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CO-KSNG-0248
Record Date:
15 November 2012
Graveyard:
Exact wording of epitaph:
IN
LOVING MEMORY
OF
DEPUTY INSPECTOR GENERAL
GEORGE BOLSTER R.N.
BORN DECEMBER 30, 1838. DIED MARCH 11 1935
AND SO HE BRINGETH THEM INTO THE HEAVEN
WHERE THEY WOULD BE
PSALM 107 V 30
ALSO
ALICE HAWKES BOLSTER
WHO DIED
MAY 28TH 1937
IN MEMORY OF
THOMAS BOLSTER
WHO DIED
14 MAY 1908 AGED 97
FOREVER WITH THE LORD
Memorial Type:
Cross
Number of people commemorated:
3
People commemorated:
Title:
Deputy Inspector General
Name:
George
Surname:
Bolster
Date of birth - day:
30
Date of birth - month:
December
Date of birth - year:
1838
Date of death - day:
11
Date of death - month:
March
Date of death - year:
1935
Address:
Kanturk
Name:
Alice
Surname:
Hawkes Bolster
Date of death - day:
28
Date of death - month:
May
Date of death - year:
1937
Name:
Thomas
Surname:
Bolster
Date of death - day:
14
Date of death - month:
May
Date of death - year:
1908
Age:
97
Notes:
George was grandson of George Bolster(senior)of Curraghbower and was born in 1838. He studied medicine,entered the Royal Navy in 1861 and became Deputy Inspector General of Hospitals and Fleet of the Royal Navy. He retired in 1861 to Springville ,Kanturk and became a Peace Commissioner.He had a great interest in local history and wrote a very interesting article on the effects of the famine in North Cork as he experienced it as a young boy.
