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Matilda Tone (17 June 1769 – 18 March 1849) was the wife of Theobald Wolfe Tone and was instrumental in the preservation and publication of his papers. [1] [2] Early life. Matilda Tone was born Martha Witherington in Dublin on 17 June 1769. She was the eldest daughter of merchant William Witherington and his wife Catherine (née Fanning).
Contributed by. Woods, C. J. Tone, Matilda (Martha) (1769–1849), wife of Theobald Wolfe Tone (qv), is notable for her preservation and publication of his literary remains. She was born 17 June 1769 and called Martha, the eldest daughter in the family of four daughters and two sons of William Witherington , listed in Wilson's Dublin Directory ...
12 de mar. de 2020 · A remarkable woman who used her beauty, skills and her education, to her advantage in being the wife and mother and confidant to one of Ireland's most revered and remarkable men Theobald Wolfe Tone, never erring from her care and compassion or him and their joint commitment for Irish Freedom from British rule.
Matilda Tone also returned to the United States, and is buried in Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York. William Tone was survived by his only child, his daughter Grace Georgina. In popular culture. Several Gaelic Athletic Association clubs in Ireland are named in honour of Wolfe Tone.
24 de jul. de 2020 · Yet one of the striking aspects of nineteenth-century commemorations of the 1798 and 1803 rebellions is the relatively prominent role accorded to women and, in particular, Sarah Curran, Pamela Fitzgerald, and Matilda Tone, the widows of three of the most celebrated United Irish “martyrs.”
Matilda Tone in America: Exile, Gender, and Memory in the Making. of Irish Republican Nationalism. On October 8,1996, a small gathering organized by the Irish-American Labor Coalition took place in Brooklyn's Greenwood Cemetery to honor a long-dead Irish republican named Matilda Tone.
When Matilda Tone died in 1849, she was buried in the Old Presbyterian Cemetery in Georgetown, then a suburb of Washington, DC. When the cemetery was sold in 1891, Matilda Tone’s great-grandchildren had the remains transferred to Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, where the Maxwells had a family plot (Matilda Tone’s only grandchild, Grace Georgiana Tone, married Lascelles E. Maxwell).
