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TS-EMOG-0093
Record Date:
25 May 2015
Graveyard:
Exact wording of epitaph:
HERE LIES THE BODY OF
WILLIAM SADLEIR ESQ.
OF SHRONEHILL,
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
FEB 20TH 1790.
MAY HE REST IN PEACE.
JOHANNA, WIFE OF
CLEMENT SADLEIR ESQ.
OF SHRONEHILL,
DIED 25TH DECEMBER 1858,
AGED 82 YEARS.
MAY SHE REST IN PEACE AMEN.
Memorial Type:
Grave slab
Number of people commemorated:
3
People commemorated:
Name:
William
Surname:
Sadleir
Date of death - day:
20
Date of death - month:
February
Date of death - year:
1790
Address:
Shronehill
Name:
Johanna
Surname:
Sadleir
Date of birth - year:
1777
Date of death - day:
25
Date of death - month:
December
Date of death - year:
1858
Age:
82
Relationship with first person:
Daughter - in - law
Name:
Clement
Surname:
Sadleir
Address:
Shronehill
Notes:
NB. Sadleir / Sadlier. Variation in the spelling of the surname. See memorial 0092.
NB. Shronehill is present day Shronell, Co. Tipperary, located on the main road between Lattin and Tipperary Town.
NB. Top of an unrelated broken Celtic cross was placed on this grave slab at some stage by somebody or other.
NB. See adjacent nemorial 0092.
Johanna Sadleir 1776-1858 was the sixth daughter of James Darby Scully 1737-1816 & Catherine Lyons 1739-1818 of Kilfeacle, Co. Tipperary.. Catherine Lyons was the daughter of Denis Lyons 1689-1777 of Croom, Co. Limerick.
Johanna Scully married Clement William Sadleir 1775-1864, son of William Sadleir 1730-1790 on Sep 19th 1805. Their son, John Sadleir 1813-1856 was the man responsible for the collapse of the Tipperary Joint Stock Bank in February 1856, due to his embezzlement of its funds.
He committed suicide near Jack Straw's tavern on Hampstead Heath in London on the 17TH February 1856 by drinking prussic acid. He was buried in an unmarked grave ( plot 7158 ) in Highgate cemetery in London.. His brother James Sadleir 1809-1881 who was complicit iin the embezzlement of the bank with him, fled to Geneva, Switzerland before he could be arrested and was murdered there in 1881
