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Burial register page tracking deceased members of the Capuchin Order interred at Rochestown between 1882 and 1907, categorized by their religious name, secular birth name, and date of death. It features twelve formal tabular entries and a later historiographical addendum written in Irish.

Tabular Necrology (1882-1907): A chronological record linking religious names to secular identities for genealogical and historical documentation. The list includes:

• Brother Antony (Cleric) / John Barry (d. 14 Oct 1882)
• Father Seraphim / John F. Van Damme (d. 15 Aug 1887)
• Father Eugene / John H. Hass (d. 17 Oct 1890)
• Br. Finbarr (Cleric) / Michael Sullivan (d. 23 Mar 1893)
• Br. Celestine (Cleric) / James Brophy (d. 30 Aug 1893)
• Father Paschal / John Stapleton (d. 19 Apr 1898)
• Br. Patrick (Cleric) / James Fitzpatrick (d. 5 Jan 1899)
• Br. Colman (Cleric) / John Healy (d. 20 Jan 1901)
• Br. Stephen (Lay Brother) / Thomas Keller (d. 1 Mar 1902)
• Father Bernard / Joseph Jennings (d. 26 Dec 1904)
• Br. Isidore (Cleric) / Michael Bowman (d. 29 Jun 1905)
• Br. Kieran (Lay Brother) / Edward McDonough (d. 24 Jan 1907)

Irish Language Addendum (August 1978): A lower annotation added by An tAthair Pádraig Ó Cuill, Caipisíneach (Father Pádraig Ó Cuill, Capuchin) notes historical information received from Father Dominic Atkinson OFM Cap. regarding an earlier Capuchin from Rochestown who may have been buried in Douglas prior to Brother Antony’s 1882 interment.

A clipping of a letter to the editor of ‘The Cork Examiner’, written by R. F. O’Connor to expand upon the brief obituary notice for Fr. Simeon Gaudillot OFM Cap. The narrative provides some biographical and institutional history of the Capuchin Order in Munster, tracking Father Simeon's early life in the Diocese of Besançon, his novitiate in Versailles, and his training near Nîmes under a strict Prussian Capuchin. It details his subsequent assignment to Ireland by Father Francis of Villafranca, his tenure as Novice-Master in Kilkenny succeeding Father Albert Mitchell OFM Cap., and his eventual jurisdiction as Commissary-General over Cork and Rochestown following an administrative provincial split orchestrated by Visitor Father Chrysostom of Paris.

The author also highlights Father Simeon’s role in building the church of Rochestown with the help of Brother Stanislaus Walsh, and notes a historical moment in Cork circa 1880, when Father Simeon re-introduced the public wearing of the full Capuchin habit, sandalled feet, and tonsure in city thoroughfares. The letter outlines his advocacy for regular monastic observance, the eventual re-unification of the Irish province under the late Father Seraphim Van Damme of Bruges, and Father Simeon’s final years at the sanctuary of Our Lady at Fourvières in Lyons.