Genealogy of Irish Swanton Family,  Mainly South West Cork Courtesy Louise Mary Swanton Chicago.

 

 

 

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The book details the extraordinary work done by Mrs. Swanton.  Records from various sources old newspaper extracts and apart from these Swantons it throws light on other families in West Cork.

 

 

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From Ginni Swanton.  This book was written by Louise May Swanton, Chicago in 1989. She married into the Swanton family and spent an incredible amount of time and energy researching he family.

At the conclusion of the Irish section Mrs.Swanton mentions the lack of Catholic records as she was not then able to access the relevant records.  Now through irishgenealogy these are the most accessible records in some cases for Cork from the late 18th century and free, online.  Apart from Catholic Swantons there are reference  to Protestant Swantons who stood in as sponsors or witnesses.   The Civil records are now available online from the same site.

 

 

 

 

Swanton Births 1826-1948, Ballydehob, Parish of Schull, West Cork

 

For Cork Catholic Swantons and Swantons who were sponsors or witnesses in Catholic ceremonies irishgenealogy.ie has a full free online listing.  You can also search the civil records free from 1865 for Catholics or 1845 for Protestants.

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Woulfe Family of West Cork , 1720-1998, 10 Generations

Courtesy Clarke family Canada 1999.

One the families most famous Descendants Danno Mahoney:

https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/6339

Danno Mahony, World Wrestling Champion, July 1936, Triumphal Homecoming to Ballydehob, West Cork with Brother and Sister, Undefeated after 154 Wrestling Matches, 800,000 Spectators, Gates of over $2 million.

https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/28750

Magistrate…

William Wood Wolfe (1871-1960), 1905, The Bridge, Skibbereen, eldest surviving son of William John (1836-1894), farmed 500 acres , shopkeeper, ed St. Faughnans, Rosscarbery, Methodist, agnostic in 1911 census later became Catholic, brother of Jasper Wolfe Crown His mother described his wife, a Catholic as a ‘low wretched barmaid Prosecutor later TD,  Skibbereen UDC, only Non-Catholic to chair UDC in 1910, listed 1913 at Snugville, Skibbereen, listed 1921.  Received IRA threats to withdraw just before Truce in July 1921.

1938

Doctor Sarah Wolfe

Medical Missionary of Skibbereen, West Cork and Chungsiang, Hupeh, China, on recovering from Illness contracted attending to wounded in Hankhow

1938, Doctor Sarah Wolfe, Medical Missionary of Skibbereen, West Cork and Chungsiang, Hupeh, China, on recovering from Illness comtracted attending to wounded in Hankhow

There were Woodroffes doctors in Cork

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			Type of deed	Date of current deed	3 Oct 1735	Vol	Page	Memorial
			Demise [Lease]	Date of earlier deed		87	503	62839
No	Role(s) in earlier deed(s)	Role in current deed(s)	Family name	Forename		Place	Occ or title	A
A		P1	EVANSON	Elizabeth	of	Four Mile Water [Durrus], Co Cork	Widow
B		P2	WOULFE	Thomas	of	City of Dublin	Merchant	A
C		O adj	EVANSON	Nathaniel	of		had adjoining land
D		O adj	WINSPEAR	Robert	of		had adjoining farm
E		WD	WOULFE	David	of	Four Mile Water [Durrus], Co Cork	Merchant
F		WD WM	GERAN	Michael	of	Four Mile Water [Durrus], Co Cork	Gent	A
G		WM	FLANAGAN	John	of	City of Dublin	Gent	A
Abstract	A leased to B, that part of the lands of Gearymine [Gearhameen, Durrus] called Rossavany, for 24 years
MS			Date registered	11Feb 1737		Date abstract added	20180730

Abstract made by: RonPrice

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1783 Cork City Elections.  Listing of Electors with Occupations including out of town County Freemen

 

 

 

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1702, Deed from Rev. John Patrickson, Chantor of Cloyne (Dunmanway Patricksons ancestors of Durrus Blairs) to Sir Richard Cox, Chief Justice of Ireland, of Lands at Dunmanway and Kilbarry, Coolsnagh, Coomshiplogh, Inchiragh, Derrynacahreagh, Cloontiuirk, Dereens, Tonetove, Derrylahan, Mills and Tolls, Park, Castle, Malthouse, bounded by Derrenasabagh, Gortnavan. Founding Deed of Dunmanway Names John Clay, John Turk, Thomas White, Mathew Rhems, William Short, John Farr, George Lantry, John Lumsie, George Stuke, Richard Nott, William Sisk, Thomas Roche, James Grace, William Smith George Moore Bounded by the Lanes of Mahonoh .

It is difficult to identify all the townlands and people’s names from the deed.  Some adjustment to the modern format is made. In the National Library in perfect condition on parchment.

The Dunmanway Patricksons are associated with the Blairs. Whites (later of Whiddy, Bantry), Fenwicks, Davies.  For some Blair Genealogy:

The Rev. John Patrickson is listed as a Magistrate 1695, 1716 at Cloyne.

 

Rev. John Patrickson TCD 1669, (1651-died 1718, Native Co. Down. Chantor of Ross, 1695. Chantor, Cloyne Cathedral.  Patricksons ancestors of Durrus Blairs. 1702, Deed from Rev. John Patrickson, Chantor of Cloyne (Dunmanway Patricksons ancestors of Durrus Blairs) to Sir Richard Cox, Chief Justice of Ireland, of Lands at Dunmanway and Kilbarry, Coolsnagh, Coomshiplogh, Inchiragh, Derrynacahreagh, Cloontiuirk, Dereens, Tonetove, Derrylahan, Mills and Tolls, Park, Castle, Malthouse,  bounded by Derrenasabagh, Gortnavan. Founding Deed of Dunmanway Names John Clay, John Turk, Thomas White, Mathew Rhems, William Short, John Farr, George Lantry, John Lumsie, George Stuke, Richard Nott, William Sisk, Thomas Roche, James Grace, William Smith George Moore Bounded by the Lanes of Mahonoh. The Dunmanway Patricksons are associated with the Blairs. The Whites (later of Whiddy, Bantry), Fenwicks, Davies. In a deed of 1713 William Blair of Dunmanway son of Elinor nee Patrickson (she is sister to Rev. John Patrickson, Chantor of Cloyne) appears.  Dr. Charles Webster, History of Ross Dioceses.  Also Vestry minutes in 1822 refer to the Patrickson monument from the previous building being installed in the new building. It reads as follows: “Here are deposited the bodyes of Rev. John Patrickson A.M. Chantor of the Cathedrals of Cloyne & Ross who dyed in his 73rd year of his age. 8 February 1717 and of Martha his Daughter by Frances daughter of Sir Eml. Moore Bart. And of Eliza his 2nd wife , daughter of Coll. Robert Phair who dyed 26th November 1717. And of William & Alexander their sons. This monument was erected by his nephew, William Blair Esq. Anno. Dom. 1722

For some Blair Genealogy:

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

William Blaire, Dunmanway appointed Justice of the Peace.   Ancestor of Blairs of Blairs Cove, Durrus intermarried with Whites of Bantry.  In business with Fenwicks of Dunmanway/Skibbereen and Macroom in land purchased from Hollow Blade Company.  This London Company financed the wars by the English Parliament culminating with the Battle of the Boyne and they were repaid in land bonds of forfeit Irish land.

In a deed of 1713 William Blair of Dunmanway son of Elinor nee Patrickson (she is sister to Rev. John Patrickson, Chantor of Cloyne) appears.  1719 married Sarah White of Whiddy Island.

Richard Blair, Bantry, Appointed Justice of the Peace, 8th October 1776

Richard Blair Senior b. c 1720, father William J.P., mother Sarah White 1700-, Whiddy Island of Bantry House family.  

1840, Ballygurteen (Dunmanway/Clonakilty), West Cork, Fairs 24th June, 25th July, 28th December, under a patent Granted to the Reverend Sir Michael Cox, Bart in the Reign of George 111 (1738-1820).

Mná chaointe (Keeners) at Church of Ireland and Methodist Funerals 18th and 19th Century, West Cork: Sir Richard Cox (1650-1733), Dunmanway, and Some Family Recollections by James Stanley Vickery in Australia 1829-1911, of Childhood in Moloch in Parish of Durrus, 1832-6.

Wills associated with the Stawell family, Kinsale, Co.Cork from the 1690s. The Stawells were a Landed family associated with the Kinsale area. Among names mentione , Travers, Bldwin, Crone, Aldworth, Allen, Cox, Hull, Spiller, Chudlegh, Keefe/O’Keeffe, Mills, Nagle, O’Riordan, Rice.

Gentleman’s Magazine 1749 on Sir Richard Cox and the development of the Linen Industry in Dunmanway, Co.Cork

The Dunmanway Cox estate ended up being sold in the Landed Estates Court in the 1850s

Cox Magistrates:

Alexander James Cox Esq., Dunmanway, sitting Dunmanway 1835.  Refusal to convict those accused of firing at Orange Parade in Dunmanway regarded as partisan.

George Cox, 1775, Dunmanway

Henry Cox, 1786 -pre 1826), Manor House, Dunmanway, Subscriber 1821 Dr Thomas Wood’s ‘Primitive Inhabitants of Ireland.  182l Joshua eldest son of late Henry Cox Esq, died of fever.

James Cox, 1733, Dunmanway, witness to Bandon deed 1734.  JP then Cork with Richard Cox, JP Cork in 1718 deed.

Richard Cox, 1699, Bandon.  Possibly JP then Cork with James Cox, JP Cork in 1718 deed.

Richard Cox, 1728, Dunmanway, died aged 65, at Dunmanway, Sir Richard Cox, Bart., MP for Clonakilty, succeeded by son Rev. Sir Michael, Bart.

  

Sir Richard Cox, 1757, Dunmanway. Subscriber James Simon Irish Coinage 1749.   On 1741, famine, 500 dead in his parish, ‘burying the dead used to be one of the most religious acts among the Irish is now a burden’.  The Papists thought they are bad members of this society are yet better than  none.  Sir Richard Cox of Ireland in the year of 1733, came to the possession of a large, fruitful but uncultivated tract of land, inhabited by a race of beggars, grown by habitual wretchedness so hardened that tho’, no sensible of the smart, they were not ashamed to prefer hunger and idleness to labour and competency. He therefore, directed his thoughts to remedy this evil; and wisely concluded that nothing but the establishment of a staple manufacture on the premises would answer the purpose.  For very sufficient reasons he chose the linen; and having procured a quantity of flax seed in 1735, prevailed with them to sow it and by dint of perseverance, and a series of admirable expedients to rectify his own mistakes, to render sloth infamous, to excite emulation, to increase his colony, if it may be so called, and to interest all the passions of those concerned in its success, he at last fixed it on such an establishment, as, if the same laws are observed, bids fair to to perpetual.   Already the little town has undergone a wonderful change; for whereas, in 1735, it contained at most but 50 houses, many of them only fit for beggars, it now contains 117 houses, whose inhabitants are fully employed and take pleasure in being so.   This is true patriotism and policy united; a sphere of ambition, that every gentleman may follow innocently; laudable, and profitably.   Sir Richard Cox introduced families from the North of Ireland to assist names such as McGivern (McGovern from Leitrim/Fermanagh), Maguire, Pattison and McMullan among others.   There is a praise-poem to Sir Richard Cox composed by the otherwise unknown poet Cormac Ó Luinín and transcribed in the hand of Charles O’Conor (1710-1790) in a manuscript held in the library of of Clonalis House, seat of the O’Conors, in Castlereagh, Co. Roscommon. A digital copy is held on the Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies website at ISO [Irish Script on Screen Project]

Cox, Richard, Sir., Dunmanway, succeeded by his son, Rev. Sir Michael – (CC 30/1/1766)

Thomas Cox, 1762, Dunmanway

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1864.  Survey of Baltimore and Sub Denomination Laherne, West Cork for The Right Honourable Lord Carbery, by J. Morris and R.T. Wolfe and Lord Carberys.  Earlier 1788 Survey Tenants in Clonakilty and other areas named.

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Earlier 1788 Survey Tenants in Clonakilty and other areas named. This book of maps is in the National Library, Manuscript Section.:

Survey of Ballycomane, (Irish: Baile an Chumáin, meaning ‘town of the little valley’), Durrus, Bantry, Co. Cork, 1788.

The coming of the McCarthys to Carbery, 1232 AD, Donogh Moyle (Leas-Ainm; Nickname) McCarthy, Phale, (Ballineen), Co. Cork Died 1630s Two Sons in Oxford. The lands referred to came into the possession of the Evans-Freke family (Lord Carbery).

Burke’s Peerage on Freke-Evans Family, Lord Carbery, Castlefreke, and Contrast with Bernards (Earls of Bandon) Co. Cork.

1818, Jails, Marshalseas, Bridewells, at Bandon, Bridgetown (Skibbereen), Clonakilty, Dunmanway, Rosscarbery, Co. Cork, under Jurisdiction of Recorders, Seneschals, Sheriffs, Sovereigns, Magistrates and Lord of Manor of Bridgetown.

Engraving George Evans Carbery, Castlefreke, Rosscarbery, Co. Cork, (died 1749), 1st Baron, Irish politician and peer, son of the Rt. Hon. George Evans of Caharas, M.P., and of Mary Eyre of Eyre-Court; over half length, to left, long hair, left hand on hip holding ermine cloak falling in front, coronet on table to right, with coat of arms; rectangular frame.

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Lord John Carbery (Evans-Freke) 6th Baron Carbery (1765-1845), 1821, Castle Freke, Rosscarbery.  Son of Sir John Freke, married 1783 Lady Catherine Charlotte Gore succeeded by nephew George Evans-Freke. MP Donegal and Baltimore. 1817 Chairing Cork Committee of Linen production an encouraging local development.   1821 writing to Chief Secretary re disaffection, Castlefreke, Clonakilty, sitting Rosscarbery, 1835. 1822 Lord Lieutenant sends £500 for local distress. 1822 Cork Trustee for The Encouraging Industry in Ireland.  Protestant protest meeting Cork 1834.   Reputed to have bell rung in London church on hearing of death of Father John Power, Parish priest Kilmacabea.  Subscriber 1821 Dr Thomas Wood’s ‘Primitive Inhabitants of Ireland. Present at enquiry Skibbereen 1823 into enquiry into fatal affray at Castlehaven caused by Rev. Morritt’s tithe extraction. – 1823 Blamed notorious tithe extractor Rev. Morritt for fatal affray at Castlehaven, welcomed Petty Session Courts and urged abolition of Manor Courts.  Subscriber Lewis Topographical Dictionary of Ireland  1837.  listed 1843.  Lord of Manor appointing Seneschals.  Member Commission on Magistrates 1838.  Member provisional Committee projected Bandon to Bantry Railway 1845.  His life size statue in Rosscarbery Cathedral has an inscription how he founded schools in various parts of his estates, clothed the surrounding hills with trees and improved agriculture and the amelioration of his countrymen’.  Carberys intermarried with O’Driscoll family.   Left estate valued at £90,000. Left rental of estates for life to his wife.  On his death he directed that the principal family seat and residence should be Castle and that his inheritor should reside there at least four months in the year.  If the inheritor was to become Roman Catholic, the interest in the estate would cease and go to the next in line provided such party was protestant.

Right Honourable Lord Carbery, Castlefreke, Clonakilty, subscriber 1861 to Smith’s History of Cork.  1864.  Survey of Baltimore and Sub Denomination Laherne, West Cork for The Right Honourable Lord Carbery, by J. Morris and R.T. Wolfe.

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