CO-CCCF-0012

Record Date: 
4 July 2013
Graveyard: 
Christchurch
Exact wording of epitaph: 

IN 

LOVING MEMORY 

OF

MARY DOWDEN

WHO DIED 28TH SEPTEMBER 1914

AGED 72 YEARS.

Memorial Type: 
Headstone
Grave location
County: 
Cork
Latitude: 
51.909968055556
Longitude: 
-8.793115
Additional details
Stonecutter/monumental sculptor: 
O'CONNELL, CORK
Number of people commemorated: 
1
People commemorated: 
Name: 
Mary
Surname: 
Dowden
Date of death - day: 
28
Date of death - month: 
September
Date of death - year: 
1914
Age: 
72
Notes: 
Mary Dowden was baptised on 25 January 1842, and lived in Bridge Street, Bandon. The Dowdens were one of the minor gentry families in Bandon, and connected with the Tresilian, Belcher and Freke families. Mary was the youngest of 9 children of Richard Dowden and Dora Belcher.

She lived locally in Killinardrish (Carrigadrohid), unmarried and was described as a "housekeeper". Mary died in 1914, and in her will left her nephew Alfred Richard Lester, a Cork chemist, as legatee.

(Source: A. Greene)