Cappabue (Kealkil), Bantry, West Cork, National School, Pupils 1861-1994
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29 Friday Apr 2016
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Cappabue (Kealkil), Bantry, West Cork, National School, Pupils 1861-1994
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Memoir of Blind Harpist Arthur O’Neill, visit to Murtagh Mac Owen O’Sullivan at Berehaven, Co. Cork, Milesian Festival held by Lord Kenmare c 1720.
I travelled the principal part of the County of Cork without anything occurring worth relating. I spent one Christmas with a gentleman that lived in Berehaven named Murtagh MacOwen O’Sullivan, who lived in a princely style. My boy came to me one morning when in bed, who desired me to bless myself. I asked him why so. ‘Och, Sir ! there is a pipe of wine and two hogsheads of some other liquor standing up in the hall with the heads out of them and a wooden cup swimming in each of them for anyone that pleases to drink their skinful.’ I mention this merely to record the hospitality of the gentlemen of the province of Munster. Nor was this the only instance of it, as…
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28 Thursday Apr 2016
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Genealogy of O’Healy/Healy Family of Donoughmore, Co. Cork ancestors of Tim Healy, Governor General and John Hely-Hutchinson/Earls of Donoughmore adn 1850 census of St. Annes Parish, Shandon, Cork. (Shandon inserted as it happened to be in same Journal)
Courtesy 1944 JCHAS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Healy_(politician)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hely-Hutchinson_(statesman)
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27 Wednesday Apr 2016
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1829. Death of The O’Donovan, General O’Donovan in his 61st Year, Bawnlahan, Skibbereen, West Cork. and Passing of Chieftainship of Clann Cathal to Montpelier (Douglas, Cork) Branch.
He married a Miss Powell from Wales and on his death the estates passed out of the family ending up ultimately with her nephew.
Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Claringbould Powell, (1801-1902), 1874, Bawnlahan (O’Donovan Estate), Leap, Resident, £67, 2nd. son Major Edward Powell and Eleanor d James B. Buchanan, m Mary Ann d Lieutenant-General Hutchesson, oldest son Rev. Francis Perry Hutchesson b 1843, Newcastle. Estate to Powells from Lieutenant-General O’Donovan (The O’Donovan) on death of his widow to her brother Major Powell. Probate last address 2, Alfred Place, Dover, in Ireland £1,886. Land record, 1870, 2,475 acres.
Doctor John O’Donovan queries into family:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GCiBrLiBZtDkU8Ug5hZn9HnIZgfN1dvK2kkfaDUb600/edit
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27 Wednesday Apr 2016
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Letting of 18 Gneeves at Kealties, Durrus, West Cork from Stephen Derinau to Young Roycroft, Gent, Clonee.
Enclosed is a will of Roycroft presumably the same family copied pre 1922 destruction.
Deriniau is probably a representative of the Congreve or Tonson family as the land eastward was part of the Bandon Estate at the time rented to the Evanson. to the west the O’Donovan Estate.

Clonee:
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27 Wednesday Apr 2016
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West Cork Railway Map 1940, Comic Postcard Schull/Skibbereen Tramway, Timoleague Line with Ardageen, last Train out of Macroom 1953, 1956 Diesel Railcar
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Ann Maria Curtis, Dungourney, a granddaughter of Rev. John Madras who married Miss Evanson of Durrus, married a grandson of The Liberator, Daniel O’Connell, 1867, he was son of Charles O’Connell, Resident Magistrate, Bantry.
John T. Collins, Newspaper Extracts, Died 2nd March 1754 Mrs. Madras, w (wife or widow?) of Rev. M Madras.
Updated:
Genealogy of Cork Huguenot Madras family post 1750 from Amsterdam by letter from India Office 1939, interconnected families Longfield Connor Fort Robert, Evanson Durrus, Travers Butlerstown, Baldwin Curravody, Alleyn.
The Rev John Madras referred to was a curate in Durrus c 1800 when he married Miss Evanson.
From Meziere Brady:
Graveyard inscription courtesy Richard henchion.
Youngest Son of Madras family mentioned as life also Evansons, Whites of Bantry:
Durrus 1800 John…
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27 Wednesday Apr 2016
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1869, Durrus born, Doctor Henry Baldwin Evanson (1795-1867), Qualified Rome, Medical Author, Member Royal Irish Academy.
His entitlement to vote from , £20 rent charge, 1835 given by brother Rev. Alleyn Evanson over lands at Brahalish, Durrus.
Marriage:
| 13th August 1828, St. Marys, Shandon, Cork | Henry Baldwin Evanson (1795-1867) Martha Murphy | He Durrus then Cork possibly Camden Quay | Friendly Cove (formerly Ballydivane) she Newtown, Bantry, milling middle man family. | He is brother of Rev. Alleyn Evanson and on his death 1857, the guardian with other bother Hungerford Baldwin Evanson of minor children | Member of Royal Irish Academy. He died Kinsale and Camden Quay 1867 probate under £600 to Elizabeth Evanson, spinster | MLB | In the records of St. Annes Shandon, Cork, there is a marriage on the 13th August 1828 between Henry Baldwin Evanson MD and Mary Murphy performed by John Murphy. It is probable that this is the Murphy family of Newtown, Bantry as her brother John was a Rector at the time |



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Rathclaren:
https://www.google.ie/maps/search/Rathlaren+Cork/@51.656201,-8.7002135,14z
Bathurst, New Brunswick:
https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Bathurst,+NB,+Canada/@47.6259605,-65.6281926,8z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x4c98941b3ad5d61d:0x505c13c653ce030
The ending of the Napoleonic Wars withe Battle of waterloo caused a huge collapse of farm prices and triggered a widespread depression. In the greater Bandon area this was worsened by the dependance of the textile industry much home based which could not withstand competition from England.
There are many accounts of widespread distress among Bandon weavers.
Emigration from the Bandon/Rathclaren area, Co Cork from c 1815 to Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada
Sharon Haggerty, in Vancouver, British Columbia, has set up a focus e mail for those interested.
can-chaleur-bay-irish@rootsweb.com.