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Cataract of the Bantry River in Ireland 1799.

21 Monday Mar 2016

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Cataract of the Bantry River in Ireland 1799.

Note the mill to the left. It may be Murphys on the Glengariff Road.1-AN00807975_001_l

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1837 Cork Election. Report on Fictions Votes Electorate 8,600, Appendix Lists many for Cork City, Liberties of Cork and Country Freemen Entitled to Vote, by Address, Occupation, Valuable in view of Total Lack of 1830s Census.

19 Saturday Mar 2016

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1837 Cork Election.  Report on Fictions Votes Electorate 8,600, Appendix Lists many for Cork City, Liberties of Cork and Country Freemen Entitled to Vote, by Address, Occupation, Valuable in view of Total Lack of 1830s Census.

The report is on the Cork 1837 election on factious votes.  The electorate was 8,600 and in the appendices there are a large number of voters listed.  Some addresses adn occupations are given.  Very valuable as no 1830s census records for Cork have survived.
For anyone with stamina there is an investigation street by street on voting entitlement by reference to valuations together with whether apprentices were properly enrolled.
The procedure for registration by an Assistant Barrister is covered with those from the country have in to attend at Cork to register.
The thrust of the analysis seems to be that the Cork Protestant interest is maintained by vote manipulation and now being challenged by Catholic Merchants and lawyers.  Examples seem to be the Rev. Somers Payne (also head of the Orange Order in Cork) enrolling his labourers as apprentices so he could rely on their votes.  Ironically his mother was Shears, of the same family as the Shears brothers, executed as United Irishmen.
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=OHBbAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA270&lpg=PA270&dq=%22Osborne+Edward+BARBER%22&source=bl&ots=757KRz3pZh&sig=KgFtyOxOmUnulcqMXc_gibcK5ok&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiwurGWnMvLAhXpB5oKHSO5Ap0Q6AEIOzAG#v=snippet&q=punch&f=false

1839. Tender Office of Ordnance for Military Works to Whiddy Island, Kinsale (Charles Fort), Bandon Cork Harbour and Bob Booty (Horse) will Stand This Season at Fethard

18 Friday Mar 2016

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1839.  Tender Office  of Ordnance for Military Works to Whiddy Island, Kinsale (Charles Fort), Bandon Cork Harbour and  Bob Booty (Horse) will Stand This Season at Fethard

The horse is included as an unusual picture.

 

Proposals invited 1810 for the Supply of Bread to the British Army, on Bere Island and 1818 to Supply Ordnance at Bantry Bay with Candles, Fuel, Coal and Turf.

 

 

US Airforce Base Whiddy 1918:

 

US Navy Airforce base Whiddy Island, 1918.

 

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1828. High Court Application to Remove Hungerford, Coroner for West Cork.

18 Friday Mar 2016

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1828.  High Court Application to Remove Hungerford, Coroner for West Cork.

 

 

 

 

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Letter William J. Dealy, 1798- Shipowner, Bantry, Co. Cork re trade, fishing business to his son in Canada 1840, and the Dealy Brig

18 Friday Mar 2016

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Compiled by Emery C. Daly
90 Derek Drive
Tolland, Connecticut 06084

The Bantry Estate records have a William Dealy eldest son of Michael and his brothers Samuel b 1800, Michael 1803 names as lives in a lease.

It is possible that the Bantry Dealys/Dalys are connected with the Landowning East Galway family of the 18th century powerful in politics as were the Gores with whom they were intermarried. This could account how many of the Bantry Dealys ended up in State positions as Customs and Fisheries in St. Johns, New Brunswick in the early 19th century.

http://www.dalyclan.org/Letters/william.htm

Bantry Sep. 17, 1840

My Dear Micheal,

I have inst. rec 3 newspapers from you. (The last date 22nd Augt. 1840.) I wrote several times to you, and to W. Burns since the “Dealy’s” return on the 2nd July 1840. My letters were forwarded (I understood) by Steven Vessels and I am therefore…

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1770, To be sold by SOBER KENT, at his cellars on the Coal quay, by the hogshead, quarter cask, dozen or gallon, choice claret, Lisbon, Fromiaiac and French white wines … …

17 Thursday Mar 2016

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KENT, SOBER – (20/8/1770) – To be sold by SOBER KENT, at his cellars on the Coal quay, by the hogshead, quarter cask, dozen or gallon, choice claret, Lisbon, Fromiaiac and French white wines … …

CourtesyJean Prendergast

DIRECTORY 1770 & 1772 – Trade, Property & Legal Notices from the ‘Hibernian Chronicle’

Recollections of Colonel George Cotter, at Lake Erie Canada, of Fighting at the Battle of Waterloo, Joined 69th Regiment in 1804, Given Freedom of Cork 1818, Son of Rev. George Cotter, Castlemartyr, Grandson of Sir James Cotter Bart, Died Western Canada (Probably Dunnville, Ontario) 1867.

17 Thursday Mar 2016

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Recollections of Colonel George Cotter, at Lake Erie Canada, of Fighting at the Battle of Waterloo, Joined 69th Regiment in 1804, Given Freedom of Cork 1818, Son of Rev. George Cotter, Castlemartyr, Grandson of Sir James Cotter Bart, Died Western Canada (Probably Dunnville, Ontario) 1867.

The Cork Cotters like the Coppingers  are of Hiberno-Danish/Norman descent and anyone with Cotter blood will find DNA matches in Denmark and Norway.

The West Cork Cotters descend from a number of families who moved or were expelled from EastCork to Inchigeela c 1650.  The church there is still used fro family burials.

Same of these Cotters converted to the church of Ireland before adn after the Penal Laws and were prominent in Land, The Church of Ireland. the Military, Law and Medicine.    .  Most but not all of the West Cork Cotters are Catholic.  Probably most of world wide Cotter descent from the West Cork branch, give heavy emigration.

The Cotters Of Inchigeela, Co. Cork.

Sharon Haggerty’s Comment:

 

I looked in the 1861 Canadian census for George and found George S Cotter, born Ireland, age 73, Church of England, occupation “Arms.” Immediately below him were 3 Cotter women, all born Ireland: Jane 58 married, and two single women, Isabella 60 (sister?) and Catherine 37 (daughter?). These people lived in Dunn twp, Haldimand county, Canada West. Note that “Canada West” became Ontario, so I suspect George died there, rather than “western Canada.” Dunn twp no longer exists, but the town of Dunnville is just a stone’s throw from Lake Erie. Ancestry has more than one public tree for this family.

Thomas Young Cotter 1805-1882, Bantry born First Colonial Surgeon 1835, South Australia. Related to Bantry Young Family, Fish Merchants.

Briseann an Dúchas trí Shúile an Chait, (heritage breaks out through the Eyes of the Cat) Cork families of Danish Origin.

 

 

 

 

 

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1685, Midwives are Sworn and Licensed St. Finbar’s Cathedral, Cork

17 Thursday Mar 2016

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1685, Midwives are Sworn and Licensed  St. Finbar’s Cathedral, Cork.

The consistory court had an enormous jurisdiction as evidenced:

Prerogative Court 1850 (1)

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Portrait John Phipot Curran (1750-1817)

16 Wednesday Mar 2016


Patriotic verse by John Philpot Curran, (1750-1817), Lawyer, Wit, MP. Master of the Rolls and Privy Councillor, father of Sarah Curran, Newmarket, Co Cork, ‘Let us be Merry before we go’, ‘The Monks of the Screw’, ‘Cushla Ma Chree’

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1769, For Sale by Public Cant ‘PER INCH OF CANDLE” A Parcel of Roll Bale of Tobacco at Cork Custom House

16 Wednesday Mar 2016

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1769, For Sale by Public Cant ‘PER INCH OF CANDLE” A Parcel of Roll  Bale of Tobacco at Cork Custom House

This gave the purchased time to consider while an inch of candle burned.

Public Cant is Public Auction and a term generally used in the 18th century.

From Dr. Caulfield extraction of notices in Cork Evening Post.

Cork Customs Personnel:

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