Mrs Maxwell Stronge
(1826-1904)
26 July 1862

Volume 8, page 316, sitting number 10,887. 

[The sitter is identified as ‘Mrs Maxwell Strong’ [sic] in the Silvy daybooks and the following entry is her husband, identified as ‘Capt. Strong’ [sic]. She was identified as ‘Mrs Stronge’ on the album page.]

Born in Dublin on 12 October 1826, Jane Colclough Goff was the daughter of Joseph Fade Goff and his wife Anne Coote née Grogan. 

She was baptised at St George’s in Dublin on 28 October 1826. 

On 13 December 1852 she married Captain Maxwell du Pré Stronge, 5th son of Sir James Mathew Stronge, 2nd Bt. 

‘MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE — The marriage of Captain Maxwell Dupre Stronge of the 52nd Light Infantry, fifth son of Sir James Matthew [sic] Stronge, Bart., of Tynan Abbey, county Armagh, to Jane Colclough Goff, only daughter and heiress of the late Joseph Fade Goff, of Raheenduff, county Wexford, Esq., and niece of Hamilton K. Grogan Morgan of Johnstown Castle, in the same county, Esq., M.P., was solemnized on Saturday, the 13th inst., at Springfield Church, county Limerick’ (Yorkshire Gazette, 20 December 1851). 

Maxwell Du Pré Stronge gained the rank of Captain in the 52nd Light Infantry. He was later a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Sligo Rifles. He gained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the Sligo Artillery. 

1n 1901 she and her husband were living at Raheenduff, Horetown, county Wexford. 

Mrs Jane Colclough Stronge died, aged 77, on 27 February 1904.

[From an Anglo-Irish album probably compiled by Elizabeth Alexander-Shaw, daughter of William John Alexander-Shaw.]