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From 1881 Parliamentary Return of Cork Magistrates including Swantons, Townsend, date of appointment, property value given

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From 1881 Parliamentary Return of Cork Magistrates including  Swantons, Townsend, date of appointment, property value given
Draft Listing of Cork Magistrates from 1434:
George Henry Swanton, Fortview, sits Ballydehob, Schull, Bantry, resident, April 1879, £189
James Hutchinson Swanton, Rineen, Skibbereen, resident, April 1857, £143.  Major businessman innovative, purchaser of landed estates from Landed Estates Court.
Robert H. Swanton, Ballybawn House, Ballydehob, resident, sits Ballydehob and Schull, £42
George Henry Swanton, Fortview, Ballydehob, sits Ballydehob, Schull, Bantry, resident, April 1879, £189.
The Ballydehob Swantons in the late 18th century purchased the head interest in many townlands from the Beecher estate.  That meant that their rent was fixed but the rental income coming to the was probably four times that of what was paid to the Beechers.
From that extended family came Judge Swanton, New York, United Irishman, his grave in Skibbereen has an epithet in old Gaelic script.  Thomas Swanton, Crianlarich noted Gaelic scholar.  Some of the Swantons were active in London in the 1860s with the Fenians with the Durrus Dukelows and Hurleys.  Many of the Ballydehob family were Methodist.
Some Townsend Magistrates.  Very extensive land owners related by marriage to families such as the Galweys possible Hiberno-Danish.

Bryan Townsend, 1692

Cornelius Townsend, 1732

Edward Maunsell Townsend, 1762, Whitehall, Skibbereen

Henry Owen Becher Townsend TCD (1775-1747), Glandore/Castletownsend, Son John and Mary Morris, m 11, Sarah Fenwick dissolved 2. Ann Homan, Landwaiter 1810, Fisheries Inspector 1820.  Supporter Daniel’Connell.

Rev. Horace Townsend, pre 1831

Rev. Horatio Townsend, 1739

John Townsend, 1671

John Townsend, 1714

John Townsend, 1721

John Townsend, 1760, Mardyke (One in Cork one in Skibbereen)

Rev John Townsend, 1785, Cloghnikilty (Clonakilty)

John Townsend, 1791, Shepperton, Skibbereen, 1831

St. James Erskine St Clair (1762-1837), Bart, 1793, 2nd Earl of Rosslyn, Adjuncant Ireland 1782, Grand Master Freemasons Scotland.

Jonas Morris Townsend, 1831

Rev. Philip Townsend, Pre 1831

Richard Townsend, 1753, Castle Townsend

Richard Townsend, 1766, Coronea, Skibbereen

Richard Boyle Townsend, 1793, Castletownsend, BA, TCD, 1773, Father Colonel John Townsend, mother Elizabeth Fitzgerald, m Henrietta Newenham, d John Devonsher Newenham, Maryborough, Carrigaline.  Freeman, Cork 1777.  MP Dingle 1782, 1790

Rev Richard Townsend, 1795, Skull (Schull), 1831

Richard Townsend, 1798, Castle Townsend, Skibbereen, 1831

Richard Townsend, 1715

Richard Townsend, Junior, Pre 1831

Richard Orpen Townsend, 1835

Edward Townsend

Samuel Townsend (1768-1836), Christ Church, Oxford, Whitehall, Skibbereen, son of Edward Mansell (Splendid Ned) and Anna Baldwin, m 1794 Mercy Baldwin, d Walter Baldwin, Curravordy, Bandon.  Freeman Cork, 1798, High Sheriff.

From Richard S. Harrison’s book, ‘Four Hundred Years of Drimoleague”, 1999

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From Richard S. Harrison’s book, ‘Four Hundred Years of Drimoleague”, 1999

Obligations of Donal 11 )’Donovan to Overlord Mccaarthy from 1584.

This is set out an an inquisition held in 1607.

An item called a ‘dolly’ and a sum of 6 groats and a penny a half acre eyearly. A ‘cuddihie’ of 14d had to be paid each Christmas for ech ploughland. There was a pomndage of a hog for every tenant with more than five hogs.. There were other sums on cattle and a special fee of six shillings towards the marriage of his daughters and two bushels of oats for every ploughland an the ‘half of all frais, strais and bloodsheds’

For ploughlands in early Ireland:
http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/E580000-001/text005.html

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Some O’Donovan, Bawnlahan, West Cork, deeds, conveyances, settlements, leases mortgages including to Samuel Jervois, Brade, from 1619

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The O’Donovans with the McCarthys are believed to be some of the oldest families in Europe. They migrated from Limerick to West Cork c 12th century.

In the upheavals of the 17th century most of the family lands were confiscated by the British State. One branch of the family turned Protestant at Bawnlahan and intermarried with the Beecher and other local Protestant families. From this Sept a long line of British Army officers and Church of Ireland clergy descends. That branch retained the ancestral title of the ‘The O’Donovan’ which still exists.

Branches of the family moved to South Kilkenny from which Dr John O’Donovan, Ireland’s greatest scholar descend. Another branch went to Wexford.

During the emigrations from Ireland many O’Donovans emigrated from which the family worldwide descend.

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Tolls claimed by the Earl of Bantry 28th June 1818 collected by Cornelius Mahoney together with Masseytown (Macroom), Timoleague, Clonakilty, Bandon, Enniskeane, Ballylboy (Dunmanway), Castletown Kinneagh, Kinsale, Bridgetown (Skibbereen), Co. Cork.

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Tolls claimed by the Earl of Bantry 28th June 1818 collected by Cornelius Mahoney together with Masseytown (Macroom), Timoleague, Clonakilty, Bandon, Enniskeane, Ballylboy (Dunmanway), Castletown Kinneagh, Kinsale, Bridgetown (Skibbereen), Co. Cork.

http://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/9679/page/212998

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Grand July Presentments of County Treasurer, Co. Cork, James De La Cour, Summer 1818, including Dispensaries for Clonakilty,, Crookstown, Bantry, Ballydehob, Dunmanway, Macroom.

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Grand July Presentments of County Treasurer, Co. Cork, James De La Cour, Summer 1818, including Dispensaries for Clonakilty, Crookstown, Bantry, Ballydehob, Dunmanway, Macroom.

http://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/10227/page/226423

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The Devestation of The Great Famine in Schull, West Cork, in Micro Detail from The Loan Reproduction Records 1830-1853

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Evidence of John Collins, substantial farmer  1844 re Local Loan funds 1844 Witnesses at Skibbereen (into Her Majesties Commissioners into The Law and Practice of Occupation of Land in Ireland.

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http://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/11941/page/282493

The Devestation of The Great Famine in Schull, West Cork, in Micro Detail from The Loan Reproduction Records 1830-1853

 

There are quite a number of poor Protestants described as paupers or in distress.   Also still a number of weavers.  Mass emigration

 

These records used to be publicly available on a UK Archive now being a paywall.

 

 

 

 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SjD7EiRBDPjnsK4c4B9xIu9HV2WPBOuY0jj5_Td7ogc/edit

The Croston Family , Weavers Possibly from Croston, Lancashire to Bandon, Schull, Durrus, West Cork to Canada, Rochester, NewYork, Bradford and Haverhill Massachusetts Related Families Holohan, Mahoney, Wolfe, Lannin, Levis, Skuce, Johnson, Kingston.

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Courtesy Heather Croston

The Croston Family , Weavers Possibly from Croston, Lancashire to Bandon, Schull, Durrus, West Cork to Canada, Rochester, NewYork, Bradford and Haverhill Massachusetts Related Families Holohan, Mahoney, Wolfe, Lannin, Levis, Skuce, Johnson, Kingston.

Like many West Cork families of Protestant origin the Crostons have Catholic and Protestant branches.  The Crostons were weavers and labourers and poor.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14uFPdUUA66a6_cLwgy8MjHWJaDsjGZ50HeIwIbY20pA/edit#gid=0

https://durrushistory.com/2015/11/22/spinning-and-weaving-john-and-isaac-johnson-and-john-croston-weavers-of-old-from-1938-school-folklore-collection-carrigboy-national-school-durrus-west-cork-from-breda-mccarthy-coolcuaghta-2/

https://durrushistory.com/2015/03/29/a-glimpse-of-the-18th-and-early-19th-century-linenflax-industry-in-durrus-and-schull-west-cork-from-the-lost-census-of-1766-1821-1841-1851-with-names-cole-croston-webb-whitley-johnson/

https://durrushistory.com/2012/08/13/selected-deaths-durrus-district-co-cork-1690-1950/

For decades the USA Croston  family has been unable to pin point exactly where our ancestor’s John W. Croston, Margaret Attridge and their son Francis Croston lived in Ireland before emigrating to Haverhill, Massachusetts around 1845-54. Francis came first and then in 1854 John and Margaret came over with the rest of the family. We had some indications they were from Skibbereen but no records. We have heard the story- both passed down from our family as well as from other Crostons that we are in touch with in Skibbereen (Currently living there) and in Iowa (from the Bandon, County Cork Croston’s) that the family came to Ireland sometime between 1650 and 1750 from Croston, Lancashire, England. The earliest Croston on record in Ireland is Thomas Croston Esq. living in Sligo (1659 Census).

Several  family members have taken a DNA test and that lead  to matching with the Croston and Attridge family of Rochester New York.  In the East Skull birth records. were found the birth record of  3X great grandfather Francis Croston. The parents names are right as well as the exact birth date. Several of his siblings are also listed in the document and their birth dates match my records. The birth place listed matches John Croston and Thomas Attridge (possibly Margaret’s father or brother) on the Griffith’s Valuation for Scrahanyleary, Schull.

Other search for some of the other surnames in the area to match DNA is in progress  matches and so far have found matches with the surnames: Wolfe, Lannin, Levis, Skuce, Kingston and more.

There are several other Croston Families that also went to Haverhill MA. Possibly siblings or cousins to John W.

Some of the other Haverhill Croston’s on there or possibly Margaret Croston who was a DNA match. . She moved to Rochester but I haven’t been able to figure out how she connects with the other Rochester Crostons.

When they came to the US some of the older Crostons farmed and most of the family worked in the many shoe factories.

There is a DNA match with a Daniel Lannin and Ellen Atteridge descendant. They emigrated to Wisconsin.

In the Cole Family history there are references to Crostons, weavers in Brahalish, Durrus from early 19th century census now destroyed.

Carberry Cole Book (1)

 

Taxing times in early 17th century East Cork.

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King James VI of Scots became King of Ireland and England on the death of Elizabeth I in 1603. King James VI of Scots became King of Ireland and England on the death of Elizabeth I in 1603.

A week ago the Irish government presented its annual budget for the fiscal year 2016. The summary of taxation and expenditure was designed to facilitate the re-election of the government in the general election that must take place in the early spring. Whatever about the intricacies of modern government finance, back in the early seventeenth century things were rather different. The early modern period saw the government attempt to transplant English methods of raising revenue to Ireland with varying degrees of success. The Nine Year’s War (1594 to 1603), which included the great revolt of Munster from 1598, played havoc with the whole fiscal system in Munster. One of the causes of the Munster Revolt was the burden of taxation imposed on the province. Much of this burden came from the…

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