GA-STNL-0202

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

Here Lieth the Body of Hugh Edwards only Son of Robert Edwards who depart4* this life on the 76th day of January Anno Domino 1836 Aged 16 Years. This Tomb [was] erected by his dis consolate F[a]ther in Memory of his dearly beloved Child Why Man at Death Did of his Pains Complain Man Death denied Poor Man would live in Pain

Grave location
County: 
Galway
Latitude: 
53.273085
Longitude: 
-9.0535647222222
People commemorated: 
Surname: 
EDWARDS
Notes: 

A Rect. R.S. with Inc'd. Ins.. The lower Ins. is in Italics. Byj? Rgcd. Vol. 2 (1836), "Janry 19th 1836, Hugh Edwards, only son of Robert Edwards Esq., aged 16, was interred in the churchyard of St. Nicholas. He died the 16th of January 1836”.