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Some Bandon, Bantry, Ballydehob, Drimoleague, Kinsale, Skibbereen men who served with the Australian Forces in World War 1.

19 Tuesday Mar 2013

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The National Archive of Australia has details on line of those who served with the Australian forces in World war 1.  Included are a number who came from the Bantry and overall west Cork  area.  During the war there were attempts to bring in conscription in Australia they failed.   Details can be accessed by clicking on the links.

Bandon

http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=1960272

http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=3084567

http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=3502489

http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=8010905

http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=3084567

http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=8388437

http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=3029436

 

 

 

Bantry

http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=7980778

http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=4519432

http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=4516388

http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=4420591

http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=4377963

http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=3131386&I=1&SE=1

Skibbereen

http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=3061005

http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=3515045

http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=4414344

http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=4416301

http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=4503968

http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=4527180

http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=4540058

http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=4541130

http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=4553676

http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=5233310

http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=4553676

Service in Boer War, China.

http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=8089098

http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=8347756

Ballydehob

http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=3484947

http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/DetailsReports/ItemDetail.aspx?Barcode=6469267

Drimoleague

http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=5218100

KInsale

http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=3515087

http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=3515049

http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=3483164

http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=3268386

http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=3162569

http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=3029436

Christy Moore sings John Spillane’s Gortatagort (Gort an tSagairt), Chief Francis O’Neill, Pilgrimage to Moulivard Church and Irish Sinologist.

18 Monday Mar 2013

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Christy Moore’s ethereal rendition of John Spillane’s song ‘Gortataggart’ evokes memories of a lost world, maybe that is too severe,  a world that can come back to life with a little imagination…

Can be seen on You Tube.

John Spillane,  born in Cork in 1961,  went to secondary school in Coláiste an Spioraid Naoimh. maybe one of the best schools in the world,  http://www.csncork.ie. The song evokes the world of his mother’s birthplace,  Colomane, and the townland of Gortatagort  (the priest’s field), a few miles from Bantry.

The song echoes with the field names, ‘the haggard’ the field of the gaullanes’, cnoca rua,  páirc na cluise,  where the red fuschia weeps in the hen’s garden, spring of well water,  south ray grass, paírcin na h-onan,  god goes to sleepoin the hills and the valleys moon rise above the haggard peace descends, and angels bleed over Bantry Bay .  Eamonn Langford of Cork did a study on the names of local areas in West Cork, ‘Logainmneacha Chiarraí/ Corcaigh’, shown that virtually every field in Cork had its own name many of which due to his efforts have been preserved.

The song brings back the 1960s in West Cork, electricity had arrived, not to every house, farmers still went to the creamery on the horse and cart, and people cycled 30 miles on the 25th September to go to the pilgrimage to Gougán Barra.

Within a few mile of Gortatagort are the birthplaces of Francis O’Neill the Chief Of Police in Chicago and collector of Irish Music, Sean Hurley (1897-1961),  the first Irishman to hold a Chinese passport http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Hurley.

The ruined church and graveyard of Moulivard, place of pilgrimage to Father Bernane,

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2011/11/24/devotions-to-father-barnane-28th-june-moulivard-church-durrus/

Daniel O’Connell adresses Monster Meeting of 500,000? on Repeal in Skibbereen, June 1843, and Skibbereen and Bantry connections with O’Connell

15 Friday Mar 2013

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On the 1st July the Lancaster Gazette carried a report on the Monster Meeting addressed by Daniel O’Connell.  Quoting the ‘Cork Examiner ‘, it repeated the reputed number of attendees of 500,000.

Daniel O”Connell arrived heading four stage coaches and a battalion of bands.  Parishes from all over West Cork were represented by crowds headed by the respective clergy of each parish.

Among the parishes were,

Bantry, Thomas Barry P.P.

Drimoleague,  John Ryan P.P., John Creedon C.C.

Kilmaceba,  Joseph Sheehan P.P.

Castlehaven, James Mulcahy P.P., Daniel Freeman C.C., Michael Ross C.C.

Aughadown, Maurice Geary P.P.

Durrus,  Richard Quin P.P.

In his address to the crowd Daniel O’Connell stated the it was for the right of every man over 20 years of age having a house, so they would all have a vote except some idle gorsoons (young fellas), without a dwelling and who could not get some honest girl to marry him (cheers and laughter).

They should defy the Landowner when they had the ballot, when the Landlord requested a vote they could say to his honour  ‘Arrah then sir, we would not wish to disoblige your honour’ (hear hear!) – when at the same time they might vote for the popular candidate (Cheer Cheer!)

A sum of £500 was afterwards presented to him.

This must have been of of his last public addresses.

It is doubtful if the crowd was as great as reported.

There are various references to Skibbereen in the Daniel O’Connell letters Irish Manuscript Commission online. Members of his family were married into the O’Sullivans of Reendonegan and one of his daughters was the wife of a Resident Magistrate in Bantry. His grand daughter was married to Downes Solicitor and the O’Connell family crest may still adorn their house (Norton House) which was later the residence of Jasper Swanton, Crown Prosecutor, Solicitor and Independent TD for West Cork in the 1920s and 30s.

Pre 1876 Charles O’Connell Resident Magistrate First Catholic MP for Kerry wife 2nd daughter of Daniel O’Connell. In 1876 he was dead when his daughter Theresa married Skibbereen Solicitor Thomas Downes he died 1904. His son married Miss Curtis grand daughter of Martha Evanson of Durrus who was the wife of Rev. Madras.

Born c 1791 Roger O’Sullivan, Kings Inns Attorney Reendonegan. Clerk to Daniel O’Connell son Daniel and Hanora O’Connell Daniel’s sister Daniel O’Connell’s letters

1843-1904 Thomas Downes Solicitor Born son Thomas Mitchelstown, Castleknock College, Gold Medalist, partner with McCarthy Downing MP 1870, land agent to Wrixon-Beecher, Local bodies and railways Married 1876, Teresa d late Charles O’Connell, RM, Bantry, and first Catholic MP for Kerry whose wife was the 2nd daughter of Daniel O’Connell Died 1904, probate to widow Theresa and Daniel O’Connell Esq Agent Bank of Ireland Effects £10,676 5s 6d He moved to Norton Cottage which he bought in 1882 . The house was built by Thomas Attridge Ballydehob later rented by Alexander O’Driscoll JP then to Captain Taylor married to Thomas Attridge’s daughter then the residence of Catholic Bishop Dr Michael O’Hea. The arms of the O’Connell family – A Stag-is still over the front door. Later rented 1908 and bought by 1925 by Jasper Woulfe Solicitor

Ann Maria Curtis, Dungourney, granddaughter, of Martha Evanson, Ballydivane/Friendly Cove, Durrus, married 1867, The Liberator’s (Daniel O’Connell)  grandson (Son of Charles Resident Magistrate, Bantry).

Martha married Rev. John Madras, their genealogy is here:

Genealogy of Cork Huguenot Madras family post 1750 from Amsterdam to Cork 1735 by letter from India Office 1939, interconnected families Longfield Connor Fort Robert, Evanson Durrus, Travers Butlerstown, Baldwin Curravody, Alleyn, Daniel O’Connell, Catholic Descendants.

Magistrate:  Rev. John Henry Madras (1804-1852), Pre 1831, 1835 sitting Dripsey, Of Huguenot extraction via Amsterdam married 1800 Martha Evanson, Ballydivane/Friendly Cove, Durrus, 3 sons 4 daughters.  Died at residence Rathard, Aherla.  His granddaughter Ann Maria Curtis, Dungourney, married 1867, Daniel O’Connell’s grandson (Son of Charles RM, Bantry),

Thackeray’s Journey from Skibbereen to Bantry via Caheragh, August 1842

13 Wednesday Mar 2013

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From Thackeray’s  ‘The Irish Sketchbook of 1842.

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Caheragh,+Co.+Cork/@51.6325479,-9.3065158,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x4845a797cbacb2a1:0xa00c7a99731ea90

The crowd of swaggering ‘gents’ (I don’t know the corresponding phrase of the Anglo-Irish vocabulary to express a shabby dandy) awaiting the Cork mail, which kindly goes twenty miles out of its way to accommodate the town of Skibbereen, was quite extraordinary.  The little street was quite blocked up with shabby gentlemen and shabby beggars, awaiting the daily phenomenon.  The man who had driven up to Loughine did not fail to ask for his fee as driver and then, having received it , came forward in his capacity of boots and  received another renumeration.  The ride is desolate, bare and yet beautiful.  There are  a set of hills that keep one company the whole day; they are partially hidden in a grey sky, which flung a general hue of melancholy too over the green country through which we passed.  There was only one wretched village along the road, but no lack of population ragged people who issued from their cabins as the coach passed or were sitting by the wayside.  Everybody seems to be sitting by the wayside here one never sees this  general repose in England – a sort of ragged lazy contentment.  All the children seem to be on the watch for the coach; waited very knowingly and carefully their opportunity and then hung on by scores behind.  What a pleasure to run over flinty roads with bare feet, to be whipped off and to walk back to the cabin again.

These were very different cottages to those neat ones I had seen in KIldare.  The wretchedness of them is quite painful to look at; many of the potato gardens were half dug up and it is only the first week in August, near three months before the potato is ripe and at full growth and the winter still six months away.  There were chapels occasionally and smart new-built churches – one of them has  a congregation of ten souls, the coachman told me.  Would it not be better that the clergyman should receive them in his room and the church building money should be bestowed otherwise?

‘At length, after winding up all sorts of dismal hills speckled with wretched hovels, a ruinous mill every now and then, black-bog lands and small winding streams, breaking here and there into little falls, wwe come upon some ground well tilled and planted and descendin (at no small risk from stumbling horses) a bleak long hill, we see thewater before us and turning to thr right by the handsome little park of Lord Berehaven, enter Bantry,  The harbour is beautiful.  Small mountains in green undulations rising on the opposite side; great grey ones further back; a pretty island in the midst of the water, which is wonderfully bright and calm.  A handsome yacht and two or three vessels with their Sunday colours out, were lying in the bay.  It looked like  a seaport scene at a theatre, gay, cheerful, neat and picturesque.  At a little distance too the town, too, is pretty.  There are some smart houses on the quays, a handsome court house as usual, a fine large hotel and plenty of people flocking around the wonderful coach.

The town is most picturesquely situated,climbing up a wooded hill, with numbers of neat cottages here and there, an ugly church with an air of pretension and a large Roman Catholic chapel at the highest point of the place.  The  main sStreet was as usual thronged wiht the squatting blue cloaks, carrying on their eager trade of buttermilk and green apples and such cheap wares.  with the exception of this street and the quay, with their whitewashed and slated houses, it is a town of cabins.  The wretchedness of some of them is quite curious, I tried to make a sketch of a row which lean against an old wall and are built upon a rock that tumbles about in thee oddest and most fantastic shapes, with a brawling waterfall dashing down a channel in the midst.  These are it appears, the beggars houses: anyone may build or lodge against that wall, rent free and such places were never seen!  As for drawing them, it was in vain to try; one might as well make a sketch of a bundle of rags.  An ordinary pigsty in England is really more comfortable.  Most of the were not six feet long or five feet high, built of stones huddled together, a hole being left for people to creep in at, a ruined thatch to keep out some little portion of the rain.  The occupiers of these places sat at their doors in tolerable contentment, or the children came down and washed their feet in the water.  I declare I believe a Hottentot krall has more comforts in it, even to write of places makes one unhappy and the words move slow.  But in the midst of all this misery there is an air of actual cheerfulness and go but a few score yards off and those wretched hovels lying together look really picturesque and pleasing.

Ian Paisley, an Irishman in Barry Island, South Wales, August 1942.

13 Wednesday Mar 2013

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In Sean Dunne’s book ‘An Irish Anthology’,  Gill and Macmillan, Dublin 1999, there is an excerpt from Ian Paisley’s book ‘What think Ye of Christ’, 1976.

This chapter is ‘Open Air Preaching’ and he describes his period of apprenticeship with Teddy Sherwood who, prior to being a preacher was once the champion welter weight boxing champion of Southern England.  Ian Paisley was asked by him one evening to get into the ring and preach, he was only a lad of 16 and with a bible in hand as best he could he followed the great open air preacher.  Soon he was heckled, and the crowd cried  ‘Answer her question’.  I stopped and I said, ‘What is your question?  She said ‘How do you know there is a Jesus Christ’?  How do you know there is a Jesus Christ?  And Oh, a great shout of derision went up from the ungodly in that crowd.

Here was I, a mere stripling with little experience, faced with a hostile crowd.  I sent a prayer to Heaven.  I said, ‘Lord, give me an answer. Turn this weapon as a boomerang in the face of the devil’.  God gave me the answer.  I said  ‘Young woman, I come from Ireland, and an Irishman always answers a question by asking another.  I will answer your question , if you will answer me a question?.  ‘What is your question?’ she replied.  I said, ‘Can you tell me what day it is?’  The crowd laughted.  She said it is Sunday’.  I said, ‘Could you tell what month it is?’  She said, “It is the month of August’.  I said, ‘Now I only have one more question.  Could you tell me what year it is?”  The crowd saw what I was getting at now.  They started to laugh and sneer at her.  She said, ‘It is ninteen hundred and forty-two’.  I cried.  ‘Where did you get that from?  Ninteen hundred and forty two years from where?  She mumbled and stuttered.  i said  ‘I will help you out.  It is A.D. it is the year of our Lord, after the death of Christ.  There is a Christ young woman, when you take your diary out and look at the year, that number stands as a living testimony that there is a Christ’

Ian Paisley follows a long line of open air preachers in Ireland. In the mid-18th century, Limerick born Michael Walsh preached in English and Irish with John Wesley before large crowds.  Later in that century and early in the 19th century the one eyed preacher from Co. Galway,  Gideon Ousley again preached in English and Irish to big gatherings before being silenced by the Methodists Authorities.  In the mid-19th century there were noted preachers in Belfast some firebrand.

Legal tenure of Ballydehob, Dromreagh, Murreagh and Adroguinna, from 1626, West Cork.

13 Wednesday Mar 2013

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From the Encumbered estates Court 1854 where the title to land before the court is recited.  This court was an attempt to ‘dry clean’ in a legal sense property which was so heavily encumbered that in effect in was unsaleable.  Apart from bank mortgages much of this property, the insolvent estates of Irish landlords, was heavily affected by family settlements to provided for annuities for family members, marriage portions and so on. The famine was only the last straw which broke the camel’s back, the financial distress had been piling up since the collapse in agricultural prices with the ending of the Napoleonic Wars in 1817.

Deed 12th April and 13th 1738, Earl of Burlington and Cork (descendants of Boyle), Sir William Heathcote to Richard Tonson (one of the Tonsons was the illegitimate son of Hull, who ran a fishery in Schull and was a major landowner).  All manorial rights to the Lord of the Manor of Ballydehob and lands of Dromreagh, Murreagh and Ardoginna (these three townlands are in Durrus on the Schull side of the Mizen peninsula), acquires Dromrigh, alias Drumreagh, Dromlowe, and Ardogennae, three ploughlands in tenure and occupation of Edward Boyle and Mary his wife lease of 21st May 1626 for 5,000 years, sold to Richard Tonson for £1,700, Evanson 24th September 1765, Richard Tonson to Richard Tonson Evanson received by William Tonson Lord Baron Riversdale to Nathaniel Evanson 12th March 1811, Parliamentary conveyance his Grace to have right to protect claim, minerals to be excepted, (in fact the area is rich in minerals there were a number of mines in the region in the 19ht century).

Population Density and Emigration of West Cork Protestant families, from Mizen and Muintervera Peninsulas, to Rochester New York, Wisconsin and Percy Township, Northumberland County, Ontario from early 19th Century.

10 Sunday Mar 2013

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Effects of the Famine many of the same Surnames as in North America:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SjD7EiRBDPjnsK4c4B9xIu9HV2WPBOuY0jj5_Td7ogc/edit

The late 18th century and early 19th century was a boom period for Irish agriculture caused by the Napoleonic wars. After the end of the wars a deep depression descended made worse in areas such as West Cork by the collapse of the home weaving sector.  Emigration commenced in late 1820s of Protestant families and gathered pace in the later decades.  These families were small to middling tenant farmers with a sprinkling of labourers and carpenters, masons, blacksmiths, etc.  The area looked at is the triangle bounded by Skibbereen, Bantry, and Crookhaven.  Among the families (Catholic) from this area and period were those of the singer Bing Crosby.

At the time Rochester, New York was enjoying a boom due to the opening of the Erie Canal linking the Atlantic to the Great Lakes.  In politics some of the families especially from the Durrus area took to the area like ducks to water.  The following is  description    There is an interesting piece of history in Rochester connected to Co. Cork. “The community designated as Cork was in the section comprising Ontario, Davis, Kirk (Woodward) and North streets. The community was settled in the early 1840s and was composed of Protestant Irish immigrants from County Cork, Ireland. For years they were known as Corkonians and later as the “ninety-nine cousins”, it being claimed that the little colony bragged of 99 voters, unconditional Republicans. The families comprising the section were the Attridges, Bakers, Dukelows, Gays, Gosnells, Skuses, Swantons and Whitleys. James Baker, a political leader of the clan, a deacon of the North Street Methodist Church, a teetotaler, was the excise commissioner, in charge of granting licenses to the saloons of the city, there being one in the rear of many grocery establishments. In the 1880s and 1890s, when the detective force of the city consisted of but a small fraction of the present force, the “cousins” were represented by four: Baker, Dukelow, Skuse and Swanton.” Another article about the 99 Cousins also stated that the Shannon and Killip families were part of this family compact, and that they were a powerful force in local politics, with representatives in city government from the mayor’s chair down to the street cleaning department, and many on the police force.’.  The Mizen/Muintervara had an active history of political agitation.  In the 1830s the men of Durrus were led by a Catholic Landlord one of the O’Donovans of O’Donovan’s Cove to a monster meeting re Repeal to Mount Gabriel. It is interesting that John Attridge of Durrus was the godfather to one of the O’Donovan children.

There are accounts of  Monster meeting addressed in Durrus by the temperance pioneer Fr. Mathew.  Late during the Land Wars 1880s Durrus was a hot spot needing RIC reinforcements and the Protestant Tenants on the Earl of Bandon’s estate went on a rent strike.  They were described by his agent Richard  Wheeler Doherty as little better them animals.  This was the local background and the interconnected  families in Rochester built a political machine under the Republican Party which was more often be associated with Irish Catholic emigrants and the Democratic Party.   Details of the  records many from the US census are here…

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqhnQGE3ANjzdFdtYlpQTFJ2NXhtc2dGYmtRVFY0VFE#gid=0

It is also interesting that some of the Durrus families emerged in London during the Fenian Agitaton and their descendant were associated with Michael Collins in London. John Dukelow from Crottees married a Catholic lived at various houses around Durrus and emigrated to Poplar in East London. He died of cholera. His family were interconnected with the Swantons, and Hurleys in London during the Fenian Agitation. The Hurleys keep appearing were probably the tenant of a large farm in Ballycomane pre 1780 (one of them may have married one of the Vickeries who took over the farm). Michael Ducklaw is living in Edwardsburgh, Ontario in 1871 and the neighbouring farmers are Hurleys possibly a branch of the Durrus Hurleys.

The census records show the low economic status of the emigrants, labourers etc and with low property values.  As the decades roll on the children are emerging into the US mainstream becoming teachers, clerks photographs etc.  In the 1880 census there is a question on native language, many reply by putting in Irish.  It is not clear if they bi-lingual or meant the variant of English spoke in Ireland.  In the 1900 census some reply to ethnic origin by putting in Irish/English as say the Canadians put in Canadian/Engish/French.  Before that they invariably put in Irish to the question, it may reflect contemporary tensions in Ireland. For any amendments, additions comments contact pat25a@gmail.com

The family names were selected by using those common in the Tithe Aplottments 1830s, and Irish Loan Reproduction Records of the 1840s and are an educated guess.  They include those of Allen, Baker, Dukelow, King, Coughlan, Daly, Skuce, Attridge, Salter, Melville, Copithorne, Lannin, Gay, Varian, Peer, Gosnell, Croston, Williamson, Swanton, among others.

In 1860 Land Grants became available and many of the Rochester families decamped to there.

Some families from the 1840s settled in Percy Township, Northumberland County, Ontario.  Names such as Dukelow, Beamish, Williamson, Baker and Roycroft appear.  In the case of Mary Dukelow b 1833 probably Durrus she married Charles Beamish 1821-1881 possibly from Kilcoe in Rochester, New York in 1851.  This shows a link to the significant Cork community in Rochester.  He emigrated to Ontario in 1848 and they appear in Canadian census at Percy Township thereafter.

http://automatedgenealogy.com/census52/View.jsp?id=14200&highlight=5&desc=1852+Census+of+Canada+page+containing+Hu%3F+Beamish

In the recently published Atlas of the Irish Famine there is a map of population densities based on the 1841 census.  The map is adjusted for mountain and hill, bog and lakes.  It shows the Mizen and Muintervara with population densities among the highest in the non urban world, akin to India and China. It is hard to believe now but hundreds of thousands of people if not more especially from North America have an ancestor who came from the area.

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Emigration from West Cork, 19th century, Dukelow family

02 Saturday Mar 2013

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The Dukelows were part of a family pattern of emigration from West Cork from the early 19th century. By way of background families were from a small to middling class of tenant farmers with some labourers and craftsmen. The earliest emigrations were mainly of families to Ontario and to Rochester in Upper New York. In this they were accompanied by other interrelated families from the area to Rochester the Allens, Skuces, Attridges, Gallaghers, Mahonys, Bakers and Swantons from, the Rossmore and Brahalish areas of Durrus. The Canadian emigration took in the broader area bounded by Skibbereen Crookhaven and Durrus and included some of the following families Melvilles, Goods, Copithorns, Dalys, Coghlans, Skuces, Swantons, Roycrofts, Whitleys and they are to be found in the various Canadian and US census and landing records of the period. From Rochester some family members went to Kansas and Wisconsin. Later in the century family members from the Coomkeen, Durrus area went to California. From mid-century emigration took the form of single individuals male and female.

In Rochester the extended families emulated the Irish Catholics who were Democrats  in getting control of Rochester City Council but through the Republican party.

There are quite a number of marriages in the US and Canada within the kin group not just Church of Ireland and Methodist but with Catholics from the same original area.

Up the 1930s there was repeat emigration to Rochester, a favourite destination especially for women the Kodak Film works.

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Compositions of Cess and other Imposts between Queen’s Commissioners and gentlemen of Carbery, 1592

21 Thursday Feb 2013

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COMPOSITIONS for CESSE and other IMPOSTS. MS 631 5 Aug-11 Oct 1592

These documents are held at Lambeth Palace Library

Former reference: MS 631

49 Pages.

COMPOSITIONS for CESSE and other IMPOSTS. MS 631 5 Aug-11 Oct 1592

These documents are held at Lambeth Palace Library

Former reference: MS 631

49 Pages.

Supplementary information: Calendar of the Carew Manuscripts preserved in the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth, ed. J. S. Brewer & W. Bullen (6 vols., 1867-73), vol. III, document 130.

Contents:
Articles indented betwixt the Queen’s Commissioners and the gentlemen, freeholders, and inhabitants of the country of Orrerie in co. Cork, touching a composition in lieu of cesse; at Cork, 17 September 1592.
Whereas her Majesty by letters patents dated at Dublin 12th July last, and by instructions annexed to the said commission, authorized the said Commissioners to deal with the lords and freeholders and all other possessioners in Munster for a composition in lieu of cesse, such as is in Connaught; the said freeholders and possessioners of Orrerie, acknowledging her Majesty’s care and great masses of treasure spent within this province for the suppression of the late traitor Desmond and his complices, have submitted willingly to a composition, and do by these presents offer her a yearly composition out of the said country of 20l. sterling for three years. And the said Commissioners promise and agree that the said inhabitants shall be exonerated of all cesse, and of all victualling of her Majesty’s army and garrison, and of all provision of the household and stable of the Lord Deputy, the Lord President, and Vice-Presidents, and of all provision of horsemen, soldiers, galloglas, horses, horseboys, and all other impositions, except in case of any invasion or sudden rebellion. This country or barony shall appoint a collector to receive the same, without fee.
Mem.–“The chargeable lands of Liskarroll, lands of Ballimckowa, Ballehustie, and Kilmclenye, if any part thereof be chargeable, is meant to be subject to the above composition.
Signed: Nicholas Barry alias McShian’s mark, James Lumbard, Eily Barry of Bregoge, P. H. Rirragus (?), John Chillister, John Miz of Lessfricken, James Byrn, Edward Nangle, Cornell Dalie, Rallaghan McOwen.
Mem.–The day and year above said, the gentlemen and freeholders of all Condons’ country have compounded with the Commissioners to pay 6l. yearly for three years.
Signed: Edmond Gangahe, Edmond Og Condon, Piers Gold, Patrick Condon, Richard Condon alias McMaoge, Fynne Monsloe, Walter Condon, William McEdmond Condon, Edmond McJohn Condon.
II. Similar Articles betwixt the Commissioners and the gentlemen, freeholders, and inhabitants of Kinnalea, at Cork, 15 September 1592, in public assembly of the whole county.
A yearly composition of 15l ster.
Signed: Thomas Longe, John Bostock, Henry Barries alias Barricok, Philip Golde, George Robinson, Walter Graunte, Leoffin Meade, E. M. D., Awlie O’Flime, James Sarsfield, Thomas Fleminge, Richard Roche, John Roold, William Cogan, David McShane, Edmond FitzMoris Roche, Edmond White, William Risserd, David FitzWilliam Roche, Piers Golde.
III. Articles betwixt the Commissioners and the freeholders, &c. of Ibaone, at Cork, 17 September 1592.
A yearly composition of 25l. ster.
Signed: Donoghe Oge, Teige O’Hee alias O’Hea, Edmond Arundell, James Hodwett.
IV. Articles betwixt the Commissioners and the freeholders, &c. of Carbrey, at Cork, 15 September 1592.
A yearly composition of 80l. ster.
Signed: Owen Carte, Phenen O’Driscoll, John Slewright, Connour McMahowne, Walter Graunt, Donell Solevan, Donogh Driscoll, Conour McO’Mahowne “de Lenton,” Donell Oge ne Carte, Donell McDermod McCarte, Dermod McTege O’Driscoll, Fana McDonell McCarte, Dermod O’Driscoll, Donell McDonogh McCarte, Donogh McCormocke McCarte, Tege McDermod McFeleme, Tege O’Crole alias Crowle, Tege McCartan alias Tege McMockle, Cormocke Oge McCarte, Phenen O’Driscoll, Davy O’Crole.
V. Articles indented betwixt the Queen’s Commissioners and the gentlemen, freeholders, and inhabitants of the lands of the sixteen toeghes in Connyloughe, charged with shraghe, marte, and other uncertain customs, at Limerick, 8 August 1592, in public assembly.
The said Commissioners having moved them to compound with her Majesty for the said shraughe, &c., all the said freeholders, &c. accepted of the same, and by way of composition do yield to her Majesty out of every quarter of land within the said sixteen toughes, in full satisfaction of all sraghe, marte, cesse, connye, livery, and other such charges, the yearly rent of 25s. ster. And although the said chargeable land was charged to the late Earl of Desmond in every toughe 40 marks and 20 beoffes clearly, besides coyne and livery and other uncertainties, yet in respect that the land wasted paid no portion of that charge during the waste, and no arrearages were at any time demanded, and that the said Earl when it was levied sometimes gave it back again, and that the said sixteen toughes are not yet fully peopled, by reason none dare inhabit the said land for fear of the great burden, the Commissioners do accept of the said offer and composition, to continue during her Majesty’s pleasure, and agree that the said freeholders, &c. shall be discharged of all sraghe, &c., and likewise of the provision of the Lord President, &c. The arrearages are deferred to further consideration.
Signed: Philip Suppell of Ballenetubbred, Thomas McEae (?), Doole McMulmurry, David Lacie, Richard Wale, James Lacie FitzDavid, Patrick Lalor, Morys Cooswill, McHenry, Carhill McGerrott, John FitzThomas McPhillipp, Gerrott Liston, James Nashe, William Oge England, David Barrie, Moriertaghe McMorghe, James Russell.
Supplementary information: Calendar of the Carew Manuscripts preserved in the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth, ed. J. S. Brewer & W. Bullen (6 vols., 1867-73), vol. III, document 130.

Contents:
Articles indented betwixt the Queen’s Commissioners and the gentlemen, freeholders, and inhabitants of the country of Orrerie in co. Cork, touching a composition in lieu of cesse; at Cork, 17 September 1592.
Whereas her Majesty by letters patents dated at Dublin 12th July last, and by instructions annexed to the said commission, authorized the said Commissioners to deal with the lords and freeholders and all other possessioners in Munster for a composition in lieu of cesse, such as is in Connaught; the said freeholders and possessioners of Orrerie, acknowledging her Majesty’s care and great masses of treasure spent within this province for the suppression of the late traitor Desmond and his complices, have submitted willingly to a composition, and do by these presents offer her a yearly composition out of the said country of 20l. sterling for three years. And the said Commissioners promise and agree that the said inhabitants shall be exonerated of all cesse, and of all victualling of her Majesty’s army and garrison, and of all provision of the household and stable of the Lord Deputy, the Lord President, and Vice-Presidents, and of all provision of horsemen, soldiers, galloglas, horses, horseboys, and all other impositions, except in case of any invasion or sudden rebellion. This country or barony shall appoint a collector to receive the same, without fee.
Mem.–“The chargeable lands of Liskarroll, lands of Ballimckowa, Ballehustie, and Kilmclenye, if any part thereof be chargeable, is meant to be subject to the above composition.
Signed: Nicholas Barry alias McShian’s mark, James Lumbard, Eily Barry of Bregoge, P. H. Rirragus (?), John Chillister, John Miz of Lessfricken, James Byrn, Edward Nangle, Cornell Dalie, Rallaghan McOwen.
Mem.–The day and year above said, the gentlemen and freeholders of all Condons’ country have compounded with the Commissioners to pay 6l. yearly for three years.
Signed: Edmond Gangahe, Edmond Og Condon, Piers Gold, Patrick Condon, Richard Condon alias McMaoge, Fynne Monsloe, Walter Condon, William McEdmond Condon, Edmond McJohn Condon.
II. Similar Articles betwixt the Commissioners and the gentlemen, freeholders, and inhabitants of Kinnalea, at Cork, 15 September 1592, in public assembly of the whole county.
A yearly composition of 15l ster.
Signed: Thomas Longe, John Bostock, Henry Barries alias Barricok, Philip Golde, George Robinson, Walter Graunte, Leoffin Meade, E. M. D., Awlie O’Flime, James Sarsfield, Thomas Fleminge, Richard Roche, John Roold, William Cogan, David McShane, Edmond FitzMoris Roche, Edmond White, William Risserd, David FitzWilliam Roche, Piers Golde.
III. Articles betwixt the Commissioners and the freeholders, &c. of Ibaone, at Cork, 17 September 1592.
A yearly composition of 25l. ster.
Signed: Donoghe Oge, Teige O’Hee alias O’Hea, Edmond Arundell, James Hodwett.
IV. Articles betwixt the Commissioners and the freeholders, &c. of Carbrey, at Cork, 15 September 1592.
A yearly composition of 80l. ster.
Signed: Owen Carte, Phenen O’Driscoll, John Slewright, Connour McMahowne, Walter Graunt, Donell Solevan, Donogh Driscoll, Conour McO’Mahowne “de Lenton,” Donell Oge ne Carte, Donell McDermod McCarte, Dermod McTege O’Driscoll, Fana McDonell McCarte, Dermod O’Driscoll, Donell McDonogh McCarte, Donogh McCormocke McCarte, Tege McDermod McFeleme, Tege O’Crole alias Crowle, Tege McCartan alias Tege McMockle, Cormocke Oge McCarte, Phenen O’Driscoll, Davy O’Crole.
V. Articles indented betwixt the Queen’s Commissioners and the gentlemen, freeholders, and inhabitants of the lands of the sixteen toeghes in Connyloughe, charged with shraghe, marte, and other uncertain customs, at Limerick, 8 August 1592, in public assembly.
The said Commissioners having moved them to compound with her Majesty for the said shraughe, &c., all the said freeholders, &c. accepted of the same, and by way of composition do yield to her Majesty out of every quarter of land within the said sixteen toughes, in full satisfaction of all sraghe, marte, cesse, connye, livery, and other such charges, the yearly rent of 25s. ster. And although the said chargeable land was charged to the late Earl of Desmond in every toughe 40 marks and 20 beoffes clearly, besides coyne and livery and other uncertainties, yet in respect that the land wasted paid no portion of that charge during the waste, and no arrearages were at any time demanded, and that the said Earl when it was levied sometimes gave it back again, and that the said sixteen toughes are not yet fully peopled, by reason none dare inhabit the said land for fear of the great burden, the Commissioners do accept of the said offer and composition, to continue during her Majesty’s pleasure, and agree that the said freeholders, &c. shall be discharged of all sraghe, &c., and likewise of the provision of the Lord President, &c. The arrearages are deferred to further consideration.
Signed: Philip Suppell of Ballenetubbred, Thomas McEae (?), Doole McMulmurry, David Lacie, Richard Wale, James Lacie FitzDavid, Patrick Lalor, Morys Cooswill, McHenry, Carhill McGerrott, John FitzThomas McPhillipp, Gerrott Liston, James Nashe, William Oge England, David Barrie, Moriertaghe McMorghe, James Russell.

Suspected U-Boat Landing, Bantry Bay, November 1939

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Intelligence Organisation in Eire. CAB 66/3/31
be accepted, nor wholly dis-counted. One such report, however (of a U-boat coming into Bantry Bay and taking in provisions on the evening of the 9th November), comes first-hand from a reliable source. There are also reports that certain individuals in
Former reference: WP (39) 131
Date: 1939
Source: Cabinet Office papers

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In Northern Ireland there is a belief that the ‘De Valera Government’ actively provided fuel and other supplies to U-Boats during the war. This is generally told alongside the notion that the most bombed city in the United Kingdom was Belfast. Other stories told are the Ulster Division at the Battle of the Somme.