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Ireland (Historical Counties) => Ireland => Cork => Topic started by: familysleuth on Saturday 18 January 25 02:09 GMT (UK)
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Does anyone recognise this photo - two sides of image - which I downloaded from Ancestry a long time ago. I think it is St Michael's RC Church in Blackrock, Cork. I have Ross family buried here, but I have not found any listing of burials, and no transcriptions of gravestones for Ross, or associated names in my family tree. I tried a google image search, to no avail. Cheers, Louise in Perth, Australia
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This site has several images of the church which look very similar https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/20868050/saint-michaels-church-church-road-dundanion-blackrock-cork
Kay
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It is not a Catholic chuch. It is St. Michael's CofI in Blackrock.
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There is a listing of memorials for this graveyard, but I don't see the one OP is interested in.
https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2622069/st.-michael's-church-of-ireland-churchyard (https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2622069/st.-michael's-church-of-ireland-churchyard)
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and here is the question - when did the Ross family start worshipping in C of I churches and not Catholic ones?
Kay99 that church spire looks just like the photo and its C of I - which leaves me a bit confused!
Sad thing is - there are no mentions of a Ross family in the graveyards.
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and here is the question - when did the Ross family start worshipping in C of I churches and not Catholic ones?
Kay99 that church spire looks just like the photo and its C of I - which leaves me a bit confused!
Sad thing is - there are no mentions of a Ross family in the graveyards.
If you look at the info on the Findagrave site you will see that not all graves have been recorded. Maybe 75% of them. You could sign up there and ask whoever it is there to specifically look for the grave where the woman is standing in your photo.
Also, many CofI graveyards were mixed. This could be one of them, I don't know.
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http://www.gloine.ie
then click on Search Building then County
then just come down the page
lots of Church on this site
Blackrock Cork ref: 220230
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It is definitely St. Michael's Church of Ireland and all of the burials here are definitely Protestant. No Catholics.
People with the Ross surname were mostly Protestants. Link from www.irishgenealogy.ie just key in Ross Cork and select marriages -
show these marriages for Cork City and the majority of Ross entries were for St. Finbarr's Cathedral ( C of I), St. Nicholas ( C of I) Douglas ( St. Lukes C of I) .
Hope this is some help
Mary
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Have you any names or dates of death? Thank might help.
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St. Michael's Church of Ireland
Church Rd, Blackrock, Cork
https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/12488357#map=17/51.895276/-8.419111
https://tinyurl.com/3v5w52d6
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Hi,
I had a look at my database and I photographed this cemetery in 2005 however I didn't get to take all of the headstones. As we don't know if the lady in the photo is standing beside the Ross grave it seems things have changed since that photo was taken.
I have one photo taken of the left hand side of the church and it shows just one grave with full railings around it similar to the white ones in the old photo. It seems there was an extension to that side of the church and maybe the railings had to be moved for some graves. The railings with the lady does not show a standing headstone - it might be out of view.
It is definitely the same church as in my photo there are 4 pinnacles on the mid section of the spire the same as in the old photo.
If you have any other surnames linked to this Ross family we might be able to find some headstone relevant to this family.
Mary