Fragments from St. James Church Records, Durrus, West Cork and Census Records Copied Prior to 1922 Destruction.

Some of the Irish pre 1901 census records were pulped due to a paper shortages in World War 1,  no such destruction in the UK.  Other were destroyed due to lack of space.  The greatest  destruction was in the loss by the explosion in the Public Records Office in 1922.  It is not know if this was deliberate or accidental.  In the prior years due to the Troubles there was a fear that Protestant Churches might be in danger and the Records were exhorted to place the church records in the Public Records Office in Dublin for safe keeping.  The result was an unmitigated disaster.

However there was some copying of records prior to 1922 for genealogical purposes.

 

Thrift Notes Item 4117, copied prior to 1922 Destruction, from research commissioned by Inspector Hynes, Melbourne a descendant of Blair Family of Blair’s Cove, Durrus

 

 

Genealogical Office p 3 (1)

 

Marriage Licence Bond:

 

The Reverend Daniel McCarty of the City of Cork, Clerk and Thomas Kennedy of the same cooper, bound in £1,000 – dated 26th July 1793.  Daniel McCarthy may marry Sarah Blair of the Parish of St. Paul’s, Cork, Spinster.

 

Daniel McCarty (Muclagh):

 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BnjAwZ6eFk_0sTMsjxYBo3YFQLNqJ4J2utWIftpJXqs/edit

 

 

Family extracts from Fragment St. James, Destroyed:

Extract from the Records of St. James, Durrus, West Cork, 1797 to 1827, from an Old Parchment in the Dublin Office, copied before their Destruction at the Public Records Office, Dublin, 1922, names mentioned Kingston, Shannon, Whitley, Croston, Baker, Webb, from Cole Family History.

Lost Census:

 

A glimpse of the 18th and early 19th century Linen/Flax Industry in Durrus and Schull, West Cork, from the Lost Census of 1766, 1821, 1841, 1851, with names Cole, Croston, Webb, Whitley, Johnson. 1836 Evidence of Father John Kelleher (Early Statistician) and Reverend Edward John Alcock both Durrus to Poor Laws (Ireland) relating to Spinning in Area.