my dad …two nans and two grandads among orhers are buried there…returned with my young family from abroad after 14 yrs and was shocked…it’s arguable that it being surrounded by industry on 3 sides could be helped… but the forsight to plant some big trees 60 yrs ago was missed…no green areas however small anywhere…just grave after grave crowbared in everywhere but most shocking was the general unkempt tardiness of the place…looked like a small building site almost in some places…sorry to say.thanks for the upload.
My Irish ancestors on both my father and mothers side emigrated too Newfoundland in the very early 1800 - shortly before the famine. I ofter heard them use phrases such as "a paupers grave " not really knowing what it meant however could always tell from the conversation it referred to the very poor and destitute. Great info - thanks.
Thank you Bert, glad you enjoyed. In the next week I will have a video up about how the Irish became destitute and how England stole the land of Ireland.
My Grandparents Robert Bible and Annie English are Buried there and also my GreatGrandparents Stephen and Ellen Bible....it is so Heartbreaking of all though years in Waterford Hearing Babies plots plots....Died so Heartbroken God Bless them all....
I heard that Woodlawn Grove was built on an area called something like ":Bully's field" and apparently this area was used as an unofficial famine burial ground during the famine ... any truth in this?
My ???? I am 1st generation American..parents from ireland..Omagh and Roscommon....i understand people died....i am curious why/how the rest of us survived??????
My family remained in Ireland during and after the Famine, and survived. It was not until the 20th century that any of them emigrated. None of them ever returned to Ireland. Their parents never saw them again. such is the story of the Irish race.
Dermot, unfortunately you have a few things wrong in the story. 1) the Knights of Templar grave yard has no trace of famine burial and as for Ballynaneashagh the "modern memorial" was only put in that corner of the grave yard because the paper work was lost and truth be known a lot of family plots are actually belonging to other families
Hi Richard, the local newspapers of 1845-47 all say that there were burials from the workhouse there and actually give name of peoples buried there and in Kill St. Lawrence graveyard who died in the workhouse.
Richard you can get the history of Ballyneashagh, in the historical Journal DECIES - No.70 its free online. There you will find a more detailed section on Kilbarry
Hi Richard this is from the Waterford Chronicle Newspaper of 20th Feb. 1847, "At a meeting of the Waterford Board of Guardians in early February 1847 it was noted that, 'from the general increase of late in the mortality of inmates [of the workhouse] the burial ground of Kill St. Lawrence has become quite crowded and unable to afford anymore accommodation for the burial of persons, so that the Guardians deem it advisable to have the inmates henceforth in Kilbarry.' I think that this suggests that burials from the workhouse did take place during the Famine in 1847.
@@waterfordviking1 Morning Dermot, it maybe the case but in the existing Templar grave yard there's no record of a famine burial in fact all grave are set out in orderly fashion and not a mass grave. I do believe there could be a grave in that area maybe where Southend football field
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my dad …two nans and two grandads among orhers are buried there…returned with my young family from abroad after 14 yrs and was shocked…it’s arguable that it being surrounded by industry on 3 sides could be helped… but the forsight to plant some big trees 60 yrs ago was missed…no green areas however small anywhere…just grave after grave crowbared in everywhere but most shocking was the general unkempt tardiness of the place…looked like a small building site almost in some places…sorry to say.thanks for the upload.
Great story Mr. Power. Tks
My Irish ancestors on both my father and mothers side emigrated too Newfoundland in the very early 1800 - shortly before the famine. I ofter heard them use phrases such as "a paupers grave " not really knowing what it meant however could always tell from the conversation it referred to the very poor and destitute. Great info - thanks.
Thank you Bert, glad you enjoyed. In the next week I will have a video up about how the Irish became destitute and how England stole the land of Ireland.
My Grandparents Robert Bible and Annie English are Buried there and also my GreatGrandparents Stephen and Ellen Bible....it is so Heartbreaking of all though years in Waterford Hearing Babies plots plots....Died so Heartbroken God Bless them all....
The resting-place of my father and grandparents. I never knew that it began as a famine graveyard. Good, informative upload. Thanks.
Thank you for the history of the graveyard, so sad even in death you were still branded a pauper.
Odd...who cares after your dead.
Fascinating, thank you.
Good stuff Dermot, very interesting.
Thank you.
I enjoyed your video
I heard that Woodlawn Grove was built on an area called something like ":Bully's field" and apparently this area was used as an unofficial famine burial ground during the famine ... any truth in this?
"Get rid of these nuisances" Pretty much the attitude of England at the time, regarding both dead and living Irish people.
My ???? I am 1st generation American..parents from ireland..Omagh and Roscommon....i understand people died....i am curious why/how the rest of us survived??????
My family remained in Ireland during and after the Famine, and survived. It was not until the 20th century that any of them emigrated. None of them ever returned to Ireland. Their parents never saw them again. such is the story of the Irish race.
Dermot, unfortunately you have a few things wrong in the story. 1) the Knights of Templar grave yard has no trace of famine burial and as for Ballynaneashagh the "modern memorial" was only put in that corner of the grave yard because the paper work was lost and truth be known a lot of family plots are actually belonging to other families
Hi Richard, the local newspapers of 1845-47 all say that there were burials from the workhouse there and actually give name of peoples buried there and in Kill St. Lawrence graveyard who died in the workhouse.
Richard you can get the history of Ballyneashagh, in the historical Journal DECIES - No.70 its free online. There you will find a more detailed section on Kilbarry
Hi Richard this is from the Waterford Chronicle Newspaper of 20th Feb. 1847, "At a meeting of the Waterford Board of
Guardians in early February 1847 it was noted that, 'from the general increase of late in the mortality of inmates [of the workhouse] the burial ground of Kill St.
Lawrence has become quite crowded and unable to afford anymore accommodation for the burial of persons, so that the Guardians deem it advisable to have the
inmates henceforth in Kilbarry.' I think that this suggests that burials from the workhouse did take place during the Famine in 1847.
@@waterfordviking1 Morning Dermot, it maybe the case but in the existing Templar grave yard there's no record of a famine burial in fact all grave are set out in orderly fashion and not a mass grave. I do believe there could be a grave in that area maybe where Southend football field
O Allah, send a perfect prayer and complete greeting of peace upon our master Muhammad - the one by whom problems are solved, and anxieties are relieved, and needs are fulfilled, and aspirations are attained and good endings are received, and by whose noble face the clouds give rain - and upon his Family and Companions, with every glance and every breath, by the number of everything that is known to You. All praise befits Allah in every circumstance.