CO-CTCH-0140

Record Date: 
25 September 2013
Graveyard: 
Christ Church Graveyard
Exact wording of epitaph: 

SACRED

TO THE MEMORY OF

SILVANUS ROBINSON

WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE

JULY 12TH 1838

IN THE 66TH YEAR OF HIS AGE

FOR HIM TO LIVE WAS CHRIST, AND TO DIE WAS GAIN

IN WHOM, THOUGH HE SAW HIM NOT, YET BELIEVING,

HE REJOICED WITH JOY ..... AND FULL OF GLORY

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF 

JOHN ROBINSON WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE

ON THE 6TH DAY MARCH 1891

AGED 48 YEARS

AND HIS SON

WILLIAM

WHO DIED JULY 13TH 1895

AGED 22 YEARS

AND TO WILLIAM ROBINSON

WHO DIED DECEMBER 27TH 1902

AGED 95 YEARS

Memorial Type: 
Headstone
Grave location
County: 
Cork
Latitude: 
51.747425
Longitude: 
-8.7367247222222
Number of people commemorated: 
4
People commemorated: 
Name: 
Silvanus
Surname: 
ROBINSON
Date of death - day: 
12
Date of death - month: 
July
Date of death - year: 
1838
Age: 
66
Name: 
John
Surname: 
ROBINSON
Date of death - day: 
6
Date of death - month: 
March
Date of death - year: 
1891
Age: 
48
Name: 
William
Surname: 
ROBINSON
Date of death - day: 
13
Date of death - month: 
July
Date of death - year: 
1895
Age: 
22
Name: 
William
Surname: 
ROBINSON
Date of death - day: 
27
Date of death - month: 
December
Date of death - year: 
1902
Age: 
95
Notes: 

Silvanus Robinson (1766-1833) married Ellen Lovell on 16th May, 1805 (both buried in this plot).  Silvanus was a Cotton Manufacturer and Grocer of South Main Street, Bandon.  

They had William baptised 13th March, 1807 at Ballymodan, Sylvanus baptised 10th May 1812 at Ballymodan, John baptised 15th June 1814 at Ballymodan, Mary Anne baptised 3rd December 1816 at Ballymodan, Sarah baptised on 25th October 1818 at Ballymodan, Ellen baptised on 27th May 1821 at Ballymodan and Sylvanus baptised on 19th March 1824.  

Sylvanus and Ellen's son William who died on 27th December 1902 and is buried in this plot married Margaret Shine on 22nd September 1840.  William and Margaret had a son John who died on 6th March 1891 and is also buried here.  He married Amelia Johnson on 9th January 1872 at Ballymodan and they had at least 7 children:  William born 2nd January 1873 in Bandon and was drowned on 13th July 1895 and is buried in this plot, John Henry (1874-1949), Margaret (1876), Albert (1878-1943), Amelia (1879), Clarence (1881-1923 and Percy (1885-1967)