CO-MORY-0073

Record Date: 
3 July 2013
Graveyard: 
Magourney
Exact wording of epitaph: 

STUART THOMAS WALLACE

DEPARTED MAY. 6TH. 1870.

AGED 46 YEARS.

Memorial Type: 
Chest tomb
Grave location
County: 
Cork
Latitude: 
51.910219722222
Longitude: 
-8.7914713888889
Number of people commemorated: 
1
People commemorated: 
Name: 
Stuart Thomas
Surname: 
Wallace
Date of death - day: 
6
Date of death - month: 
May
Date of death - year: 
1870
Age: 
46
Notes: 

Stuart Thomas Wallace was born in 1826, according to Indian marriage records, but if the dates on his chest tomb are correct, it would suggest a birth year of 1824. The Magourney Burial Register refers to the burial of Stewart Wallace of Hayfield on 9 May 1870 aged 46 years.

He was presumably a government official in India, as suggested by the reference to Simla (in modern times known as ‘Shimla’, and situated in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh). On 3 July 1852 Wallace was married to Anne Maria Ridgway in Simla, and they had 3 known children: son William Vincent born 26 June 1863 in Simla; son Herbert Stuart Thomas Talbot born 24 July 1865 in Simla; and daughter Annie Mabel Wallace born 25 July 1867 in Clonmoyle, Cork.

Wallace died on 6 May 1870, formerly being of Simla, India and lately of locally situated Hayfield House. Letters of administration issued to his widow Anne Marie Wallace, widow, with personal effects amounting to £730.

(Source: A. Greene).

A Notice appeared in the Cork Constitution dated 10 January 1877, stating that Mrs Wallace was leaving for India, and had instructed W. Marsh & Son Auctioneers to sell at Hayfield on 12 February 1877, by unreserved auction, the household furniture, cattle, horse, carriage, harness, etc.

(Source D. Lucey)