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Cemetery-Map.Pdf 1 Cross of St Columba 15 Thomas Austin Memorial to the poor of Derry who lie in unmarked graves marked by the ‘Celtic Cross of Thomas Austin established St Columba to the Forgotten Dead of Derry’ Austin’s Department Store in (erected 1993). 1830. The store is said to be by Tom Hartley Tom by ‘the world’s oldest independent Written in Stone: The History of Belfast City Cemetery Cemetery City Belfast of History The Stone: in Written Cross of Sacrifice department store’. Thomas Bernard J Canning J Bernard 2 Austin was born 1815 near Derry City Cemetery 1853-2003 – 150 Years’ by Rev. Rev. by Years’ 150 – 1853-2003 Cemetery City Derry Erected by the Limavady, and died in 1902. Commonwealth War Graves Acknowledgements Commission. A Cross of 3pm & 4.30pm. & 3pm Sacrifice is located in every 16 William Mitchell (FY7) at 11am, 1.30pm, 1.30pm, 11am, at (FY7) Lone Moor Road bus Road Moor Lone cemetery with a significant (Drop off point near to Creggan Gate) Creggan to near point off (Drop Mitchell was born in Hull, but came to Derry with number of war graves. (FY8) every hour e.g. 9.15am, 10.15am, 10.15am, 9.15am, e.g. hour every (FY8) Creggan bus Creggan his father who was a master mariner. Mitchell at Foyle Street T: T: Street Foyle at From 028 7126 2261 7126 028 Ulsterbus Station Ulsterbus established the Foyle Line which operated out of 3 The Millers the city. Bus routes: routes: Bus Three generations of the Miller family were Mayors www.derry.rootsireland.ie 7 John Guy Ferguson of Londonderry Corporation between 1840 and 17 at online or ext Telephone 8254 028 7136 5151 7136 028 1902. Joseph Ewing Miller was a doctor and his Ferguson was the architect who designed many through the Heritage and Museum Service. Service. Museum and Heritage the through son William Miller was also a doctor. His grandson of the buildings which still stand in the city today. Derry City Council’s genealogy service is available available is service genealogy Council’s City Derry Francis Henry Miller was a solicitor. He designed the Guildhall, St Columb’s Cathedral Genealogy Service Genealogy S Watt Primary School, Apprentice Boys’ Memorial Hall, 4 Welch Margetson Shirt Factory, the Commercial [email protected] E mail: E The Watt family came to Derry from Ramelton Buildings (headquarters of William Mitchell’s in 1762 and established the business of Andrew business) and St. Augustine’s Church – among others. www.derrycity.gov.uk/citycemetery Website: A. Watt & Co in Bishop Street. Their brand, The Tyrconnel Whiskey, was famous throughout the UK Hamilton Mitchell 028 7136 2615 7136 028 Telephone: 18 and USA. September; 8a.m. to 4.30 p.m. 1st October – 30th April 30th – October 1st p.m. 4.30 to 8a.m. September; Mitchell was the third generation of doctors from 8a.m. to 7p.m. 1st May – 30th 30th – May 1st 7p.m. to 8a.m. Monday to Sunday: to Monday Greerstown in the Glendermott Valley. He served 5 J. B. Johnston in the Crimean War as Assistant Surgeon to the Office opening hours: opening Office 96th Regiment . Johnston was the Mayor of Derry quite steep. All dogs must be kept on a leash. a on kept be must dogs All steep. quite 1897-1898. His burial marker is should be taken when using paths as some of these are are these of some as paths using when taken be should 19 Basil McCrea one of the most unusual in the the headstones may be in a vulnerable condition. Care Care condition. vulnerable a in be may headstones the cemetery – an Irish Round Tower. Basil McCrea and his partner Sir John McFarland older sections where the ground is uneven and some of of some and uneven is ground the where sections older founded McCrea & McFarland Ltd, contractors care in walking around the cemetery, particularly in the the in particularly cemetery, the around walking in care and carriers. McCrea contributed to the design of is used on a daily basis. Please treat it with respect. Take Take respect. with it treat Please basis. daily a on used is Knox of Prehen Vault the railway network that converged on Derry. remember that Derry City Cemetery is a burial site, which which site, burial a is Cemetery City Derry that remember 6 the Creggan entrance and the 21st century area. Please Please area. century 21st the and entrance Creggan the The Knox family originally came from Scotland in Hugh O’Doherty . Car parking is available at both both at available is parking Car . at Kildrum Gardens Kildrum 20 1610 and lived in Derry from 1664. The family is and a pedestrian gate gate pedestrian a and and Creggan Gate Creggan Moor Road Moor associated with Prehen House and is connected Solicitor Hugh O’Doherty was Mayor of Derry There are two car entrances to the Cemetery – – Cemetery the to entrances car two are There Lone Lone to the famous story of John ‘Half-Hanged’ from 1920 to 1923. He was the first Roman McNaughton who accidently killed his sweetheart, Catholic to hold this position since the short-lived Derry BT48 9LA BT48 Derry Mary Anne Knox, when he ambushed the Knox appointment of Cormick O’Neil in October 1688 Gate Lodge, Lone Moor Road Moor Lone Lodge, Gate coach in 1761. by James II. City Cemetery, City 8 W. Bernard 21 Sisters of Nazareth plot Visiting Derry City Cemetery City Derry Visiting Bernard was a Physician and Surgeon in the city. He The ‘Poor Sisters of Nazareth’ came to Bishop supervised the restoration work of Grianan Fort Street in 1892 where its doors have been open over a period of 5 years in the mid-1870s. Grianan to the poor and needy ever since. In the City ring fort overlooks the city and north Donegal and Cemetery, 1,062 residents of Nazareth House were was the seat of power for the Ui Neill dynasty. buried between 1897 and 1991. 9 Cecil Frances Alexander 22 Alderman James McCarron Cecil Alexander is one of Ireland’s best known McCarron was the Labour Leader and Alderman hymnists. She was the wife of William Alexander, of Londonderry Corporation; he was one of over Church of Ireland Bishop of Derry and Raphoe. Her 500 people drowned when RMS Leinster was grave is marked with a marble Roman Cross which torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine in is said to be the first Cross erected in the Protestant World War One. An ornamental Irish stone cross section of the cemetery. covered in interlace and geometric spirals was erected as a memorial. J&J Cooke Memorial to Stillborn babies 10 24 John and Joseph Cooke’s On 20 February 2011, a monument in memory of shipping company carried all the stillborn babies buried in unmarked graves thousands of emigrants was unveiled. from Derry to North America in the 19th Century. 25 Messines Park Bomb – 15 April 1941 13 people (including members of the Richmond 11 William Tillie and Murray families) were killed, and at least 2 houses destroyed when a German bomber Tillie was a shirt and collar manufactor in Glasgow. dropped parachute mines on the Messines Park In 1851 with his partner John Henderson, they area of the city. established the first shirt factory in Derry. By 1890 Tillie & Henderson employed 1,500 workers. 26 Bloody Sunday – 30 January 1972 12 Patrick Gilmour Family plots of some of those One of the owners of the who were killed during ‘Bloody Londonderry and Glasgow Sunday’. Steamboat Company, Gilmour’s ‘obelisk’ memorial is one of the most 27 Republican Plots impressive in the cemetery. 28 The visitor will find memorials to 2 Irish Republican organisations, as well as markers to individuals. 13 Fosters of Ballinacross It is claimed that the Fosters of Ballinacross are 29 Eddie McAteer related to Stephen Collins Foster who became one of McAteer was born in Scotland, but became a the leading figures of American music, through songs Nationalist MP for the Derry area and leader of such as ‘Oh Suzannah’ and ‘Camptown Races’. the Nationalists in the Stormont parliament. He A Visitors Map 14 Batholomew McCorkell was an early leader of the Civil Rights movement. McCorkell’s grandfather William founded the Unmarked sections to Derry City Cemetery famous McCorkell shipping company. In the mid-late 19th Century it was one of the main There are a number of unmarked sections in which companies involved in transporting emigrants to the poor of Derry are buried. An estimated 7,500 North America. adults are buried in those plots. A Visitors Map to Derry City Cemetery Key to the map 20th Century Catholic The peregrine falcon has 20th Century Protestant 28 been spotted foraging over Victorian + Edwardian Protestant the cemetery. Victorian + Edwardian Catholic 29 War Graves CregganCreggan EntranceEntrance 21st Century 26 27 New Burial Section 25 Rose Garden The Common pipistrelle Pedestrian Gate Pedestrian is the most common Unmarked Section th and smallest bat species Kildrum Garden – Pedestrian Gate – Pedestrian Kildrum Garden 20 Century Catholic measuring 35-45mm Stillborn Babies in length. 20th Century Protestant Toilets Car Park War Graves 23 24 War Graves 23 20 Gnarled Tree 21 War Graves Victorian + 20th Century Catholic Victorian + Edwadian 22 Edwadian Catholic Protestant 16 17 18 19 The Irish hare uses the 21st Century 15 New Burialcemetery Section as 14 a habitat and 12 foraging area. 13 9 8 10 11 7 6 5 4 3 1 Pauper Memorial 2 Cross of Sacrifice 3 Sir Francis Henry Miller 4 Samuel Watt 5 John Weir Johnston 6 Knox of Prehen Vault 7 Joseph Ewing Miller 8 Dr Walter Bernard 2 9 10 11 12 MainMain Cecil Frances Alexander John and Joseph Cooke William Tillie Patrick Gilmour Rose Garden 1 BuildingBuilding 13 Fosters of Ballinacross 14 Bartholomew McCorkell 15 Thomas Austin 16 William Mitchell 17 John Guy Ferguson 18 Hamilton Mitchell 19 Basil McCrea 20 Hugh C O’Doherty Main Entrance 21 Poor Sisters of Nazareth 22 James McCarron 23 Commonwealth War Graves Mortuary ChapelLone Moor Road 24 Memorial to Stillborn Babies 25 Messines (Richmond and Murray families) 26 Bloody Sunday Plot Main Entrance Lone Moor Road 27 Republican Plot 28 Hunger Strike and INLA Memorial 29 Eddie McAteer Introduction Conclusion ‘The City Cemetery is a place of stories – stories of the A visitor to Derry City Cemetery will find the history of Derry~Londonderry all around them famous and infamous; of joy and tragedy; of traditions – literally written in stone.
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