GA-STNL-0060

Record Date: 
26 December 2024
Graveyard: 
St Nicholas' Collegiate Church and Graveyard
Exact wording of epitaph: 

Here lies the Body of Mrs Elizabeth Blakeney Wife of Iohn Blakeney of Eyrefield Esv who departed this life the 7th March 1798 Aged [?3]7 Years

Grave location
County: 
Galway
Latitude: 
53.27271
Longitude: 
-9.05328
Additional details
References: 
Fleetwood Berry (1912 A), 3. He gives the age as 47 years but 37 seems a more likely interpretation of the numerals now visible. Maguire (1953), 127. "... The family of Blakeney formerly resided in Norfolk where they were in possession of considerable landed property and settled in Ireland during the reign of Elizabeth. The first Blakeney mentioned in Burke's Landed Gentry is John Blakeney, A.D. 1671 who married Sarah, daughter of Dudley Persse of Roxborough, Dean of Kilmacduagh. The family in turn married into the families of Ormsby, Browne, Taylor, Stafford, St. George, Ross Mahon, Dennis etc.". See also references accompanying No. 350.
People commemorated: 
Surname: 
BLAKENEY
Notes: 

A large Rect. R.S. with an Inc'd. border and Ins.. See also No. 350 for another Blakeney.