CO-CTCH-0089

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

IN

LOVING MEMORY OF

MARY A.E.,

WIDOW OF 

THOMAS KINGSTON SULLIVAN

DIED 18TH AUGUST, 1923

GOD IS LOVE

ALSO OF

THOMAS KINGSTON, DIED 1873

AGED 6 YEARS

AND

ADELAIDE M.H.

DIED 1882

AGED 9 YEARS

BELOVED CHILDREN OF

THOMAS AND MARY KINGSTON SULLIVAN

SUFFER LITTLE CHILDREN

TO COME UNTO ME

Memorial Type: 
Headstone
Grave location
County: 
Cork
Latitude: 
51.747288055556
Longitude: 
-8.7364380555556
Number of people commemorated: 
4
People commemorated: 
Name: 
Mary A.E.
Surname: 
SULLIVAN
Date of death - day: 
18
Date of death - month: 
August
Date of death - year: 
1823
Name: 
Thomas Kingston
Surname: 
SULLIVAN
Relationship with first person: 
late husband
Name: 
Thomas Kingston
Surname: 
SULLIVAN
Date of death - year: 
1873
Age: 
6
Relationship with first person: 
son
Name: 
Adelaide M.H.
Surname: 
SULLIVAN
Age: 
9
Relationship with first person: 
daughter
Notes: 

Mary Aphrasia Elizabeth Langford was the second wife of Thomas Kingston Sullivan of The Retreat, Bandon.  They married at St Peters Church of Ireland, Dublin on 18th December 1860.  Mary's father was John Edward Langford of Stone Hall, Co Limerick and his wife, Mary, the eldest daughter of William Cox of Ballynoe, Co Limerick.  Her parents were married on 4th February 1826.  Mary Aphrasia's husband, Thomas was born in Bandon 1815 to John Sullivan, a Bandon Tanner.  His mother was Mary Kingston. Thomas was married firstly to Jane Tresilian in 1839 in Innishannon.  He had four children by his first marriage.

Mary Aphrasia and Thomas had at least twelve children.  Thomas Kingston buried in this plot was born in 1866 and Adelaide Maria Henrietta also buried in this plot was born in 1873.

Their grand-daughter, Anne Winifred Sullivan, became the second Duchess of Westminster when she married Hugh Richard Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster on 7th February 1947