KD-MDLN-0016

Record Date: 
29 September 2015
Graveyard: 
Maudlins
Exact wording of epitaph: 

Sacred

To the memory of

Elizabeth Anne Hussey Burgh

otherwise Fitzgerald

Eminently distinguised

by unaffected humility exemplary piety

and christian charity

approaching dissolution had no terrors for her

thro the merits of Christ alone who died in the Blessed hope of eternal life

in grateful remerance of her disinterested affection

this Mausaleum is erected by her afflicted widower

(who best knew her worth and reserved her virtues)

As a monument to her departed worth

and a resting place fror himself and family in future

Walter Hussey Burgh Esq. of Donore in this County

Grandson to the celebrated PAtriot Walter Hussey Burgh

Lord chief Baron of His Majesty's Court of Exchequer

in Ireland and member of the Irish House of Commons

for Trinity College Dublin

she departed this life 7th day Feb

in th eyear of our Lord 1834

in the 55th year of her life

leaving one Son and Seven infant Daughters to mourn

their irreparable loss 

Memorial Type: 
Mausoleum
Grave location
County: 
Kildare
Latitude: 
53.227004722222
Longitude: 
-6.6472869444444
Number of people commemorated: 
2
People commemorated: 
Title: 
Mrs
Name: 
Elisabeth Anne
Surname: 
Hussey Burgh
Date of death - day: 
7
Date of death - month: 
February
Date of death - year: 
1834
Age: 
55
Address: 
Donore Kildare
Title: 
Esq.
Name: 
Walter
Surname: 
Hussey Burgh