TS-EMOG-0586

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

I.H.S.

 ERECTED   BY  DANIEL    KIRBY  

IN   MEMORY   OF  

HIS   BELOVED   FATHER ,  

MAURICE    KIRBY  OF   EMLY , 

WHO   DEPARTED   THIS   LIFE  

MAY   1ST   1864,   AGED   60   YEARS. 

JOHN   KIRBY   DIED   1916. 

MARGARET   DIED   1944. 

MAURICE   DIED   1958. 

MARY   DIED   1966.

 R.I.P.

Memorial Type: 
Headstone
Grave location
County: 
Tipperary
Latitude: 
52.462703333333
Longitude: 
-8.3509366666667
Number of people commemorated: 
6
People commemorated: 
Name: 
Daniel
Surname: 
Kirby
Name: 
Maurice
Surname: 
Kirby
Date of birth - year: 
1804
Date of death - day: 
1
Date of death - month: 
May
Date of death - year: 
1864
Age: 
60
Address: 
Emly
Relationship with first person: 
Father
Name: 
John
Surname: 
Kirby
Date of death - year: 
1916
Relationship with first person: 
Son
Name: 
Margaret
Surname: 
Kirby
Date of death - year: 
1944
Relationship with first person: 
Daughter
Name: 
Maurice
Surname: 
Kirby
Date of death - year: 
1958
Relationship with first person: 
Son
Name: 
Mary
Surname: 
Kirby
Date of death - year: 
1966
Relationship with first person: 
Daughter
Notes: 

NB.  Inscription  on  back  of  stone  is  Maurice   Kirby.

Recorded in  the  1901  &  1911  censuses  for  Emly  village ,  are  widow   Mary   Kirby  and  her  family.

In  1901 ,  her  son   John  is  a  victualler ,  Maurice  is  a  postman   and  her  daughters  Margaret &   Mary  are  dressmakers.   The  deceased  father,  Daniel  Kirby   was  also  a victualler. 

This  premises ,  later  became  a  drapery  business  under   Mary  Kirby  (1880-1968).

Daniel  Kirby, son of Maurice Kirby (1804-1864)  &  Mary Ryan,  married  Mary  Barry  in  Knocklong   RC, County  Limerick  on  the  23-02-1865. 

Children  born  to them   were   John  Kirby  1866-1921,  Maurice  1867-1958,   Daniel   1869-1938 ,   Margaret   1871-1944,  twins   Patrick   1880-1880   &   Mary   1880-1968.  None  of them married.

Daniel Kirby (1869-1938) was ordained a priest in France on Oct 28th 1893 and emigrated to the USA in November 1904 and was pastor of the Holy Rosary Church in Lowellville, Ohio. He died on the 3rd December 1938 and was interred in Calvary cemetery in Cleveland, Ohio.

Mary Kirby, nee Barry, died  on  the 17-11-1912.  Age recorded at death was 69.

Children of Maurice Kirby (1804-1864) & Mary Ryan who emigrated to the USA and settled in Cleveland, Ohio included John Kirby (1830-1919) who married Bridget Woods,  his sister Margaret Kirby (1836-1918) who married  James Hayes & their  sister Catherine Kirby (1838-1931) who married firstly to Laurence Mulligan  and secondly to John H Murphy.