To be continued

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West Cork Non Resident Freemen of Cork.

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Riggs Falkiner Will

Falkiner and Mills bank

Courtesy: https://niallbrn.wordpress.com/tag/riggs-falkiner/

In about 1760 Riggs Falkiner, merchant of Cork and son of Caleb Falkiner by Ruth, daughter of Edward Riggs, merchant of Cork, established a bank in the city, possibly wishing to follow the example of his uncle, Daniel Falkiner who was a partner in the Dublin banking firm of Burton’s Bank. By 1767 Riggs Falkiner had acquired a new partner in Stephen Mills to become the firm of Falkiner & Mills.[18] On 28th July 1768 the bank of Falkiner and Mills placed an advertisement in the Cork Evening Post saying that a number of banknotes were lost on the road between Cork and Killcreaght. One of the notes was for £50 and dated 15th April 1765 with a serial number of 884 produced by Falkiner and Mills. A reward of five guineas was offered for the return of the banknotes but we don’t know if a successful recovery was made.[19]

The bank of Falkiner and Mills was situated near the Old Custom House in a street called Falkiner’s Lane, now called Opera Lane.[20] The bank was a friend and creditor of the Earl of Shannon and in 1769 Riggs Falkiner became an M.P. for one of Shannon’s borough constituencies, Clonakilty.[21] In 1778 Riggs Falkiner was made a baronet. After Stephen Mills died in 1770, Riggs Falkiner continued the business on his own until 1776 when he went into partnership with John Leslie and Richard Kellett.[22]

Banks established in Cork in the first half of the eighteenth century were partnered by merchants who used their surplus cash from overseas trade to provide bill discounting, remittance services and make short term loans. In 1756 an act of parliament prevented merchants involved in foreign trade to describe themselves as bankers. The firm of Falkiner & Mills kept their merchant associations but also acquired new partners in the landed gentry and. professional sectors of Cork city and county.[23] Among the county gentry, Sir James Cotter, baronet, and Sir Richard Kellet became a partners in the 1780s and 1790s[24] In the 1780s, before his death on 20th January 1786, Doctor Bayly Rogers, doctor of physics, was a partner in the bank which was briefly renamed Falkiner, Rogers, Leslie & Kellet.[25] Bayly Rogers of Floraville came from a strong medical family as he was the eldest son of Joseph Rogers, M.D., of Cork by Margaret, daughter of John Bayly, and in turn Bayly was the father of Joseph Rogers, M.D., of Seaview in Cork.[26]

Falkiner’s bank survived the financial crisis of 1793 when other Cork banks closed their doors. After the death of Riggs Falkiner in 1799 the bank continued under the new name of Cotter & Kellets with some £131,630 banknotes in circulation.[27] Over the next ten years the bank increased its money supply to £447,000 which was £27,000 more than its assets and in June 1809 the bank closed its doors.[28] It would appear that the bank was struggling for a few years as it temporary closed in 1807.[29] The liquidation process continued until 1826 even with an act of parliament in 1820 with creditors only getting about ten shillings in the pound while the lawyers clocked up over £60,000 in fees.[30]

Clonakilty (Cloich na Coillte, meaning ‘stone (castle) of the woods’) was a borough constituency in the Irish House of Commons from 1613 to 1801. As a “pocket borough,” it returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the Parliament of Ireland and was largely controlled by the Earls of Cork and later the Earls of Shannon. The constituency was abolished by the Acts of Union. Clonakilty Corporation was a closed, unrepresentative entity that entirely excluded Catholics and became heavily decayed by the early 19th century. Notable figures who represented the constituency included the legal scholar and politician Francis Bernard (from 1692) ancestor of the Earls of Bandon and the Irish MP Thomas Adderley (in the 1790s)

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The Wexford Donovan/O’Donovans are a branch of the West Cork O’Donovans

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Seagulls World War 2

A few km. east of the bottom of the Goats Path in Kilcrohane there are a few fields abutting cliffs.  In this area, during  the ‘Emergency’ one of the locals used to bait hooks and throw them down the cliffs and catch seagulls.  He would then pluck them and sell their feathers.  They were used in British Bombers in WW2 near the cockpit at the nose to provide insulation and protection.

Around Gouladoo, Kilcrohane, seagull eggs were collected.

Whitakers of Cork used to come around with their driver Paddy Hegarty collecting poultry, eggs, hares, badgers, and seagull eggs.  Also Lanes of Cork who had depots in Bantry and Skibbereen.

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There was a big trade in rabbits which were caught in snares, with ferrets or dazzled.  The price of rabbits went from a half crown (2s 6d) to 3s 6d and were bought by Jackie Cronin, Tom Dukelow, Sea View, the Creamery and O’Sullivan, a dealer from Dunmanway.  There were newspaper ads letting lands for trapping as that of the Cronins at O’Donovan’s Cove and other ads preserving lands and complaining of the damage caused by ferrets, dazzling and general trespass.  

It appears that until the early 1960s rabbits around Kilcrohane were snared as Myxomatosis had not yet reached the area. THE RABBIT INDUSTRY IN IRELAND: 20TH CENTURY SNAPSHOTS. By Michael J. Conry.

In THE RABBIT INDUSTRY IN IRELAND: 20TH CENTURY SNAPSHOTS. By Michael J. Conry. He suggests that the disease was introduced to Ireland from Australia by Paddy O’Keeffe a major figure in Irish farming adna founder of FBD Insurance. On balance he thought it correct due to the devastation caused by rabbits. However farm labourers were badly affected as rabbits were a valuable source of food and money from snaring.

The Kearney family collection of 18th century Cork newspapers was used by the late John T. Collins historians to compile biographical notices.Some additional Cork Newspaper Extracts from 1754 of a Genealogical and Historical interest extracted by John T. Collins.

The Kearney family of Landlords kept rabbit warrens in their estate at Garresttown.  Some 18th century travellers commented on this.  A later family member a Magistrate

Thomas Cuthbert Kearney, Garretstown, Sovereign, Town of Kinsale, sitting Ballinspittle 1835, listed 1835, 1838, 1843. Attending Protestant Conservative Society meeting 1832.  Held half of tithes KInsale 1833. Complaint about violence and molestation in the running of the 1835 election. Held rent charge £50 over Corballymore 1835 given to Thomas Cuthbert entitling him to vote.  Family had the nomination of the Vicar of Dunderrow.  On his death the nomination passes to his heir Thomas Rochford, a Catholic this resulted in three parishes having their nomination taken up by the British Crown. Sale of property 1832 including Cork city property at North Gate Bridge, Mallow Lane contact Mr. Stuerman, Cork.  Supporting Alexander O’Driscoll, J.P. suspended, Bandon 1841.  Came into possession 1842 of Silver Collar given by Queen Elizabeth 1 of England to Maurice Roche of Cork to Maurice Roche Mayor of Cork for his service against the Earl of Desmond in 1910 in possession of H. H. Franks of Mountrath, Co. Laois.  1842 Grand Council Dinner of the Royal Agricultural Improvement Society of Ireland. Chairman Lord Viscount Bernard, Daniel Connor, Manch, John I. Heard, Kinsale, Horace Townsend, Woodside, Arthur P. Alymer, Castlefreke, Thomas Hungerford, The Island, Jonas Travers, Butlerstown, Cuthbert Kearney, Richard H. H. Beecher, Hollybrook, Thomas J. Hungerford, John Wheeler Junior, Robert Belcher, Bandon, Henry Newman, Betsborough, Alexander O’Driscoll, Skibbereen.

 Kinsale alias St. Multose        William Jones        Rev. James Thomas Brown, as Vicar, Thomas Cuthbert Kearney, Esq., Lay impropriator, Garretstown House, Magistrate, Sovereign, Kinsale        £33 2 shillings 6 pence divided between Rev. Browne and Thoms Cuthbert Kearney 1833        Average price of wheat for seven years prior to 1830 £1. 12 shillings half pence a barrel

This was interrupted in 1815 when a relation Thomas Rochford became a ‘Papist’ and his Majesty had to exercise the nomination, Maziere Brady.
Rochford papers National Library NLI Ms 2182
Windle History of Cork.
 Cork Constitution, 23rd July 1842.

The Kearney family collection of 18th century Cork newspapers was used by the late John T. Collins historians to compile biographical notices. Some additional Cork Newspaper Extracts from 1754 of a Genealogical and Historical interest extracted by John T. Collins.

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I was asked to assist someone doing a genealogy search.

Cork Busteed Greens, Notes.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QPb-PYzXagu_j5I3Aljd35SOMo2EWEpfq1CwThVINmY/edit?tab=t.0

1947 O’Donovan Rossa on the Various Strands of the O’Donovan Family, Wexford.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U1vqhidPNvKkZKZMpxVaYtHviRsvAFkB3II_iPNYuJ0/edit?tab=t.0

A descendant Dr. Brian Donovan: Dr. John wasn’t a big fan of my great x3 grandfather as he was very much a loyalist. But he wasn’t an Orangeman, but instead was a Mason. The distinction was lost on Dr. John, can’t say I blame him!  I wrote a piece on John Donovan, the United Irishman, (an uncle of the man Dr. John met) which puts this in context. It was published for the gathering in 2000.

One of the family a subscriber to Dr. Daniel Donovan’s Sketches in Carbery.

John Glascott, Dublin Castle, (2 copies), mother Wexford Donovan, a Protestant sept of the O’Donovans originating in Carbery described by Dr. John O’Donovan as ‘rabid Orangemen”. He may have later changed his name to O’Donovan.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SbK24LpDBP8rFO_4XqjaRjYC37DyyResH_W_xMHtLuQ/edit?tab=t.0