  Fitzgerald  married  Thomas  Duhig, son of  Denis  Duhig  &  Mary  Treacy  of  Knocklong,  Co. Limerick  in  Emly  RC  on the 22-10-1903.

Thomas  Duhig was employed  as a coachman  and servant by  Canon  Maurice  Power  P.P  of  Emly.

Patrick  (Paddy)  Duhig  (1910-1978), son of  Thomas  Duhig  & Winifred  Fitzgerald, married  Margaret  (Maggie)  Ferns  (1914-1998), daughter  of  William  Ferns  & Bridget  Flynn  of  Hospital,  Co.  Limerick  in  1955.

Both, Paddy  &  Maggie  Duhig  served  as  Church sexton  in  Emly.

See related information  for Duhig  family  memorials  0604 ,  0605  &  0629.

See adjacent memorial 0389.