Marriage Settlement, 1781, of Lieutenant William Hamilton Blair (Blair’s Cove, Durrus), His Majesties City of Cork Militia to Helen Little, Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim.

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Sale of Blair Estate, 1866:

Sale of Blair Estate, Coolculaghta old name Carpolite, (Blair’s Cove), Durrus, West Cork, by Landed Estates Court 1866, with details of Legal Tenure, Tenants, Leases, Maps

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Age of Hamilton, b c 1773
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It may be a co-incidence but there is a Blair/Little marriage in1807 perhaps the Cork Blairs kept up contact with the extended family in Northern Ireland. The Blairs were closely linked to the Bantry Whites one of whom married a Hamilton from Armagh c 1690.

James Little

Sex:

Male

Marriage:

1807

Marriage Place:

Presbyterian Church, Kircubbin, County Down, Northern Ireland

Spouse:

Isabella Blair

Source:

Z. Mettam. Northern Ireland Marriages, Volume 1 (Manuscript found at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City on microfilm 824282, item 2).

Marriages are taken from County Down: Boardmills 1st Presbyterian Church, 1782-1842; 1851-1870; Down/Downpatrick, 1700-1874; Dromara, 1817-1845; Dromore, 1784-1845; Drumbo, 1706-1721; Killinchy, 1812- 1845; Killyleagh, 1835-1872; Kilmore, 1833-1845; and Kircubbin, 1802- 1845.

Registration of marriages at the General Register Office in Dublin was compulsory for all Protestants after April 1845 in Ireland. They are the official record.

Fenwicks, Blairs, Whites, Davies from 1710s inheritors of Hollow Blade Company lands in West Cork, Fishing, Smelting, Forestry.

This marriage deeds shows the interconnected families. The parties mentioned were active in land dealing and other enterprises in the Bantry/Macroom/Dunmanway areas from c 1710. One of the Whites then of Whiddy originally Dunmanway (probably originally from Co. Limerick) received a legal education at one of theLondon Inns and was known as Councellor White.

The Little Isladn referred to in connection with the Fenwicks is off the Baltimore/Skibbereen road near Creagh Church where Canon Goodman is buried.

The Blairs eventually settled in Durrus at Blair’s Cove.

The Davies were in Macroom one of the family a Pastor was active in multiple businesses in Bantry in the 1740s and 50s in conjunction with the Galweys/Meades/Youngs/Birds.

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Sale by Cant (Highest Bidder) in Chichester House, Dublin 1703 of Galwey lands in East and West Carbery Forfeited, Kilfaghna, Drombeggy, Cullinagh, Dirryleigh, Shrilane, Gortard, Balliisland and ten small islands, Knockeeridane, Castlehaven, Gortard, Creaghm, Coney Island, Baltimore, Raghmore, Cloghanmore, Cloghanbeg, Lissangel, Caheragh, Gortnamuckla Lisalchorig with some tenants listed, Coppingers, Hollow Blade Company, South Sea Bubble.

The Hollow Blade Company of London and Land in Reendonegan, Bantry, Co. Cork 1710, the Hutchinson Magistrates.

Inis Beg, Growing Lemons by the Banks of the River Illen, Skibereen, West Cork, Roger Fenwicks, Blairs, Whites, from 1710, the McCarthy Murroughs from 1860s, the Present Gardens

Robert Sullivan/O’Sullivan, Tedagh, Parish of Durrus, Bantry, to New Orleans, 1845.

This complicated land deed shows Robert Sullivan and the name Pattison in New Orleans occurs also a Bantry name.

Robert is a descendant of Michael O’Sullivan a Land Holder and Heart Tax Collector reputed to be a descendant of O’Sullivan Bere. He married Mary Vickery of Whiddy Island 1777 all the children were brought up in the Church of Ireland, there are an enormous number of descendants worldwide.

An associated family the Vickeries originally from Rooska moved to Reendonegan c 1840 and the entire family emigrated to the USA via New Orleans in 1850 ten in number.  They settled in Evanstown Ohio having come up the Mississippi.  Included was the oldest daughter who had married Warner adn gave birth on the 6 week voyage.

A Good Sheltry Farm gone to Forestry, Upper Tedagh, Durrus/Bantry, Homeplace of Sullivan/O’Sullivan family (Hurrigs), some claim Descent from O’Sullivan Bere from 1777 marriage of Michael Sullivan with Mary Vickery and some property dealings of the family

Prior to the US Civil War new Orleans was a major destination for the Irish.

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Listing of Townlands in Barony of Bantry and Bere Escheated from O’Sullivan Bere and contained in lease of 1660 from The Earl of Anglesea to Colonels Walters, Kempton, Willis, Walkerd, Mr Knight and Miss Elizabeth Walters later forming base of White (Bantry House) Estate.

From Paddy O’Keeffe, Bantry Antiquarian.

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