Abraham C. Stoker
- Born
- 1799-03-12 12:00:00
- Died
- 1876-10-12 12:00:00
- Gender
- Male
- Place of migration
- Stayed in Ireland
Abraham C. Stoker Esq. is the father of Bram Stoker.
From 1815, Abraham was employed as a civil servant in the Chief Secretary’s office at Dublin Castle.
In 1822, he was made a member of the Guild of Tailors and became a Freeman by inheritance (on the basis that he was the son of William Coates Stoker). He never practised as a tailor however and continued as a junior clerk in Dublin Castle.
On 16 January 1844, Abraham Stoker Esq. married Charlotte Maria Blake Thornley in Coleraine.
MARRIED In Coleraine Church, on the 18th inst., by the Rev. Knox Homan, Abraham Stoker, Esq., of Dublin Castle, to Charlotte Matilda Blake Thornley daughter of Thomas Thornley, Esq., Coleraine. [Ballyshannon Herald - 26 January 1844]
The couple moved to Marino Crescent in Clontarf. We can see their entry in Griffith’s Valuation HERE.
They had 7 children, the third child, born in 1847, was named Abraham Stoker after his father - this is the author Bram Stoker. (1847 was known as ‘Black 47’ as is was said to have been the worst year of the Famine).
He retired in 1865 and died in Naples, Italy on 12 October 1876. Interred at Cava de' Tirenni in the South-East corner of the cemetery, with the following inscription:
Abraham Stoker of Dublin
12 October 1876, a. 78
This stone records the love and sorrow
of his wife and children.
