CO-CTCH-0070

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

ERECTED

IN

FOND AND LOVING

REMEMBRANCE OF

WILLIAM BULLEN

WHO DIED MAY 21ST 1879

AGED 66

BY HIS SORROWING WIDOW 

AND CHILDREN

Memorial Type: 
Headstone
Grave location
County: 
Cork
Latitude: 
51.747323055556
Longitude: 
-8.7363880555556
Number of people commemorated: 
1
People commemorated: 
Name: 
William
Surname: 
BULLEN
Date of death - day: 
21
Date of death - month: 
May
Date of death - year: 
1879
Age: 
66
Notes: 

William, when aged 49, married Mary Elizabeth Tartt at St Luke's. Cork City on 11th September 1862.  They had seven children, one of whom was Joseph Edward Bullen who died on 22nd March 1871 aged 15 months (see previous headstone).   When William's father, Joseph Bullen, died (the dyer and leather seller of North Main Street, Bandon - see headstone 67), William took the responsibility of caring for his sisters, namely Sarah, Mary Ann and Elizabeth Jane.  William became an eminent and wealthy business man of South Main Street Bandon.  He held the lease to 800 acres of land.

William's wife is buried in London.