LI-STBY-0916

Record Date: 
28 February 2013
Graveyard: 
Stradbally
Exact wording of epitaph: 

Sacred to the memory of
Elizabeth Jane
wife of
Major General Richard Bourke CB
She died on the 7th May 1832 in the 53rd year of her age
at Paramatta in New South Wales where her remains are interred
This tablet was placed to her memory within these sacred walls
where she sought the increase and perfection
of every guileless virtue of domestic and social charity
and of humble and faithful hope in Christ
in which she lived and died

In memory of
General Sir Richard Bourke KCB
of Thornfield in this paarish
Colonel of her Majestys 64th Regiment
sometime Lieutenant Governor of the Cape of Good Hope
and Governor General of the British Colonies in Australia
A man whose justice ability and wisdom
in the discharge of his high public duties
whose signal courtesy gentleness and charity
in every relation of private life
are reflected in the laws of the dominions which he governed
and are written in the hearts of all connected with him
by the ties of dependence of friendship or of kindred.
He was born on the 4th of May 1778
He was suddenly called in this house of prayer
and fell asleep in the Lord
on the 12th of August 1855.

Memorial Type: 
Wall or mural tablet
Grave location
County: 
Limerick
Latitude: 
52.707943055556
Longitude: 
-8.5067613888889
Number of people commemorated: 
2
People commemorated: 
Name: 
Elizabeth Jane
Surname: 
Bourke
Date of death - day: 
7
Date of death - month: 
May
Date of death - year: 
1832
Age: 
53
Address: 
Paramatta, New South Wales
Title: 
General
Name: 
Sir Richard
Surname: 
Bourke
Date of birth - day: 
4
Date of birth - month: 
May
Date of birth - year: 
1778
Date of death - day: 
12
Date of death - month: 
August
Date of death - year: 
1855
Address: 
Thornfield
Relationship with first person: 
Husband