1899, Bantry, Funeral of Miss O’Connor, Wreaths From William Martin Murphy and Family, Buyer of Cleary and Co, Dublin, Attendance, Magistrates, John Daly, Barry O’Leary, John Cullinane, James Gilhooley Member of Westminster Parliament, James Manders (Butter Merchant), Doctor Thomas Popham, William Warner (Merchant), Thomas R. Hurst (Publican).

Miss O’Connor is probably of the Murphy O’Connor, family who had the ‘Dale Yard’ opposite the Maritime Hotel.  William Martin Murphy was a sleeping partner in the Company.  The attendance of M O’Keeffe, Schull and John Lyons are probably ancestors of Paddy O’Keeffe, Bantry Businessman and Historic who ran Lyons and Co. Murphy O’Connor and numerous other busisnesses i the 20th century.  Murphy and O’Conner.

One of the descendants of William Martin Murphy was a member of the Chance family who was working in Murphy and O’Connor in Bantry in the 20th century.  The Chance family paid for the medical education for Dr. Noel Browne.

William Martin Murphy, Bantry and the Noel Brown connection.

had the old mill building the present hotel.  This was a Young (Fish Merchant) and later Jagoe property.  John Jagoe, Merchant, Fisheries commissioner,  (mother Young of the Point) married Margaret o’Connor and in the Landed Estates Sale of the 1850s a small Jagoe/O’Connor estate came up for sale.

The Copithorns had a mill at the site of the present library.  Manders adn Warner had one of the most modern butter factories in Ireladn.  Thomas Hurst descends from a Coastguard and he married into the Durrus Shannon, Clashadoo,  family.  He had a pub now the present Bank of Ireland and extensive property.  That pub featured prominently i the evidence of Cadogan convicted of the 1900 murder of Land Agent Bird in his office over Warners’s Stores. His son a Naval Surgeon was lost in WW2 in HMS Hood.

F.W. Biggs (Probably GW) was a merchant from Bandon who set up in Bantry and his business was later taken over by Paddy ‘Keeffe.  HIs mills were burned down by the Black and Tans.

George William (GW) Biggs, 1912, Ardnageena, Bantry, Methodist native Bandon Merchant business taken over by Paddy O’Keeffe, listed  1922, Black and Tans burned his stores for employing ‘Sinn Féiners’ 1920, £25,000 of damage, same time burned Bantry Estate Office.

 

Magistrates:

 

Henry Cullinane, 1893, Main St., Skibbereen, listed 1913, listed 1916.  Attending listed as ‘John’ funeral Bantry 1899 of Miss O’Connor of merchant family, listed 1921.

 

James Daly, 1893, Maughbeg, Bandon, Attending funeral Bantry 1899 of Miss O’Connor of merchant family, listed 1921.

 

James Gilhooley (1847-, Pre 1910, Main St., Bantry, son Peter born Bantry, MP for West Cork since 1885, imprisoned five times, member Bantry RDC, County Council 1910, m Mary d Jeremiah Collins, Kilbarry, Dunmanway, 5 children. Attending funeral Bantry 1899 of Miss O’Connor of merchant family, listed 1921.