Death in 1807 of Florence O’Sullivan Esq., aged 111 years, Berehaven West Cork, 215 nephews and nieces, born in 1696, Cork Mercantile Chronicle,
http://corkgen.org/publicgenealogy/cork/potpourri/corkancestors.com/Deathsmarriages2.htm
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Death in 1807 of Florence O’Sullivan Esq., aged 111 years, Berehaven West Cork, 215 nephews and nieces, born in 1696, Cork Mercantile Chronicle,
http://corkgen.org/publicgenealogy/cork/potpourri/corkancestors.com/Deathsmarriages2.htm
19 Saturday Jul 2014
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Some time age there was a gathering in Byron, Wisconsin of 180 descendants of John Salter and his wife Eliza Cole whoe emigrated from Bantry possibly on one of the Dealy Brigs in 1846. John was with his mother Mrs Jane Salter when they left with members of the Cole, Connell and Aldrich families. Mrs Salter settling in the town of Jackson, Washington County. Michael Salter married Eliza Cole and they bought their farm in Byron in 1868.
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Sample Grant of Letters of Administration, 1826, Dr. Bell, Surgeon, Cork, from Court of prerogative, Archbishop of Armagh.
Prior to Disestablishment of the Church of Ireland it was the State Church of Ireland. Many functions now carried out by the State including Probate were carried out by the Church as successor of the Medieval Church in Ireland.
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Tenants of Hedges Eyre Estate, town of Macroom, Co. Cork, c 1810.
Hedges Eyre Magistrates:
Richard Hedges, 1706
Robert Hedges, 1794, Mount Hedges
Richard Eyre, 1753, Macroom?
Robert Hedges Eyre, Pre 1831, Macroom Castle, supported application 1808 of James B O’Sullivan, Linen and Paper Manufacturer, Dripsey to be Appointed Justice of the Peace.
http://landedestates.nuigalway.ie:8080/LandedEstates/jsp/property-show.jsp?id=3036&estate_id=1093
19 Saturday Jul 2014
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Snapshot of Finances of Bantry Estate, 1888, West Cork, requested by Lord Ardilaun (one of the Guinness Family married to Whites) showing rents of £11,600 for Bantry and £4,800 for Macroom, totalling £14,000 (present day €1.5 million), deficit of £2,035, with rent reductions for tenants of 25%.
The Estate had heavy outlays in mortgages, Jointures (payments for female relatives), life insurance, tithes tax leaving very little for living expenses, a common feature of Irish Estates.
Some Financial details of 19th century Cork Magistrates:
Finance/Probate
To get some idea of comparative values, an RIC man in 1900 earnings allowing for uniform, accommodation and pension say €75 per annum, Garda say €30,000 net in 2016 a factor of 400 perhaps on the high side or Resident Magistrate €500 per annum District Justice €90,000 net of income tax, factor of 180.
Annual Estate Rent rolls estimate 1811, Bandon £30,000, Devonshire (Cork), John Smith-Barry, Lord Shannon, Lord Kingsborough, Longfield all £20,000
Mitchelstown Castle 1820s cost of building £100-200, 000, never lived in, burned 1919-1922 now Co-Op.
Richard Townsend rent roll 1820s estimate £8,000.
Rev. Alleyn Evanson, Durrus, 1853, £5 (may be nominal for conveyancing).
Sir William Henry Lyons, 1858, Glanmire Road Cork, Merchant, probate £20,000.
William Fagan, 1859 £16,000, MP, Feltrim, Cork,
Paul Limrick, Solicitor, 1864, Union Hall, £180.
Becher Lionel Fleming (1821-1869), Landlord, Probate £1,400, 1869 to Becher L. Fleming, Oldcourt and Rev.Horace Fleming, Kilnagross, Clonakilty.
Colonel Morgan William O’Donovan or ‘The O’Donovan’, 1870, Montpelier, Douglas and Lissard, Skibbereen, Landlord, £35,000.
Richard Quin/Quinn, 1870, Fir Grove, Innishannon, Landlord, £10,000.
Sir Thomas Deane Knight 1871, Architect, 26 Longfield Terrace, Dublin, £14,000
Ludlow Bamish, Brewer, Cork, 1872, £5,000
Richard Wallis Goold Adams 1873 James Brook, Cloyne. Landlord and Land Agent, £4,000.
Timothy O’Donovan, Landlord, Durrus, 1874, £2,000.
Daniel Donegan, 1874, Carrigmore, Cork, 1874, £20,000, by order of Court Donegan v Donegan.
Francis 3rd Earl of Bandon, Landlord, 1877, £18,000.
George Achilles Daunt, 1878, Landlord, Compass Hill. Kinsale, £7,000.
James Redmond Barry, Glandore, Landlord, Fishery Commissioner, 1879, £1,500.
Sir Thomas Tobin 1881, Gunpowder Manufacturer, Ballincollig, Probate in Ireland £5,303
Nicholas Dunscombe, 1882, £6,358.
Richard Donovan, Clerk of Crown, Lisheens, Ballincollig, 1883, £10,164.
Richard Wheeler Doherty, 1883, Oak Villa, Bandon, Merchant, Land Agent, £8,170.
Thomas Fuge, Rock Lodge, Youghal, 1883, £2,386.
William Wise, 1884, Dundanion, Blackrock, Cork, £51,000.
Edward Day Stokes, Corbally House, Riverstown, 1885, £1,259.
James Fownes Norton Wise, 1886, Rostellan Castle, Midleton, Ramsgate, £19,849.
Captain John McDonell Webb, Rosanna, The Hill, Douglas, Cork, 1886
Edward Bayly Warburton 1888, Resident Magistrate, Bantry, £1,385.
Finances of Bantry Estate, 1888, requested by Lord Ardilaun rents of £11,600 for Bantry and £4,800 for Macroom, deficit of £2,035, with rent reductions for tenants of 25%.
John Limrick, 1890, Union Hall, £3,647.
James Hutchinson Swanton, 1891, Miller Landowner, Rineen, Skibbereen, £3,807.
Charles Peter Teulon, 59 North Main St., Bandon, 1892, £14,421.
Dr. Bartholomew W. Verling, 1893, Springfield Lodge (Oxclose), Newmarket, Retired Naval Surgeon, Landlord, Probate £1,792.
Thomas Hoskins Tarrant 1894, Charlesfort, Cobh, £1,252
Herbert Webb Gillman, 1898, Landlord, Clonstead House, Coachford, £2,294
Sir John Arnott, 1898, Businessman, Landowner, Newspaper owner, £694,306.
John Richard Wheeler, 1901, 85 North Main St., Bandon, Captain 2nd Regiment of Foot, left £1,017.
Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Claringbould Powell, 1902, Bawnlahan, Leap, in Ireland £1,886.
Richard Lane Allman, 1904, Distiller, Bandon, £22,034.
Robert Dunscombe 1906, Mount Desert Cork, £841.
Henry Lavellin Puxley, 1909, Landlord, Dunboy Castle, Castletownbere, Llangan Carmarthenshire, Probate in London Irish estate £2,251
James Clugston Allman, Distiller, Bandon, 1911, £11,789.
Robert Day, 1914, 1889, Myrtle Hill House, Cork, Merchant, £46,271.
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Teerbeg a Good and Bradfield property from 1830’s to the 1930’s at least, courtesy Barry Bradfield.
527 537 353288 1800 Oct 20 Bond of Obligation MANNING Richard Land Surveyor Dunmanway, Co Cork WD 29 May 1801 Agreement regarding the lease of the old mill and mill lands of Dunmanway, Co Cork
Map of Townlands of Teerbeg and Gurteenroe, Macroom, Co. Cork, Ireland, by Richard Manning, 1814 for Robert Hedges Eyre Esq.
These maps were often produced as part of the process of proving title for the purpose of raising money. Irish Landlords found it too easy to raise credit this was to have disastrous consequence for many of them later as in the forced sale of Estate by the Landed Estates Court in the 1860s.
Richard Manning’s maps of the Jermyn Estate, Aughadown
Shouldham estate in Dunmanway done around the same time are in the Manuscript Library of the National Library, Kildare Street, Dublin.
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Some of these records are now in the National Archives some in the RCB Library, Rathgar, Dublin.
The Cork Antiquarian Richard Caulfield transcribed by hand many of the records of the Cork churches which wee later destroyed in 1922
Bishops of Cork 630 AD to 1807 AD from Records of St. Finbarrs Cathedral Cork.
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When the Old Age Pension was introduced it was sometimes necessary for the authorities to enquire to the Public Records Office. This was done by looking at the census of 1841 or 1851 to determine if the applicants date of birth was correct. The original census were destroyed in 1922 and this is evidence in some cases of birth and census entry. It can be consulted in the national Archives in Dublin.
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