Agnes (Long) Laverty (abt. 1823 - 1903)

Born about 1823 in Gransha, Islandmagee, County Antrim, Ireland [uncertain]

Ancestors

Wife of James Laverty — married 28 Jul 1849 in Islandmagee 1st Presbyterian Church, County Antrim, Ireland

Died 30 Jan 1903 at about age 80 in Gransha, Islandmagee, County Antrim, Ireland

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Biography

Agnes was born about 1823,^[1] probably in Islandmagee, County Antrim, Ireland, the daughter of John Long and Jane Cameron.

She was living in Gransha, Islandmagee at the time of her marriage to James Laverty, a sailor from Ballykeel, Islandmagee in 1849 in 1st Islandmagee Presbyterian Church. The witnesses were Robert Stevenson and Sarah Wilson.^[2]

She Inherited her husband's entire estate on his death and was a 78 year old widow living with her sister Annie's family in Gransha, Islandmagee in 1901.^[3]

Agnes died in 1903 in Gransha, Islandmagee, aged 80, from decay of nature. She is described as the widow of a farmer and her death was registered by Mary Hagan of Gransha who was present at her death.^[4] She is interred in St. John's Church of Ireland Graveyard, in Islandmagee.^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ Estinated from age at death.
2. ↑ Ireland Civil Registration Marriage Index https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1849/09371/5393872.pdf
3. ↑ 1901 Ireland Census http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Antrim/Islandmagee/Gransha/990069/
4. ↑ Ireland Civil Registration Death Index https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1903/05674/4598464.pdf
5. ↑ Gravestone Inscriptions, County Antrim, Volume 1, Islandmagee. Compiled by George Rutherford (1977).

   Erected by James Laverty in memory of his children, viz. John died on the 5th of December 1854 aged 2 years, Agnes died on the 1st of January 1860 aged 1 year, Annie Jane died on the 2nd of August 1862 aged 9 years, James died on the 6th of January 1868 aged 1 years, John was lost at sea in the year 1875 aged 19 years. The above-named James Laverty died 22nd Octr. 1899 aged 73 years. Also his wife Agnes Laverty who died 28th Jany. 1903 aged 80 years.