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Mary and Bernie.
Hi I am trying to find Fleming ancestors born in kilree Kells in the late 1800s and I see from your blog there were Flemings buried in dunamaggin, Ballyhale and other places, do you record the details on each gravestone and is it possible to get these details from you? Your blog is fascinating! Monica
ReplyDeleteHello Monica. Thank you for your encouraging words about the blog and thank you for visiting it. Could you give us a few more details of who you are actually looking for? We do indeed transcribe all the details on the headstones and will certainly try to help you out. Can you be more specific and let us have the details of the people you are looking for?
ReplyDeleteWith best wishes Mary and Bernie
Hi again
DeleteMy ancestor is Pierce, Percy, Fleming who lived in kilree, Kells, born about 1844 and married Bridget Hanrahan who is buried inside the ruins of the church in kilree. I am trying to find their children as listed on 1911 census, Ellen, Patrick, Edward, John, Pierce. My father thought they were buried in Dunamaggin, but maybe they are in Hugginstown or Ballyhale? I recently visited Dunamaggin graveyard and the Fleming graves there only record more recent deaths
Also trying to find where Percy himself is buried as he is not on the gravestone with his wife in Kilree.
ReplyDeleteSo I am looking for Ellen Fleming b.1884, (all approx), Patrick Fleming b.1886, Edward Fleming b.1888 John Fleming b. 1890 Pierce Fleming b.1892.
ReplyDeleteThank you
Hello Monica Just working through your queries. The following 2 stones at Ballyhale may be of interest. No 96. Two headstones in on large kerbed plot. Lefthand side headstone: Gloria scroll, 2 ciborium. IHS in sunburst. Erected by Edmd Keefe of Kells in memory of his father Laurence Keefe he died Augst 1st 1829 aged 76 years. Also the above Edmd Keefe died May 4th 1870 aged 80 years. Also his wife Bridget Keefe (alias Follis) died July 19th 1871 aged 76 years. Then writing changes: Also their son Laurence O’Keeffe died 15th Feb 1909 aged 79. His wife Bridget née Dalton died 27th Sept 1924 aged 83. Their sons Edmond died 19 Oct 1923 aged 51, Martin died 10 April 1932 aged 52. Their daughters Mary died 10 July 1944 aged 69, Bridget died 15 Dec 1944 aged 73. Elizabeth died 28 Dec 1955 aged 75. Edmond’s daughter Bridget “Cissie” died 26 March 1933 aged 14 and his wife Bridget “Ciss” nee Hawe O’Keefe Fleming died 8th Nov 1964 aged 81. And Edward Fleming died 2 Nov 1968 aged 81. May their souls rest in peace Amen. the 2nd stone in the plot is to Robert Roche of Knockwilliam died 31st Dec 1973 aged 75. His wife Kathleen died 13 Sept 1985 aged 77.
ReplyDeleteThere is another stone at Ballyhale but probably not yours . to Thomas Fleming of Ballyhale (no date but his wife Mary Walsh died 1899 aged 70 yrs).
You obviously have the details off the stone inside the ruined church at Kilree. We have surveyed this graveyard but not yet posted any of it but that stone is the only Fleming/Hanrahan at Kilree. However we have checked the burial registers for Kilree (1941-1992) and the following were buried at Kilree but do not appear n any stone/ Margaret Fleming, female, aged 78, Catholic, married, farmer, last place of residence was Kilree, Stoneyford. died Aug 27th 1958 and was buried 29th Aug 1958. Patrick Fleming widower, aged 75, farmer, of Kilree, Stoneyford died March 31st 1960 and was buried April 2nd 1960.
Still checking out the other queries for you.
Dunnamaggan has only the modern stone. No 58. In Loving memory of the Fleming Family. There is a Hanrahan stone No 60 to Mrs Julia Hanrahan of Goodwinsgarden who died Sept 1887 aged 68 and her son Patrick who died July 1877.
ReplyDeleteHugginstown old graveyard. There is no Fleming stone at all. There is one stone to Mary Hanrahan nee Cochlan of Lismatigue died 1911 aged 48 but this probably may not interest you.
There is no stone at all to Fleming in Stonyford but one erected by the widow Hanrahan of Stonecarthy in memory of her husband who died 1838 aged 65 yrs.
So we have found Patrick Fleming and Edward Fleming. Pierce who erected the stone in Kilree church is probably in the grave but not recorded on the stone. Do you have the date of his death? If outside the dates that we have for the burial registers for Kilree it would suggest that he is maybe in the same grave as his wife. That only leaves Ellen and John who have yet to be traced.
Hope this is of help
Kind regards
Bernie and Mary
Thank you so much, great information. Yes, I think that must be Edward buried in Ballyhale, he was a bachelor, and that must be his oldest sister, Bridget, is that unusual to say
ReplyDelete"nee Hawe o keefe Fleming"? Maybe she was married twice?
And yes that must be Patrick .
They had a brother Pierce b.1892 who is living in Kilkenny city in 1911, but the father , who is not listed on the headstone in kilree, was also Pierce, b.1844. I am really grateful for your help. I have lots of other questions! Not fair to ask you to do all the looking! Where can you access burial records?
This man, Pierce Fleming of Kilree b.1884, was still alive in 1916 as a nephew who died in ww1 left his possessions to him (found this reference in book about Kilkenny war dead) .
ReplyDeleteMonica The Kilkenny Board of Health Registers of Internment are held at the Council Offices in John Street. Our posting of 4/7/2017 lists what they have there and the dates covered This is not a complete collection though.
ReplyDeleteBest wishes Mary and Bernie
Thank you
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