Madras, this family moved from France to Cork via Amsterdam c 1750.  They are included as the Rev. John Madas married Miss Evanson of the Durrus Landlord family c 1805.  Rev John Madras son of Rev. John Madras of Huguenot ancestry via Amsterdam married Martha Evanson daughter of Nathaniel Friendly Cove.  Later Vicar of Aglish.  Her mother Swanton, Ballydehob, niece of Judge Swanton New York, United Irishman.  Voted 1826 City election for Conservative Callaghan.  HIs son JOHN MADRAS, A.B., Incumbent of Abbeymahon, P. Donoughmore, and Curate of Templequinlan later a magistrate:  County Freeman of Cork City voting in Cork City Election 1837. 

Numerous descendants Protestant and Catholic.   A granddaughter, Miss Curtis married Daniel O’Connell’s grandson, his father was a Resident Magistrate in Bantry.  

Courtesy one of his descendants Mark Wickham:

 Mark Wickham Bantry: Carey’s Lane, Cork. Huguenot graveyard.

That’s him.  The Madras on the headstone was from Amsterdam and came with a French wife.

Some years ago I went to a Cork Corporation Heritage Week function in Carey’s Lane, Cork..

The Heritage officer, along with Dr Alicia St Leger, a Hugeonot historian, pronounced Madras with the silent French ‘s’.

My poor great-grandmother Margaret (Peggy) Madras-O’Callaghan died aged 46 in Drumahumper near Killarney. Her husband lived to be a hundred and was quite prominent in local politics.  Although Dr Robert Conner Madras appears on her birth certificate and marriage certificate as her father I have no actual proof that he was her father.

Her mother was Joanna Linehan.

Edward Roche, (1771-1885),  1795, Trabolgan, Midleton.  Son of Edmund Roche and Frances Coghlan, his mother probably a descendant of Jeremiah Coughlan, Carrigmanus, Mizen and Nathaniel Evanson, Durrus, ancestors of Lady Di. His brother Edmond ‘Mon’ Roche, extensive landowner Kildinan, Glenville, United Irishman, later acquitted when charged. Listed supporter of Act of Union, 1799. 1828 seeking reform of the House of Commons address Kilshannig bought off Devonshers bankers Cork  Fermoy. Deputy Lieutenant 1838.  Father Lord Fermoy. 1835 Subscriber Lewis Topographical Dictionary of Ireland  1837.  1840 calling for Testimonial to late William Crawford Cork benefactor.  Trablogan  built circa 1780, for the Roche family who’d held the 16,000-acre estate since about 1645. The original manor was most likely rebuilt with money from Edward Roche’s prodigious marriage in 1781 to the daughter of Sir George Wombwell, 1st Bt., Chairman of the Honourable East India Company. In Irish, “Tra” means ‘strand’ or ‘beach’ and “Bolgan” is either ‘bulging’ or ‘big wave’. Sometimes the gales off the Atlantic were so strong, it was impossible to open the hall door! Despite the estate’s size, it was poor agricultural land and brought in a comparatively low annual income of £7,000

July 1800, Co. Limerick, Alan (Alleyn?) Evanson Esq.,  Mary McMahon, Groom in South Cork Militia.

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If you have Irish Huguenot ancestry good luck:

France DNA

From a friend who has Levis ancestry

Amongst my TV viewing recently was an episode of ‘DNA Family Secrets’, and one of the things mentioned was surprising news to me. Until I had seen this programme, I was completely unaware that is illegal for anyone in France to do a DNA test, I remember asking one of my Levis relatives if his DNA test had shown up his French heritage in his ethnicity background, which brought the response that it did not, which I was struggling to understand. But now I know about the fact that the population of France are not allowed to take DNA tests then this I feel explains the lack of any French heritage showing up in the Ancestry DNA tests!  

I have since Googled to see why this is and I have pasted in one of the items on this subject –

Why is DNA testing illegal in France?

Private DNA paternity testing is illegal, including through laboratories in other countries, and is punishable by up to a year in prison and a €15,000 fine. The French Council of State has described the law’s purpose as upholding the “French regime of filiation” and preserving “the peace of families.”

Maybe you were aware of this issue but I was definitely taken aback by this news. Things of course may change in the future, but at the present the law is banning the tests being done in France, unless there is a medical, judicial or scientific reason but definitely not family history!

Evanson family:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1c550F3fK7ZT0qUzH4DjP4I87TPHU5-yK-l4D-_cH-E4/edit

Huguenot families West Cork

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qeKIlUN4YVRMp2z5ZqXBCOMlyDGWgQavWIhAyqCMt3k/edit