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OffalyBallyboy (Offaly)

I'm looking for information on my ancestress, Barbara Harty, who married Rev. Bartholomew Pack in 1800.
I purchased  a "Graveyard Inscription Record" from the IFHF. The details read:

Name: Barbara Pack  Date of Death: 06-May-1830 Age: 75   Parish/District: BALLYBOY
County: Offaly     Denomination: Church of Ireland Graveyard: BALLYBOY   Plot no.:  176                   Notes:
SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF BARBARA PACK OR RELICT OF THE LATE BARTHOLOMEW PACK WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE MAY 6TH 1830 AGED 75 YEARS. "BLESSED ARE THE DEAD WHICH WHICH THE ____?"

That makes little sense to me. She had 8 children, so I doubt that she was age 45 at marriage. The clerical records show that her husband died about 1849 --- so he was not "late" in 1830.

Is there a way to check up on the transcription? Or are there other records?

Thanks for any help.

 

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Reverend Bartolomew  Pack  born abt  1769 County Carlow

Barbara Harty born abt 1769 Kilkenny

Died 6 May 1830 age 61

Married 18 July 1800 Kilkenny (age 31)

Son Bartolomew  Ponsonby Pack born 1811 Carlow

Death 21 January 1890 New York

 

Source:  Burtchaeli & Sadleir, Ed., Alumni
Dublinenses: A Register of the Students, Graduates, Professors and Provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593-1860),  Dublin, Alex.  Thom & Co., Ltd., 2 Crow Street, 1935, New Edition, p.649, "

 

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Gee, thanks Anne Marie (in Mallow, Cork) for that information - great find!

 

Peggy,

Seems Barbara was probably nearer 61 when she died rather than 75 but that is a large difference.

Are you planning to visit Ballyboy or any of your ancestral area? I am the Co. Offaly Ireland Reaching Out co-ordinator and am available to help with your search.

best regards

Dolores O'Shea

 

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There's a problem here.

Alumni Dublinensis contains only this information:

"Pack, Bartholomew, Pen. (Dr. Ellison), Jan 27, 1787, aged 17; s. of Richard, Clericus; b. Co. Carlow. B.A. AEst. 1791.  M.A. AEst. 1823."

  I'd have to guess that most of the rest comes from some of my own internet posts, or from info from me that a cousin incorporated into a tree.  Certainly the info on their son (my GG-GF) comes from his NYC death cert!

 Rev. Bartholomew was Rector of Ettagh until 1849. How could his "relict" have predeceased him?

Peggy

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Hi again Peggy,

I saw your comment on Facebook by chance and have just connected it to this post. Apologies that the information is not new or your own - we are all just volunteers on the ground and not professional genealogists.

The records available via the IFHF are pretty much the most extensive parish records available in Ireland so it's unlikely there's anything more definitive but a professional genealogist would be the best route to go to confirm this. 

Ireland Reaching Out is not a professional genealogy/research service but rather our community volunteers (where already set up) offer a personal connection to your ancestral parish, extending beyond, or researching what is perhaps not available through records, i.e. finding the family headstones, the ancestral land/house, living relatives and above all, hosting returning visitors to their area to show them the landmarks connected to their family history.

To answer your original question "Is there a way to check up on the transcription?", I will try to get someone local to Ballyboy to check the inscription in the coming weeks.

Best regards

Dolores

 

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  That was indeed my question. IFHF does not reply to e-mails --- or not to mine.

  The date I was given is impossible if she was a widow, so I hoped that the inscription, or a better transcription, is still available.

  Thank you, Dolores.

Peggy

 

  

 

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