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[Archived "Family Messages" November 2000 to December 2006]

Date
Message
14 March 2023 Catherine (Kathleen) Hamilton passed away on Saturday 11 March 2023. Condolences to her sons, Eddie and his wife Kerry, James and his partner, Judy, her grandchildren Amber and Owen and to the wider family circle.

“For there is no friend like a sister,
In calm or stormy weather;
To cheer one on the tedious way,
To fetch one if one goes astray,
To lift one if one totters down,
To strengthen whilst one stands.”
— Christina Rossetti

May she rest in peace.
8 August 2022 Bill Sumner passed away today. Condolences to his wife, Barbara, his daughter, Jane, his granddaughters Vicky and Rosiland and to the wider family circle.

May he rest in peace.
28 March 2022 Congratulations to Ciara Devlin and Sean Maguire on their marriage in St Malachy's Church, Castlewellan on 26 March 2022; reception in the Ballymascanlon Hotel.
23 June 2021 Congratulations to Brian and Claire on the birth of their son Aidan John today - 8lb 4 oz. Welcomed by big sister Sarah aged 2 yrs and 5 mths.
20 February 2021 Joseph O'Reilly passed away on 16 February 2021. Condolences to his children, Kieran, Jarlath, Catherine, Joseph and Declan; his grandchildren Maisie, Mollie and Gabriel; his sisters Anne, Phyllis, Josephine and Kathleen; his brothers Paddy and Francis (Dick) and the wider family circle.

May he rest in peace.
22 June 2020 Kathleen Reoch passed away on 22 June 2020. Condolences to her children, Karen Campbell, Yvonne McDonald, and David Reoch, mother-in-law of Michael, Sean and Seamus, grandmother of Ryan, Mark and Chloe, g-grandmother of Adam, and the wider family circle.

May she rest in peace.
26 April 2020 Don Magill passed away on 26 April 2020. Condolences to his wife, Maureen, children David, Laurie and Donna, son-in-law Adam and grandson Ryan, and the wider family circle.

May he rest in peace.
14 September 2019 Thomas McKeown passed away on 1 September 2019. Condolences to his wife, Anne, children Andrea, Karen, Paul and David and their families, and the wider family circle

May he rest in peace.
12 July 2019 James (Jim) Richardson passed away on 5 July 2019. Condolences to his wife, Valerie, children Louisa, Victoria, Sarah and James and their families, and the wider family circle

May he rest in peace.
2 July 2019 Geraldine Donnelly passed away on 29 June 2019. Condolences to her husband Sean, children Niall, Sandra and Karen, and her grandchildren, also her sisters Christina, Eileen, Marie, Teresa, Bernadette, Josephine, Rosaleen and Angela,and their families, and the wider family circle.

May she rest in peace.
22 May 2019 Eamonn Hearty passed away on 20 May 2019. Condolences to his wife Teresa, his children Sinead, Ciaran,and Orla, his grandchildren and his brother Gerard, sisters Rose, Bridie, Aine and Martina, and the wider family circle.

May he rest in peace.
10 May 2019 Robert Reoch passed away on 10 May 2019. Condolences to his widow Kathleen, his children, Karen Campbell, Yvonne McDonald, and David Reoch, father-in-law of Michael, Sean and Seamus, grandmother of Ryan, Mark and Chloe, g-grandmother of Adam, and the wider family circle.

May he rest in peace.
2 April 2019 John O'Callaghan passed away on 1 April 2019. Condolences to his wife Stephanie, his children Joan, Paul, Eamon and Helen and grandchildren, his brother Brian, sister Anne Feehan and the wider family circle.

May he rest in peace.
24 March 2019 Thomas (Tommy) Barker passed away on 23 March 2019. Condolences to his wife Frances, children Jane, Helen and Patrick, and the wider family circle.

May he rest in peace.
23 February 2019 Walter Durkan passed away on 19 February 2019. Condolences to his wife Marie, his children Brendan, Ann-Marie and Ciara, his grandchildren and the wider family circle.

May he rest in peace.
25 January 2019 Congratulations to Claire and Brian Cunningham on the birth of their daughter, Sarah Grace in January
14 December 2018 John O'Reilly passed away on 11 December 2018. Condolences to his wife Angela, his children, Frances, Maureen, Deirdre, Garrett, Grainne and Kevin, his brothers and sisters, Paddy, Anne, Phyllis, Josephine, Dick and Kathleen, his grandchildren and the wider family circle.

Whenever I feel overcome with pain, sadness, or longing, I just think about the many lives you touched when you were still alive. My sadness is replaced by gladness and pride.

May he rest in peace
24 June 2018 Anne (Annie) Devlin-Hearty passed away on 22 June 2018, in her 89th year, in her home, surrounded by her family. She was the last of the Owen and Annie Devlin generation. Condolences to her children, Eamon, Sean, Noel, Mary, Ann and Sue, her sons and daughters-in law, her 30 grandchildren and 50 greatgrandchildren and the wider family circle.

You can shed tears that she is gone
Or you can smile because she has lived
You can close your eyes and pray that she will come back
Or you can open your eyes and see all she has left.
Your heart can be empty because you can't see her
or you can be full of the love you shared.
You can turn your back on tomorrow and live yesterday
Or you can be happy for tomorrow because of yesterday
You can remember her and only that she's gone
Or you can cherish her memory and let it live on
You can cry and close your mind
Be empty and turn your back
Or you can do what she would want:
smile, open your eyes, love and go on.

She is Gone by David Harkins

May she rest in peace

28 December 2017 Margaret (Maggie) Boyle passed away peacefully this morning in her 92nd year. She was the last of the Johnny and Mary Boyle generation. Condolences to her children, Thomas, Paddy, Martin, Helen, Teresa and Anita, her sons and daughters-in law, her grandchildren and greatgrandchildren and the wider Boyle and Hollywood family circles.

May He support us all the day long,till the shades lengthen and the evening comes,
and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over, and our work is done.
Then in His mercy may He give us a safe lodging, and a holy rest and peace at the last.

John Henry Newmann, Cardinal

May she rest in peace

22 December 2017 Pauline O'Reilly passed away on 6 December. Condolences to her husband Joseph, her chilren Kieran, Jarleth, Catherine, Joseph and Declan, and the wider family circle.

There is a plan far greater than the plan you know;
There is a landscape broader than the one you see.
There is a haven where storm-tossed souls may go-
You call it death - we, immortality.
You call it death - this seeming endless sleep;
We call it birth - the soul at last set free.
'Tis hampered not by time or space - you weep.
Why weep at death? 'Tis immortality.

May she rest in peace.

27 July 2017 Danny (Daniel) Spiers passed away on 23 July 2017. Condolences to his parents Dermot and Geraldine, brother Aaron and sister Aimee and the wider families.

The lovely bud, so young, so fair
Called off by earthly doom,
Just came to show how sweet a flower
In paradise could bloom

From a grave stone in Sutcombe Churchyard, Devon.

May he rest in peace.

22 July 2017 Anna Crocco passed away on 25 June 2017. Condolences to her cousins in the Devlin, Martinez, Soto and Crocco families and the wider family circle.

In Memory of Anna Crocco
June 1, 1921 - June 25, 2017

Afterglow

I'd like the memory of me
to be a happy one,
I'd like to leave an afterglow
of smiles when life is done.
I'd like to leave an echo
whispering softly down the ways,
of happy times and laughing times
and bright and sunny days.
I'd like the tears of those who grieve,
to dry before the sun
of happy memories I leave,
behind - when day is done.

May she rest in peace

28 December 2016 Walter Collins passed away on 26 December. Condolences to his wife Bernie, children Darren, Laura and Stephen, his brothers and sisters and their families and the wider family circle.

May he rest in peace.

22 December 2016 Desmond (Dessie O'Reilly passed away on 19 December. Condolences to his wife Philomena, children Julie-Ann, Claire and Martin and grandchildren Eve, Grace and Sarah. Also his brothers and sisters and their families, and the wider family circle.

May he rest in peace.

15 August 2016 Pauline McQuaid Shields is a granddaughter of James Curran, who was drowned with 96 others in Carlingford Lough on 3 November 1916 when the passenger ship the Connemara, bound for Holyhead, collided with the collier Retriever, bound for Newry. Here she sings her own composition to her great grandmother Alice Curran. Lovely Alice. The story of the tragedy is told at The Sinking of the SS Connemara
14 January 2016 Peter (Buddy) Crocco passed away on 3 January 2016 in Staten Island, New York. A soldier in the US Marine Corps, Buddy fought with General McArthur's troops in the Pacific, including in the major battles of Guadalcanal and other Pacific Islands. Condolences to his wife Anna (nee Roberts) neices and nephews and the wider family circle.
May he rest in peace
4 January 2016 Declan Hearty passed away on 31 December 2015. Condolences to his wife Bríd, son Gavin, daughter Ciara, granddaughter Lily, his brothers and sisters and the wider family circle.
May he rest in peace
26 August 2015 Bernadette Duncan passed away on 26 August 2015. Condolences to her daughters Mary and Margaret, her sister Mary Conlon, and the wider family.
May she rest in peace
10 August 2015 Eileen Sutcliffe passed away on 10 August 2015. Condolences to her Sons Paula and Mark, brother and sister Pat and Kathleen and the wider family.
May she rest in peace
Memory card here
28 December 2013 Patrick (Paud) Durkan passed away on 12 March 2013. Obituary here
May he rest in peace
28 August 2013 Yvonne Hart died today. Condolences to her sister Joy the wider family circle in Ireland, Canada and the USA.

May she rest in peace

13 January 2013 Bernard Hamilton died today. Condolences to his wife Kathleen (nee Devlin), children Elizabeth, Eddy and James, daughter-in-law Kerry, grandchildren Amber and Owen and the wider family circle.

May he rest in peace

25 September 2012 Angela Kelly died 25 September. Condolences to her husband Kieran, her children and grandchildren, her mother Maggie Boyle, her brothers and sisters and the wider family circle.

May she rest in peace

23 January 2012 Letitia McArdle died 20 January. Condolences to her husband Gene, son Ronald, daughters Kathleen and Ann and the wider family circle.

May she rest in peace

30 May 2011 Owen Devlin died 27 May. Condolences to his wife Marie, son Peter, daughters Grainne and Anne-Marie, his mother Annie, brothers Sean, Eamon and Noel, sisters Mary, Anne and Sue and the wider family circle.

The dead they sleep a long, long sleep;
The dead they rest, and their rest is deep;
The dead have peace, but the living weep.

~Samuel Hoffenstein

May he rest in peace

21 March 2011 Congratulations to Tracy Ann and Donal O'Connor on the birth of their daughter, Doireann Ellen on 14 march
28 December 2010 Eddie Keenan died 27 December. Condolences to his wife Anne, son Francis and his family, his sisters Mary Conlon and Bernadette Duncan and the wider family circle.

May he rest in peace

12 October 2010 Congratulations to Peter and Olivia Devlin on the birth of their daughter, Bree Robyn on 12 October
24 May 2010 Kathleen Kane (nee Cole) died 21 May. Condolences to her sons Thomas, Liam, Gerry and Sean, her daughters Bernadette and Anne and all their families.

May she rest in peace

17 February 2010 Margaret Cairns died 16 February. Condolences to daughters Margaret, Catherine Anne and Susan and sons Jem and Peter and their families.

May she rest in peace

17 December 2009 Tommy Boyle, the last of his generation, died on 16 December. Condolences to his widow Maggie, his sons Thomas, Paddy and Martin, daughters Helen, Theresa, Angela and Anita and their families.
Remember me when I am gone away,
Gone far away into the silent land;
When you can no more hold me by the hand,
Nor I half turn to go, yet turning stay.
Remember me when no more day by day
You tell me of our future that you plann'd:
Only remember me; you understand
It will be late to counsel then or pray.
Yet if you should forget me for a while
And afterwards remember, do not grieve:
For if the darkness and corruption leave
A vestige of the thoughts that once I had,
Better by far you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad.

[Christina Rossetti - 1879]
11 December 2009 May Moore died 10 December. Condolences to daughters Jacinta and Fiona and sons David and Maurice and their families.
8 July 2009 Elizabeth (Lily) Mackrell died 6 July 2009. Condolences to her husband Jim and children Christopher, Anthony, Patrick, James, John, Ibar and Alana and to the wider family. May she rest in peace
1 July 2009 Peter (Petey) Moore died 30 June 2009. Condolences to his wife May and children Jacinta, David, Fiona and Maurice and to the wider family. May he rest in peace.
25 June 2009 Congratulations to Mark Sutcliffe and Katie Kimble on the birth of their daughter Ellie on 15 June 2009.
26 April 2009 Congratulations to Peter Devlin and Olivia McCooey on their wedding
26 December 2008 Congratulations to Ian and Karen Boyle on the birth of their twin sons John and James on 12 December 2008
4 November 2008 Congratulations to Sinead and Stephen McKenna on the birth of their daughter Eirinn on 1 November 2008.
16 August 2008 Congratulations to Sandra and Aidan Hughes on the birth of their daughter Orla on 9 July 2008.
11 April 2008 Brian Devlin died suddenly on 9 April. Condolences to his wife Gillian and sons Brian and Sean. Also to his mother Annie, to brothers and sisters and to the wider family. May he rest in peace.
16 March 2008 Monica Mackrell passed away on 14 March 2008. Condolences to her husband Raymond, daughters Janet and Judith and her grandchildren. May she rest in peace.
8 February 2008 Congratulations to Sarah Jane and Alan McGrath on the birth of their daugher Katie Scarlett on 24 December 2007.
31 December 2007 Sean Hearty died yesterday 30 December at his home after a long illness. Condolences to his wife Rosaleen, daughter Siobhan and grandchildren Aaron, Alannah and Sorcha.
May he rest in peace.
12 December 2007 Letitia Hart (nee Richardson) passed away yesterday 11 December, four months short of her 103rd birthday. She was the last of her generation of the McKenna family. Condolences to her daughter Joy and to her nephews and neices and later generations of relatives.
May she rest in peace.
11 August 2007 1. Congratulations to Siobhan and Sean Sherry on the birth of their daughter Maebh Caroline, on 9 January 2007
2. Also congratulations to Peter and Tracy (Ruddy) on their wedding on 26 July 2007.
Mackrell Family Tree updated.
6 July 2007 Peter Boyle passed away after a short illness on 4 July. Condolences to his parents Tommy and Maggie, and to his brothers, sisters, nephews and neices and to the wider Boyle, O'Reilly, O'Callaghan and Devlin families.
May he rest in peace.
18 June 2007 1. Congratulations to Sinead (Quigley) and Stephen McKenna on their wedding on 26 May 2007 in Inniskeen.
2. Congratulations to Keith and Sorca Neary on the birth of their daughter Shay, in May 2007.
3. Also congratulations to Jacqueline and Adrian McGivern on the birth of their daughter Mia on 9 June,
4. McKenna and Devlin Family Trees updated.
11 May 2007 Brian O'Reilly died suddenly at home on 6 May. Condolences to his wife Bronagh, daughters Ciara and Shannon, parents John and Angela, his brothers and sisters and to the wider O'Reilly, Farrelly and Monaghan families.
May he rest in peace.