Gravestone in Foulon Cemetery, St Peter Port, Guernsey commemorating John Isaac Le Lacheur, his wife and child who died in 1898 in the wreck of the ‘Mohegan’ also of John Le Lacheur d. 1857
Location
Foulon Cemetery, St Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands
Transcript
'... In Loving memory of John Isaac Le Lacheur, managing director of the Guiles Alles Library aged 46 years also of his wife Alice M Renier[?} aged 43 and their only child John Guille aged 6 who all perished in the wreck of the Mohegan on the Manacles rocks off the Cornish Coast on the 14th of October 1898. John Le Lacheur, father of the aforesaid was master of the America who died at sea on 19th October 1857 aged 41 years'
Details
Description: The monument has a stepped plinth of polished red granite surmounted by a marble cross entwined with a chain and anchor, within a granite curb with iron posts linked with chain.
Type: Gravestone
Position: Near chapel
Materials: Plinth red granite, cross marble
Vessel: America, Mohegan
Type: Gravestone
Position: Near chapel
Materials: Plinth red granite, cross marble
Vessel: America, Mohegan
People
Le Lacheur, John Isaac
Age: 46
Date of Death: 14/10/1898
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Passenger
Organisation: Atlantic Transport Line
Le Lacheur, Alice
Age: 43
Date of Death: 14/10/1898
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Passenger
Organisation: Atlantic Transport Line
Le Lacheur, John Guille
Age: 6
Date of Death: 14/10/1898
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Passenger
Organisation: Atlantic Transport Line
Le Lacheur, John
Age: 41
Date of Death: 19/10/1857
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Master
Organisation:
Age: 46
Date of Death: 14/10/1898
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Passenger
Organisation: Atlantic Transport Line
Le Lacheur, Alice
Age: 43
Date of Death: 14/10/1898
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Passenger
Organisation: Atlantic Transport Line
Le Lacheur, John Guille
Age: 6
Date of Death: 14/10/1898
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Passenger
Organisation: Atlantic Transport Line
Le Lacheur, John
Age: 41
Date of Death: 19/10/1857
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Master
Organisation:
Extra
Bibliography: Richard Larn and Clive Carter 'Cornish Shipwrecks: the South Coast' (Newton Abbot, 1969) p. 87.
Recorder: J. Le Pelley 1981
Recorder: J. Le Pelley 1981