Message from Viscount Gough

30/1/2013

Viscount Gough 1850

1st Viscount Gough

Sorry I can't be there, if I had only know sooner, but I shall be attending a members meeting of a social club of the north of Scotland which has passed its bicentenary.

My great great Grandfather had a vault constructed which has been used but not as well as it might be since two of my Gough great uncles are buried in South Africa. The younger one died in the Zulu War of 1879 and the other in the South African War, My father’s ashes are in the Vault but my mother when she saw the site decided to leave a request for cremation and her ashes are in St Luke’s London SE7 where she was Patron. I certainly always enjoy my visits to St Brigid’s and hope that the festivities go well and that you get good weather and a good turnout.The photograph of the first Viscount shows him wearing the Ribbon of the Order of the Bath and round his neck is his Peninsular Gold Cross.

Have a wonderful Day!!

Gough
The Viscount Gough

4 Comments

dermot smith link

2/2/2013 01:23:57

I thought that the Gough family was from Clonmel area of Tipperary? is the statue that was once in the Phoenix Park of Lord Gough the same family? I know very little about the Gough family of Tipperary except what I read in books about the great famine, maybe they are not the same family as mentioned above?

Karen D'Alton link

3/2/2013 15:16:55

It was the same Gough family that lived at Cutra Castle as at St Helens and yes the statue in the Phoenix park is connected. Here are the memorials of the Gough Family that are buried at St Brigids
Hugh William 4th Viscount Gough M.c. 1892-1951 Hugh 3rd Viscount Gough 1849 -1919. Frances (Maria) Viscountess Gough Born August 9th 1787 died 15 March 1865
The Right Honourable Hugh 1st Viscount Gough K.P., G.C.B.,G.C.S.I., K.G., S., P.C. Born 3rd Nov 1779 died 2 March 1809
Sacred to the memory of Jane Viscountess Gough who died 3rd February 1892 in her 76th year also of George 2nd Viscount Gough born 18th January 1815 died 31st May 1895

Lisa

19/3/2013 15:47:12

Do you know which Viscount Gough owned Lough Cutra and had an Irish wife, then an English wife?
That one was my ancestor. My grandma is Gough.

Lisa from Karen link

19/3/2013 16:32:28

You would need to check but I would think it was - George Stephens Gough, 2nd Viscount Gough was born in 1815. He was the son of Field Marshal Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough and Frances Maria Stephens.
He married, firstly, Sarah Elizabeth Palliser, daughter of Wray Bury Palliser and Anne Gledstones, on 17 October 1840. He married, secondly, Jane Arbuthnot, daughter of George Arbuthnot and Elizabeth Fraser, on 3 June 1846. He died on 31 May 1895. This I think would tie in with Cutra which changed hands in 1854.

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