Maurice J. Power, Associate of President Cleveland. Thousands come to Rosscarbery to Celebrate Father Powers Miracles on St. John’s Eve. 1858 St. Johns Eva, Beautiful Irish from a Crippled Beggar, bare ulcerated legs. Thadeus O’Mahony, Bandon born Professor of Irish TCD. Tom Hungerford Landlord, a Tenant of his father. Grandfather’s Bleachery, Flax Meitheal. West Cork Delegatee to the Dungannon Convention 1782.
Recollections of Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa, Breast Fed Until He Was 3. Boss Croker: Maurice J. Power, Associate of President Cleveland. Thousands come to Rosscarbery to Celebrate Father Powers Miracles on St. John’s Eve. 1858 St. Johns Eva, Beautiful Irish from a Crippled Beggar, bare ulcerated legs. Thadeus O’Mahony, Bandon born Professor of Irish TCD. Tom Hungerford Landlord, a Tenant of his father. Grandfather’s Bleachery, Flax Meitheal. West Cork Delegatee to the Dungannon Convention 1782.
William Garde Browne (1815-1877), Coolcower House, Macroom, listed 1846, listed 1843, 1875-6. Provisional Committee Cork/Killarney Railway 1845. William Cross,1841, Magistrate, Landowner, Macroom Poor Law Guardian. 1841 enquiry scathing about effects of middlemen, discount banks, from which tenants borrowed for rent, three run in particular by Edward Ash, Macroom, William Guarde Brown, Coolcower, Philip Cross Esq., Shandy House, a Magistrate until deprived, he boasted he acquired a large lot of land from profits of banking. Cross estimated rate of interest at 20% but when legal expenses time etc. factored in at 40%. Probate 1887 £40,000.
Earl of Grey Scheme 1848-1850. Girls shipped to Australia aged 15 to 18 from Workhouses, Skibbereen 110, Kinsale 29, Bandon 20, Dunmanway 14.
Courtesy Sile Murphy, Dunmanway Historical Society 2010.
Research into the records of Melbourne Maternity Hospital suggest that approximately 1 in 15 women had difficulty in childbirth due to famine induced contracted or deformed pelvis.
The Great Hunger had decimated the population of Ireland, resulting in more than one million deaths and two million emigrants forced to flee starvation.
Between 1849 and 1851, the Earl Grey scheme took girls aged from 14 to 19 from workhouses across Ireland to work in Australia as servants, and to help populate the new colony.
After the horror of starvation and loss of family and home in the Irish Famine, surviving the destitution of the infamous workhouses and enduring an arduous sea voyage, the orphans reached a strange and intimidating new land. But they must also have had feelings of hope and optimism.
An excerpt from The Argus, which was Melbourne’s main newspaper of the day, on April 4th, 1850 said: “Another ship-load of female immigrants from Ireland has reached our shores, and yet, though everybody is crying out against the monstrous infliction, and the palpable waste of the immigration fund, furnished by the colonists in bringing out these worthless characters …”.
Another excerpt from The Argus on April 24th, 1850 of a citizen echoed society’s clamour:
“The whole country cries out against the further admission into our colony, of such degraded beings as the majority of the female orphans have been found.
Nor has their cry been raised without reason, for we venture to say, every vessel that brings an increase of this kind to our female population, brings a melancholy increase to the vice and lewdness that is now to seem rampant in every part of our town. From this class we have received no good servants for the wealthier classes in the towns, no efficient farmservants for the rural population, no virtuous, and industrious young women, fit wives for the labouring part of the community; and by the introduction of whom a strong barrier would be erected against the floods of iniquity that are now sweeping every trace of morality from the most public thoroughfares of our city.”
Nonetheless, most orphans flourished – they married and raised families in the harsh conditions of the new colony. Great numbers would live to see the dawn of the new 20th century in their new land.
1894 William Martin Murphy’s son Denis died in Davos, Switzerland, skiing accident he had been assisting his father on building of the Skibbereen to Baltimore Railway.
Cutting now road entrance to Skibbereen from Baltimore
The Skibbereen to Baltimore Railway was an 13 km. extension of the Cork, Bandon and South Coast Railway (CB&SCR) in West Cork, opened on May 2, 1893. It served as a vital, albeit temporary, rail link for the port of Baltimore, closing along with the rest of the West Cork lines in March 1961.
William Martin Murphy (1845-1919), MP, 1884, The Square, Bantry, and Dartry Hall, Rathmines, Dublin, b Castletownbere, child of Denis Murphy, building contractor, and Ann Marie Martin. Ed. Belvedere College, Dublin. 1869 built Barryroe Church, Clonakilty. Moved to Dublin 1875, railways, tramways, newspapers, Clerys Department Store, M.P. 1885, M Mary Julia Lombard d James F. Electrified Dublin Trams 1896. 1890 Skibbereen Quarter Sessions sitting with Circuit Court Judge Ferguson on Schull licensing appeal cases. Magistrates, John Edward Barrett, William Murphy, M.P., George Robinson, Somers. H. Payne, W. S. Payne, Henry R Marmion, Samuel Jagoe, O’Donovan, John R. H. Becher, William Norwood, Carew O’Grady. Donor £40 second largest after Lord Ardilaun £500 in 5 instalments on behalf of the Bantry Estate 1894 son Denis died in Davos, Switzerland skiing accident he had been assisting his father on building of the Skibbereen to Baltimore Railway. 1895 to the Bantry Foreshore Reclamation Fund. Closely associated with Tim Healy. 1918 largest donor Gearhies Fishing Disaster. 1916 meets Lloyd George to oppose partition. listed 1913. Buried Glasnevin Cemetery. Features in James Joyce, ‘Ulysses’, ‘How’s that for Martin Murphy, the Bantry jobber?’ (12.237)
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1890, Will of Denis Murphy, Builder, Bantry, Builder of Bantry Pier, Father of William Martin Murphy. 1919, William Martin Murphy, Derrymihan, Beara and Dublin, businessman. Estate £250,000. He left a range of businesses with a substantial asset value, including Dublin’s tramway system, hotels in Dublin and Glengariff, Cleary’s Department store, a range of railway shares and various properties including a builders yard in Bantry (which is still in business). He had also invested heavily in the Dublin newspaper industry.
Bantry Gang: Healy Brothers, Thomas, Solicitor, M.P., Timothy, M.P. , Queen’s Counsel, Governor General Irish Free State, Tim, Sullivan Brothers, Alexander Martin, Owner ‘The Nation’, Founder Irish Parliamentary Party, M.P. Queen’s Counsel, Timothy Daniel, M.P. Composer ‘God Save Ireland”, Donal, Secretary Irish Parliamentary Party, M.P, Lord Mayor of Dublin, Harrington Brothers, Tim, Teacher, Journalist, Author of The Plan of Campaign, M.P., Barrister, Lord Mayor of Dublin, Ned, Organiser, M.P., William Martin Murphy, International Businessman, Railway Contractor, owner Irish Independent, Dublin United Tramways, M.P., James Gilhooley, Fenian, M.P.
1909 Bantry Feis. Patrons include Canon (Church of Ireland) O’Grady, James Gilhooley, M.P., Tim Healy King’s Counsel,M.P., Maurice Healy, M.P., The Earl of Kenmare, Magistrates, Dr. O’Mahony, Benjamin O’Connor, M. O’Driscoll, William Martin Murphy, Alexander Martin Sullivan, King’s Counsel, Dr. M. J. McCarthy, Patrick (Rocky Mountain) O’Brien, Dromore. Prizewinners, Industrial Section.
1899, Bantry, Funeral of Miss O’Connor, Wreaths From William Martin Murphy and Family, Buyer of Cleary and Co, Dublin, Attendance, Magistrates, John Daly, Barry O’Leary, John Cullinane, James Gilhooley Member of Westminster Parliament, James Manders (Butter Merchant), Doctor Thomas Popham, William Warner (Merchant), Thomas R. Hurst (Publican).
At the turn of the 19th century butter was the main cash crop. The story is told of women from Kilcrohane walking barefoot to Cork, with a pannier of butter wrapped in cabbage leaves. 10 miles before Cork they stopped at a particular rock and put on boots. Father Kelleher’s evidence to the Poor Law Commission tells of girls making 12 journeys a year to Cork with large baskets of eggs making around £3 a year.
Father Kelleher:
Rev. John Kelleher, C.C. Trained in Rome. 28 Jan 1830, anti tithe agitation. Noted statistician. Later c 1840 Parish Priest of Kilurray, at British Association meeting gave detailed paper on condition in Kilmurray parish later published by British Association.
Francis Fitzmaurice Solicitor Subscriber Dr. Daniel Donovan ‘History of Carbery, 1876. Attending funeral 1898, Thomas Fuller, Dunmanway, Chairman Dunmanway Board of Guardians
Counsel
1859-, Patrick D. Fleming K.C., 1906, King’s Counsel, Revising Barister sitting probte Court Dublin 1894 Magistrate, Co. Cork, 7 Hatch St., Dublin, listed 1913. In 1890s appearsin numerous West Cork cases
Prosecuting solicitor
1859, 1863, 1879, 1882, 1884, 1914, 1917 George Kingston Sherlock Solicitor 1859, Crown Solicitor West Riding, Commissioner for taking Affadavits South Main St. “7 Castle St. Supporting Colonel 1863, The Honourable Henry Boyle Bernard in Bandon by-election. 1882 donor to the new Catholic Church, Barryroe. 1877 donor Newcestown Church Spire.
1884 donor Presentation Convent School, Bandon. ” “Prosecutor 1889 Coercion Court, Rosscarbery, pubs closed huge throngs of people in the town, 90 police drafted in, Dr. William Kearny sentenced to Four Months Hard Labour.Guy 1914. 1881 subscriber to testimonial for Fr.. William Murphy, Kilbrittain ” “Brinny Sherlock Annie 08/06/1901 67 In loving memory of Annie Sherlock the beloved wife of George K. Sherlock solicitor died at Round Hill House Bandon on June 8 1901 aged 67 year Sherlock George K. Sherlock 01/10/1922 died 1st October 1922 Sherlock Emily Emily Sherlock their daughter died 24th December 1933 and their son Robert Webb Sherlock died 10th May 1937 ” “ “
Judge
(1847-, 1895 William Seymour Bird, M.A., K.C. Chairman Quarter Sessions (County Court Judge), Cork Wes Riding 38 Lower Leeson St., Dublin. Born Co. Offaly. 1900 attending RIC Sports, Mardyke..Electoral revision Macroom. Telegram of condolonces at funeral 1915 of P.J.Collins, Skibbereen. 1900 donor Eagle Santa Children’s Fund. “Meany, a defendant in a civil claim at Macroom Quarter Sessions, admitted that he had been previously examined in English but claimed that he had forgotten the English language. The judge told him that if he did not speak English he would not be examined, so Meany stepped down. The plaintiff, Baldwin, said he had always done business with Meany in English. Mr Sheehan, solicitor for the defence, said his client ‘could tell his story better in Irish’ but County Court Judge Bird Q.C. ‘said he could tell it as well in English’. Sheehan then pointed out that there was an interpreter attached to the court but the judge replied ‘For those who speak Irish, but this man can speak English’ (Southern Star, 13 June 1896, 8).” Judge Bird was the County Court Judge for the West Riding of Cork in Ireland around 1900. He is noted for presiding over an equity civil bill case in 1900 regarding a mortgage foreclosure in Sheehy v Sheehy, where he dismissed the case due to the composition of the debt.
Colonel Morgan William ‘The O’Donovan’ Oxon (1861-1940), CB, D.L., MA, 1888, ‘The O’Donovan’, Clann Cathal, Lis Árd, Skibbereen, son of Henry Winthrop ‘The O’Donovan’ MA, DL. and Amelia d ‘The O’Grady’, Courcy O’Grady, Kilballyowen, Co. Limerick. Ed. Haileybury and Oxford, Lieutenant-Colonel Munster Fusiliers, Colonel South Cork Militia Boer War,. In attendance at the 1888 The Freemasons Ball was held in Cork in aid of Freemason’s charities, over the platform a large Union Jack Flag, together with the Prince of Wales plumes and motto. Funeral 1890 John Island Donovan, (of the Island Sept, Rosscarbery), M.D., North St. Skibbereen, Ullagóne (Keeners). 1890 Skibbereen Quarter Sessions sitting with Circuit Court Judge Ferguson on Schull licensing appeal cases. Magistrates, John K?. Barrett, William Murphy, M.P., George Robinson, Somers. H. Payne, W .S. Payne, Henry R. Marmion, Samuel Jagoe, O’Donovan, John R. H. Becher, William Norwood, Carew O’Grady. 1892 two of his heifers at Lissard put down suffering from rabies. Attending the 1894 funeral of George Robinson, Landlords and Magistrate. Succeeded Colonel Aylmer C. Somerville 1899 as President Carbery Agricultural Society. Member Cork Defence Union 1885, one of whose aims was to ‘Resist the tyranny by a body calling themselves the Irish National League”. Presented organ to Creagh Church to commemorate the Jubilee of Queen Victoria. 1892 High Sheriff, Co.Cork ill, spent the summer on the Continent recovering. 1893 Member Cork Historical and Archaeological Society. Member Royal Society of Antiquaries 1889. Sent a carriage to the funeral of Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Somerville D.L. (1824-1898), Clontaff, Drishane. 1902 member committee Baltimore Regatta. Subscriber West Carbery ploughing match 1904. Signed Requisition 1905. Cork Junction Railway Bill. Requisition to the Right Honourable The Earl of Bandon K.P., to Call a meeting for the purpose of Approving the Cork Junctions Railway Bill. Addressing a recruitment meeting in Drimoleague In July 1915 he referred to this ancient stronghold (Castle Donovan) of his family. After they displaced the O’Driscolls they became the Chief People of the Carberies. Listed family members as giving a present to 1907 Spaight wedding Union Hall. Considered the preservation of ancient documents a matter of importance. M Mary Eleanor, (Madame) odo Rev. J Yarker Barton, Chaplain to British Forces, she chaired the Women’s Emergency Recruiting Committee WW1, Skibbereen, listed 1921. Attending 10 Grand Jury presentments. 1915 fund to aid Polish soldiers WW1. Member Board Baltimore and Skibbereen Harbour Board. 1933 writing to Carbery Agricultural Society suggesting horticultural potential in West Cork.
Daniel McCarthy (1868-1934), 1912, Parkview, Cork Road, Skibbereen, listed 1913, Clerk of Poor Law Union, after Clerk Skibbereen UDC, brother of Charles in UDC, Chairman Skibbereen UDC 1917. 1915 fund to aid Polish soldiers WW1.
1884, 1917 Jasper Travers Wolfe Solicitor, Crown Solicitor, TD “Norton, Skibbereen, 1st place Law Society Final Exam, Director Skibbereen Eagle member Governing Body, UCC. subscriber Zenith Marine Disaster, Baltimore, 1895. 1895 Funeral and wreath of Bantry Solicitor Daniel O’Donovan aged 26. 1897 attending the funeral of Father Michael Kearney, Parish Priest, Durrus in Kilcrohane.
Native Skibbereen:Returning officer west Cork constituency elcction agent James Gilhooley MP. 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. Funeral of 1897, Michael O’Driscoll, Castlehaven South buried Baltimore. Committee member 1902 member Baltimore regatta. 1909 attending the funeral of Dr. William Jennings, J.P. 1914 RDC electin nominated by Parish Priest Fr..Michael O’Callaghan. 1915, Miss Margaret O’Donovan, Rea, Caheragh 1920 donor Bantry Vincent de Paul. 1935 funeral of Dr.Edward Shipsey, Schull. 1937 attending Ned Roycroft, funeral. Roycroft had nominated him and supported him as TD, ” “M Minnie elder d of George George Levis Vickery 2 daughters, grandson wrote biography. 1904 funeral of Daniel O’Donovan, Solicitor and Land Owner, Skibbereen. Funeral attending 1920 June 1920 the Black adn Tans/RIC murderd Connie Crowley a 2 year oldcripple and burned bususness premises, he went to Banatry to try an calm matters Edward Ederton Leigh White, died age 44 Bantry House. Fled to Enhland after IRAthreats April 1922 returned months later. Later received £3,00 from a calim of £7,670 for injuly to is business adn loss of income from the loss of his office for IGC. Letter to Eoin O’Mahony from Jasper Travers Wolfe, solicitor, Skibbereen, Co. Cork, regarding the Dail motion to remove Judge Edward McElligott from office, 1941 May 5. 1932, attending funeral of Michael Harrington, Merchant, Skibbereen 1939 funeeral of William Morris Leap Only One of 11 Children to Remain in Ancestral Home Place, 5 Brothers Doctors. Claim of Ancestry to General Wolfe of The Siege Quebec Probably Wrong. He is probably from the old Catholic Wolfe family of Limerick, one branch converted because of the Penal Laws. The West Cork Wolfes Originate in the West Country of England. ” “Jasper Travers Wolfe was born in 1872, the third of nine children of William John Wolfe, a Methodist shopkeeper and his wife Rachel Wood. He was educated at the Bishop’s School, Skibbereen and passed the Law Society preliminary exam in 1888. Indentured in the practice of Thomas Downes, he obtained first place in his final exams, was awarded a gold medal and the Findlater Scholarship and admitted as a solicitor in 1893. His father died in 1894 after a long illness and Jasper established J. Travers Wolfe & Co. shortly after, quickly establishing himself as an expert in land law. Attending the funeral of Dr. Timothy J. O’Meara 1938. 1943, funeral in Cork of Richard Arthur Galwey, Coosheen House, Schull. 1951 attending funeral of Michael O’Driscoll, SC, born, outside Baltimore then of Kilcrea House.
” 1893, attending funeral of Michael Sheehy, T. C., P.L.G., Skibbereen. 1899, attending funeral of R. H. Townshend, J.P., Myross Wood, Leap. 1915, attending funeral of Patrick J. Hurley, solicitor, Drimoleague. 1939 Funeral of Dr. John G. Cullinane, Clonakilty. 1935 funeral Bantry Charles Swaine, merchant director Biggs and Co. 1938, attending Funeral of Father John Sheehy, (1892-1938), Curate. Courtmacsherry, of the Prominent Skibbereen Family, his Father County Councillor, One Time TD, Mass Celebrated by 100 Priests, Telegrams, Mass Cards. 1940. Funeral of Mrs Nannie Burke, Skibbereen, She Belonged to old Native Stock of her Father Timothy O’Donovan of the Stuaci O’Donovans. Niece of Tim Hurley of famous Castleview Evictions. “1937, 1938, 1940, 1941, 1950, 1953, 1954 Michael V. Harrington Solicitor Attending the funeral of Dr. Timothy J. O’Meara 1938. 1938, attending Funeral of Father John Sheehy, (1892-1938), Curate. Courtmacsherry, of the Prominent Skibbereen Family, his Father County Councillor, One Time TD, Mass Celebrated by 100 Priests, Telegrams, Mass Cards. Synpathy funeral of 1941, Mrs. Ellen Hegarty, Castlehaven Attending funeral of Jasper Travers Wolfe , solicitor, Skibbereen, 1952. “” Law Directory. Attending funeral 1950 of brother in law Father William Holland, PP Ardfield. Father William Holland, Ardfield, Clonakilty, (1876-1950). 1949 History of West Cork. Included genealogies of Barrys, De Courceys, McCarthys, O’Crowleys, O’Driscolls, O’Heas, O’Hurleys, O’Mahonys, O’Sullivans. 1954 funeral in Skibbereen of Mrs. Minnie Wolfe nee Vickery widow of Solicitor and TD Jasper Wolfe Michael V. Harrington was my first master of a friend (he died halfway through my articles). He had been, in turn, apprenticed to Jasper Wolf “
1859-1913, died 1915 Dr. Jerry Cotter MD MCH, QUI, FRCSI 8 Sydney Place, Governor UCC, Board North Infirmary Dr Jerry of Sidney pl, Cork city is one of mine, a New Zealand relation, b 1859, Derryginah Bantry, died 1915 in Clonakilty (his McCarthy wife was from there). Him & a brother in London were the first doctors of the family & inspired others including here in NZ to follow suit, although one of his sons chose law instead. At the 1901 funeral Mrs Cotter is his mother Mary Gallagher 1826 of Summerhill, whose sister Mary 1840 married Patrick Burke. I don’t know about the Scullys, but Jeremiah of Breenymore’s brother was William 1858, rate collector. He married Julia Creedon, g’daughter of James Cotter of Derryginah (uncle of Dr Jerry 1859). When Julia died, he married Mary Cassey. From Bantry mother Scully I see he was b. 18 Jan 1859, mother was Mary Scully. There was a tribe of the Scully family descended from Catherine Anne Gallwey who m. James Scully JP but no issue m. to any Cotter that I can find despite several by the name of Mary. 1891 subscriber North Infirmary. 1901 funeral of Mrs. Cotter, Bantry sons Dr. P. J. Cotter, London, Dr. J. Cotter, Cork, nephew Dr. Patrick Burke, London 1886 Committee member of proposed Graduate Reform Association of Queens College Son 1909, 1911 Francis McCarthy Cotter B.A. Barrister “8, Sydney Place, Cork. 1911 Member Cork Historical and Archaeological Society 1912 attending funeral of Rev. Charles Walsh, Rector, Farranferris. Paddy O’Keeffe papers. 1913 car owner. Probate 1915 to widow, Mary, Clonakilty, £10,253
(SR 13/2/1817) – BREWERY – TO BE LET, AND IMMEDIATE POSSESSION GIVEN – THAT Remarkably well Circumstanced BREWERY; Situate at BANTRY, together with the UTENSILS, MALT-HOUSES and CONCERNS thereto Belonging – which have the Advantage of an Uninterrupted supply of Fresh Water, and being in a thickly Inhabited Corn Country, contiguous to the Sea, are worthy of Prompt Attention. – Proposals to be made to Simon White, Esq., Glengarriff, Bantry, or Richard Foott, Attorney, Cork, at whose Office a Plan of the whole may be seen. – Mr. James Cotter of Bantry, will shew the Concerns.
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