Michael Walsh

Michael Walsh Gravestone

Someone in the family visited Ireland. If I knew who, I would give them credit for this picture which was included in the massive number of photos in my mother’s estate.

The photo is inscribed on the back with the message:

grandfather Michael Walsh buried with his first wife – His name is near the bottom of the tombstone

Text shone on gravestone pictured above:

IN YOUR CHARITY PRAY FOR
THE SOUL OF
MARGARET
THE DEARLY BELOVED WIFE OF
MICHAEL WALSH OF DUNDALK
WHO DIED 15TH JUNE 1884
AND OF HIS BELOVED MOTHER
BRIDGET WALSH, DIED AT SHELAGH
6TH NOVEMBER 1881 ALSO FOUR OF HIS CHILDREN
WHO DIED YOUNG.
AND HIS FATHER PATRICK WALSH
WHO DIED 3RD DEC 1886
ALSO THE ABOVE MICHAEL WALSH,
WHO DIED 20TH MAY 1897
AGED 48 YEARS.

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