Old RC Cemetery - Hr. Grace

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Old RC Cemetery
Bennett's Lane
Harbour Grace
Harbour Grace District
Complete Transcription

This was the first Roman Catholic cemetery in Harbour Grace. The land was donated to the Catholic Church in 1799 by the Thistle family of Harbour Grace. - Dave Wells

SURNAME	GIVEN	DIED	AGE	SPOUSE	OTHER
Condon	Frances	February 20, 1842	65 years
Condon	Richard	October 21, 1870	63 years		son of Frances
Coughlan	Jane	December 26, 1811	77 years
Coughlan	Mary	January 1, 1830	62 years	[William Coughlan]
Coughlan	William			[Mary Coughlan]	[date of death & age illegible]
Coughlan	William Jr	June 9, 1803	9 years		[son of William and Mary Coughlan]
Donovan	Catherine	March 29, 1858	28 years
Dunford	Eleanor				granddaughter of Thomas and Mary Lombard
Dunford	Thomas	June 11, 1851	60 years		native of Gracedien , Waterford, Ireland
Ferrarese	Francis Xavier	January 1, 1801	68 years		[surgeon at Carbonear] [native of Italy, actual nameFrancisco Ferraresi]
Ferrarese	Mary	???? ??, 1811		[Francis Xavier Ferrarese]	[family name later changed to Ferrar]
Foley	Judith	6 July 1810	44 years	Thomas Foley of Harbour Grace
Foley	Thomas	June 17, 1839	78 years		merchant; Native of White Church, Wexford, Ireland
Fox	Alice	April 7, 1829	37 years	James Fox [of Harbour Grace]	[daughter of John McGrath]
Fox	James	October 12, 1852	68 years		died St. John’s
Green	Catherine	July 24, 1845	32 years		[bp Sept 17, 1815 to Daniel Green and Rachel Gosse]
Green	Daniel	May 29, 1852	65 years
Green	Eliza	August 9, 1849	34 years		sister of Bridget Margaret McCarthy
Green	Elizabeth	7 March 1852	33 years	John Green
Hartery	Darby	October 1813			[native of Dungargin , Waterford, Ireland]
Heyes	Peter	March 8, 18??	77 years
Kean	Richard	June 27, 1820
Keefe	Michael	May 21, 1851	68 years
Keefe	Joanna	October 1861	70 years	[Michael Keefe]
Kehn	Richard	June 9, 1808	48 years		also six children who died young
Lombard	Thomas	November 13, 1821	66 years		surgeon
Lombard	Mary	February 22, 1828	64 years	Thomas Lombard
Martin	Ann	?????? 25, 18?9	21 years	Thomas Martin
Martin	???????		3 years		son of Thomas and Ann Martin
McCarthy	Bridget Margaret	August 29, 1850	27 years
McGrath	John	February 6, 1820	60 years
McKee	Anne	June 29, 1815	2 years		[baptised Sept 26, 1813; daughter of Nicholas McKee and Margaret Magher]
Mitchell	William	August 6, 1840	62 years		native of Somerset, England
Molloy	Margaret	September 1849	18 years		[daughter of William Molloy]
Molloy	William	14 October 1837	47 years		Surgeon
Mullowney	David	May 10, 1810	52 years
Mullowney	Ellen	August 8, 1803
Murphy	Johanna	September 10, 1811	64 years	Edward Murphy
Phelan	Eliza	December 17, 1830	35 years
Power	Margaret	November 18, 1850	60 years		native of Waterford City
Power	Peter	November 16, 1802	62 years
Prendergast	Anastasia	September 27, 1811	36 years	James Prendergast	mother of 9 [maiden name Power]
Prendergast	James	July 5, 1840	78 years
Sullivan	Ann	August 10, 1856	40 years

Others Reported to be Buried in this Cemetery
(but no headstone is visible) as follows:
(Anyone with additional information, please contact us.)

The following two transcriptions were gleaned from the historical writings of H.F. Shortis, an amateur historian who was a native of Harbour Grace and Archbishop Howley‘s church history.. - Dave Wells

SURNAME	GIVEN	BORN	DIED	AGE	SPOUSE	OTHER
Ewer	Thomas, Rev.		3 February 1833	84 years
Phelan	Patrick Rev.		3 September 1799			[RC missionary Hr. Grace, drowned returning from Grates Cove]

Transcribed by David Wells (1984 05)
and Contributed (2009 06)

Revised by Craig Peterman ( September 11, 2020)

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