RO-CLBU-0005

Record Date: 
27 June 2015
Graveyard: 
Clonburren
Exact wording of epitaph: 

IN LOVING MEMORY OF

JAMES WHYTE

FALTY

DIED 27TH FEB 1981

AGED 86 YEARS

HIS WIFE, MARY

DIED 14 - JUNE 1983

RIP

ERECTED BY HIS SORROWING

WIFE MARY BOOKLESS WHYTE

Memorial Type: 
Headstone
Grave location
County: 
Roscommon
Latitude: 
53.313851666667
Longitude: 
-8.052125
Additional details
Stonecutter/monumental sculptor: 
L GREHAN BRIDESWELL
Erected by: 
ERECTED BY HIS SORROWING WIFE MARY BOOKLESS WHYTE.
Number of people commemorated: 
2
People commemorated: 
Name: 
JAMES
Surname: 
WHYTE
Date of death - day: 
27
Date of death - month: 
February
Date of death - year: 
1981
Age: 
86
Address: 
FALTY
Name: 
MARY
Surname: 
WHYTE nee BOOKLESS
Date of death - day: 
14
Date of death - month: 
June
Date of death - year: 
1983
Address: 
FALTY
Relationship with first person: 
WIFE OF JAMES
Notes: 

THE ADDRESS ON THIS HEADSTONE IS FALTY.

JAMES WHYTE WAS THE SON OF DENIS WHYTE & MARY (ELLEN) MULVEE FROM KING'S COUNTY (OFFALY). HE WAS ONE OF SEVEN CHILDREN. ( SEE CENSUS BELOW FOR MORE DETAILS ON HIS FAMILY)

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Roscommon/Cloonburren/Cloonburren/1655121/

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Roscommon/Cloonburren/Cloonburren/777071/

MARY WHYTE WAS DAUGHTER OF JOHN BOOKLESS FROM ENGLAND & KATHERINE BELL FROM SCOTLAND. (SEE CENSUS BELOW FOR MORE DETAILS ON HER FAMILY) SOME OF MARY'S FAMILY MEMBERS ARE INTERRED IN THE SAME CEMETERY PLOT NO 4. 

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Roscommon/Ballydangan/Faltia/1654890/

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Roscommon/Ballydangan/Faltia/776854/

JAMES & MARY ARE RECORDED AS GETTING MARRIED ON THE 18TH JUNE 1928 IN ST. MARY'S CHURCH, MOORE BY REV P CUSACK C.C. 

ACCORDING TO THE DEATH REGISTER BOOK IN MOORE CHURCH, MARY WAS 86 YEARS OLD WHEN SHE DIED.