CO-CCCF-0029

Record Date: 
4 July 2013
Graveyard: 
Christchurch
Exact wording of epitaph: 

TO 

THE BELOVED MEMORY

OF

A. C. GODFREY, M.D.

OF BROOM HILL, DRIPSEY.

WHO DIED 21ST OCTOBER 1915.

"I LOOK FOR THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD

AND THE LIFE OF THE WORLD TO COME" 

                                                                  AMEN.

Memorial Type: 
Cross
Grave location
County: 
Cork
Latitude: 
51.909841369965
Longitude: 
-8.7928658700065
Number of people commemorated: 
1
People commemorated: 
Name: 
A.C.
Surname: 
Godfrey
Date of death - day: 
21
Date of death - month: 
October
Date of death - year: 
1915
Address: 
Broom Hill, Dripsey.
Notes: 

The initials 'A.C.' stand for Abraham Cross. The memorial is meant to depict the Angel Gabriel.

Abraham Cross Godfrey was born in Beechmount, Dripsey, son of Dr Thomas Blennerhassett and Annie (Cross) Godfrey. He trained as a doctor in McGill University, Montreal and subsequently in Edinburgh. He spent most of his working life in Southampton, joined there by his widowed sister Marie (Rubie). On retirement he returned to Dripsey (Broom Hill) and in 1908, aged 80, he married Edith Percy Creed of Cloyne, who was 30 years his junior. He died in 1915, leaving his widow, who died in 1948, as primary legatee, and with a provision for a sum, the interest to be distributed annually by the Rector of Magourney (Rev. Alcock at the time) to the poor of the parish. This money continued to be disbursed into the 1960s (the Southern Star in 1968 refers to local Church of Ireland Rector Rev. Pamment distributing sums to ten deserving widows in Magourney).
Godfrey's Cross, site of the Dripsey Ambush, is named after the family.

(Source: A. Greene).