Richard S. Harrison Article 1994, re Friends (Quakers) in Bandon, 1655-1807, Reference to Spat with Swanton Member?, in Skibbereen, 1696.

Courtesy Cumann Seanchais na Bandain/ Bandon Historical Society and Richard S Harrison.  Richard Harrison has done excellent histories of Drimoleague and Bantry.

The Swanton reference is interesting there are two contrasting views on the family origin.  One is that they come from Scotland part of a small plantation in Castlehaven  late 17th century.  In the mid 18th century many of the family in Ballydehob converted fro the Church of Ireland to Methodism.

Some of the Shipseys were Quakers at one stage.

 

Quakers Skibbereen and Bandon, 1696

 

The Registers of the Cork City Meeting of the Quakers (Births Marriages and Deaths) 1653-1859 and other records from Dr. Albert Casey’s Collection.

 

A Journal of a Voyage from Philadelphia to Cork in the year of our lord 1809 together with a Description of a Sojourn in Ireland, Margaret B.Harvey

 

William Penn:

 

My Irish Journal, William Penn includes his sojourns in Cork 1669-70.

 

Original signature William Penn

 

1711, William Penn, Founder of Pennsylvania, USA, Properties near Clonakilty, Co. Cork

 

 

 

 

 

 

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