The Dublin Boileaus are buried in the Huguenot Cemetery on Merrion Row in Dublin (also known as the "French cemetery"). A list of the surnames of all individuals buried there can be found through http://www.huguenotsinireland.com/huguenotburial.html. The cemetery has its own Wikipedia entry here.



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Boileau Burial Plot

A booklet about the cemetery was published by the Dublin Family History Society in 1988: "Huguenot Cemetery 1693: Merrion Row, Stephens Green, Dublin 2" (1988) by Danny Parkinson (listed in Google Books here but not viewable). The booklet reprints the following map:

Gravestone of Simeon Boileau

Simeon's grave is marked on the map above with a red X. Parkinson 1988 (see above) contains a copy, credited to Dr. Michael J. S. Egan, of the inscription:

"HERE LIETH THE REMAINS OF Mr SIMEON BOILEAU WHO DIED 1st JULY 1767 AGED 50 YEARS.
ALSO THE REMAINS OF THE LATE Mr JOHN BOILEAU HIS BROTHER AND THOSE OF THE LATE THEOPHILUS DESBRISAY ESQ.
THIS STONE WAS ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF THE ABOVE SIMEON, BY HIS SON THOMAS BOILEAU"

The booklet also notes that "Mem. of the Dead Vol III p538 ["Journal for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead"?] says that the burials register shows that John Boileau died 1 Feb 1772 aged 50 years and Capt Theophile Desbrisay died 5 July 1772 aged 79 years."

This conflicts with the currently known list of Simeon's siblings, which contains only one 'Jean', who supposedly died 1722. Possibly this error was introduced by a misreading of 1772 as 1722.