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Ballygunner Cemetery.

TheQuietFella · 2016-05-08 22:15:31

Just walking through the graveyard after paying my respects to deceased family members where I noticed an unusual name on a headstone but after a little journalistic effort I found that the deceased child's Father was a cousin in law of Queen Victoria! I found it interesting anyway!…

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08-05-2016 11:15pm

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TheQuietFella

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Just walking through the graveyard after paying my respects to deceased family

members where I noticed an unusual name on a headstone but after a little

journalistic effort I found that the deceased child's Father was a cousin in law

of Queen Victoria! I found it interesting anyway!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_d%27Abreu

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#2 09-05-2016 6:50pm
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Interesting, but if she died in Scotland, why is she buried in Ballygunner?

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http://notices.irishtimes.com/death/d-abreu/2375706

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#4 09-05-2016 9:18pm
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Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »

Interesting, but if she died in Scotland, why is she buried in Ballygunner?

Apologies Tom for not making my post clearer.

Her deceased son (Adrian d'Abreu 1931) is buried there.

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