The Association for the Preservation of Memorials of the Dead 1888-1938

The Association for the Preservation of Memorials of the Dead 1888-1938



This publication was born out of Philip D. Vigors desire to preserve the tomb and headstone memorials that marked the place of burial of the Irish and record these in a printed volumes for posterity. Vigors enlisted the help of many willing participants from every county in Ireland to transcribe and record headstones in their locality that they would then send in for annual publication. The volumes were published from 1888 to 1934.

The volume of transcriptions contain details of many early headstones that are now no longer readable. The volumes are as Vigors wrote, ‘a record of those who have gone before us’. These volumes are undoubtedly an invaluable resource for those who are carrying out family history research. 

An example of the utility of this source can be found in the publication of headstone and memorial inscriptions for St Columb's Cathedral Church of Ireland graveyard in the city of L'Derry. The survey seems remarkably complete and was originally attributed as the work of the Rev G Galbraith, Dean of Derry. But in a subsequent volume an apology was issued and a correction given that the transcriptions were the work of the Rev Richard Hailes, Dean of Derry 1911-1921.

Memorials of the Dead -- Derry Cathedral Inscriptions
Volume III
p583-594
Volume IV
p122-139
p308-328
Volume VI
p526-531
Volume IX
p109-116
Volume X
p109-116
p221-229
p357-362
Vol XI
p61-64
p206-209

Below is a list of the surnames that are recorded for Derry Cathedral Graveyard

Surname	Other
Abbott
Abrahams
Acheson	see Lyle
Acheson
Adams
Adamson
Adems
Agnew
Aitken
Alcock	see Knox
Alcock
Allingham	see Watt
Armstrong	see Hamilton
Armstrong
Babington
Baillee
Barr
Bartholomew
Battersby
Batty
Benson
Beresford
Black
Blackall
Blair
Boggs
Bolger
Bowen	see Ferguson
Bradley
Bredin
Brooke
Brooke	see Hood
Brooke	see Fairley
Brooke	see Vans
Brookes
Brown
Bryson	see Shaw
Bryson
Buchan
Buchanan
Buckley
Cadman
Caldwell	see Clark
Caldwell
Campbell
Campbell	see Brown
Campbell	see Kelly
Canning
Canning	see Gallagher
Carter
Cary
Caufield
Cennan
Chambers
Charleton
Christen
Clark
Clarke
Cliff	see Abbott
Cochrane	see Thompson
Colhoun
Colhoun	see McElwee
Coningham	see Scott
Coningham
Coningham	see Leslie
Conyngham
Cooke
Corbett
Cowan
Coward
Cowdon
Coyle
Craig	see Wilson
Crawford
Creighton
Crompton
Crossley
Cunningham	see Gilmour
Cuthbert
Daglesh
Davenport
Davis
Davison	see Clark
Dawson
Dennison
Dickson	see Scott
Doak
Donaldson
Dougherty
Dunlap	see Adems
Dysart
Eadie
Edgar
Egerton	see Hall
Elder	see Davenport
Ellis
Elvers
Ewing
Ewing	see Davis
Fairley
Fawcett	see Johnston
Ferguson	see Scott
Ferguson
Fleming
Floyd	see Forrest
Forrest
Forsyth
Foster
Foy
Franks
Galbraith	of Camplestown
Galbraith
Gallagher
Garvey	see Johnston
Gilkey
Gillespie	see Lecky
Gilmour
Gilmpur	see Cowan
Glass
Glassen
Glen
Glenn
Goodinge
Gore
Gough
Graham
Gray	see Millar
Grayson
Greco
Guy	see Ferguson
Hall
Hamilton
Hamilton	see Davis
Hamilton	see McConn
Hanlen
Hart	see Fairley
Harvey
Harward
Haslett	see Brown
Hastings
Hatrick
Hay
Hayton
Hazlett
Hazlett	see Mitchael
Hempton
Henderson
Hill
Hill	see Scott
Hogg
Holland
Holt	see Masaroon
Hood
Hope	see Glen
Hope
Houstoun	see Leeson
Huffington
Hume
Hunter
Hyndman	see Peoples
Irwin
Jameison
Johnston
Jones
Kane
Keeler
Kelly
Kernahan
Kerr	see McClintock
Kerr
Kerr	Macky
Kilgore
Kirk
Kirkpatrick	see Clark
Kitchin
Knox
Law	see Crawford
Law	see McCrea
Leake
Leathem
Lecky	see Hogg
Lecky
Lecky	see Scott
Lecky	see Caldwell
Ledlie
Leeson	see Moncrieffe
Leeson
Lennox
Leslie
Little	see Twaddell
Lloyd
Lowry	see Patterson
Lyle
Lyle	see Acheson
Lyons
MaCaulay	see Gallagher
Mackenzie
Mackey
Macky
Maclellan	see Edgar
Magill
Maginnis
Major	see McDonagh
Mansfield
Manson
Marchel
Martin
Masaroon
Mathews
Maughan
Mauleverer
Maxwell
McCandless
McCarter	see Pollock
McCarter
McCartney	see Macky
McCausland
McCausland	see Hogg
McClintock
McClure
McColgan
McColley
McConn	see Stewart
McConn
McCorkell	see McLarren
McCorkell	see Walker
McCorkell
McCrea
McCree
McCullough
McDevitt
McDonagh
McDonald
McElvenny
McElwee
McGowan
McIntyre	see Clarke
McIntyre
McLarren
McLean	see Gilmour
McMaster
McMenamy
McMonagle
McNaughten	see Gallagher
McNeely
McNeill
McSparran
Merry	of New York
Miles
Millar
Miller
Milligan
Mitchael
Mitchell
Moncrieffe
Moore
Morrison
Morrison	see Foy
Morrison	see Gallagher
Morrison	see Kerr
Morton
Mulherin	see McIntyre
Munn
Murphy
Murray
Murren
Neilson	see Kernahan
Nelis
Newburgh
Nicholson	see Mauleverer
Nicholson	see Scott
Nicholson
Oakes
Orr
Osborn	see Eadie
Oyden
Paterton
Patterson
Pegley
Peoples
Perois
Philson
Phipps
Playfair	see Cowdon
Pollitt
Pollock
Poyntz
Presdee
Preston	see Shaw
Preston
Price
Priestley
Radcliffe
Raines
Ramsay
Rea
Reed
Richards
Ried
Robinson
Rolleston
Rose
Ross
Schoales	see Knox
Schoales	see Alcock
Schoales
Scott
Scott	see Harvey
Shannon
Sharkey
Shaw
Shaw	see McElwee
Sheppard	see Abbott
Sherwood
Shine
Sidley
Smiley
Smith	see McMonagle
Smith	see Thistle
Smith
Smyth
Sparrow
Squire	see Lecky
Stacke	see Cary
Stafford
Steel
Stephenson
Stevenson	see Eadie
Stewart
Stirling	see Campbell
Stirling
Story
Tharp
Thistle
Thompson
Tomkins
Townley
Toy
Trails
Twaddell
Vance
Vans
Waddy	see Manosn
Waddy	see Maxwell
Walker
Walker	see McCarter
Wallen	see Johnston
Walsh
Warren	see Stewart
Watson
Watt
Watt	see Cowdon
Wells	see Lloyd
West
Whyte
William
Wilson
Wilson	see McCarter
Wylie
Young	see McMaster
Young
Young	see Caldwell
Young	see Millar

Some volumes are now available online

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