Explore, protect, promote
KK-KLMR-009
Record Date:
11 December 2012
Graveyard:
Exact wording of epitaph:
IN LOVING MEMORY OF
RICHARD DOWNEY RATHKYLE
WHO DIED 13TH JAN 1905 AGED 88YRS.
ALSO HIS WIFE
BRIDGET DOWNEY NEE GRACE
WHO DIED 14TH OCT 1917 AGED 92YRS
AND THEIR FOUR CHILDREN
ROBERT JOHN JAMES AND ELLEN
WHO DIED YOUNG.
MICHAEL DOWNEY
DIED 23RD JAN 1944 AGED 85 YRS.
PATRICK DIED 25 DEC 1945
AGED 98 YRS
ELLEN DIED 26 JUNE 1946.
Number of people commemorated:
9
People commemorated:
Name:
RICHARD
Surname:
DOWNEY
Date of death - day:
13
Date of death - month:
January
Date of death - year:
1905
Age:
86
Address:
RATHKYLE
Name:
BRIDGET
Surname:
DOWNEY NEE GRACE
Date of death - day:
14
Date of death - month:
October
Date of death - year:
1917
Age:
92
Name:
ROBERT
Relationship with first person:
SON
Name:
JOHN
Relationship with first person:
SON
Name:
JAMES
Relationship with first person:
SON
Name:
ELLEN
Relationship with first person:
DAUGHTER
Name:
MICHAEL
Surname:
DOWNEY
Date of death - day:
23
Date of death - month:
January
Date of death - year:
1944
Age:
85
Name:
PATRICK
Date of death - day:
25
Date of death - month:
December
Date of death - year:
1945
Age:
98
Name:
ELLEN
Date of death - day:
26
Date of death - month:
June
Date of death - year:
1946
Notes:
Recorded on Kilmacar Burial Ledger Michael single died 25/1/1945. Another Michael Downey Rathkyle, married. recorded but no date, usually means some time late 1930s or early 40s. Mrs Downey similarly recorded, so same assumption applies. The last name Ellen on the headstone as died 26/6/1947
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Kilkenny/Kilmacar/Rathkyle/1447717/
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Kilkenny/Kilmacar/Rathkyle/565094/
Birth Record for the following children of Richard Downey and Bridget Grace, Ellen 1862, Ellen 1864, James 1867, Thomas 1869, Mary 1871, Honor 1874.
Richard Downey married into Graces, in the 1860's he is recorded as a Cooper. They were one of 2 Downey families known as "The Cooper" Downeys.
