CO-CTCH-0198

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

BURIAL PLACE

OF

RICHARD CLEAR 

AND

FAMILY

DIED DECEMBER 16TH 1817

AGED 38 YEARS

AND JANE, HIS WIFE

DIED JANUARY 21ST 1868.

ELIZABETH, WIFE OF RICHARD CLEAR, JP

BORN APRIL 13 1852, DIED MAY 29 1938

IN MEMORY OF

MARY, WIFE OF THOMAS CLEAR,

DIED MARCH 26TH 1859,

AGED 45 YEARS

ALSO MARY JANE, 

DAUGHTER OF THOMAS AND MARY CLEAR

DIED JUNE 18, 1856

AGED 16 YEARS

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF

THOMAS CLEAR,

DIED 8TH NOVEMBER 1870

AGED 57 YEARS

ALSO HIS SON, RICHARD CLEAR, JP

BORN 31 MAY 1846

DIED 26 APRIL 1917

THY WILL BE DONE (C MAHONY. CORK)

Memorial Type: 
Pedestal tomb
Grave location
County: 
Cork
Latitude: 
51.747329722222
Longitude: 
-8.73709
Number of people commemorated: 
7
People commemorated: 
Name: 
Richard
Surname: 
CLEAR
Date of death - day: 
16
Date of death - month: 
December
Date of death - year: 
1817
Age: 
38
Name: 
Jane
Surname: 
CLEAR
Date of death - day: 
21
Date of death - month: 
January
Date of death - year: 
1868
Relationship with first person: 
wife
Name: 
Elizabeth
Surname: 
CLEAR
Date of birth - day: 
13
Date of birth - month: 
April
Date of birth - year: 
1852
Date of death - day: 
29
Date of death - month: 
May
Date of death - year: 
1938
Name: 
Mary
Surname: 
CLEAR
Date of death - day: 
26
Date of death - month: 
March
Date of death - year: 
1859
Age: 
45
Name: 
Mary Jane
Surname: 
CLEAR
Date of death - day: 
18
Date of death - month: 
June
Date of death - year: 
1856
Age: 
16
Name: 
Thomas
Surname: 
CLEAR
Date of death - day: 
8
Date of death - month: 
November
Date of death - year: 
1870
Age: 
57
Title: 
JP
Name: 
Richard
Surname: 
CLEAR
Date of birth - day: 
31
Date of birth - month: 
May
Date of birth - year: 
1846
Date of death - day: 
26
Date of death - month: 
April
Date of death - year: 
1917
Notes: 

Richard Clear married Jane Lovell on 29th April 1810 at Christ Church. They had at least: Richard born 1811, Thomas born 1812 & died 1870 (buried here), William born 1815 and Elizabeth born 1817.  

Their son Thomas who was born in 1812 married Mary Robinson (whose family are also buried at Christ Church) on 23rd September 1838 at Christ Church.  They had at least two children: Richard who was born in 1846 and Mary Jane who was born in 1840 and died on 18th June 1856 of TB .  

Richard, JP who was born in 1846 and died on 26th April 1917 was a methodist.  He married Elizabeth Belcher in 1870. They had four children: Emma Mary, Thomas Albert, Mabel Elizabeth and Richard William.  Richard lived at Kilbrogan House from 1892 to 1895.  He also lived for a time at Janesville (now Eversleigh) and in 1901 was backing living on Kilbrogan Hill.  In 1870 he was recorded as owning 345 acres in Bandon.  He was a town commissioner in 1884.  In 1907 his occupation was recorded as County Council representative to the Joint Technical Instruction Committee for County Cork and Chairman of the Bandon Technical Instruction Committee in Guys Directory of 1907.