Arthur Hutchins, Landlord and Magistrate, Ardnagashel, Bantry married 1802, Matilda O’Donnell, Erris, Co.Mayo, descendant of Niall of the Nine Hostages, West Cork Crowley, Descendants of Niall of the Nine Hostages

This branch of the O’Donnells moved from Donegal to North Mayo. By mid 18th century they were affluent due to smuggling. At that stage they purchased a landed estate in North West Mayo and converted to the Church of Ireland. A number of the sons were officers in the Mayo Militia and served in the Bantry area after the attempted French Invasion of Bantry Bay 1796.

Burkes Peerage:

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Arthur Hutchins,  Ardnagashel. Visited by reformer  Sir Francis Burdett 1817. Listed 1823. Present at enquiry Skibbereen 1823 into enquiry into fatal affray at Castlehaven caused by Rev. Morritt’s tithe extraction.  Notified as Magistrate of Catholic meeting in Bantry re loyalty to King 1825.  Litigation. Signed public declaration to Alexander O’Driscoll on his removal as Magistrate 1835 with Lord Bantry, Simon White, John Puxley, Thomas Baldwin, Samuel Townsend Junior and Senior, Hugh Lawton, Thomas Somerville, Richard Townsend Senior, Rev. Alleyn Evanson, Timothy O’Donovan, Richard Townsend, Lyttleton Lyster.   1824. Letter from Anthony (probably Arthur) Hutchins, magistrate, Ardnagashel, near Bantry, County Cork, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary of Ireland, Irish Office, Westminster, London, offering observations on causes of instability in Irish society. Concludes the upper classes have failed in their responsibilities to the lower orders, providing neither a fair measure of justice nor general employment; in such circumstances there is ‘still the strongest necessity for continuing the Insurrection Act’. Traces much of social disquiet to factors such as corrupt use of public money in grand jury presentments and to an unfair administration of the law in tithe cases; advocates that legal consideration of tithe cases be conducted by assistant barristers at general sessions rather than by local magistrates. Observes should modification be made to the tithe or to status of church property ‘it will probably tend to the decline of the Protestant Religion in Ireland’. Offers assistance to the government on necessary measures to bring stability to Irish society.

Two letters from Dr George A Borthwick, Forres Street, Edinburgh [Scotland], to Sir Francis Leveson Gower, [Chief Secretary], and William Gregory, [Under Secretary, Dublin Castle], complaining about the inadequacy of Irish law and detailing his suit against Mr Arthur Hutchins, magistrate, Adnagashel, County Cork over land from Borthwick’s grandmother Mrs Alleyn, providing copy letter from his solicitor John Drew Atkin, Dublin, affidavit by James Lomasney, [bailiff], which further mentions Borthwick’s co-plaintiff Anthony Pack, [bailiffs] John McCarthy and John White, [Hutchins’s employee] John Peddle, Mr Ashe and Henry Milward, magistrates, showing that a writ of outlawry to Hutchins was violently prevented from being served. Also includes letter from [William] Kemmis, [crown solicitor], Kildare Street, [Dublin], confirming the details of the case, and an annotation by Richard W Greene, [legal advisor, Dublin], advising on further procedure.

Crowleys:

They are a branch of the Roscommon McDermotts, i the early fiant of the English Queen Elizabeth they are often referred to as McDemot wiht Crua Laoich (tough warrior0 used as nicknmae after a period the McSermot is dropped.

Harvard Professor Gates Is Half-Irish, Related to Cop Who Arrested Him

Two men at the center of the controversy are linked by their Irish heritage.

ByNIALL O’DOWD <br> <a href=”http://www.irishcentral.com”>IrishCentral.com</a&gt; Publisher28 July 2009, 21:284 min read

July 28, 2009— — Henry Louis Gates Jr., the black professor at the center of the racial story involving his arrest outside his Harvard University-owned house, has spoken proudly of his Irish roots.

Strangely enough, he and the Cambridge, Mass., police officer who arrested him, Sgt. James Crowley, both trace their ancestry back to the legendary Niall of the Nine Hostages.

In a PBS series on African-American ancestry that he hosted in 2008, Gates discovered his Irish roots when he found he was descended from an Irish immigrant and a slave girl.

He went to Trinity College in Dublin to have his DNA analyzed. There he found that he shared 10 of the 11 DNA matches with offspring of Niall of the Nine Hostages, the fourth century warlord who created one of the dominant strains of Irish genealogy because he had so many offspring.

Ironically, James Crowley, whose name in Gaelic means “hardy warrior,” is also descended from the same line as Gates, having very close links to Niall of the Nine Hostages.

So the two men who took part in what is now an infamous confrontation outside the Gates home near Harvard this month are actually related through common Irish lineage — one of the more extraordinary aspects of the incident that has sparked worldwide headlines.

Gates is one of many famous African-Americans with Irish heritage, including President Barack Obama and award-winning author Alice Walker.

On the PBS series, Gates visits Trinity College to find his roots, and says to the genealogist, “Do I look like an Irishman to you? I’m here to find my roots. I’ve been looking all over Africa and I couldn’t find anybody, so I ended up here.

“I’m descended from a white man, he says. “A white man who slept with a black slave. And we know from the analysis of my DNA that … goes back to Ireland. So maybe you can help me.”

When the genealogist tells him he does indeed have Irish links, Gates says, “I find this oddly moving. It is astonishing,” he says, “that I have a kinship with someone (Niall of the Nine Hostages) dating back to the fourth century A.D.”

Irish American Descendants

Millions of Irish Americans, especially those in New York, may be directly descended, like Gates, from Niall of the Nine Hostages, the most prolific warrior in Irish history.

A team of geneticists at Trinity College led by professor Dan Bradley have discovered that as many as 3 million men worldwide may be descendents of the Irish warlord, who was the Irish “High King” at Tara, the ancient center of Ireland from A.D. 379 to A.D. 405.

The story of Niall of the Nine Hostages is already the stuff of legend, which has been passed on to countless Irish schoolchildren over the years.

The supposedly fearless leader battled the English, the Scots, the French and even the Romans, and struck fear into the heart of his enemies. His dynasty lasted for centuries, continuing up until the Elizabethan conquest of Ireland at the end of the 16th century.

Legend has it that it was Niall of the Nine Hostages who, on a raid in Wales, captured a young slave and brought him to Ireland. That slave would later escape, and go to become Ireland’s patron saint, St. Patrick.

But one story not told to most Irish elementary schoolchildren was of Niall’s prolificacy.

When it came to the bedroom, it seems that Niall of the Nine Hostages was even more fearless and energetic than he was on the battlefield.

This warlord was responsible for the very common Irish surname “O’Neill” — which means “descendant son of Niall.” It is also the name of Irish pubs all over the world.

The researchers also found that as many as one in 12 men in Ireland have the same DNA as the Irish king — and in Ireland’s northwest, that figure rises to one in five.

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Ireland was on e of the first countries in Europe to largely eradicate smallpox due to the dedication of Dispensary Doctors, a poorly paid and over worked profession.

1871, Meeting Courthouse, Durrus, Patrick’s Day re Alarming Spread of Smallpox

Chaired by Father O’Flynn, P.P., Durrus.

Michael Hungerford Morris, Eq., J.P. Friendly Cove

William Morris, Esq.,

Dr. Thomas Henry Sandiford, M.D., Dispensary Doctor

John Vickery, Poor Law, Guardian, Ballycomane

Charles Dukelow, Poor Law Guardian

George Rollins, Rossmore, Slate Quarry Owner

John Moss, Contractor

James Philips, Owner Bandon Arms Hotel, Durrus

W. Dukelow

W. Mills

Richard Tobin, Businessman, probably grandson ‘King’ Tobin, Kilcrohane

John Sullivan, probably shop owner

Pat Heffernan

Jeremiah O’Brien

Cornelius Donovan 

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1871 Western Tenantry Entertained by Lord Bandon on coming of age of Lord Bernard, at Durrus Court (Gearhameen).  Dinner provided by James Philips of Durrus and Mrs. Fitzgerald, Cork.

Among those present

Earl of Bantry

Captain Whitman

Colonel Aldworth

Rev. John Triphook, Schull

Rev. W. Fisher, Teampall na mBochht, Goleen

William S. Tisdall

William Morris

Michael Hungerford Morris, J.P., Evanson descendant, Friendly Cove.

Rev. W. Dulea, later Parish Priest Durrus.

Rev. R. Noble

Rev Hicks

Rev. Pratt, Durrus

Dr. Thomas Henry Sandiford, M.D., Dispensary Doctor

Captain Thomas, Mine Owner

Mr. Andrews

Lady Mary Aldworth nee Bernard, Bandon

Lady Elizabeth white

Lady Ina White

Lady Jane White

Lady Adelaide and Cathleen Bernard, Bandon

Miss whitmore

Mrs Fisher

Mrs. Noble

Mrs. Pratt, nee Murphy, Newtown, Bantry

Mrs Payne, probably wife of Somers Payne agent Lord Bantry

Mrs Tisdall, may be nee Murphy Newtown, Bantry

Mrs M. Morris

Miss Bessy Morris

Mrs. Sandiford

Mrs. Hicks

Toasts to :’Her Majesty the Queen’, ‘The Prince and Princes of Wales’, and the Royal Family

‘The Lord Lieutenant and Prosperity to Ireland’, ‘Army Navy and Reserve Forces’

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, Wes

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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.

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Ross Cathedral Records: included are details of the three young Griffith girls who died by small pox in 1717.

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.

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’

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

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Samuel Doherty, Coolnaconnaught, Kilmeen.

Blinded by small pox.

Myles Dungan:

https://mylesdungan.com/tag/smallpox/

The disease inspired particular dread in Ireland where smallpox and its ugly sisters, cholera, typhoid and dysentery made themselves at home for hundreds of years and exploited extreme poverty and ignorance to devastating effect. The symptoms of the disease were high fever, headache, pain in the back and muscles. Children might also experience vomiting and convulsions.

If you didn’t die of smallpox in 18^th and 19^th century Ireland you probably went blind. The next time you hear the music of the great harpist Turlough O’Carolan from Nobber in County Meath think of smallpox. It blinded him at the age of eighteen in 1688 making him virtually useless for any occupation until he developed a talent as a harpist and a facility for musical composition. Many other itinerant harpists had been similarly afflicted.

The disease, which was highly contagious and infectious, is believed to have caused about one fifth of all deaths in the city of Dublin between 1661 and 1746. About a third of all child deaths were probably caused by smallpox. Although it mainly afflicted the poor it was no respecter of rank. The children of the rich could die of the disease just as quickly as those closer to the breadline.

Hope emerged towards the beginning of the 18^th century when the efficacy of inoculation started to become apparent. Inoculating people with small doses of the virus had apparently been practiced in China since the 10^th century but didn’t really begin to make inroads in Europe for almost another eight hundred years. In Ireland the technique was first tried on a number of, presumably unwilling, prisoners in Cork Jail in 1721. Four years later the experiment was extended to five children in Dublin.

As the effectiveness became clear the better off began to use inoculation to protect themselves and their children.  During periodic epidemics in the mid to late 18^th centuries the survival rate among the wealthy families who had engaged in the practice encouraged its more widespread use. The South Infirmary in Cork even initiated a programme to inoculate the poor.

Naturally where there was money to be made there were charlatans. Travelling inoculators with a very basic grasp, if any, of what they were doing, competed for trade. In Donegal in 1781 all but one child of a group of fifty-two died when one unqualified practitioner purported to inoculate them.

Whatever inroads were being made in Ireland against the disease came to virtually nothing with the onset of the Great Famine of the 1840s when smallpox returned with a grim vengeance. Even for sufferers who survived the recovery period of the disease ensured that many were pauperised and died anyway with breadwinners unable to work.

It was only from the 1880s onwards that the disease began to be more rapidly eradicated in Ireland. In the 1870s more than seven and a half thousand people died of smallpox. By the first decade of the 20^th century that figure was down to sixty-five. Between 1901 and 1910 almost a million Irish people were vaccinated against the disease.

The Hutchinson family were c 1700 extensive landowners in the greater Bantry area. The house at Blackrock is the nucleus of the present Bantry House. Their immediate Bantry estate was acquired over a period by Richard White in the early 18th century and was the basis for the Bantry/White Estate. They were left with residual townlands in the Durrus/Bantry area.

Nowadays there is virtually no local knowledge of the families existence.However given that there were large families there are probably many in Ireland and worldwide who may be able to trace their descent to the Hutchinsons.

The family is not to be confused with the Hutchins who are in various locations around Bantry Bay. Sometimes both families appear in deeds but they are not related.

The drop in fortunes seems to have commenced with the disposal of Richard White and culminated with the seal of the estate with large debts in the encumbered  Estates Court in 1854. The sale was described as resulting in the death of Arthur Hutchinson with no known heirs. This is not true. His brother William was living in Bantry and was involved some time later in an altercation with Captain O’Flaherty, the owner  of the mining lease of former family lands.

As late as 1804 when Hugh Hutchinson made his will he appeared to have £7,000 to leave to his extensive family.   There were minerals discovered at various locations on the estate and while great hope was projected the mines came to nothing.

The first Ordnance Survey Map shows Clonee, Durrus an area associated with the family. Various wooded areas show it is possible that part of the planting was done in contemplation on the building of a house.

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Some Townlands Durrus/Bantry area included in Hutchinson Estate:

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It is likely in the 18th century that the family had a substantial house and building after Blackrock was sold to the Whites but location unknown.  Perhaps when some of the 8 million Land Commission records stored in a warehouse see the light of day the picture may become clearer.

Enclosed below are extracts from various deeds, many of which have been transcribed by Ron Price.

Hutchinsons:

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Keady O’Donovan, Gent., Rosnacaheagh, Ahakista and Pilchard Point, Bantry, deeds of 1805 of Skibbereen town property, 1811 Skahanagh (Mealagh Valley), Bantry. Will 1829.

The people who appears in the deeds such as the Shannons of Durrus are affluent, contractors and in the 1790s advancing money to local impecunious landlords.

The Bantry Birs adre long esatablished fish merchant suggesting wiht the address Pilchad Pointsome marine involvment as seel as the 1802 store in Skibbereen.

Only a small fraction of the

The transcription of memorials is starting to throw up people of significance in the late 18th and early 19th century in West Cork who up to now have been hidden

Registry of Deeds Project, search by surname:

Interestingly here Keady O’Donovan is described as Gent., with various addresses. It is possibly that the Richard O’Donovan who died in 1795 at Pilchard Point, Bantry is his father.

Keady O’Donovan, Gent.

Other addresses are Rosnacaheragh the home of Richard O’Donovan, who build the house a O’Donovan Cove and whose three sons Timothy, Richard and Doctor Daniel were all landlords adn magistrates. It is possibly they were cousins of Keady. They look like they have a common place of origins at Ballaghadown, Caheragh/Drimoleague.

Extended O’Donovan family:

That O’Donovan family was sufficiently affluent to enable Richard to attend the University of Toulouse in France in the 1750s. Later Daniel O’Donovan in about 1820 qualified as a physician in Edinburgh.

O’Donovan Wills

1766, Denis Donovan, Cahergall, Kilcrohane, 1766.

1829, Keady O’Donovan, Ross Kearagh (Rosnacaheragh), Kilcrohane.

1795, Richard O’Donovan, Gent., Pilchard’s Point (O’Donovan’s Cove? Or Bantry), 1795.

1826, Richard O’Donovan, O’Donovan’s Cove, Durrus. 

1752, Timothy (O’) Donovan, Ballyhadown (Caheragh) ancestor of Cove/Fort Lodge family, not clear if one or two in grants.

1843, Timothy O’Donovan, Ardahill, Kilcrohane.

1844, Timothy O’Donovan, Ardahill, Kilcrohane.

Keady O’Donovan, Ross Kearagh (Rosnacaheragh) d 1829, Prerogative Court.

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			Type of deed	Date of current deed	27 May 1802	Vol	Page	Memorial
			Rent Charge	Date of earlier deed		550	303	364897
No	Role(s) in earlier deed(s)	Role in current deed(s)	Family name	Forename		Place	Occ or title	A
A		P1	REYCROFT[ROYCROFT]	Francis	of	Breenymoor [Breeny More, Bantry], Co Cork	Esq
B		P1	REYCROFT[ROYCROFT]	Francis	of	Breenymoor [Breeny More, Bantry], Co Cork	Esq
C		P2	O’DONOVAN	Keady[?]	of	[illegible], Co Cork		A
D		WD	MCCARTHY	Daniel	of	Beach [Bantry], Co Cork	Rev; Clerke
E		WD WM	MCCARTHY	Jeremiah	of	Skibbereen, Co Cork	Gent	A
F		WM	MCENERY	Gerald	of	Skibbereen, Co Cork	Gent	A
Abstract	A & B granted B, a rent charge out of the lands of [illegible], Parish of Kilmocomogue, Co Cork.
MS			Date registered	13 Nov 1802		Date abstract added	20190913

Memorial faded:

			Type of deed	Date of current deed	29 Jan 1811	Vol	Page	Memorial
			Sale	Date of earlier deed		627	467	434141
No	Role(s) in earlier deed(s)	Role in current deed(s)	Family name	Forename		Place	Occ or title	A
A	P2, P1	P1	SULLIVAN	Jeremiah	of	Skibbereen, Co Cork	Shopkeeper
B		P2	BILKS	John	of	Skibbereen, Co Cork	Glazier	A
C	P1		DONOVAN	Keady	of	Pit..?..ers[Pilchard?] Point, Parish of Kilmocomogue, Co Cork	Gent
D		O prev	CLAYTON	James	of	Skibbereen, Co Cork	Mason; theretofore tenanted a hous in Skibbereen, Co Cork
E	P2		COLLINS	Daniel	of		farmer; had been granted a lease of a house in Skibbereen, Co Cork
F		WD WM	HUMPHREY	John	of	Bridgetown [Skibbereen], Co Cork	Writing Clark	A
G		WD WM	MAHONY	James	of	Bridgetown [Skibbereen], Co Cork	Gent	A
H		WD	LEARY	Henry	of	Derrigrea [Derrigra, Ballineen], Co Cork	farmer
Abstract	A sold to B, a lease of property in Skibbereen, Co Cork
MS			Date registered	6 Feb 1811		Date abstract added	20200203

			Type of deed	Date of current deed	21 Feb 1811	Vol	Page	Memorial
			Sale	Date of earlier deed		631	430	434955
No	Role(s) in earlier deed(s)	Role in current deed(s)	Family name	Forename		Place	Occ or title	A
A		P1	COPINGER/COPPINGER	James	of	skibbereen, Co Cork
B		P2	O’DONOVAN	Keady	of	Roscreagh [Rossnacaheragh], Parish of Kilborohane[Kilcrohane], Barony of W Carbery, Co Cork	Gent	A
C		O adj	CONNOLLY	Michael	of		had a house in Skibbereen, Co Cork

In this 1811 deed the Roycrofts of Brennybeg, Kealkil are referred to. They may be related to the Roycrotfs of Clonee, Durrus. They are partners with the Drimolague O’Reagans as middlemen on the townland of Kealties adjoining Roscacaheragh

			Type of deed	Date of current deed	27 May 1811	Vol	Page	Memorial
			Assignment	Date of earlier deed		625	425	438561
No	Role(s) in earlier deed(s)	Role in current deed(s)	Family name	Forename		Place	Occ or title	A

	P1	O’DONOVAN	Keady	of	Rossecragh [Rossnacaheragh?], Parish of Kilcrohane, Barony of W Carbery WD, Co Cork	Gent	A
	P2	O’DONOVAN	Henry	of	Skehonough [Skahanagh, Bantry], Parish of Kilmocomogue, Barony of Bear & Bantry, Co Cork	Gent
P1		O’SULLIVAN	Jeremiah	of		formerly granted a lease of Skahanagh, [Bantry], Co Cork
P2		ROYCRAFT[ROYCROFT]	Thomas	of		formerly held a lease of Skahanagh, [Bantry], Co Cork

E		life	ROYCRAFT[ROYCROFT	Richard	of		formerly held a lease of Skahanagh, [Bantry], Co Cork
F		life	FIELD[?]	John	of		formerly held a lease of Skahanagh, [Bantry], Co Cork
G		WD	DONOVAN	Richard	of	Rossceragh [Rossnacaheragh, Parish of Kilcrohane, Barony of W Carbery WD], Co Cork

			Type of deed	Date of current deed	27 May 1811	Vol	Page	Memorial
			Assignment	Date of earlier deed		625	425	438561
No	Role(s) in earlier deed(s)	Role in current deed(s)	Family name	Forename		Place	Occ or title	A
A		P1	O’DONOVAN	Keady	of	Rossecragh [Rossnacaheragh?], Parish of Kilcrohane, Barony of W Carbery WD, Co Cork	Gent	A
B		P2	O’DONOVAN	Henry	of	Skehonough [Skahanagh, Bantry], Parish of Kilmocomogue, Barony of Bear & Bantry, Co Cork	Gent
C	P1		O’SULLIVAN	Jeremiah	of		formerly granted a lease of Skahanagh, [Bantry], Co Cork
D	P2		ROYCRAFT[ROYCROFT]	Thomas	of		formerly held a lease of Skahanagh, [Bantry], Co Cork
E		life	ROYCRAFT[ROYCROFT	Richard	of		formerly held a lease of Skahanagh, [Bantry], Co Cork
F		life	FIELD[?]	John	of		formerly held a lease of Skahanagh, [Bantry], Co Cork
G		WD	DONOVAN	Richard	of	Rossceragh [Rossnacaheragh, Parish of Kilcrohane, Barony of W Carbery WD], Co Cork
H		WD	MCCARTHY	Jeremiah	of	Rossceragh [Rossnacaheragh, Parish of Kilcrohane, Barony of W Carbery WD], Co Cork	Teacher
I		WD WM	O’DONOVAN	Daniel	of	Roskenagh [Rosskerrig?, Parish of Kilcrohane], Co Cork	farmer	A
J		WM	MCAULIFFE	Michael	of	City of Cork	Writing Clerk	A
Abstract	A assigned to B, a lease of Skahanagh, [Bantry], Co Cork, for the lives of E & F plus 39 years.
MS			Date registered	25 July 1811		Date abstract added	20200203

Abstract made by: RonPrice

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Skehanagh is in the Mealagh Valley to the southwest  of Kealkill straddling the road from

Skehanagh is in the Mealagh Valley to the southwest  of Kealkill straddling the road from Donemark leading into the Mealagh Valley. It’s about a mile from Breenymore.

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			Type of deed	Date of current deed	3 Jun 1815	Vol	Page	Memorial
			Sale or Release	Date of earlier deed		715	411	489346
No	Role(s) in earlier deed(s)	Role in current deed(s)	Family name	Forename		Place	Occ or title	A
A		P1	BARRY	Catharine[Catherine]	of	Droumadoonen [Dromdoneen, Bantry], Parish of Kilmocomogue, Co Cork	Spinster

B		P2	SHANNON	John	of	Brahalish, Parish of Durrus, Co Cork
C		P2	SHANNON	Robert	of	Dromersy[?], Parish of Durrus, Co Cork
D		P3	DONOVAN	Henry	of	Cappanaboul [Bantry], Parish of Kilmocomogue, Co Cork
E		P4	CRONIN	Mortough	of	Doonamorka [Dunnamark?, Bantry], Co Cork	Taylor
F		P5	CLERKE	Thomas	of	Skibbereen, Co Cork	Esq
G	P1		CLERKE	St John	of	Skibbereen, Co Cork	Docor of Physic

The Skuce family of Coosane, Ballydehob, emigrated to Canada in 1850, and settled in Mount Horeb, near Omemee, Ontario, Canada, they took apple seeds with them, so they could plant them when they settled. They had a special way of storing the apples through the cold winters in special straw lined pits and apparently they were delicious.  This was all mentioned in a family write up. In another  area where another branch of the  Skuce’s settled,  near Bark Lake, in a more remote part of Ontario, there are some the old farmsteads that have been left derelict, at one of these we discovered someone had gone out with a quad bike to collect fruit from the very old apple trees, that are were abandoned close to these homesteads, the crop looked amazing, and I do wonder if these were grown from seeds that were brought out by the new settlers, including the Skuce’s, when they first emigrated back in the mid-1830s or so. Bark Lake is where some of the Skuce family who had left Clashadoo/Bantry settled.

Cousane:

Ontario:

https://wordpress.com/block-editor/post/durrushistory.com/17487

https://wordpress.com/block-editor/post/durrushistory.com/15719

https://wordpress.com/block-editor/post/durrushistory.com/35572

https://wordpress.com/block-editor/post/durrushistory.com/30991

Bark Lake, Ontario