Vessel Loss

Memorial: M3829

Memorial at St Patrick’s Church, Saul, Downpatrick, County Down, Northern Ireland commemorating Ambrose Lennon, RN, d.1780

Location

St Patrick's Church, Saul, County Down, Downpatrick, Northern Ireland

Transcript

'Sacred to the memory of Ambrose Lennon and Margaret his wife the former having foundered in a hurricane in the West Indies on board his Majesty's ship 'Barbados' with all the crew in the year 1780. The latter died March 5 1804 Age 71 years. This stone erected by their son Capt John Lennon'

Details

Type: Gravestone
Position: Churchyard
Vessel: HMS Barbadoes

People

Lennon, Ambrose
Age: Unknown
Date of Death: 4/10/1780
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Unknown
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Notes: The Parish church (Church of Ireland) was built in 1788 on the site of an earlier monastery and rebuilt in 1933 in the Celtic style. However the oldest stone in the graveyard dates from 1716.
Recorder: C. Flintham

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