DU-SJMS-0639

Record Date: 
15 December 2015
Graveyard: 
St. James's
Exact wording of epitaph: 

To the Memory of the Revd. JOHN ELLIS D.D.

35 years  Vicar of this Parish,

12 of St. Catherine's, who in Piety & Learning

was an ornament to the Church, in all offices.

of Life an exemplary Pattern of good Works.

He died Octr. 7th 1764 Aged 77, & is interred in

one Vault Wth. his first wife MARGARETTA

& 7 children, his youngest son WILLIAM

Govr. of Patna in Bengall lost his life in ye

bloody Massacre there Octr. 5th. 1763 - another

Son & a Daughter named BRABAZON CATHERINE & his 2d. Wife ELIZABETH

Survived him. The first fo WHom has the melancholy task of thus commemorating

teh Mortality of his Family.

Grave location
County: 
Dublin
Latitude: 
53.343738630003
Longitude: 
-6.2890252299895
People commemorated: 
Title: 
Rev
Name: 
John
Surname: 
Ellis
Date of death - day: 
7
Date of death - month: 
October
Date of death - year: 
1764
Age: 
77
Name: 
Margaretta
Surname: 
Ellis
Relationship with first person: 
Wife
Name: 
William
Surname: 
Ellis
Date of death - day: 
5
Date of death - month: 
October
Date of death - year: 
1763
Address: 
Patna in Bengall
Relationship with first person: 
Son
Name: 
BRABAZON
Surname: 
Ellis
Relationship with first person: 
Son
Name: 
Catherine
Surname: 
Ellis
Relationship with first person: 
Daughter
Name: 
Elizabeth
Surname: 
Ellis
Relationship with first person: 
Second wife
Notes: 

Some background info on the 1763 Patna massacre (http://www.royalark.net/India4/murshid8.htm