Louth – Dromskin Churchyard Memorials

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CEMETERY: DROMSKIN CHURCHYARD MEMORIALS
	[From Major-General F.W. Stubbs, 1889.]

HERE L[IETH THE BODY] | OF DAM[E A]-NNE | WIFE TO CAPTAIN
BRENT | MOORE AND DAUGHTER | TO CAPTAIN PETER | NOTINGHAM
WHO | DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE | 16 OF FEBRUARY 170? | IN THE
38 YEAR OF | HER AGE.

(Inserted here is a picture of the tombstone)

'The illustration shows the reverse of the tombstone. It was
drawn from a photograph taken twenty years ago. The slate
has been so much injured by exfoliation of the surface that
the letters could with difficulty be made out. It has been
gradually going to pieces, and must have broken in removal
to the north side of the church, where I found it. The
armorial bearings are now quite gone. 'Judging by the
sketch, the coat-of-arms is similar to that of the Drogheda
family, viz.: -- "Azure, of a chief indented or, three
mullets pierced gules.' 'Lord Walter FitzGerald has supplied
the following information on the individuals mentioned
above:- 'The family of Captain Brent Moore, named on this
tombstone,

Is thus recorded in Archdall's "Peerage, pages 84 to 99
of the 2nd volume':
'John, eldest son of Thomas Moore, of Benenden, in the
County Kent, married Margaret, daughter and heir of John
Brent, Esq., widow of John Derring, of Surrenden in
Pluckley, by whom he had one daughter Anne (first wife to
Sir Henry, Duke of Castle Jordan in the County Meath, Kt.),
and six sons, viz.:
(1) Owen, who died without issue,
(2) Sir Edward, ancestor to the Earl of Drogheda,
(3) George, who died childless,
(4) Thomas, of Croghan, in the King's County, ancestor to
the
late Earl of Charleville
(5) Nicholas, who married Dorothy, daughter of Sir Robert
Southwell, Kt. and
(6) Lieutenant-Colonel Brent Moore, who had a grant of lands
in the County Longford, and died leaving issue, Brent, his
heir, and three daughters.
"Brent Moore Esq., after the Restoration, was a Captain in
the Regiment of Guards in Ireland, and received a grant of
lands in the County Monaghan. He married Eleanor, daughter
of Sir Faithful Fortescue, Kt., widow of Thomas Burnet, of
Ballyleck, in the same County, Esq., and dying in January,
1677, was buried in St . Peter's Church, Drogheda, leaving
Thomas his heir, who married Elizabeth, daughter of John
Norbury, and died 2nd September, 1684, having issue,
Elizabeth (second wife to Dacres Lennard Barrett, of Bell
House, in Essex, -----),
and a son:- "Brent Moore of Stomanstown, in County South,
Esq., who, in 1693, married Anne, daughter of Captain Peter
Nottingham, of Ballyowen, in the County Dublin, widow of
Nicholas Gernon, of Milltown, in Louth, Esq., and dying in
1722, was succeeded by a son of his own name. 'The
inscription given above refers to Anne Moore, alias
Nottingham.'

Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the
Memorials of the Dead in Ireland Vol 6 (FHL 0258795)