Taken from a dark microfilm quality poor. Skibbereen Eagle, National Library, Dublin.

March 1863, Notification by Ralph Fuller, Registrar (and Solicitor) of the Methodist Chapel, Skibbereen as an approved place for the Solemnisation of Marriages, first Marraige James Craig, Trinity College Kate Woulfe, Ballydehob, 27th April 1862, and annual meeting of Methodist Missionary Society.

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From the Unpublished Diaries of Rev. John Rogers. Staying with Poor Methodists in Gubeen, Schull, West Cork, 1803, ‘I slept very little, adn almost wishes I was home, I was sick in my stomach,  nothing but potatoes morning and evening’  He later Married 1810 Mary Croston in Crookhaven Church.  Arthur Young 1770 on the Irish predilection for potatoes.

Skibbereen area West Cork, Church of Ireland, Methodist, Marriages 1783-

Methodist Minister, Rev. Adam Averill, 1799, on possible Scottish Origin, of West Cork, Swanton family and reputed Scottish Plantation, Castlehaven/Skibbereen c 1690s, Andersons, Hamiltons.

Missionary:

1938, Doctor Sarah Wolfe, Medical Missionary of Skibbereen, West Cork and Chungsiang, Hupeh, China, on recovering from Illness contracted attending to wounded in Hankhow

Susannah Beamish (1874-1950) from Dunmanway, Co. Cork to Costa Rica.