CO-CTCH-0046

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

HERE RESTS

THE REMAINS

OF THE

REVd MASON ALCOCK

RECTOR OF DURRuS

DIOCESE OF CORK

WHO DIED

OCTr 1829

AGED 79 YEARS

Memorial Type: 
Altar tomb
Grave location
County: 
Cork
Latitude: 
51.747113055556
Longitude: 
-8.7362980555556
Number of people commemorated: 
1
People commemorated: 
Title: 
Reverend
Name: 
Mason
Surname: 
Alcock
Date of death - month: 
October
Date of death - year: 
1829
Age: 
79
Address: 
Durrus, County Cork.
Notes: 

On 2nd June 1778 Mason Alcock, AB was admitted to Lislee and Kilsillagh which was vacant as a result of the death of Bligh.  He became vicar of Durrus, Cork in 1805.

Mason Alcock was the grandson of Alexander Alcock, the Dean of Lismore by Elizabeth daughter of Sir John Mason of Waterford, Knight.  He was the fourth son of Alexander Alcock, Archdeacon of Waterford by, Sarah, sister of the first Viscount Jocelyn.  He married Judith Jones in 1782 in Cork.  They had

Anne Alcock

Alexander Mann Alcock, the eldest son, was born in 1785 and died in 1847. Educated in Bandon, then of Rock Castle, Innishannon.  Appears in Kings Inn Admission papers in 1804.

Edward Jones Alcock was the second son of Mason.  He was ordained Deacon on 20th June 1813 and priest on 31st July 1814 both in Cork.  In 1817 he became curate of Ballymodan in Bandon and afterwards Curate of Durrus.  From 1829 to 1842 he was vicar of Durrus and from 1842 to his death in 1857 he was rector of Kilmeen.

Benjamin Alcock born 1778