Ohio Families

Kilbroney Catholic Parish Register, Baptisms
14 July 1854
Richard [son] of Owen Rourke and Ann Feran.
sponsors Patt "franile?" and Mary Kilty [first sponsor's name was unreadabie to me]

This is Richard's death. His brother James named his second son Richard (1883, possibly Williamstown, Victoria, Australia).

I recorded the place of death as Omeath, Co Louth, because that is where his body was found and where the death was recorded.

Superintendent Registrar's District: Dundalk, Registrar's District: Carlingford, County Louth
Deaths
June 1, 1880
Richard Rourke, 24, male, bachelor, accidently drowned by upsetting of boat. informant: Coroner, County of Louth

 

 

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1880/06479/4864025.pdf

from an article at NewryMemoirs.com

But, along with the triumphs have been tragedies. For example, three young men from the locality, - Thomas Cole, Luke Farrell and Richard O’Rourke were drowned when their boat capsized in a gale on Carlingford Lough in 1880, reminiscent of a similar event, a few years ago.

The craft, owned by Charles Leslie, was sailing back from Carlingford when a sudden squall capsized the vessel, throwing everyone overboard. The captain clung to an oar, and called to his companions, but only Luke Savage responded. The local community was stunned by the loss of three well-respected young men. Cole’s body was recovered at Drumsesk; O’Rourke’s was washed ashore near Omeath, while Farrell’s Body was discovered on the beach near Rostrevor.

http://www.newrymemoirs.com/stories_pages/rostrevorglory_2.html

Parish Register, Burials
20 June 1880 Richard Rourke, Ballyneddan, age 24
note in the register: the above three were drowned in Carlingford Lough June 1
[the other 2 in the register were Thomas Cole of Drumsesk and Luke Farrell of Tomnaveagh]