Died November 1829 Columbia, Doctor Thomas Foley, Physician to Czar and Surgeon General late Killarney.

From Basil O’Connell newspaper extracts, Dr. Casey Collection, Vol 6 2103. There are many medical entries often abroad some with the British Military medical Service quite a number of Irish doctors abroad.

Biographical data from Kerry Evening Post 1824-1864 and other papers including Cork details gleaned by O’Connell Brothers (Basil and Donal) in the 1950s. They were descendants  of Daniel O’Connell and Basil wrote the O’Connell Tracts in conjunction with his brother a retired officer in the Royal Navy.  They were from the Lakeview branch of the O’Connells outside Killarney.

Basil may have trained as a barrister an was the head of CID in Malaya spending a lot of his leave in the 1940s and 50s in Dublin in Lansdowne Road.  In an amusing letter in the 1950s to Bantry historian Paddy O’Keeffe he signs off saying ‘I’m off now to fight the Communists’

Dr. Casey has this in Vol 6 and 7 of the O’Kiev Cishe Mang

https://plus.google.com/photos/100968344231272482288/albums/6013023240609479873

Cork Newspaper Extracts 1753-1771, 1782-4, collected by John T. Collins.

They are reproduced in Dr. Casey’s collection Vol 6 1753-1771

John T. Collins, was a Cork Genealogist operating in the 1950s. He collected these from private collections including that of Mr. Cussen, Solicitor, Newcastle West, Co. Limerick. These were given to Basis O’Connell who at the time was writing the O’Connell Tracts. Basil in the 1950 was a retired Senior Police Officer who had worked in Malaysia and was a descendant of Daniel O’Connell. The tracts are the Genealogy of the extended family.

https://plus.google.com/photos/100968344231272482288/albums/6012976712694399649/6012976893295879714?pid=6012976893295879714&oid=100968344231272482288

Genealogy of Baldwin family from Salop. England 1580s Co. Cork, to Mossgrove /Garranconnig (Garran a’Chunaig), Mount Pleasant/Curravordy(Corra Mhor Dhuibhe), Lisnagat (Lois na gCat Cat’s Fort), Economic Resources Co Cork 17th century, Prices and Wages.

Online history compiled by Terence Kermode, Suffolk, 2001, with some will extracts and deeds and some interesting comment on behaviour patterns.

Click to access Baldwin-History.pdf

Landed Estates:
http://landedestates.nuigalway.ie/LandedEstates/jsp/estate-show.jsp?id=3005

Bram Stroker

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram_Stoker

A recent publication of Bram Strokers lost Journal has material relating to is time as a Civil Servant where he spent 12 years in Dublin castle. During that tie he attended Trinity College was active in Athletics and the College Historical Society. The last number of years in Dublin was as an Inspector of Petty Sessions around the Irish countryside.

The Petty Session courts replaced a discredited system of local administration of Justice in the hands of Magistrates often held in their front rooms. His work on the duties of Perry Session Clerks was used in the Irish District Courts until the mid 20th century

His father had been a Senior Civil Servant for 50 years and the family had their origins as Tailors in Dublin. His father was a member of the Tailors Guild. On his mother’s side the Blakes one of her Blake family had been executed a a Rebel in 1798 as a United Irishman.

In his lifetime Bran was known more as the manager of Henry irvine the actor and as an impresario rather then an author.

The Journal has been put together by Elizabeth Miller and Dacre Stoker published by The Robson Press, 2012.

1755, newspaper ad for sale of oak woods, Tuigeah, Inchigeela, West Cork, formerly property of Keadah Leary, grandfather of outlaw, Art Leary.

Apply Dr. Edward Barry, College Green, Dublin.

This is from newspaper extracts compiled by Cork historian and in Dr. Casey’s Collection Vol 6, 2378.

There is another Leary related item, the letting of two mature fields at the Lough, Cork, ready for mowing, 1st August 1765. Apply to Cornelius Leary (father of Art) Raleigh, near Macroom. Paper JTC

Art Ó Laoighre:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Ó_Laoghaire

Public renunciations against Popery and Conversions in Clonakilty, Inniscarra, Kilnagross and Caherconlish, Co. Cork, 1769-70 from John T Collins, Newspaper Abstracts. He was a historian and genealogist in Cork in the 1940s onwards. Professionally he worked at the lee Road Psychiatric Hospital. He was part of a network of historian who shared sources.

He had access to mid 18th century newspapers sone from the collection of Mr. Cussen, Solicitor, Newcastle West. From some of these he compiled abstracts which he sent to Basil O’Connell to aid him in his work ‘The O’Connell Tracts”,

http://www.houseofireland.org/oconnell/index.htm

Some of this is reproduced in Dr Casey’s O’Keif Cishe Mong Vol 6.

Included are a number of reference to Renunciation of Popery in Co Cork. These for the Landed and Mercantile and Professional Catholics were done sometimes out of practical necessity to avoid the evil effects of the Penal Laws. Sometimes they operated as Crypto-Catholics and maintained relationships with Catholic relations. Some of the conversions were obviously genuine and the lack of Catholic Churches and clergy may have contributed.

31st January 1768, Inniscarra:

William Barrett Denis Hallisey, Read Recantation of Popery

April 1769, Kilnagross:

Cornelius Donovan, Tim Collins, Tim Sullivan,

12th June 1769, Caherconlish:

Renunciation Rev. Morrough Hurly late Popish Priest, from C.E.D. Newspaper

10th April 1770, Clonakilty:

Daniel Crane and William Hieas (O’Hea or Hea) renounce Poperty and embrace Protestantism.

Etching by Abraham Castlejon of Bombardment of Cork and Kinsale, Co Cork, 1690, from Rijks Museum, Amsterdam. The Cork Bombardment was probably done from Elizabeth Fort in Barrack Street which is to be restored. It was commanded by the Duke of Marlborough.

Barrack St:

http://corkindependent.com/20121025/news/barrack-street-S51610.html

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/council-plans-to-transform-historic-cork-city-fort-after-handover-from-state-254605.html

1986 Colm Creedon History ‘The Cork, Bandon and South Coast Railway Vol 1 1849-1899.

Many thanks to a reader for bringing this to attention.

https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/RP-P-OB-82.728

Royal Irish Constabulary Directory and List, 1916 from Joe McGarrity Collection, Villa Nova University, USA.

Apart from being a RIC listing it contains much Government information of the period pre Partition of the island.

From Joe McGarrity Collection, Villa Nova University USA. Somewhat ironic as he was a prominent Republican from Co.Tyrone who settled in the States. later he was involved in marketing the Irish Sweeps using the Republican network of those who on the Anti-Treaty side emigrated to the US post 1922.

http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:125191

Police (RIC, DMP, other) from West Cork area:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqhnQGE3ANjzdEpXdDN5SlFocmpzWllNNkVSU2JqSWc&usp=drive_web#gid=0

RIC Route Guide 1893:

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2014/02/24/1893-triallam-timcheall-na-fodhla-let-us-wander-round-ireland-the-road-and-route-guide-for-ireland-of-the-royal-irish-constabulary-by-george-a-de-m-edwin-dagg-district-inspector-includin/

Jim Herlihy Lecture on RIC:

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2014/01/03/lecture-on-ric-by-jim-herlihy-with-some-police-records-from-west-cork-area/