Sunday's Obituary: Michael Quirk

Today's obituary is for Michael Quirk, who is my 4th Great Grandparent. From Tipperary in Ireland he and his wife Honorah (nee Costello) came to Australia in 1841 on board the ship 'Gilbert Henderson', leaving behind their daughter Mary in Ireland with family. They went on to have a large family and in 1858 their daughter Mary (along with her maternal Grandmother, Aunt and Uncle) migrated to Australia and was finally reunited with her parents. Michael Quirk died on the 26th October 1886 at Wagra of old age. He was buried at Wagragobilly Cemetery on the 28th October 1886.

Source: MEIDFIELD JOCKEY CLUB. (1886, November 2). The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser (NSW : 1868 - 1931), p. 2. Retrieved September 7, 2014, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article128767853

Transcript:
ANOTHER very old resident of the district has gone over to the great majority. Mr. Michael Quirk of Adjenbilly, who had exceeded man's allotted term of life by ten years, died at his son Thomas's residence on Tuesday last, and was interred in the Wagra cemetery on Thursday, his remains being followed to their last resting place by a large number of friends by whom the deceased was deservedly respected. Mr. Quirk came to Darbalara in 1843, consequently had been 43 years in the district, where he reared a large and respectable family.

Michael Quirk and Honorah Costello had the following known children:

Mary Pierse nee Quirk (c.1840 - 1924)
James Joseph Quirk (c.1842 - 1928)
Thomas Quirk (c.1844 - 1925)
Ann Holt nee Quirk (c.1846 - 1909)
Jane Quirk
Michael Quirk (c.1850 - 1933)
Bridget Byrnes nee Quirk (c.1852 - 1935)
Ellen Luff nee Quirk (c.1854 - 1896)

NSW BDM Birth Indexes

V1850414 67/1850 QUIRK MICHAEL MICHAEL HONORA

NSW BDM Marriage Indexes

2982/1863 PIERSE JOHN QUIRK MARY TUMUT
3618/1871 QUIRK JAMES HOWE MARY TUMUT
3623/1871 LEISHOLT JAMES QUIRK ANNE TUMUT
3990/1874 LUFF WILLIAM QUIRK ELLEN TUMUT
4229/1875 BYRNES CHARLES QUIRK BRIDGET MARY TUMUT
3086/1877 QUIRK MICHAEL WALSH HARRIETT GUNDAGAI
4997/1884 QUIRK THOMAS CULLEN KATE GUNDAGAI

NSW BDM Death Indexes

9991/1886 QUIRK MICHAEL MARTIN DIED GUNDAGAI GUNDAGAI
13706/1896 LUFF ELLEN MICHAEL HONORA GUNDAGAI
1376/1897 QUIRK HONORAH MICHAEL ANNE GUNDAGAI
4618/1909 HOLT ANN 63 YRS BENBOKA BEMBOKA
18274/1924 PIERSE MARY MICHAEL MARY GUNDAGAI
4535/1925 QUIRK THOMAS MICHAEL HONORA GUNDAGAI
14129/1928 QUIRK JAMES J MICHAEL HANORA WAVERLEY
11671/1933 QUIRK MICHAEL MICHAEL NONORAH GUNDAGAI
17824/1935 BYRNE BRIDGET M MICHAEL HANORA GUNDAGAI

Source: NSW BDM Indexes. Retrieved from http://www.bdm.nsw.gov.au/

Memorial for Michael Quirk at Wagragobilly Cemetery

Source:

ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION. (1886, December 10). New South Wales Government Gazette (Sydney, NSW : 1832 - 1900), p. 8471. Retrieved June 28, 2020, from

Transcript:

In the will of Michael Quirke, late of Adginbilly, near Gundagai, in the Colony of New South Wales, farmer, deceased.

NOTICE is hereby given that after the expiration of fourteen days from the publication hereof in the New South Wales Government Gazette, application will be made to this Honorable Court, in its Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction, that probate of the last will and testament of the abovenamed deceased, who died on the 26th day of October last, May be granted to James Quirke and Thomas Quirke, the executors in the said will named. - Dated this 8th day of December, A.D. 1886.

W.T. GRIFFIN,

Proctor for the Executors,

Gundagai.

By his Agents, - RUSSELL JONES BROTHERS,

44,Castlereagh-street, Sydney.

8574 6s. 6d.

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