1741 Deed of contemplated Marriage Rooska, Barony of Bantry and Bere, West Cork, names mentioned Varian, Vickery, Baker, Denis, Ferguson. The deed is referred to in a later deed of 1790 sworn in Cork. These deeds were located by Ron Price (historian of the Sullivan/Vickery family) in Belfast in the PRO microfilm of the Registry of Deeds, Dublin records.

They would seems to cast doubt on the theory that the Bantry Vickery family originated with two brothers shipwrecked or at least put the shipwreck a generation back.  The brothers may still have been shipwrecked but returning to their homeplace.

The names referred to are the Varians of Rooska, Richard son of Richard was marrying 1741 Grace Ferguson daughter of John Ferguson of Four Mile Water (Durrus). The Fergusons were either in Clashadoo or Coomkeen and the name features even in the 1938 Durrus School Folklore Project as one of the family with a horse clearing the Police Pound. There is a grave in the old Moulivard cemetery of Ferguson/Sullivan.  The Fergusons had  branch  in Droumregh 1790s as they are listed in the spinning wheel lists.  They list their interest in  the Durrus Clashadoo lands as the basis for voting in the 1820s.

 

There are a lot of Fergusons in the Durrus Catholic records from 1820 mostly in townlands abuttting Clasadoo. It may be that one of the sons married a Catholic from which the line descends.

The marriage took place in 1745 according to the marriage Licence Bonds.

The Bakers were common name in Rooska the townland mentioned may be an old one for the area.

The later deed of 1791 where the Denis are mentioned is signed in Cork. The Denises were in Rooska, a famous poet Charlie Denis died c 1960 and Paddy O’Keeffe in Bantry had a lot of his poems now in the Cork Archive.  There is alos  legal dynasty of the Denis family in Kinsale.

The Bantry Estate papers have the various names as Rooska was owned by the Whites Lord Bantry.

In relation to the Varians there is a posting on ancestry of a marriage at Rooska between George Varian and Grace Daly he was born in 1795.   The younger children wee born in Rossmore,  Kilmeen Parish (Clonakilty District) but most of the family emigrated to Hastings, Minnesota in the 1850s.   Children’s names include, Mary, Sarah, Ann, Margaret, Frances, Eliza, Ann, William, Philip, Young (also a common Christian name in Swantons) Richard.

 

1788

James Ferguson

Possibly Clashadoo

Son of John farmer

Bantry Estate lease 1812 names James Ferguson aged 24 son of John farmer, Four Mile Water, James Edward Sullivan aged 7 Park Place, Bantry, George Varian about 15 son of Richard Varian, Rooska,

Letitia Ferguson wife of James Ferguson, Bantry, died 1867, Canada, British Regimental Register of service 1756-1900

re Varian http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/h/a/a/John-S-Haase/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0673.html

 

 

On ancestry it is suggested that the Varian family of brush makers in Cork and Dublin came from Drimoleague but Rooska before that.  The Crostons a family of poor weavers emigrated from Reennagapall, Kilcrohane/Ahakista to Rochesterr, New York 1854.  One became a very wealthy real estate developer.  Either he or his brother while young worked for the Varian family again brush maker in Rochester.

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B6hnQGE3ANjzbTlyWkV1d1JTRHNWODE4SmRlaFlrSWs2blFR/edit

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aVSv1hQo9Jpz6707oUjPJ5LWb_-WTYHumOHvmXoKmj4/edit

 

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			Type of deed	Date of current deed		13 Aug 1790	Vol	Page	Memorial
			Articles of Intermarriage	Date of earlier deed			416	185	276801
No	Role(s) in earlier deed(s)	Role in current deed(s)	Family name	Forename		Place		Occ or title		A
A		P1	VICKERY	James	of	Rouska, Co Cork		Gent, son of B
B		P2	VICKERY	John	of	Rouska, Co Cork		the elder
C		P3	WARNER	Ellen	of	Upper Gurteen		daughter of D
D		P4	WARNER	William	of	Upper Gurteen		the elder		A
E		O	VERIN[VARIAN]	Richard	of	Rouska, Co Cork
F		WD WM	WARNER	John	of	Blackrock, Co Cork		Farmer		A
G		WD WM	WARNER	William	of			son of D		A
Abstract		MS A + C; B passed to A his right to 2 gneeves of Rouska in occupation of B + 2 gneeves of Rouska in occupation of E
MS	MS		Date registered	Aug 1790		Date abstract added		20110608

Abstract made by: Ron Price

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