CO-CTCH-0299

Record Date: 
23 November 2013
Graveyard: 
Christ Church Graveyard
Exact wording of epitaph: 

In Loving Memory of

JOHN SULLIVAN

Died 28th October 1919

And of his wife EMILY ROSE

Died 26th Mrach, 1901

Erected by their children

"The peace of God which passeth

all understanding"

Memorial Type: 
Tablet
Grave location
County: 
Cork
Latitude: 
51.747197840005
Longitude: 
-8.7366387199803
Number of people commemorated: 
2
People commemorated: 
Name: 
JOHN
Surname: 
SULLIVAN
Date of death - day: 
28
Date of death - month: 
October
Date of death - year: 
1919
Name: 
EMILY ROSE
Surname: 
SULLIVAN
Date of death - day: 
26
Date of death - month: 
March
Date of death - year: 
1901
Relationship with first person: 
wife
Notes: 

John Sullivan was the eldest son of William Connor Sullivan and Dora Tresilian. (William was the brother of Thomas Kingston Sullivan of the Retreat).  John was baptised at Christ Church in 1840.  He married Emily Rose Leonard in 1864.  He had a brother Richard Tresilian Sullivan who became a doctor and emigrated to Australia.   His sister, Hester Anne Sullivan, married William Livingston Leachman in 1883 who became an Episcopal clergyman in the United States.  His sister, Mary Kingston Sullivan (Minnie) married Alfred Richard Leonard and moved to Cork City.

John was a rate collector and brewery manager by the time of the 1901 census.  John and Emily Rose had at least the following children, Letitia Emily Rose, Henrietta and Robert who became a Bank Clerk