LD-SPNF-0041

Record Date: 
29 March 2016
Graveyard: 
Newtown Forbes
Exact wording of epitaph: 

        This stone is erected  

          by Frances Brooke

the afflicted widow of Gustavus Brooke Esq

  who died 9th Decr 1826  Aged 49 years

Also her Brother George Bathurst Esq

Who died 12th Decr 1826 Aged 41 Yrs

 

Memorial Type: 
Table tomb
Grave location
County: 
Longford
Latitude: 
53.765091666667
Longitude: 
-7.8369483333333
Number of people commemorated: 
3
People commemorated: 
Title: 
Esq
Name: 
Gustavus
Surname: 
Brooke
Date of death - day: 
9
Date of death - month: 
December
Date of death - year: 
1826
Age: 
49
Title: 
Esq
Name: 
George
Surname: 
Bathurst
Date of death - day: 
12
Date of death - month: 
December
Date of death - year: 
1826
Age: 
41
Relationship with first person: 
Brother-in-law
Name: 
Charlotte
Surname: 
Brooke
Date of death - day: 
29
Date of death - month: 
March
Date of death - year: 
1793
Age: 
53
Address: 
Moneylagan Cottage, Newtownforbes
Notes: 

An extract from Dublin Evening Maiil of 23rd January 1866, states that Gustavus Brooke Longford is 'buried in Newtownforbes in the same grave with Miss Brooke, the poetess, a lady who is well known as a Celtic Scholar.
Charlotte Brooke published  'Reliques of Irsh Poetry'in 1789 and has been described as 'one of the brightest literary ornaments of this country'.
On 29th March 1793, she died of a fever while staying with friends at Moneylagan Cottage, Newtownforbes and is buried in this plot but her name was never inscribed on the memorial erected by Frances Brooke, widow of Gustavus Brooke.