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CO-CTCH-0040
Record Date:
25 September 2013
Graveyard:
Exact wording of epitaph:
IN T HE VAULT BENEATH ARE DEPOSITED
THE MORTAL REMAINS OF
ABRAHAM LANE ESQ
WHO DIED THE XX1 DAY OF DECEMBER MDCCCXXXIX
AGED 66 YEARS
BLESSED ARE THE DEAD WHO DIE IN THE LORD REV.XI.13
ALSO THE REMAINS OF
A.B. LANE ESQ,HIS SON,
WHO DIED FEBRUARY 7TH 1841 AGED 64 YEARS
BENEATH ALSO LAY THE REMAINS OF
ELIZABETH PARKER, WIDOW OF ABRAHAM LANE ESQ
WHO SURVIVED HIM NEARLY 17 YEARS
AND DIED ON THE 8TH NOVEMBER 1851
AGED 81 YEARS
THE LORD IS A ...
ALSO RICHARD LANE ESQ, ELDEST SON OF
ABRAHAM AND ELIZABETH PARKER LANE
WHO DIED FEBRUARY 27 1884
AGED 81 YEARS
ABSENT FROM THE BODY PRESENT WITH THE LORD
Memorial Type:
Chest tomb
Number of people commemorated:
4
People commemorated:
Name:
Abraham
Surname:
LANE
Date of death - day:
21
Date of death - month:
December
Date of death - year:
1839
Name:
A.B.
Surname:
LANE
Date of death - day:
7
Date of death - month:
February
Date of death - year:
1841
Age:
64
Relationship with first person:
son
Name:
Elizabeth Parker
Surname:
LANE
Date of death - day:
8
Date of death - month:
November
Date of death - year:
1851
Age:
81
Relationship with first person:
widow
Name:
Richard
Surname:
LANE
Date of death - day:
27
Date of death - month:
February
Date of death - year:
1884
Age:
81
Relationship with first person:
eldest son
Notes:
Abraham Lane who was born in 1773 lived at 2 Devonshire Square (now the Hamilton High School). He was a Burgess of Cork and Sheriff of Cork in 1798. Abraham married Elizabeth Parker Dunscombe at Carrigrohane in Cork in October 1800. Elizabeth was the daughter of Nicholas Dunscombe of Mount Desert. Nicholas Dunscombe Esq was born in 1741 and married in 1764 Mary, only child and heiress of Thomas Parker Esq of Inchigagin, Co Cork. Elizabeth had at least seven brothers, George (son and heir), Robert Parker who assumed the name of Parker upon succeeding to his mother's property of Inchigagin, William, Thomas, Nicholas, Rowland and Parker and was the youngest of three daughters namely Mary who died in July 1827, Penelope who died in 1816 and Elizabegther who is buried here. The first of the Dunscombes to settle in Ireland was Edward Dunscombe Esq of Saint Finbarres in the City of Cork who went over in 1596.
Nicholas had also been a high sheriff of Cork in 1765. Abraham and Elizabeth lived for some time in Dublin before retiring to Bandon. They moved to live at 2 Devonshire Square in 1831 following the Naylor Rogers family (See headstone 4 in this graveyard).
Richard who is buried in this plot was the eldest son born in 1803. He entered Trinity in 1818 and progressed to the Kings Inns in 1821. He became a Captain and lived at Kilbrogan House on Kilbrogan Hill up to his death in 1884.
Their second son was Nicholas Dunscombe Lane who was born in 1805. He also studied at Trinity (1822) and at the Middle Temple in 1823. Ensign Nicholas became a Lieutenant in the army in 1833 by purchase. He practised as a barrister in Liverpool and died there on 30th May 1847 having married Emma Grace Evans. Some of his descendants now live in Australia.
Their third son was Abraham B. Lane also buried in this plot. He was born in 1807. He entered the Kings Inn in 1823.
A daughter Sarah married Rev Richard Thomas Meade in 1843. She was one of several daughters
Both the Dunscombes and Lanes were Unitarians.
