GA-STNL-0301

Record Date: 
18 November 2024
Graveyard: 
St Nicholas' Collegiate Church and Graveyard
Exact wording of epitaph: 

Here lie the Remains of Alderman Geffry Cook, together with his Son Robert Cook E/qr who filled the Station of a Magi/trate with Integrity much beloved by his acquaintance and Died univer/ally lamented on the 25th Day of May 1761, His Wife Elizabeth with duteous Affection [i]nfcribed this to His [Mejmory

Grave location
County: 
Galway
Latitude: 
53.272835
Longitude: 
-9.0534947222222
Additional details
References: 
Fleetwood Berry (1912 A), 10 gives part of this inscription. Hardiman (1820), 222-6 lists Robert Cooke as sheriff in 1727 and 1735 and as mayor (Cook) in 1741 and 1757 (Cooke). Hardiman (1820), 222-4 also lists Geffrey Cooke as sheriff in 1717 and Geoffry Cooke as mayor in 1733.
People commemorated: 
Surname: 
COOK
Notes: 

A large Rect. R.S.. The letters are carefully cut. Some small elaborate spiral patterns fill the gaps after the name "Elizabeth" and at the end of the stone. An attempt has been made to detatch a long Rect. block from the lower left hand comer of the slab for use as paving, but has been abandoned. The surface of this comer has been crudely and heavily pocked. This was done ai$n with No. 294.