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A magnificent memorial to a lady in Killarney Cemetery to end our week. The crucifix set in the archway is very impressive and the gravestone in the well tended plot would seem to suggest that the lady was much loved and deeply missed. I hope that it looks as well tended and cared for today?
Photographer: Robert French
Collection: Lawrence Photograph Collection
Date: Circa 1865 - 1914
NLI Ref: L_IMP_3205
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Photographer: Robert French
Collection: Lawrence Photograph Collection
Date: Circa 1865 - 1914
NLI Ref: L_IMP_3205
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Lady Alice Ma[r]y Gaisford (née Kerr) (1837 - 1892) In 1860 by Disdéri
From - www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp90508/lady-ali...
Niall McAuley
From thepeerage: Lady Alice Mary Kerr was the daughter of John William Robert Kerr, 7th Marquess of Lothian and Lady Cecil Chetwynd Chetwynd-Talbot. She married Thomas Gaisford, son of Very Rev. Thomas Gaisford and Helen Margaret Douglas, on 20 June 1870. She died on 25 January 1892. Her married name became Gaisford. Children of Lady Alice Mary Kerr and Thomas Gaisford Walter Thomas Gaisford b. 7 Oct 1871, d. 15 Sep 1915 Hugh William Gaisford b. 18 Oct 1874
Niall McAuley
From the plaque on the memorial: This crucifix is erected to the glory of God and to the memory of Lady Alice Mary Gaisford who died at Killarney House XXV January MDCCCXCII by her loving friends and relatives. May she rest in peace. The scrolls higher up are Bible quotes.
Niall McAuley
I do not see a record of her death.
CASSIDY PHOTOGRAPHY
"The crucifix set in the archway is very impressive and the gravestone in the well tended plot would seem to suggest that" they were very wealthy.
Niall McAuley
The University of St. Andrews have a Memorial Card, the catalogue record confirms the details: Printed memorial card for Lady Alice Gaisford who died at Killarney Eire on 25 January 1892. With small photograph (2x3cm) of painting depicting Christ on the cross.
Niall McAuley
https://www.flickr.com/photos/cassidyphotography Also, Catholic. I see herself and her husband listed in an early 20th century book called Converts to Rome.
John Spooner
Kerry Reporter - Saturday 06 February 1892:
Niall McAuley
It is even fancier 3/4 on: L_IMP_3206
CASSIDY PHOTOGRAPHY
www.flickr.com/photos/gnmcauley/ There are many expensive grave markers around the world, whom were not Catholic. I prefer a plain round rock or maybe a single propeller blade, to signify what was most important in my life for 36 years of it. Would not want my wife to waste money on bullshit.
O Mac
Graveview maps.app.goo.gl/uMPaTGnRR5hf6AH38
Niall McAuley
Anyone know where it is? I can't find it. Could the family have moved her back to Scotland?
Niall McAuley
In a war records site for son Walter, we learn: In the 1891 Census he is living in Sussex aged 20 with his parents Thomas (74), a J.P and his mother Alice M (53), his 6 siblings and 9 servants. He is living on an annuity. Also: the son of Captain Thomas Gaisford, J.P, D.L of Offington, Sussex and his third wife Lady Alice Mary Kerr, daughter of 7th Marquis of Lothian.. Now that I look, I see Gaisfords 2 previous wives at thepeerage above.
Niall McAuley
Killarney House was the colossal pile owned by the Earl of Kenmare. I assume Lady Alice was visiting.
Niall McAuley
https://www.flickr.com/photos/cassidyphotography Sure, but in Ireland a lifelike crucifix is a specifically Catholic monument. Protestants use simpler crosses.
Niall McAuley
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/johnspooner] OK, at the (old) New Cemetery. Here it is in Streetview Looks like the crucifix is still there, but the grave and slab are gone - home to Suffolk, perhaps? Or maybe the grave was moved up close to the memorial, and is now under that elevated stone table/slab visible in Streetview?
John Spooner
https://www.flickr.com/photos/gnmcauley Yes, other obituaries say she was visiting, when the cancer finally took her.
John Spooner
The most ostentatious monuments I've seen were at the Cementerio de la Recoleta in Buenos Aires. Whereas the weirdest I've seen were at the Merry Cemetery at Sapanta in Romania, where the each grave had a picture of the deceased going about their daily life, or showing how they met their end.
Both are tourist attractionss.
Niall McAuley
Nothing in nearby catalogue entries to suggest a date, so after 1892 is the best I can do.
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John Francis Bentley, the architect of Westminster Cathedral (RC) in London, was the designer. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Francis_Bentley "... What Mrs de l'Hôpital calls 'the most beautiful and certainly the most important of all Bentley's monumental designs' is in Killarney, Ireland. It marks the grave of Lady Alice Gaisford, who died there in 1892, and was erected by the Countess of Kenmare and Lady Alice's relatives and friends. Bentley went to Killarney to stay with the Kenmares. The chosen design was a crucifix, sheltered by 'a late fifteenth-century canopy ... 15 feet high, in the form of a tiny chapel'. It was made of Portland stone, with the inscription tablet of rosso antice marble. ..." From - www.google.com.au/books/edition/John_Francis_Bentley/xm9v...
John Spooner
It was there by November 1893. Irish Society (Dublin) - Saturday 11 November 1893:
John Spooner
Not yet finished in June 1893 Evening Herald (Dublin) - Wednesday 28 June 1893:
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Buenas fotos antiguas .
Dr. Ilia
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/graullers https://www.flickr.com/photos/iliaal Thany you.