1762, Will of Samuel Doherty, Coolnaconnaght. Parish of Kilmeen, Clonakilty, Executor Samuel Doherty could not sign having been blinded by Smallpox.  Other Doherty Wills.  Shinnach (Smallpox)

Looking at the wording there may have been two Samuel Dohertys

These wills were copied by Welply.  They may be of the Bandon Doherty Legal and estate management family associated with Wheelers.  They ended up de facto owning the Bandon (Bernard) Estate by late 19th century by mortgage.  The Estate records were acquired from the family by Cork Librarian Padraig Ó Máidin (Paddy Madden) c 1970 and are now in the Cork Archives.

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Other Doherty Wills

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Bandon Dohertys Lawyers:

1807,1816, 1818, 1824, 1825, 1828, 1839, 1851	Edward Doherty	Attorney and Solicitor in the Four Courts and Master extra in Chancery and Town Clerk, Commissioner of Affadavits 1835 CH. Seneschal of Castlemahon/Castlebernard	South Main St. Other names Treselian Balinadee Robert will of 1787, Thomas Biggs the younger, John Sloan may have been a writing clerk. 1851 sale of ware estate. Committee member Bandon Navigation Scheme 1842. Managing Committee Bandon Brunswick Constitutional Club 1828.	Memorial 483753, married Christchurch to Sarah 3rd daughter of John Wheeler Esq., Bandon, deceased.	May be in Kings Inns admissions 1805, 3rd son James Cork, merchant, decd. Mary Gillman, over 16 ed Cork, Attorney Exchequer 1811.	Slater Directory 1824, 1835 Pettigrew and Oulart Directory
1831	Edward James Doherty	Kings Inns	1st son Edward, Dublin, Sarah Wheeler, over 16 ed Bandon affadavit father
1876	J.Doherty	Solicitor	Subscriber Dr. Daniel Donovan ‘History of Carbery, 1876.
1818-1883, 1835	Richard Wheeler Doherty	Kings Inns, Solicitor 1842, Law Agent. for Conservatives, Bandon. Magistrate. Business agent. Land Agent Earl of Bandon and Bishop of Tuam (Bernard connection)	2nd son Edward, attorney, Bandon, Sarah Wheeler, ed Bandon affadavit father	Richard Wheeler Doherty (1818-1883), Oak Villa, Bandon, son Edward, solicitor, Sarah Wheeler, m Martha Wheeler, Innishannon d Richard, Merchant, agent Bandon, Bishop of Tuam and other estates, solicitor, firms papers now in Cork Archive.	Will £8,170,. 1883
Post 1870	Richard Wheeler Doherty	Solicitor	Oak Villa, Bandon, father Richard solicitor, m Martha Wheeler, d Richard, Merchant, agent Bandon, Bishop of Tuam and other estates, solicitor, firms papers now in Cork Archive. M 1881 Elizabeth Maria Ann Biggs, he died 1922 Penzance, Cornwall	1906 consortium Richard Wheeler Doherty, Solicitor, Bandon, John Walsh, businessman, director Allmans Distillery, Bandon, Hugo Flinn, Fish buyer, Cork, Jasper Travers Woulfe, solicitor, Skibbereen, took over Skibbereen Eagle on death of previous owner

Small Pox:

1835, The Cow-Pock Institution, Inoculation in Clonakilty 1822, Rooska, Bantry, Pit with Small Pox Victims, Old Practice of Shinnack, 50 Years before Jenner.

The Reverend John Richardson, Rector of Belturbet, Co. Cavan, author of ‘The Great Folly, Superstition and idolatry of Pilgrimages in Ireland, Especially of that to St. Patrick’s Purgatory, together With an Account of the Loss that the public Sustaineth thereby, truly and impartially Represented his account at Ballyvourney, Co. Cork, 1727 of 13th century wooden statue of St. Gobnait (Patroness of Bee Keepers) as an antidote to small pox being kept by the O’Herlihys.

1822, Dr William Folliott, Clonakilty, County Cork, to Chief Secretary’s Office, Dublin Castle, making case for increase of vaccination against small pox in District Edward Hunt, Kinsale, 1822, observes that many Magistrates are uneducated men ‘who in many instances are Tythe Proctors and in most instances are as Middlemen the cruelest and most unrelenting oppressors of the unfortunate tenantry under them’

1748, Thomas Trendle (Trender?), Skibbereen escaped Convict en route to Cork Gaol, Marked with Small Pox, Wig, Description of Clothing, Reward £5 from William Hull, Skibbereen, Ship Masters Notified.

Clais na Bolainghe (Clashnabullagee), Small Pox Trench/Pit, containing remains of those who died of Small Pox, identified in 1842 Ordnance Survey Orthography, 1842, Townland of Rooska adjoining Bantry Bay.

Doctor Barry, 1800, on ‘Shinach’ (Small Pox) and practice in Cork of inoculation with Cow Pox 50 years before Dr Jenner’s vaccination and late 18th century inoculations by Mr. Goodwin, Bantry, West Cork.

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