Sample Grand Jury Book and Presentments Co. Antrim, 1712 Cork Records Having Being Lost.

From the end of the 17th century local administration was carried out by the Grand Juries.  This was a body comprising the County Lieutenants and the Magistrates.   When they sat for ‘presentments’ they voted money for public works such as the building of roads or bridges.

The administration of the works was controlled by the County Surveyor and the financial end by the County Treasurer.  In the early 19th century the Cork County Treasurer was De La Cour and he reported regularly to the Imperial Parliament in Westminster.

It would appear that little of the early records for Cork have survived, sometimes in old newspapers the deliberations of the Grand Jury are reported.

This is a sample from Co. Antrim presumably the same would apply throughout the island.

A Projection as to how Cork Plantation Towns, Bandon, Clonakilty and Projected Baltimore, Newcestown might have looked Ironmongers and Vintners Companies, London, Houses At Bellaghy, Co. Derry Maps by Tomas Raven, 1625, of Londonderry plantation undertaken a order of Sir Thomas Phillips.

The Grand July sat at various times in the year rom the late 17th century and assessed  various items of what  be termed infrastructure, roads, bridges.  The Jury would consist of the county Lieutenants and Magistrates and could be quite substantial in umber.  If a project was approved money was voted to the selected contractor.   The work was then assessed by the county surveyor and financial control exercised by the county treasurer.

Fro  the early 19th century the Cork County Treasurer De La Cour submitted reports to the Imperial Parliament in Wesminister and it is possible to see some of these.  For Cork it appears that little from the 18th century has survived.   Sometimes in old  newspapers there are reference to the Grand Juries deliberations.

The County Antrim presentments shows the format which presumably applied throughout the Island.

A Projection as to how Cork Plantation Towns, Bandon, Clonakilty and Projected Baltimore, Newcestown might have looked Ironmongers and Vintners Companies, London, Houses At Bellaghy, Co. Derry early 17th century.

Some West Cork Emigration to Rochester, New York, Ontario, Canada, Bradford and Haverill, Mass, Wisconsin, Minnesota Some families Mentioned, King Gallagher, Attridge, Croston, Kingston, Levis, Swanton, Salter, Daly, Mahony, Gosnell, Dukelow, Williamson

Thanks to Marthanne williamson, Heather Croston.

Just a scratch in the surface, it is often by looking at US and Canadian census to establish dates not possible in Ireland due to 1922 destruction.

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