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Schull East Church of Ireland Baptisms 1828-1867
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Schull East 1828-1867 Church of Ireland Births
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07 Saturday Apr 2018
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Schull East Church of Ireland Baptisms 1828-1867
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Schull East 1828-1867 Church of Ireland Births
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07 Saturday Apr 2018
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Report of James O’Sullivan, Berehaven on French Invasion, Bantry Bay, 2nd January 1797.
Imagined Landing of the French in Bantry Bay 1796 from the London Printing and Publishing Company
Cartoon from Bond Street, London January 1797 on Destruction of French Armada at Bantry Bay.
06 Friday Apr 2018
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Records of Catholic Population, Kinsale at Carmelite Friary 1843-1874
Dr. Edward McLysaght Analecta Hibernia, No. 14, 1944, Transcriptions, Conor Papers, Herbert papers, Manch, Kinsale Corporation from 1594.
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05 Thursday Apr 2018
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Swanton was a member of a family involved in milling, mining, business one of the partners was McNamara. After many of the local estates were sold off in the 1850s by the Landed estates Court the Swantons bought a considerable amount of land, later to be bought by the Land Commission and title give to tenants c 1905. The Swantons retired to Dublin to Carrisbrook House, Ballsbridge.
James Hutchinson Swanton, 1815 – 1891, son of William Swanton, Ballydehob and Hanna Hutchinson, Clonee, Durrus. Her father, Hugh Hutchinson, landlord and Margaret O’Sullivan, Ballagahadown between Caheragh and Drimoleague. She is probably sister to Eugene O’Sullivan, Gent, middleman on a number of estates including Dunmanway Shouldham Estate. He is a church warden, Drimoleague c 1790. The Hutchinson major property owners in Bantry since at least mid 17th century. Not to be confused with Bantry Hutchins family. Slowly lands including Blackrock House now…
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04 Wednesday Apr 2018
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Dr. Edward McLysaght Analecta Hibernia, No. 14, 1944, Transcriptions, Conor Papers, Manch, Kinsale Corporation from 1594
Query: I wonder what happened to the Dodgin family – Interesting name which pops up around Bandon a good bit in the 1700s
1688, Jurors, Inquisition, Ballinspittle. Initiated by Mary de Courcy, Lady Kinsale, Widow of Patrick, to Recover, Dower, Jurors:
John Cloghlan (Couglan?)
John How
Thomas Dodgin
Arminger Marsh
John Burrows
Edmund Kenny
Tomas Hewett
William Sweete
Benjamin Bellew
Edward Rashly
Dominic Brown
John Fepps
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| Converted: Thomas Grady | 1723/4 | Possibly Co. Limerick but related by marriage to De Courseys of Kinsale | Councillor O’Callaghan opinion sought wife Ann Horish and brothers Catholic | ( McLysaght Analecta Hibernia, No. 14, 1944, Transcriptions, Conor Papers, Manch, Kinsale Corporation from 1594.) | Certificate 26th June 1779, Rev. St. John Browne, Rector Christ Church, Bandon to certify that on the 28th March 1751 a marriage between John Grady, KIlballyowen adn the Hon. Mary Elizabeth de Courcy, daughter of Gerald Lord KInsale, was performed in the Parish Church of Ringrone according to the rites of the Church of Ireland by Rev. St. John Browne, Rector Christ Church, Bandon |
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04 Wednesday Apr 2018
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From Dr. Edward McLysaght Analecta Hibernia, No. 14, 1944, Transcriptions, Conor Papers, Manch, Kinsale Corporation from 1594.
The Hedges were intermarried with the Eyres and Whites of Bantry. Somewhere along the line they married O’Sullivans reputedly of the O’Sullivan Bere line.
The Hollow Blade Company were a group of London Merchant using a shell company to finance the wars of the Parliament of England agains the King of England. They were partly repaid in Irish land Bonds of the confiscated estates in west cork of O’Sullivan, Mccarthy, adn O’Leary.
The Hollow Sword Blades Company was set up in England in 1691 to make sword blades. In 1703 the company purchased some of the Irish estates forfeited under the Williamite settlement in counties Mayo, Sligo, Galway, and Roscommon. They also bought the forfeited estates of the Earl of Clancarty in counties Cork and Kerry and of Sir Patrick Trant in counties Kerry, Limerick, Kildare, Dublin, King and Queen’s counties (Offaly and Laois). Further lands in counties Limerick, Tipperary, Cork and other counties, formerly the estate of James II were also purchased, also part of the estate of Lord Cahir in county Tipperary. In June 1703 the company bought a large estate in county Cork, confiscated from a number of attainted persons and other lands in counties Waterford and Clare. However within about 10 years the company had sold most of its Irish estates.
The Bank of England charter was due to expire in 1710, and they were concerned to arrange its renewal. Others, however, continued to lobby parliament not to do so, and a new syndicate had formed, offering to take on funding of the latest loan required by government. The Bank responded by dropping its interest rate to underbid the competition, and succeeded in renewing its charter until 1732, with more strictly drawn terms to prevent others operating as banks.
Further complications faced the Sword Blade company, as title to land in Ireland began to be disputed by relatives of dispossessed Jacobites and others claiming to have bought from the initial beneficiaries of the first cancelled land distribution. The matter was settled by an act of parliament in 1708 setting a time limit on further claims, but by then the company stock had fallen to £55 per nominal £100 issued. As some consolation, pressure was also mounting on the Bank of England from an increasingly distressed government seeking new ways to raise money.[7]
Sometime in the early 18th century the company imploded adn their land bank was sold at knock down prices. This formed the basis of a number of estates including that of the Bernards of Bandon (later Earl of Bandon).
McCarthys of Muskerry. In 1786 Wilson describes Blarney as the “very fine seat, with ample and beautiful demesnes, of Mr. Jeffreys”. Lewis wrote in 1837 that Blarney Castle was purchased in 1701 by Sir James Jefferyes, Governor of Cork [from the Hollow Sword Blades Company] ..
The Hollow Blade Company of London and Land in Reendonegan, Bantry, Co. Cork 1710

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Richard Hedges, 1706. Macroom. Appointed receiver of rents 1706 for Co. Cork and Kerry, Hollow Sword Blade Company London, bond for £4,000 posted by William Hedges, London. overseer Macroom Bridge 1708 paid £80 for works. 1712 Execution granted to Ann Nettles executrix of Robert Nettles by Richard Browne and Richard Hedges against Popish inhabitants Godfrye and Keadgh Leary (probable ancestor of outlaw and Captain Hungarian Hussars, Art Ó Laoighre) for £160.
Robert Hedges, 1794, Mount Hedges. Member Hanover Association meeting Cork 1791 re Whiteboys.
Hon. H. White Hedge (may be Hedge White) The Castle Macroom. Deputy Lieutenant 1832. Supporting Alexander O’Driscoll, J.P. suspended, Bandon 1841.
02 Monday Apr 2018
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Dr. Miriam Moffitt, Church of Ireland, courtesy Susan Martin.
Enclose details of Henry Lavellin Puxley and other family members Magistrates. The reconstruction of his Dunboy castle has stalled. The Lavellan part of the name is an old Norman family from Carrigaline some of whom converted.
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Henry Puxley TCD (1741-1803), 1763, Bantry, son of John Puxley, Customs Official killed by O’Sullivan, dispute over seizure. Barrister 1764. Freeman of Cork 1768. Married Sarah Lavelllin, Carragaline, 1771. Listed supporter of Act of Union, 1799
Henry Lavellin Puxley (1835-1909), M.A. (Oxon), 1860, Dunboy Castle, Castletownbere, Llangan Carmarthenshire, Non-Resident, £237, son of John Lavellin Puxley, who m 1830 Fanny Rosa Maria White, Bantry House returned as Sheriff for Cork County, 1863. Lavellins an old Cork Catholic Norman family who converted. Sara Lavellin, Carrigaline married Henry Puxley of Dunboy late 18th century. M Anna Adelind d Lieutenant Colonel Indian Army. Henry Lavallin Puxley began an extraordinary Gothic extension of Dunboy Castle (burned by IRA 1921) in 1866, but the works were cut somewhat short by the devastating impact of his wife’s death in 1872 at the age of only thirty-six. On this line the Puxleys are related to Timothy O’Donovan, J.P., O’Donovan’s Cove, Durrus. In 1870s had over 7,000 acres. Probate in London Irish estate £2,251 to Herbert H.L. Puxley and Frank L. Puxley, buried Hove, East Sussex. Land record, 1870, 9,158 acres.
John Puxley, 1752, Beerhaven, probably killed by O’Sullivan 1754 dispute over smuggling he being in Excise. Son Henry TCD, 1757 aged 19. Erected by the brothers Henry and John Puxley in the late 1730s, their new residence was initially called Puxley Castle. But in time it acquired a more illustrious name, since it lay “within two hundred yards of the ruins of the celebrated Dunboy Castle,” indelibly remembered as the site of “the prolonged siege of its chieftain Their descendant Henry Lavallin Puxley began an extraordinary Gothic extension of Dunboy Castle (burned by IRA 1921) in 1866, but the works were cut somewhat short by the devastating impact of his wife’s death in 1872 at the age of only thirty-six.
John Lavellin Puxley TCD (1772-1856), Dunboy, Allihies, Copper Mining Magnate. Member Hanover Association meeting Cork 1791 re Whiteboys. Freeman of Cork. Pre 1830. Voted in 1812 Cork election for Hutchinson and Longfield. Member 1832 Cork Friendly Club. Signed public declaration in Skibbereen to Alexander O’Driscoll on his removal as Magistrate 1835 with Lord Bantry, Simon White, Arthur Hutchins, Thomas Baldwin, Samuel Townsend Junior and Senior, Thomas Somerville, Richard Townsend Senior, Rev. Alleyn Evanson, Timothy O’Donovan, Richard Townsend, Lyttleton Lyster. listed 1838, started mines in 1812 at peak employed 1,600 miners. M Sarah Hobbs, da Thomas Bantry. John Puxley, Berehaven qualified as Barrister 1797. Son of Timothy O’Donovan, J.P., Durrus, wife is grand daughter to Daniel O’Connell, the mother of Timothy O’Donovan’s wife was a Miss Lavellan, Co. Limerick, a daughter of Philip Lavellin of Water park in the County of Cork. Her sister was married to Mr. Puxley of Dunboy Branch?. The grandson the present Mr. Puxley is a man of immense wealth the principal owner of the famous Allihies Mines in the Barony of Bere
John Lavellin Puxley, 1830 (two of same name), m 1830 in Allihies Fanny Rosa Maria White, Bantry House parents of Henry Lavellin Puxley (1835-1909), J.P.. Attending Protestant Conservative Society meeting 1832. Listed 1835 at Kilbey.
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