CO-SMCY-0147

Record Date: 
14 May 2013
Graveyard: 
Collegiate Church of Saint Mary
Grave location
County: 
Cork
Latitude: 
51.954943055556
Longitude: 
-7.8535180555556
Number of people commemorated: 
1
People commemorated: 
Title: 
Mrs
Name: 
Susannah?
Surname: 
Russell?
Notes: 

1914 map of this graveyard (as displayed in vestry of adjoining church) lists this location as Section 4, grave number 22, whose occupant is Mrs Russell.No inscription was visible on the slab in 2012.

Recorded in Dineley's "Observations on a Voyage" thus:

"Here lyeth the body of Susannah late wife of Captain  Robert Russel who departed this life the XXII day of December An. Dom. MDC LXX II AE. S. LXIV.

Enterr'd in  mould here lyeth she, who sometime was a wife to three,

In constant sort she lived a while, with one whose name was Richard Stile.

When Stiles the thred of time had wove,she wedded was to Stephen Clove,

and with  him liv'd in all content until his glass was also spent.

This vertuous piece when Clove was dead, did Captain Robert Russel wedd,

where she her vertues did displaye, till death did call her debt to pay.

Her life on earth with good was blest,In sweet repose she here doth rest,

till troump shall sound hence to away,with Christ to live in bliss for aye."