1749.  Sale by Public Cant of Lands at Maulmurreen, Parish of Killfahenabeg , Barony of East Carbery, Co. Cork in the Cause of Rev. Horatio Townsend Plaintiff and William Morris The Elder and William Morris The Younger, Defendants.

Re Townsend family, Colonel John Townsend in Australia has done a family history at the back there is a person and place index:

http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~townsend/tree/home.php

The Morris family owned the Benduff Slate Quarry in Rosscarbery and among the families they intermarried were the Evansons of Durrus.

12th November 1841

Nathaniel Evanson

Friendly Cove

77

Eldest daughter Catherine Beamish Evanson Morris d 1847 Summer Hill Cottage, 3rd son Nathaniel Esq. d 1849, Sea Lodge, Maria Townsend Evanson 3rd daughter died 13th September 1855

Southern Reporter and Cork Commercial Courier, Waterford Chronicle 27th November 1841,

 They may have been Quakers at one stage.

 

Pue’s Occurrences 18 February 1749