ME-ARCH-0063

Record Date: 
25 May 2021
Graveyard: 
Ardcath
Exact wording of epitaph: 

 

In Loving Memory
of
THOMAS JOHNSON
DIED 23RD JULY 1968
AGED 59 YEARS.
CLARE JOHNSON
DIED 24TH JULY 1981
AGED 58 YEARS.
BERNARD JOHNSON
DIED 13TH FEBRUARY 2003
AGED 82 YEARS.
CHRISTOPHER (KIT)
JOHNSON
DIED 10TH SEPTEMBER 2015
AGED 61 YEARS.

FENNOR, ARDCATH.

REST IN PEACE

REST IN PEACE

Memorial Type: 
Headstone
Grave location
County: 
Meath
Latitude: 
53.607347222222
Longitude: 
-6.3942111111111
Additional details
Inscription legible: 
Yes
Number of people commemorated: 
4
People commemorated: 
Name: 
Thomas
Surname: 
Johnson
Date of birth - year: 
1909
Date of death - day: 
23
Date of death - month: 
July
Date of death - year: 
1968
Age: 
59
Address: 
Fennor, Ardcath, Co Meath
Name: 
Clare
Surname: 
Johnson
Date of birth - year: 
1923
Date of death - day: 
24
Date of death - month: 
July
Date of death - year: 
1981
Age: 
58
Address: 
Fenor, Ardcath
Relationship with first person: 
Wife
Name: 
Bernard (Benny)
Surname: 
Johnson
Date of birth - year: 
1921
Date of death - day: 
13
Date of death - month: 
February
Date of death - year: 
2003
Age: 
82
Address: 
Fenor, Ardcath
Relationship with first person: 
Unknown
Name: 
Christopher (Kit)
Surname: 
Johnson
Date of birth - year: 
1954
Date of death - day: 
10
Date of death - month: 
September
Date of death - year: 
2015
Age: 
61
Address: 
Fennor, Ardcath
Relationship with first person: 
Unknown
Notes: 

Thomas, Clare, Benny and Kit remained single all their lives. Thomas - Ardcath Register of Interments records his occupation was a labourer. He used to have a cow feeding on the roadside called "The Long Acre" 

Christopher (Kit) - Ardcath Register of Interments records his occupation was a fuel log merchant.

Bernard - Ardcath Register of Interments records his name as "Benny" and his date of death as 02.01.2003. Benny worked on the roads for MCC as did a lot of the men in the area arriving on their bicycles in the 60's with shovels and tools tied to their vehicles and billycans ready for teatime wherever they were working when a fire would be lit, the tea made and sandwiches made that morning devoured after which a cigarette or a pipe smoked before returning to the task in hand. They knew everyone passing and a jolly good morning or afternoon was always on their lips for passers by.