ERECTED BY
PATRICK O’CONNOR, TULLA,
IN LOVING MEMORY OF
HIS WIFE
HANNIE O’CONNOR, NEE McGRATH,
WHO DIED 15TH MAY 1917,
AGED 36 YEARS.
Tulla, Emly.
NB. Patrick O’Connor was a creamery manager. He married Johanna Mary (Hannie) McGrath (1880-1917), daughter of Monemore farmer , William McGrath and his wife Amelia Ryan in Emly RC on the 25-2-1906.
Known children born were Josephine O’Connor 1907, Patrick 1909, William Patrick 1911, Amelia 1912 & Mary 1913.
There may have been other children, as their mother Hannie died in 1917 of pernicious anaemia, caused by childbirth.
Patrick O’Connor who had this headstone erected was born in Duncummin, Emly, Co. Tipperary on the 21st August 1879.
His parents were farmer Patrick O’Connor /Connors and Johanna, nee Hogan who died on the 09-09-1912 & the 10-11-1932 respectively. The 1911 census records that Patrick & Johanna O’ Connor/Connors had been married for 39 years and that there was eight surviving children out of a total of eleven that had been born.
Their other children included Thomas, Daniel b. 22-08-1882, John, Johanna & the youngest Mary who married Patrick Maher, son of farmer Matthew Maher of Glenbane in Emly RC on the 10-02-1915.