LA-OKCK-0363

Record Date: 
8 January 2014
Graveyard: 
Oakvale, Carricksallagh
Exact wording of epitaph: 

NEAR THIS PLACE IS INTERRED Mr. THOMAS

DOUGLAS BORD IN EDINBURGH, YE 10 TH OF

MAR 1630. HE WAS ENDUED TO AN EMINENT

DEGREE WITH YE GRACES OF GODLINESS, PIETY,

PERVENT DEVOTION UNEXAMPLED HUMILITY,

BENEVOLENCE, MEEKNESS AND GRATITUDE

KNOWING AND IN WISE IN YE DOCTRINE

AND PRECPTS OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION FOR THE  

STRICTLY PRACTIES WHAT HE KNEW

HE LIVED 52 YEARS IN STRADBALLY HALL WITH

ALEX DUDLEY AND POLE COSBY ESQRS.

AND WAS AT FIRST TAKEN AS PRECEPTOR AND

AFTER ENTERTAINED BY THEM FOR HIS GREAT

WORTH AND GRATITUDE FOR HIS LOVE AND

FAITHFULNESS TO YE FAMILY

HE DIED YE 6 TH OCTOBER 1734 IN THE

HUNDREAD AND FOURTH YEAR OF HIS AGE.

THIS MONUMENT WAS ERRECTED BY HIS

AFFECTE AND FAITHFUL FRIEND POLE COSBY ESQRE.

" THE SWEET REMEMBRANCE OF THE JUST

SHALL FLOURISH WHEN HE SLEEPS IN DUST"

            PSA : 112: V. 6.

BLEST HE YE MEN WHO SPARE HIS BONES AND

CURST BE THEY WHO MOVE THESE STONES.

Memorial Type: 
Wall or mural tablet
Grave location
County: 
Laois
Latitude: 
53.008516666667
Longitude: 
-7.13335
Number of people commemorated: 
1
People commemorated: 
Name: 
MR. THOMAS
Surname: 
DOUGLASS
Date of birth - day: 
10
Date of birth - month: 
March
Date of birth - year: 
1630
Date of death - day: 
6
Date of death - month: 
October
Date of death - year: 
1734
Age: 
104
Address: 
STRADBALLY, HALL