Hugenot Cemetery, Donnybrook

zagmund

Does anyone know if there's any sort of index of burials for the Hugenot Cemetery [1] in Donnybrook ?

There has always been a rumour that we came from a Hugenot line but no evidence, but I'm just after digging up a note where a family member says her father used to visit Donnybrook cemetery often. I'll certainly pay a visit there and see what I can find out on the spot, but if there was an index somewhere it would be cool.

I gather that the Garda station next door has the key for the cemetery - I will ask if they have an index when I'm there.

z


[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donnybrook_Cemetery

shanew

I dont think it's a Hugenot Cemetery...

some Records are available in :

Church of Ireland burial registers 1712-1916 are at the Representative Church Body Library.
Dún Laoghaire Heritage Society has a database transcript. (IFHF)

not clear if they are memorial transcripts or burial records.

see : http://dublinheritage.ie/graveyards/search.php

some MIs for Donnybrook on IGP :

http://www.igp-web.com/igparchives/ire/dublin/cemeteries/donnybrook.txt
http://www.igp-web.com/igparchives/ire/dublin/cemeteries/donnybrook02.txt


Shane

later12

It's not a Huguenot cemetary as such, but a rare site in which Huguenot burials have taken place on this island.

Parish records for the Huguenots of Dublin are available online, which should be a reasonably comprehensive resource considering that the Dublin Huguenots were such a small community.

http://www.archivecdbooks.ie/acatalog/Huguenot_Records.html

noelreilly

Can anybody please tell me where the dead of donnybrook were buried during the last century. My grandfather died in Donnybrook in 1942, but I don't know where he was buried, as donnybrook cemetery stopped taking burials in the 1880s. Ide love to find where he is laid to rest.
Thank You
Noel

shanew

Have you located burials for any of the rest of the family ?

Most of the city cemeteries closed during the mid 1800s, except in some cases for people with old burial rights. I would start the search with the usual major Dublin cemeteries - i.e. Dean's Grange , then Glasnevin and maybe also Mount Jerome. Glasnevin records are online on their pay-website, and films of records for the other two are available in Dublin City Library (Pearse St.)

If the family originated somewhere outside the city they could have had a plot somewhere outside Dublin city or even in a different county..

Where did the family come from originally ?

A good place to check for details would be newspapers and a death notice. Death notices sometimes mention the name of the church and cemetery to be used. If you already have a death cert or date of death then it shouldn't take too long to check a few newspapers in the National Library.

If you have the date of death, post that with his name and I'll have a quick look when I get a chance to see if there's any death notice..

noelreilly

Thank you for your reply.
My grandfather James Sheridan was originally from Rathmines in Dublin, but moved to the Coombe area when he got married in 1920. We do not know how or why he left his family. But we lost track of him after 1935 when my mother was born. While checking searches on Findmypast.com, I came across his Death Cert. He was 41 at death, looks like a heart attack. The witness on the Cert is his Brother Philip. He died at 96 Stella Gardens ( which I am not sure is in Donnybrook ) on the 22nd Dec 1942. And was reigistered the next day. The register District says Donnybrook, so I am not sure where they would have buried him.

p.s I think his Occupation says...Independent.

Most grateful for interest

Noel

L1011

There are partial Deansgrange transcriptions online: http://www.igp-web.com/igparchives/ire/dublin/photos/tombstones/1headstones/ but don't assume that everything is there should you fail to find something.

shanew

I think Stella gardens was in Ringsend - listed with 183 houses on the 1939 Dublin City Electoral register. Number 96 shows a Sheridan household of Francis, Sarah, Francis jnr., James and Philip, also a Kathleen Corr. A Joseph & Sarah Sheridan are at number 95.

see : http://dublinheritage.ie/electoral/advanced.php

On the advanced search, put Stella* in the street, and Sherid* in the surname

shanew

some previous details on the location on RootsChat :

Stella Gardens Irishtown

shanew

I got a chance to have to quick look through the notices in the Indo and Press for the 22nd and about a week after - no sign of a notice for James that I saw. There are sometimes late notifications that I may have missed...

I think Deans Grange is the best bet, and definitely worth checking there first... there are burial records for Dean's Grange and Mount Jerome in Dublin City Library (Pearse St.) on microfilm up as far as the 1970s.

see :

Registers of Deansgrange Cemetery
Registers of Mount Jerome Cemetery

p.s. the registration district mentioned on the death cert relates to place of death, not necessarily the burial.

Jellybaby1

shanew wrote: »

... there are burial records for Dean's Grange and Mount Jerome in Dublin City Library (Pearse St.) on microfilm up as far as the 1970s.

see :Registers of Deansgrange Cemetery
Registers of Mount Jerome Cemetery
p.s. the registration district mentioned on the death cert relates to place of death, not necessarily the burial.

Thank you for this information - I had no idea this was available. Thought I'd be scrambling all over those graveyards. Will check them out asap.

annieoburns

Since you have exact name and date of death, you might try contacting the offices attached to the cemeteries and they might oblige you by checking their registers. Mount Jerome will also respond to an email enquiry I believe.

pinkypinky

Deansgrange will too but you'll have to phone them.

01 2893416