When Jeremiah Durack was born in February 1877, in Thylungra, Queensland, Australia, his father, Patrick "Patsy" Durack, was 42 and his mother, Mary Costello, was 35. He died in 1956, in Australia, at the age of 79, and was buried in Rockbrook, County Dublin, Ireland.
Irish: from Ó Dubhraic, thought to be a later form of Ó Dubhratha ‘descendant of Dubhratha’, a personal name meaning ‘black one of prosperity’.
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