LI-GRAN-0094

Record Date: 
30 April 2012
Graveyard: 
Grange Church
Exact wording of epitaph: 

A TOKEN
OF AFFECTION
BY JOHN PURCELL
TO THE MEMORY OF
HIS DAUGHTER MARY WHO
DIED JUNE 12th 1852

HERE REST IN PEACE THOU LOVELY MAID
HERE SLEEP IN SILENT REPOSE
AND THO THOU  ART MOULDING  IN (TO) THE DUST
THOU ART FAIRER THAN THE ROSE
FROM SIGHS AND TEARS AND MANY ILLS
THOU FLED TO JOYS ABOVE
NOR MAY WE WISH THEE TO RETURN
NOR MAY AT COURT THY LOVE 

AND HIS SON JOHN
AGED 11 YEARS 

NOW SLEEP IN PEACE MY OWN DEAR BOY
THY MOTHER'S  PET THY  FATHER'S JOY
AND WHILE WE BOW TO GOD'S DECREE
OUR LAST LOVELY SON WE GRIEVE FOR THEE 

Grave location
County: 
Limerick
Latitude: 
52.520065277778
Longitude: 
-8.5415327777778
Number of people commemorated: 
3
People commemorated: 
Name: 
John
Surname: 
Purcell
Name: 
Mary
Surname: 
Purcell
Date of death - day: 
12
Date of death - month: 
June
Date of death - year: 
1852
Relationship with first person: 
Daughter
Name: 
John
Surname: 
Purcell
Age: 
11
Relationship with first person: 
Son