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RO-KLBG-0169
Record Date:
14 May 2016
Graveyard:
Exact wording of epitaph:
JOHN CLAFFEY
WHO DIED
OCT 2. 1879
AGED 63 YEARS
__________________
MAY HIS SOUL REST
IN PEACE
ALSO HIS WIFE ANNE
WHO DIED 8 TH MAY 1900
AGED 83 YEARS
THEIR SON JOHN
WHO DIED 9 TH MAY 1902
AGED 44 YEARS
AND THOMAS
WHO DIED 2 ND MARCH 1903 AGED 40
ROBERT DIED 11 TH JULY 1911
HIS WIFE MARGARET
DIED 24 TH FEBRUARY 1958
THEIR SONS JOHN
DIED 12 TH OCTOBER 1932
BIRTIE DIED AUG 1935
ANNE CLAFFEY O'HALLORAN
Memorial Type:
Headstone
Number of people commemorated:
8
People commemorated:
Name:
John
Surname:
Claffey
Date of death - day:
2
Date of death - month:
October
Date of death - year:
1879
Age:
63
Address:
Bitterfield, Gortnashavoge, Creagh
Name:
Anne
Surname:
Claffey nee O'Halloran
Date of death - day:
8
Date of death - month:
May
Date of death - year:
1900
Age:
83
Relationship with first person:
Wife of John Claffey
Name:
John
Surname:
Claffey
Date of death - day:
9
Date of death - month:
May
Date of death - year:
1902
Age:
44
Relationship with first person:
Son of John Claffey
Name:
Thomas
Surname:
Claffey
Date of death - day:
2
Date of death - month:
March
Date of death - year:
1903
Age:
40
Relationship with first person:
Son of John Claffey
Name:
Robert
Surname:
Claffey
Date of death - day:
11
Date of death - month:
July
Date of death - year:
1911
Relationship with first person:
Son of John Claffey
Name:
Margaret
Surname:
Claffey (nee Tierney)
Date of death - day:
24
Date of death - month:
February
Date of death - year:
1958
Relationship with first person:
Daughter in law of John Claffey
Name:
John
Surname:
Claffey
Date of death - day:
12
Date of death - month:
October
Date of death - year:
1932
Age:
29
Relationship with first person:
Grand-Son of John Claffey
Name:
Birtie
Surname:
Claffey
Date of death - month:
August
Date of death - year:
1935
Relationship with first person:
Grand - Son of John Claffey
Notes:
The address for this headstone is Bitterfield which is a local name for the area around where Claffeys lived in the village of Gortnashavogue, parish of Creagh. Anne Claffey who died in 1900 was nee O'Halloran.
Civil death record states Robert Claffey died in 1911 aged 55 years at Clonkeen, Aughrim.Also John Claffey died in 1932 aged 29 in Clonkeen, Aughrim. Margaret Claffey, wife of Robert, died in 1958 and she was nee Tierney from Ballydonagh, Kiltomer.
Census 1901:
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Roscommon/Culliagh/Gort...
Census 1911:
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Roscommon/Culliagh/Gort...
Census 1901 for Robert Claffey in Aughrim:
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Galway/Oatfield/Cloonke...
Census 1911 for Robert Claffey in Aughrim:
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Galway/Oatfield/Cloonke...
