Pump Lane Graveyard – Society of Friends – Part 1

Pump Lane Graveyard – Society of Friends (Quakers) 1812 – 1822

The 1823-1833 burials

The following are extracts from the burial records for the Limerick Society of Friends, covering those buried in Pump Lane Graveyard which was once situated at the end of Pump Lane in English Town. You can read the original registers for this graveyard at Society of Friends Burial Papers.

Following the death of Rebecca Mark Harvey on Christmas Day 1831, Joseph Massey Harvey her husband donated a portion of his land in Ballinacurra as a burial ground for the Society of Friends. Rebecca was the first to be interred there on the 8th of July 1833, this would become the main graveyard for the Society of Friends from 1834 onwards.

John Ferrar’s description of the old Quaker Meeting House in his ‘History of Limerick’ 1787

The Quaker Meeting House, in Creagh Lame, was rebuilt in the year 1735, by a subscription from this society of nearly four hundred pounds. The people called Quakers, were first settled in this city about the year 1655, and in 1671, a Meeting house was built, where the new one now stand; at which point a large plot of land at the end of Peter Street, was purchased for a burial place, which is an estate in fee, vested in the whole society, and to continue as such while two of them remain in Limerick or within twelve miles of it.

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Pump Lane is now known as St. Francis Place and the graveyard is located under St. Mary’s Girls Primary School.

*not a member of the Society but asked permission to be buried in the Pump Lane Graveyard

#previous member disowned mostly due to marrying outside the faith.

Name	Age	Address	Died	Buried
Jane Mark (wife of John Mark)	36	George Street	13 Apr 1812	2 May 1812
Richard Desmanoiss (son of Jas. Desmanoiss, French Teacher) .*	10m	—	2 May 1812	3 May 1812
Sarah Toomey	84	Francis Street	19 Oct 1812	21 Oct 1812
Joseph Mayne (Son of Thomas & Bridget Mayne, shopkeeper)*	3m	—	16 Aug 1813	16 Aug 1813
Louisa Tauerner (daughter of Thomas Tauerner)*	6w	—	23 Sep 1814	24 Sep 1814
George Alleyn (Master Cooper)#	56	Old Clare Street	23 Nov 1814	25 Nov 1814
Maria Hill (daughter of James Hill)	2w	—	02 Feb 1815	03 Feb 1815
William Hill (Tanner)	62	Irish Town	17 May 1815	19 May 1815
Elizabeth Kendal (wife of Tho Kendal, a woollen draper)#	77	George’s Quay	04 Oct 1815	06 Oct 1815
John Thomas Thacker (Grocer)	36	George’s Street	11 Oct 1815	13 Oct 1815
Rebecca Murphy (widow)	81	Mungret Street	08 Nov 1815	10 Nov 1815
Henry Hill	19	William Street	28 Oct 1816	30 Oct 1816
John Newsom (Ironmonger)	35	Anne Street	22 Jan 1817	24 Jan 1817
Joshua Dudley (Clerk)*Drown in the Canal going home, came from Cork aged about 50.	60	The Canal Brewery	10 Feb 1817	13 Feb 1817
Sarah Mayne (daughter of Thomas & Bridget Mayne)*	3m	—	31 Mar 1817	01 Apr 1817
Samuel Beale (Shopkeeper)	45	Rutland Street	15 Jun 1817	17 Jun 1817
William Richard Unthank (Shopkeeper)	34	George’s Quay	21 Dec 1817	24 Dec 1817
William Phillips (Apothecary)	37	Mary Street	27 Dec 1817	30 Dec 1817
William Mayne (son of Thomas and Bridget Mayne)*	3 1/2 years	—	29 May 1818	30 May 1818
Robert Evans *	38	Broad Street	21 Nov 1818	23 Nov 1818
Edward Phillips (Grocer)	31	George’s Street	29 Nov 1818	01 Dec 1818
Mary Lister	39	George’s Street	21 Jun 1819	23 Jun 1819
Hannah Banks	18	Cecil Street	27 Jun 1819	30 Jun 1819
Samuel Taverner (son of Thos. & Deborah Taverner)*	1y	Upper Glentworth Street	06 Jan 1820	? Jan 1820
Rebecca Fisher (daughter of James and Mary Fisher)	2y	George’s Street	13 Jan 1820	15 Jan 1820
Anne Unthank (daughter of Isaac & Harriett Unthank)*	13	Anne Street	7 Feb 1820	9 Feb 1820
Elizabeth Fitt (daughter of Matthew & Catherine Fitt)*	4m	Clare Street	8 Feb 1820	10 Feb 1820
George Fitt (son of Matthew & Catherine Fitt)*	2y	Clare Street	09 Apr 1820	11 Apr 1820
Mary Fisher Untank	4y	George’s Street	06 Jun 1820	08 Jun 1820
Catherine Fitt (wife of Matthew Fitt)#	29	Clare Street	29 Jun 1820	02 Jul 1820
Thomas Mayne#	36	Catherine Street	12 Oct 1820	22 Oct 1820
Susanna Banks	76	Clare Street	21 Dec 1820	24 Dec 1820
Rebecca Harvey (daughter of Joseph & Rebecca Harvey)	16	Summerville	06 Jan 1821	10 Jan 1821
Thomas Taverner	29	Thomondgate	23 Jan 1821	26 Jan 1821
Isaac Unthank	34	Rutland Street	24 Jan 1821	26 Jan 1821
Mary Fisher (wife of James Fisher)	25	Clareville, Castleconnell	05 Mar 1821	08 Mar 1821
Anna Hill (wife of John Hill)*	56	Nicholas Street	10 May 1821	13 May 1821
Francis Taverner (widow of Tho.)	75	Glentworth Street	08 Sep 1821	09 Sep 1821
Eliza Newsom (daughter of Thos. & Mary Newsom)*	15m	Corn Market	01 Apr 1822	02 Apr 1822
Mary Woods (wife of John Woods)	56	William Street	22 Jun 1822	25 Jun 1822
James Fisher	77	Richmond	19 Jul 1822	21 Jul 1822
Mary Unthank (George Unthank)#	64	Anne Street	25 Nov 1822	28 Nov 1822

The 1823-1833 Pump Lane Quaker burials