The following piece
was published in The Protestant Standard,
Sydney, on 27 May 1893.
Death of an Old Irish Clergyman
We regret to have
to announce the death at the advanced age of eighty-eight years, of the Rev.
James Alcock, A.M., Vicar of Ringagoona, near Dungarvan,
in the diocese of Lismore, with which parish he had been associated for sixty
years. The deceased was ordained in the
year 1831, and was appointed to the parish of Ringagoona in 1833, and
officiated up to within a few months of his death. During the Famine years the Rev. J Alcock
rendered valuable help to the starving people around Ring, having procured
funds for the purpose of buying food which was the means of saving many lives. A curious incident in connection with the
deceased and perhaps the only case of the kind in Ireland was that he resided
during the sixty years…in the house of a Roman Catholic gentleman (Mr. Fitzgerald
of Seaview). It appears at the time of
his appointment there was no Glebe house in the parish, or in fact, any house
procurable, and being invited to stay at Seaview he remained there until his
death.