Destroyed in Public Records Office, Dublin, 1922. Will of Edward Turner of Balligobane (Bantry) Co. Cork, Merchant, signed 4th November 1633, Proven 26th November 1633, wife Joan, Son Edward, Eldest Daughter Ann Daughter Margaret daughter Three Daughters my last wife Sarah, Mary, Hester, Four Children, wife by former husband Samuel. Mary, Newton, only Sarah is of age, brothers Isaac and Henry Turner, sister Sarah Huggett in England, Executrix wife, Overseers: Anthony Stowell of Oneskayne (Enniskeane?), Edward Eyres of Durrus, Witnesses Edward Eyre, William Snelling, Thomas Whiddington, Charles Dennis.

Destroyed in Public Records Office, Dublin, 1922.

Will of Edward Turner of Balligobane (Bantry) Co. Cork, Merchant, signed 4th November 1633, Proven 26th November 1633, wife Joan, Son Edward, Eldest Daughter Ann Daughter Margaret daughter Three Daughters my last wife Sarah, Mary, Hester, Four Children, wife by former husband Samuel. Mary, Newton, only Sarah is of age, brothers Isaac and Henry Turner, sister Sarah Huggett in England, Executrix wife, Overseers: Anthony Stowell of Oneskayne (Enniskeane?), Edward Eyres of Durrus, Witnesses Edward Eyre, William Snelling, Thomas Whiddington, Charles Dennis.

Probably involved in fishing industry as were Snelling and Whiddington. The Denis name lives on, Charlie Dennis was a noted local poet in the early-mid 20th century in the Rooska area.

Will of Thomas Holmes, Drumfinchin, Barony of Bere and Bantry, Clerke (Minister of Church of Ireland), Signed 10th July 1713, Proven 21st July 1718, To be Buried Bantry Church, Son Luke and Robert, Executrix wife Mary, Witness James Attridge, William O’Calianane, Pheebe Cullinchy, John Webber?

The Stowell may be Stawell later prominent in Kinsale and influential in British Admiralty.

Copied by Welply:

Some Cork Wills (1528-1859), destroyed in 1922 copied by William Henry Welply of Balineen, West Cork.

Copy of Will of Richard Roycroft (Obliterated in the Destruction of the Public Record Office, Dublin, 1922 but copied by William Henry Welply) of Clouney (Clonee, Bog Road), Parish of Durrus, agd 9th May 1801, Proved 1st August 1801, Son-in-law, George Swanton, Grandson Richard Lavers (Levis), granddaughter, Avis Notter, son Thomas Roycroft deceased, daughter Grace O’Sullivan. Executors George Swanton, Richard Lavers (Levis). Witnesses: Robert Lavers. Charles Dalton, John Vickery.

Membership lists of Cork Historical and Archaeological Society 1893 and 1945, snapshot of Cork Diaspora in Colonial Legal and Medical Service, and 1945 Gaelicisation of Irish Public Service, 1893 names include Francis Joseph Bigger, Belfast, Robert Day, Cork Antiquarian, Herbert Gillman Cork Historian, Rev. Graves Bishop of Limerick, Historian and Archaeologist, William Baylor Hartland Cork Horticulturist, P W Joyce Dublin Historian, Denny Lane, Cork Businessman writer and Historian, Lieutenant Francis O’Neill, Later Chief O’Neill, Chicago Police, Irish Music Collector, Canon Goodman, Skibbereen, Professor Of Irish TCD and Irish Music Collector, 1945 Historians Paddy O’Keeffe, Bantry, Bernard O’Regan, Aughadown, John T. Collins, Cork, Father TJ Walsh, Cork, Genealogists, Edward McLysaght, Herald’s Office, Dublin, William Henry Welply, Greenisland Co. Antrim, Count Eoin O’Mahony BL Cork, Sculptor Seamus Murphy, Cork, Playwright Lennox Robinson, Dublin, Oscar Prince of Prussia, Potsdam, Germany.

Grant of English King Charles 111

and privileges usual in such grants and with a grant of a market every Wednesday and Saturday at Ballygobane, alias Oldtown, in the said manor of Bantry and of 3 fairs yearly at the same place on 29 May, 10