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CO-CTCH-0042
Record Date:
25 September 2013
Graveyard:
Exact wording of epitaph:
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
JANE MOLESWORTH
RELICT OF MAJOR BYSSE MOLESWORTH
HER MAJESTYS 17TH REGT WHO
WAS KILLED IN ACTION IN INDIA.
SHE DEPARTED THIS LIFE
FEBRUARY 11TH 1873
AT THE AGE OF 83 YEARS.
HER REMAINS WITH THOSE
OF HER TWO SONS ARE DEPOSITED
IN THE VAULT BENEATH IN THE
SURE AND CERTAIN HOPE OF
GLORIOUS RESURRECTION
IF OUR EARTHLY HOUSE OF THIS TABERNACLE WERE
DISSOLVED WE HAVE A BUILDING OF GOD. A HOUSE
NOT MADE WITH HANDS, ETERNAL IN THE HEAVENS
COR. II,V,1
Memorial Type:
Chest tomb
Number of people commemorated:
2
People commemorated:
Name:
Jane
Surname:
MOLESWORTH
Date of death - day:
11
Date of death - month:
February
Date of death - year:
1873
Age:
83
Title:
Major
Name:
Bysse
Surname:
MOLESWORTH
Relationship with first person:
husband
Notes:
Major Bysse Molesworth married Jane, only daughter of William Smyth, Esq and he died on 4th December 1819. They had William Robert who became a clergyman (see adjoining grave) and Herbert Philips who was born in 1813 and died unmarried in 1847 (see adjoining headstone).
This Molesworth family descends from Sir Walter Molesworth who accompanied Edward 1 to the Holy land. Robert Molesworth Esq, a military officer, came to Ireland and became a successful merchant in Dublin. He married Judith, eldest daughter and co heir of John Bysse Esq, who was afterwards Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer in Ireland and died in 1656. He was succeeded by his only child Robert Molesworth who became a peer in Ireland on 16th July 1716 - Baron of Philipstown and Viscount Molesworth. He married Letitia, 3rd daughter of Richard Coote, Lord Colooney.
