Looking at a forgotten family once of some significance

Introduction, p.1

Magistrates, p. 2

Barristers, p. 4

Landed Estate, p. 5

1846 Magistrates and others attending Famine Relief Meeting, Dunmanway, p. 5

The Freeman of The City of Cork, 1826 Election, p.6

1828 Anti Catholic Petition, p.6

Early Cork Bridges, 1709 Bridge Overseers, Co. Cork, including at Fermoy Ancestors of James Joyce and early Cork Bridges.  Trustees projected Limerick to Cork road 1731, p. 6

Early Doctors and Apothecaries (Chemists),  Cork City and  County, p. 7

Legal Personnel Early Cork, Ireland, p. 9

West Cork Colonial connections, p. 13

1851 Census Extract, p. 13

1901 census, p. 15

Wills, p. 17

Calendars of Wills and Administrations 1858 – 1920, p. 20

Memorials, p. 21

If you work on the basis that West Cork starts after the Viaduct then the Herricks are from West Cork coming from Innishannon.  From a descendant: ‘I am a direct descendant of Lieutenant John Herrick, a Parliamenterian officer who was the first of the family to settle in Cork. I am still in possession of his 1599 Geneva Bible…. which belonged to his father before him. John was a Puritan and a ferocious fighter…which is possibly why (as a mere Lieutenant) he was granted the 3,230 acre Shippool Castle and Estate. He named his first son Gershom…after Moses…as he was a ‘stranger in a strange land’. Ironically of the 44 Herricks in Ireland in the 1901 census born in Co. Cork 32 are Catholics presumably from the same extended family.  This would follow the pattern of many of the Planter families.  The phrase ‘More Irish than the Irish themselves’ commonly applied to the Normans could to some extent be applied to more recent arrivals  (in Latin: Hiberniores Hibernis ipsis) is a famous historical phrase describing Anglo-Norman settlers who arrived in 1169 but quickly assimilated by adopting native Gaelic customs, the Irish language, and Brehon laws.

There are a significant number of Memorials here.  Many record intermarriages within thye West Cork Gentry and the wide merchant class in Cork.

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