Reverend Ambrose Lane
(1797-1875)
3 April 1862

Volume 6, page 149, sitting number 7504. 

Born in or about 1797, Ambrose Lane was the son of Robert Lane of Gaulstown, Kilkenny, Ireland. 

On 26 January 1831 in Edinburgh he married Juliana Fitzmaurice, daughter of William Fitzmaurice. Their marriage produced at least six children. 

The family appear on the 1861 census living at Pendleton in Lancashire, where Ambrose was the incumbent. 

He was appointed to the living of St Thomas in Pendleton in 1834, where he had previously been the curate, and he retired in 1872 (Manchester Evening News, 6 November 1872). 

The Reverend Ambrose Lane died, aged 76, on 1 April 1875, at 9 Prescot Street, New Brighton, Cheshire. He left an estate valued by £3000. His executors were his widow, Juliana Lane, and his son, William Fitzmaurice Lane, a banker.

‘At Birkenhead, near Liverpool, the Rev. Ambrose Lane, Incumbent of Pendleton, Lancashire, and formerly of Willmount, county Tipperary, and Gaulstown, county Kilkenny. The death of this estimable gentleman is regretted by many friends’ (Kilkenny Moderator, 28 April 1875).