1831, Address to the Reverend Alleyn Evanson, at a Numerous Meeting of the Protestant and Roman Catholic Inhabitants of the Parish of Schull, West Cork, a Unanimous Address was Agreed.

Southern Reporter and Cork Commercial Courier 29 October 1831

It is interesting that the Catholic Clergy joined in the address.  In his time in Schull he is reported as attempting to secure effort to get much needed relief.  He was mostly ‘an unbefieced clergyman’ ie not practising  but acting as a land agent and a  middle man.  His clerical career was in contrast to the numerous proselytisers in the area at the time the Revs. Donovan, Schull, Tiphook, Fisher at Teampall na mBocht, Spring  at Cape Clear, Alcock and Crosthwaite in Durrus.  There are a number of accounts praising him.  In Durrus as a Magistrate he acted in concert with the various O’Donovan Magistrates to defeat an attempt by the Rev. Crosthwaite of Durrus to blacken the name of the relieving officer Mr. Galwey c 1846.

Rev. Alleyn Evanson TCD AB, (1790-1853) Pre 1828, Four-Mile-Water Court, Durrus, sitting Bantry, 1835.  Son of Nathaniel (Generosus) and Mary Townsend Baldwin (1764-1827). Ed Dr. Sullivan, Bandon, TCD aged 16.   Middle Man, Land Agent. Voted for Hutchinson 1826 election. Signed petition 1827 against Catholic Emancipation.  While a curate in Schull 1829 he stated that there were 1,200 Protestants in the Parish.  Signed public declaration to Alexander O’Driscoll on his removal as Magistrate 1835 with Lord Bantry, Simon White, John Puxley, Arthur Hutchins, Thomas Baldwin, Samuel Townsend Junior and Senior, Hugh Lawton, Thomas Somerville, Richard Townsend Senior, Rev. Alleyn Evanson, Timothy O’Donovan, Richard Townsend, Lyttleton Lyster. Freeman Bandon, 1841 election voted Longfield/Leader.  Apart from Bandon estate he was renting Church lands in West Carbery including Crookhaven and Kilcrohane from Robert Delacour who was made bankrupt in 1839.  Attending 1840 Great Meeting Bantry re Poor Law.  Probate 1853, £5 (may be nominal for conveyancing). Presentment sessions Ballydehob 1845.  Friendly with Father Ryan, Drimoleague features in an account 1836 of journey from Drimoleague written by John Windle in Dublin Penny Journal.  

Dublin Penny Journal, Journey to Durrrus 1836, from Butler’s Gift (Drimoleague), West Cork, John Windle Cork Antiquarian and Father John Ryan, Drimoleague to the Rev. Alleyn Evanson.

After death wife Harriet daughter of Henry Hardy Esq., moved to Mespil Estate, Dublin his brothers Dr. Hungerford and Dr. Henry Baldwin Evanson (1795-1867) of Cork guardians of young children. Subscriber Lewis Topographical Dictionary of Ireland  1837.   In 1835 his rent charge over lands at Brahalish Durrus was granted to Henry Baldwin Evanson, his brother entitling him to vote.  Assisting 1848 Henry J. Fawcett, Practical Instructor on Husbandry of Visit to Bantry  Either his sister or cousin Martha Evanson married Rev. John Madras, their grand daughter m 1867 Ann Marie (Millie) Curtis, Magourney she descended from Huguenot Rev. John Madras and married Daniel O’Connell’s grandson, his father was Charles O’Connell, Resident Magistrate, Bantry.

Four Mile Water House/Durrus Court Recently Restored:

Mná chaointe (Keeners) at Church of Ireland and Methodist Funerals 18th and 19th Century, West Cork:  Sir Richard Cox (1650-1733), Dunmanway, and  Some Family Recollections by James Stanley Vickery in Australia 1829-1911, of Childhood in Moloch in Parish of Durrus, 1832-6.

Is it possible that Keening is pre Christian.   There are references to Keeners being employed at Cox’s funeral in 1733 in Dunmanway.  Cox was the founder of Dunmanway and promoter of the linen industry.   For someone who was virulently anti Catholic it is also surprising that there is a praise poem dedicated to him as set out below

James Stanley Vickery writing in at the end of the 19th century  Australia 1829-1911, of his childhood Moloch in Parish of Durrus, 1832-6. He recalls his grandfather’s death and the wake going over two nights with a professional keener.  HIs grandfather was a wild man when younger, later saw the light and became a prominent early Methodist.

From his recollections:

He went around 1837 to a small private school in Bantry run by a man called Healy who was a Catholic. The new National schools had been boycotted by the Irish Protestants.  Healy had attained a proficiency in mathematics but was extremely cruel, over on of the rafters he threw a small rope and tied it under Robert’s arms and hoisted him up swinging him gently and letting him feel the holly rod to the amusement of the other boys.  His wife on seeing it stopped him and gave Healy a piece of her mind.  Healy was later convicted of cruelty in front of the magistrates.

Recollections of James Stanley Vickery as a grandchild in Molloch, Durrus, Bantry (1829-1911).Parents Died of Cholera in Skibbereen.

Cox:

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There is a praise-poem to Sir Richard Cox composed by the otherwise unknown poet Cormac Ó Luinín and transcribed in the hand of Charles O’Conor (1710-1790) in a manuscript held in the library of of Clonalis House, seat of the O’Conors, in Castlereagh, Co. Roscommon. A digital copy is held on the Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies website at ISO [Irish Script on Screen Project]

1832 Election.  Open Voting Location of Polling Booths By Barony in Co. Cork.

At that time the electorate was small in the low thousands for Co. Cork.  Voting was open it was not until the 1870s that the secret ballot commenced.  Newspapers covered the elections listing the votes for each count.   There was frequent litigation and election petitions as only a handful of votes could be critical in a candidate securing election. From the 1820s the fault lines of Co. Cork politics emerged as broadly Liberal/Catholic/Liberal Protestant and  Conservative/Protestant/Landed/Professional, Catholics.

In making application to register for voting in some circumstances it was necessary to avail of a rent charge.  This often fixes the ancestral areas from where a family came from. Sometimes the newspapers carry reports of these applications before the Assistant Barristers at the Quarter Sessions.

The electoral procedure was coordinated by the Clerk of the Crown (State Solicitor).

Courtesy Wikipedia:

The demand for a secret ballot was one of the six points of Chartism.^[9] Fergus O’Connor from Manch in Ballineen was one of its proponents.  The British parliament of the time refused to even consider the Chartist demands but it is notable that Lord Macaulay, in his speech of 1842, while rejecting Chartism’s six points as a whole, admitted that the secret ballot was one of the two points he could support.

The London School Board election of 1870 was the first large-scale election by secret ballot in Britain.

The secret ballot was eventually extended generally in the Ballot Act 1872, substantially reducing the cost of campaigning, and was first used on 15 August 1872 to re-elect Hugh Childers as MP for Pontefract in a ministerial by-election following his appointment as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. The original ballot box, sealed in wax with a liquorice stamp, is held at Pontefract museum.^[10] The use of numbered ballots makes it possible, given access to the relevant documents, to identify who has voted for whom.

Southern Reporter and Cork Commercial Courier 22 December 1832

1835, A List of Names and Places of Abode of the Several Persons who Have Taken out Certificates for Killing Game, Agreeably to Act of parliament From the Distributor of Stamps for the County of the City of Cork March to October 1835.

Southern Reporter and Cork Commercial Courier 08 October 1835

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1869, Short Lived Mining Boom, Crochavoddera and Ballinaspud Copper and Barytes Mine Company (Limited), Bantry/Durrus, West Cork.

Southern Reporter and Cork Commercial Courier 05 February 1869

Of those names the JP do not appear on mainstream lists but they are not exhaustive.  John Thomas Phillips was of the family who came to Durrus when Lord Bandon recovered possession of thais part of his estate c 1850.  Kathleen Dukelow who donated Philips Green to the people of Durrus some years ago and part financed it was of the family on her mother’s side.   Captain Thomas was from Cornwall and a serial mining entrepreneur.  He is likely to be living in Dunmanus rather than Rooska.

1866, Release of Mahony Alleged Fenian From Ballydehob under Habeas Corpus Suspension Act from Cork Jail and Rumoured that Aughadown Prisoners Charged with Illegal Drilling Due to Be Released.

60 men seen drilling in a field in Durrus, West Cork in Fenian times, London, Rochester New York and Chinese family connections.

James Gilhooley (1847-1916), Fenian 1867, Irish Parliamentary Party MP, Justice of the Peace, West Cork, Member ‘Bantry Band’, children at Four Mile Water (Durrus) National School. In later years his election agent was Jasper Woulfe, Solicitor, Crown Prosecutor and later TD, Skibbereen.

Richard O’Sullivan Burke (1838-1922), Clouneyreague, Kinneigh, Co. Cork, Soldier, Fenian, Patriot, Colonel US Civil War, Member Clann na Gael in USA, his Brother Morgan.

Peadar Ó hAnnracháin, Gaelic League Organiser, Cois Life, ‘OUR DUBLIN LETTER’ in the Southern Star, Skibbereen, West Cork, 12th April 1947, Investigation at Castletownbere 1859 of William Power, Shopkeeper, John Kelly Smith, patrick Murphy and Michael McCarthy Shopkeepers fears of the spreading of the Phoenix Society Skibbereen (Fenians), 25 men summonsed in Bantry for lighting tar barrels to show respect for Phoenix man let out of Jail Mr. Denis Sullivan, Orange Riot caused in Kinsale 12th July 1859 by Antrim Militia stationed there. West Cork had serious

Re-Discovery of Fenian Convict Newspaper ‘The Wild Goose’, produced by ‘A Collection of Ocean Wasters’on board the ‘Hougoumont’ on 89 day Voyage October 1867 to January 1868 from England to Fremantle (Perth), Western Australia with listing of the 80 Fenian Prisoners.

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Kilcrohane District Mines, West Cork, During Famine 200 men employed for 11 weeks, build 2 miles at Gortavallig for £97. 10 shillings, Memorial Placed 1847 but Gone by 1866.

General Vicinity:

1857.  Game Certificates issued in Bandon and Skibbereen District including Gamekeepers to Estates.

The following list appeared in THE NEW CORK EVENING POST for Monday 24 March 1800, amended to concentrate on West and South Cork: A Correct List of Certificates Issued by James Chatterton,the Clerk of the Peace for the County of Cork between the first of May 1799 and the first of October in the same year, pursuant to an Act passed in this Kingdom in the 39th year of his Majesty’s Reign, entitled an Act for granting to his Majesty certain Duties on Certificates to be issued with respect to the Killing of Game. Thomas Alleyn, Hollybrook David Atkinson, Bandon Jonathan Arrowsmith, Capt Royal Lancashire Volunteers George Adderley, Innishannon Right Hon. Lord Boyle, Castlemartyr Standish Barry, Leamlara Philip Peterson Bickford, Kinsale Mathew Balsaigne, Bandon Cornelius Burke, Clonreigh William Banfield, Bandon Francis Busteed, Castletown James Barry, Kilbarry William Boyle, Boyles-grove John Beamish, Cashil Rev. Samuel Beamish, Mount Beamish Jonas Baldwin, Bantry Richard Beecher, Hollybrook (Skibbereen) Henry Beecher, Hollybrook Arthur Beamish Bernard, Pallace-Ann, (Ballineen) Joseph Bullen, Kinsale Richard Bouden, Jun, Dunmanway Capt John Burton, Bandon Lord Viscount Bandon, Castlebernard, (Bandon former O’Mahony Castle) John Beecher, Luncon (Leamcon, Schull) William Baldwin, Keymore Capt. Wm. Anth. Brabazon, Louth Regiment, Bandon Thomas Bradford, Bandon George Beamish, Clogheen Richard Barry, Barley-Lodge Henry Baldwin, Castletownsend Rev. Carlton Brown, Kinsale John Bennett, Surgeon, Royal Lancashire Volunteers Liet. John Blake, NorthMayo Militia, Charlesfort, (KInsale) Denis Begly, Balabahala (Beal-na-Bláth?) Right Hon. Lord Bantry, Seafield-park Thomas Claton, Lieut. Col Royal Lancashire Boyle Coughlan, Ballygarvan (From Carrigmanus, Goleen family associated with Boyle/Hull) Thomas Clarke, Skibbereen Robert Longfield Connor, Fort Robert (Manch, Ballineen Fergus O’Connor/Chartist family) Lieut. Wm. Cuttle, 5th Reg. Dunmanaway Francis Cuttle Jun. Dunmanway Robert Nellis Croker, Lisnabrin Richard Croker, Same Place Leonard Croker, Bandon Rev. Thomas Cooke, Prospect Hall Daniel Coghlan, Crookhaven (Small Landlords Protestant since 1600) Richard Coghlan, Carrigmanus John Clarke, M.D., Skibbereen (Family later related to Rickard Deasy Attorney General and Astronomers) Rickard Donovan, Bandon (Possibly later fro 1835 Clerk of the Peace/State Solicitor for Co. Cork) John Donovan, M.D. Barry’s-Hall (Clonakilty) Rickard Deasy, Same (Possible Barrister later AG of Brewing family) Col. Sir Benjamin Dunbar, Bandon Samuel Deany, (Probably Dealy/Daly of shipping merchant family) Bantry George Nichols Dunn, Kinsale Thomas Donovan, Ringabella, (Crosshaven) Philip Donovan, Clonakilty Rickard Donovan, Ballinacrushy (Ballinascarty?) Stephen Dorman, Kinsale Nathaniel Evanson, Four-Mile-Water (Durrus Court, Gearhameen) William Sullivan Ellis, Kilcrea Capt. Alex. Filgate, Louth Regiment, Bandon John Garlside, Lieut Col. Royal Lancashire Volunteers Evan Gerrard, Captain Royal Lancashire Volunteers Thomas Grant, Kilmerray (KIlmurray?) John Good, jun. Crossmahon James Gilman, jun. Dunmanway John Gillman, Dunmanway Herbert Gillman, Bellrose Nicholas Gyles, Lisnabrin Rev. John Gibbs, Inchigelagh (Inchigeela) Rev. John Griffith, Kinsale Herbert Gilman, Old Park John Garde, Dunsfort (Upton) Laurence Goolde, Aughareena Thomas Gillon, Roy. Lancashire Volunteers James John Grimley, Skibbereen Henry Gillman, Rock-House William Heatly, Captain, Royal Lancashire Volunteers John Hargraves, Captain, Ditto William Halen, Major, Ditto Richard Hungerford, Clonakilty Arthur Hyde, Castlehyde John Hyde, Cregg George Hodder, Fountainstown Thomas B. Hardy, Royal Lancashire Volunteers Walter Atkin Hayman, Youghall William Harris, Assolas Howard Holland, Knocknahilen Robert Hodges, Mount Hodges, (Macroom) John Hungerford, Burren Thomas Hungerford, Burren Henry Harrison, Castle Harrison John Hawkins, Jun. Grange Edward Hayes, Dunmanaway Thomas Herrick, The Island, (Clonakilty) Gorshan Herrick, Same Place Richard Edward Hull, Lemcon (Schull) Thomas Harris, Assolas William Hawkes, Elm-park John Pope Heard, Kinsale Thomas F. Hoare, Richmond Thomas Hungerford, Ross William Hounor, Bandon Richard Hungerford, Drombeg John Hungerford, Bantry Pat. Higgings, Gamekeeper to W. Pearde, Peardemount Rev. James Hingson, Cloyne William Horan, Castle Jane William Hall, Cove Rev. Robert Hoare, Rockfort Samuel Hawkes, Sirmount (Firmount/Innishannon?) John Hosford, Rushfield John Jagoe, Kinsale Henry Jermyn, Aughadown Samson Jervois, Bandon John Johnson, Peafield William Jagoe, Aghamart Rev. Herbert Kenny, Kilineen James Kearney, Garrettstown (Major farmers improvers) Robert Kenny, Kinneagh, (Bandon) Rev. Thomas Kenny, Same Place Rev. Arthur Keily, Belview Rev. Edward Kenny, Moviddy James Kearney, Killmore Right Hon. Ld. Longueville, Castlemartyr (Related to Whites of Bantry) Nichs. Jackson Lane, Capt Devon & Cornwall Fencibles James Lomas, Capt. R. Lancashire Volunteers Arthur Lucas, Esq. Mountpleasant Robert Lawson, Clonakilty James Leahy, Baltybahalla David Leahy, Newtown Richard Long, Hollyhill (Skibbereen) Richard Hull Lewis, Seafort (Probably related to Hulls of Leamcon, Schull) Dan. Fras. Leahy, Macromp (Macroom) John Long, Aughadown, (Skibbereen) James Leahy, Sebullen Dan. Lucy, Game keeper to Lord Bantry Rt Hon. Wm. Mordaunt Maitland, Lt. Col. Devon & Cornwall Fencibles John Murphy, Newtown (Bantry, Landlord and Miller) Matt Minbear, Raleigh (Macroom) Sam. Milner Eddencurra, Game-K Manor, Dunmanway (Rev) John Henry Madrass, (Curate) Durrus, married to Evanson of Huguenot extraction via Amsterdam Charles M’Carthy, Gortnasereeny (Dunmanway ancient family) Thomas Markham, Kinsale Denis M’Carthy, Rhaduane Hampden Maffy, Sevenheads (KInsale) Lieut. Col. Wm. Monro, Bandon Charles M’Carthy, Churchill (Possibly Skibbereen) Rev. George Monro, Killowen George Murphy, Bandon Charles McCarthy, Sunville, (Skibbereen) Denis McCarthy, Cocinlagane John Southcole Mansergh, Bridgetown (Skibbereen?) John McCarthy, Roseville Captain Francis Nelson, Bandon John Nason, Newtown Hugh O’Donnell, Col. South Mayo Militia Charles Silver Oliver, Sun Lodge Rev. Corns. O’Crowley, P.P. Butlersgise (Drimoleague) Alexander O’Driscoll, Mountmusic (Caheragh) Alexander O’Driscoll, Lacklands (Lakelands/Skibbereen) Jeremiah O’Sullivan, Ardnegeshig Cornelius O’Driscoll, Riverview (Possibly Skibbereen) William Phelan, Kinsale John Peard, Tourmore (Toormore/Goleen, Customs?) William Popham, Kilmore (Bandon?) John Popham, Mosgrove (Bandon) Thomas Porter, Bandon Rev. Richard Purcell, Borton John Parks, Bantyre (Bantry) Richard Samuel Perry, Butlerstown John Puxly, Crosshaven (Of Allihies Mining Family) Henry Puxley, Crosshaven Richard Torsan (Tonson) Rye, Ryecourt, (North Cork descendants of Sir william Hull) John Russell, Skibbereen Mathias Reordan (Riordan), Cobinagellagh Laurence Roach (Roche), Cove Richard Rowland, Hermitage Robert Swayne, Bantyre (Bantry) John Sealy, Firgrove (Bandon/Innishannon) Jonas Stawell, Kilbritain James Stawell, Kilbritain Rev. William Stewart, Clonakilty Rev. Armiger Sealy, Ummery (Macroom) Rev. William Skitto, Sunville James Sealy, Bandon William Swanton, Ballydehob Theops. Morris Symms, Dunmanus Baldwin Sealy, Ummery Armiger Sealy, Bandon Richard N. Summerville, Schull Richard Splane, Garrane John Swetnam, Skibbereen Rev. Henry Wilson Stewart, Same Place Richard Shorten, Pullirick William Scaly, Bandon William Townsend, Derry (Casteltownsend) Rev. Horatio Townsend, Courtmasherry Samuel Townsend, Whitehall (Skibbereen) Samuel Philip Townsend, Firmount (Bandon) John Townsend, Castle Townsend Edward H. Townsend, Same Place Thomas Tresselian, Ballinadee Frans. Roynayne Trimbath, S. Cork Regiment Rev. Fitzgerald Tisdall, Crookhaven (Tisdalls later married into Murphy family Newtown, Bantry) Richard Townsend, Ross(Carbery) Lieutenant William Vernon, N. Mayo Militia Rev. Edward Warren, Crookstown Simon White, Bantry George Wheeler, Bandon Augustus Warren, Warrenscourt William Whelpley, Bellmount (Ballineen?) Hamilton White, Bantry John Watkins, Oldcourt (Bandon?) John Wolfe, Clonakilty Samuel Whelpley (Welplys part McCarthy), Masseytown (Macroom) Rev. Robert Warren, Maclonagh John Warren, Winsorhill Thomas Walton, Oysterhaven Richard Walton, Same Michael Williams, Currihy Richard Woulfe, Ashgrove Rev. Christmas Paul Wallis, Rinney Capt. John Yeates, Royal Lancashire Volunteers John Young, Esq. Bantry (Fishing/Merchant family) John Young, Skibbereen

Games Licence Certificates issued by James Alexander Black, Inland Revenue Office, Bandon, Co. Cork, 1856.

1842, Cheap and Expeditious Travelling A Well Appointed 2 Horse Car from Bantry to Killarney

Vickery Coach Service, probably not this one but the same route:

Thomas Vickery, Bantry, 1808-1883, Hotel and Transport Pioneer in Irish Tourist Industry, Winter Sale of Horses and some Vickery Genealogy..

Cork Examiner 27 July 1842

1817. Movement of 97th Regiment of British Army to Rosscarbery, Skibbereen, Whiddy Island, Berehaven.

Militia West Cork

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Dublin Evening Post 27 December 1817