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 Dr. Daniel Tracey (1793-1876)

 

 

Return of Persons examined and certified as Qualified by Apothecaries' Hall in Dublin 1829

Dec 4 1807, Charles Tracey, Magherafelt, Derry

Nov 16 1810 Daniel Tracey, Nenagh [no county stated]

Dec 21 1810 Mark Tracey, Feymore [Feamore Annagh], Mayo

Mar 20 1817 Daniel Tracy, Nenagh, Tipperary

 

12 Jun 1830-26 Jun 1830

Letter from Maj William Miller [Inspector General], Fermoy, [County Cork], to William Gregory, [Under Secretary, Dublin Castle], recommending Chief Constable Kittson for a leave of absence, enclosing a certificate from D Tracey, surgeon and apothecary, Nenagh [Grove], and an endorsement by four magistrates, Gilbert Holmes, James Willington, NW [Geeson?], and [RW] Bayly, Nenagh, [County Tipperary].

3 items; 5pp CSO/RP/1830/957

 

December 11, 1835 (BL) Advertisement - Meeting at Nenagh to establish the London National Bank of Ireland

...After they had retired, some of the inhabitants appeared. we noticed Doctor Treacy, Mr. Keane and Mr. Cleary among them. They inquired what the meeting was about?...three cheers for the Agricultural and Commercial Bank...

 

Post 1838

Daniel Tracy, Apothecary [59 Castle Street];

The Two Tipperarys: The National and Local Politics, Devolution and Self-determination, of the Unique 1838 Division Into Two Ridings, and the Aftermath (1994) Donal A. Murphy, Deirdre O'Dowd, Relay.

 

3 June 1843 (NG) Nenagh Fever Hospital Report for May

...Daniel Tracey, Register

 

3 June 1843 (NG) Nenagh Guardians - Increase of Apothecary's Salary

...Mr Tracy's attendence at the Poor House was very constant...Nenagh Fever Hospital, of which Mr. Tracy is Apothecary...raised to half that of Limerick...That gentleman had £50 a year with rations, but he lived in the house and devoted his whole time to the paupers...Doctor's salary [increased] from £40 to £50.

 

1 July 1843 (NG)

Mr O'Mara...it was Mr. tracey who attended the master and matron whilst they were ill with fever...Mr. Tracy's salary not being raised...

 

1 July 1843 (NG) Apothecary's Salary

Mr. O'Mara...Mr. Tracey is the best judge of fever in this county...

 

21 July 1844 (NG) Nenagh Commissioners

...18. Daniel Tracey...elected commissioners...

 

29 October 1845 (NG) Nenagh Town Commissioners

...Commissioners...Dr. Tracy...

 

1846 Slater's national commercial directory of Ireland

Nenagh

Daniel Tracey, Apothecary & Union Workhouse, 59 Castle St

 

Aug. 20th 1847 Inquest

Patrick Finn, Nenagh Workhouse, Parish of Nenagh, Lower Ormond. Dr. Daniel Treacy.

 

1850-51 Griffiths Valuation North Tipperary

Daniel Tracey Barrack Street Nenagh Tipperary

Daniel Tracy Summerhill Nenagh Tipperary

 

1852? The Medical Directory for Ireland, p. 11 & 99

Daniel Tracey, Nenagh, co. Tipperary—LSA Ireland, 1818; Apoth. Nenagh Workhouse and Auxiliaries; formerly Med. Att. Nenagh Disp. and Fever Hosp.

 

25 June 1853 (NG) Nenagh Union

...an increase of £10 [to £30] a year to the apothecary, Mr. Tracy...

 

1856  Slater's Royal National Commercial Directory Of Ireland

Nenagh

Daniel Tracey, 57 Barrack St., Nenagh, Tipperary. Physicians & Surgeons

Daniel Tracey, 59 Barrack St., Nenagh, Tipperary. Apothecaries & Druggists

 

1 October 1856 (NG) Nenagh Railway

Undersigned Rate-payers and inhabitants of Nenagh...Daniel Tracey, Apothecary...

 

7 March 1857 (NG) Nenagh Union - Testimonial

The Board granted a very complimentary and flattering testimonial to Mr. Daniel Tracey, Apothecary to the House, who is seeking a similar but more lucrative situation, in St. John's Hospital, Limerick. All the guardians present spoke of Mr. Tracey in the highest manner.

 

18 August 1883 (NG) Nenagh Board of Guardians

Death of Dr. Edward Kittson, Medical Officer of the Nenagh Dispensary for the last 40 years...Mr. O'Brien asked what was the salary then? The Clerk said £80 for the doctor and £30 for the apothecary. Dr. Tracey, who had not been qualified as M.D., but at the same time was considered as skillful as the best, used to visit the patients. When Dr. Geary, Medical Superintendent for the Poor Law Commissioners, heard of Dr. Tracey's visits to patients, he said he would not allow such a practice to be continued. Dr. Kittson said he could not discharge the duties without Dr. Tracey's assistance in that manner. Two doctors were then appointed at £80 a year each. The £80 was afterwards raised to £100.

 

11 August 1906 (NG) A Peep into Nenagh's Past

..."The Nenagh Minsterly" published in 1836 by Mr. John O'Shea, the first editor of the "Guardian"...subscribers were...Daniel Tracey, disploser at Nenagh Workhouse, and lived next door to police-barracks (commonly known as Dr. Tracey)...

 

 

 

 

LIMERICK

 

1857 News from Ireland - New York City newspaper The Irish-American.

Tipperary - Mr. Daniel Tracy, of Nenagh, has been appointed resident Apothecary to St. John's Fever Hospital, Limerick.

 

1858-1860 St. Johns fever hospital, Limerick

One years salary...D. Tracey/Mr. Tracey/Mr. Treacy apothecary £75/0s/0d...

 

Obituary: Catherine Tracy, Limerick 21/11/1867 wife of Daniel Tracy, apothecary, late of Nenagh

Catherine Tracey died 1867, Limerick PLU, aged 69, b. 1798, died 17 Nov 1867 Limerick Limerick

 

1867 Henry & Coughlans

Hospitals, Infirmaries, Asylums etc.

Treacy, Resident Apothecary and Register, St. John's Fever & Lock Hospital

 

1870 Slater

Hospitals, Infirmaries, Asylums etc.

Tracey, Resident Medical Officer, St. John's Fever & Lock Hospital, St. John's Gate

 

“An old and valued friend of Mr. Lenihan, Dr. Daniel Tracey, formerly of Nenagh, who lived to be over 80 years, said, that when he was a very young child, the family of his aunt, Mrs. Dwyer of Ballinaruan, had possession of the "Barnane Cuilawn" for many years, and that one of the sons of Mr. Richard Cooke, of Borrisoleigh, applied for and got it by was of present, from the family. ...”

Lives of the Irish Saints: With Special Festivals, and the Commemorations of Holy Persons by John O'Hanlon Published by J. Duffy, 1875, vol 2, pp.621

 

8th May 1876 Nenagh Guardian

His numerous friends in Nenagh will regret to hear that a once favourite amongst them, has just paid the debt of nature, in the person of Dr. Daniel Tracey [born circa 1790]. He had been a resident in Limerick since 1858, when he was appointed resident Apothecary to the fever hospital at John's Gate, a situation he resigned from some eight or ten years ago. He was gifted with talents of a high order, and in his profession, he was one of the old school, and had few superiors. He came of an old race in the Parish of Templemore, and was the 11th child of Patrick and Mary Tracey. Those who knew him will remember him as a gentleman of a bye gone time in which the intellectual faculties were cultivated as well for professional advancement as for the entertainment of the circle in which he moved.

 

20 May 1876 (NG) Death of Daniel Tracey, Esq.

His numerous friends in Nenagh will regret to hear that a once general favourite amongst them, has just paid the debt of nature, in the person of Dr. Daniel Tracey. He had been a resident in Limerick since 1858, when he was appointed Resident Apothecary to the fever hospital at John's Gate, a situation he resigned from some eight or ten years ago. He was gifted with talents of a high order, and in his profession, he was one of the old school, and had few superiors. He came of an old race in the Parish of Templemore, and was the eleventh child of Mr. Patrick Tracey and Mrs. Mary Tracey (otherwise Ryan), and was born on Saturday, November 2nd, 1793, so that he had reached the 83rd year of his age, when death overtook him. He was highly intelligent, had read and remembered much, was witty, anecdotic, full of song and story. Within the last few years his health had been declining; and he paid a visit some time ago to the family tomb in the beautifully situated ancient graveyard in the Abbey of Tyone, near Nenagh, in the expectation of being laid there soon beside the mortal remains of his deceased children and wife; but we have heard that he was buried on the morning of Wednesday in the Cemetery at Mount St. Laurence, Limerick, he having died the day before at his lodgings in Catherine-street in this city, and that the funeral was attended by a few only of his late wife's relatives. The deceased possessed excellent social amenities; those who knew him will remember him as a gentleman of a byegone time in which the intellectual faculties were cultivated as well for professional advancement as for the entertainment of the circle in which he moved. - Limerick Reporter

 

3 June 1876 (N) Dr. Daniel Tracey

His numerous friends in Nenagh (says the Limerick Reporter) will regret to hear that a once general favourite among them has just paid the debt of nature in the person of Dr. Daniel Tracey. He had been a resident of limerick since 1858, when he was appointed resident apothecary to the fever hospital at John's Gate, a situation which he resigned some eight or ten years ago. He was highly intelligent, had read and remembered much, was witty, anecdotic, full of song and story, and some fifty years ago his ballad on "The Brunswickers of the Ormondes" was one of the most popular effusions of the period, and one of the most successful in the delineation of the men who were at that period engaged in the work of opposing Catholic Emancipation.

 

10 June 1876 (NG) The Late Dr. Daniel Tracy

The Limerick Reporter says:- Ex-County Inspector Timothy McMahon, brother-in-law to the late Daniel Tracy, Esq, whose death we announced took place in Limerick on the 16 ult, is about to erect a handsome marble monument over his remains which were interred with every respect in the Roman Catholic cemetery of Mount St. Laurence, close by this city...rather than in the old family vault in the ancient Abbey of Tyrone, near Nenagh, which he was apprehensive had been already overcrowded by the deceased members of his family...[including] deceased wife and children...

 

In the Limerick Reporter, 23 February, 1877, Maurice Lenihan published a report of an interview he had with the late Dr. Daniel Tracy on the famous old classical schools of Tipperary.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Last update: 15 July 2024