https://www.google.ie/maps/@51.8925248,-8.4837764,17z

It is interesting loking at this abstract.

The church records which have survive for St. Finbar’s Cathedral and St. Peters Church of Ireland are replete with names originating i West Cork. Time and again you come across Jagoes, Attridges etc. It also seemed to be common for couples to come to Cork to marry and presumable spend a few days of a honeymoon there.

Re butter making, John Jagoe of Bantry whose father was from Dunmanway reputedly ran a shop for a while in Bandon Road/Barrack St.

Evidence of John Jagoe, (Grandfather of Mother Benigna, Australia and Father of John Jagoe BL), Bantry, Co. Cork, 1837 re Manor Courts to Parliamentary Commission.

Another name that keeps cropping up is the O’Leary family of Glasheen. Though Protestant they are most likely to be the same line as the Art O’Leary rebel of Raleigh, Macroom also lawyers.

Up to recently the area to the west of the city was the first pot of call for people from the west.

Richard Caulfield, (1823-1887), Cork Antiquarian, Scholar and the Transcription of Burials from the 1748-1764 and 11th February 1764 of the Church Records, Cork City, 1877

Dr Richard Caulfield, Antiquarian Librarian of Queen College now UCC, Cork mother Catherine Gosnell probably from Schull by J.P. McCarthy 1987:

Up to 1870 the (Protestant) Church of Ireland was the Irish State Church. Apart from religion it administered legal functions such as Probable and the regulation of marriage with its own internal legal system.

The format for Marriage was an application for a Marriage License Bond. Some Catholics applied for MLBs for legal purposes or because of the Penal Laws and may have got married in Protestant Churches. There are a very large number of ‘Catholic’ names in the surviving registers.

This was expensive and as most Cork Protestant were labourers, artisan or small farmer the popular method was Bans where the proposed marriage was read out three times at service.

Of the  jurisdiction of Cork Consistory Court:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FWBV3gRAeVpYqD5Nlq9j4by9xQGww9Y141pT1mZshpA/edit

The litigation arose from the marriage of White/Dillon. Presumable he impregnated her and went through a marriage ceremony. He then applied to re marry and her legal advisors issued a caveat at the Cork Consistory Court to prevent the purported bigamous marriage. A Case to counsel was prepared. The case would have major implication as the proper entitlement of heirs was at stake. This will be posted shortly.

The Dillons were influential in Bantry/Durrus the main line was Catholic. There is a very large tomb in Moulivard Graveyard (Durrus East).  One was Master of the workhouse, another Thomas a Poor Law Guardian and Council member the funeral of his wife nee Roycroft in 1892 was enormous:

1892. Immense Funeral of Mrs Thomas Dillon, nee Roycroft, Husband Thomas Poor Law Guardian (PLG) Bantry, Obituary a Who’s Who of West Cork.

The vast bulk of the records were destroyed in the Public Records in 1922.

However the great Australian born, Cork antiquarian Herbert Gillman (1832-98):

Herbert Webb Gillman, BL, JP, Cork Antiquarian, in 1892 ‘The writer takes the opportunity of expressing his opinion that the greater part of our County Histories in Ireland can be, and indeed ought to be, rewritten in the light of the documents of late being made readily available by the Public Record Office. It is a Department of which any Nation ought to be justly proud; and the work done in arranging, indexing and editing by the able officers engage there, so well by their courtesy and ready help, afforded freely to all comers are beyond praise.

Herbert Webb Gillman (1832-1898), Clonteadmore, Coachford, Co. Cork, Judge Ceylon, Antiquarian, Authority on Castles of Co. Cork and Author of Index to the Licence Bonds of Cork and Ross.

copied the abstract before destruction and they are reproduced here

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6hnQGE3ANjzaE5yemFTbEZTMkk/view?ts=560a8f7a

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Format of Converts Affidavits in relation to Conversion (From The Errors of Papacy) Deponent Swears ‘That He did not Convert for Any Temporal Advantage But Solely From Conscientious Conviction an To Ensure His Souls Salvation’, part of Penal Law Regime.

The English as conquerors had an extraordinary mix of military brutality and legalism. Land was seized and forfeit and then under the auspices of Chichester House (Dublin, site of old Irish Parliament) a fig leaf of legality was put up to entertain ousted claimants. Likewise with the Penal Laws designed to extirpate Irish Nationality again the extraordinary quasi-legality.:

Penal Laws in Co. Cork early 18th century, Father Donogh Sweeney, Doctor of Sorbonne, Paris, , arrested like common criminal for saying Mass by Richard Hedges, Macroom, Warrant 16th October 1712. Petition of 1717 of Samuel Potter Innishannon to Lord Liutenant re ‘Bringing to Justice’ two Popish priests Charles Carthy and Teige Mahony for saying Mass and a Popish Schoolmaster Owen Cartie and who has shown great diligence in apprehending and prosecuting many secular and regular Popish clergy

‘An Act to prevent the further growth of popery’, Convert Rolls for 18th Century Co. Cork and other Renunciations against ‘Popery’, Co. Cork with letter January 1732 from Parish Priest Bantry listing supporters of Crypto-Catholics

Conversions among Catholic Lawyers to the Church of Ireland, 1704-1778. Official concern about ‘Catholic Wives’ 1714, Two thirds of the Business of the Four Courts consists of Popish Discoveries 1723, Andrew Arcedeckne (b Kilkenny 1691) Attorney General Jamaica 1716-7. Dennis Kelly Chief Justice, Jamaica Bryan Finucane Co. Clare Chief Justice, Nova Scotia 1776, Richard J Uniacke, Co. Cork, Solicitor General, Nova Scotia to 1830, Edward Savage, Co. Down Judge South Carolina after 1765

Galwey Public Remounciation against Evils of Popery, Bantry, Co. Cork, 1730s. the Penal Laws and Caputo-Genocide in East Pakistan 1970s, and the Moranos, Crypto-Jews in Spain.

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Aughadown,+Co.+Cork/@51.5477795,-9.37507,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x4845a3eec9a8475d:0x1800c7a937df2b00

National Schools in Chapel Yards 1843, at Ballydehob, Bantry, Durrus, Caheagh, Whitehall (Skibbereen) ‘These Schools in Demonstrate at Once the Craft Ambition and Falsehood of the System with which Liberality of Nationality are Vain Pretences

The writer lives a fee miles from the school. The publication was noted for inflaming the embers of sectarian animosity

Report on Popery, 1731 setting out Masshouses and Popish Schools in Co. Cork, Drinagh, Inchigeela 7 sheds, Killaconenagh (Castletownbere) swarms of Priests are constantly going to and from France, 600 families in Parish of whom 12 are of Reformed Church, , Kilmoe (Ballydehob), Friars frequently landing from France and dispersing throughout the country, copied from documents in Bermingham Tower, Dublin Castle probably destroyed in 1922.

Schools in Bantry/Skibbereen/Schull area West Cork 19th century.

https://www.google.ie/maps/@51.4528032,-9.478312,14z

Letter to Skibbeereen Eagle 1862 by O’Donovan Rossa re Giving Relief on Cape Clear Island

Recollections of O’Donovan Rosa, pre Famine West Cork Beggars, Cripples, Fair at Newmill, Faction Fights, ‘The Nation’, Whiteboys, ‘Keepers’ minding Corn before Seizure by Landlord During Famine.

Professor Thadeus O’Mahony (1822-1903), Ballineen, West Cork, Church of Ireland Minister, Professor of Irish at Trinity College Dublin (1861-79), Botanist, and the Brehon Law Commission in the 1850s with Dr. John O’Donovan. His father was Cornelius O’Mahony Gentleman. He married Annabella Geoghegan of Rathmines daughter of Henry in 1856. The same year he was Treasurer of the Ossianic Society in TCD and the O’Donovan Rossa/James Stephens Connection

Souvenir of Funeral of O’Donovan Rossa (1831-1915), pieces by Arthur Griffith, Curtis O’Leary, James Connolly, McDonagh among others.

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Kinsale,+Co.+Cork/@51.7060497,-8.5225014,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x484461fb98d2012b:0x0a00c7a99731ef70

Rebuilding Ancient and Venerable Establishment the erection of new Kinsale Carmelite Priority and Public Thanks to Citizens of Bandon including John and Isaac Biggs, Esquires, Edward Barry, Esq., James Allman, Esquire, Distiller, Mr. Dawson, Junior, Esq., Main St.

Allman’s Distillery Bandon, Co. Cork, from 1825-1929, Genealogy and Overton Cotton enterprise..

Invitation by Henry Townsend DL, 1839, on behalf of The Reformers of the West Riding of Cork to Daniel O’Connel MP to Dinner in Bandon, Co Cork, with 200 Liberals in attendance including, Francis Bernard Beamish MP (1802-1868), Rickard Deasy (1766-1852) Brewer Clonakilty, James Clugston Allman Distiller Bandon, James Redmond Barry J.P., Cmmisioner for Fisheries, Edward O’Brien, Masonic Lodge Bandon, John Hurley Brewer., Major E. Broderick, Henry Owen Beecher Townsend (1775-1847), Major Mathew Scott J.P. (1779-1844), Philip Harding, Carrigafooka, Macroom, Richard Dowden (1794-1861) Unitarian, Frances Coppinger Esq., Parkview, Bandon.

The Old ‘Cork and Bandon’, Railway, Unveiling of Plaque in 1994 by Colm Creedon, Horse drawn Sidings, Allman’s Distillery, Bennett’s Mills, Shannon Vale. Staff Photograph, 1919, Freight Statistics, Steamer Service Bantry to Castletownbere, West Cork, 1883-1946.

Father/Reverend Daniel McCarthy (1758-1828), ’An tAthair Tadgh Na Muclagh’, Formerly Parish Priest Durrus, West Cork 1790, Marriage to Sarah Blair, of Blair’s Cove, Durrus, and His Petitions to Dublin Castle, Genealogies.

Rev/Father Daniel McCarthy:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BnjAwZ6eFk_0sTMsjxYBo3YFQLNqJ4J2utWIftpJXqs/edit

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BnjAwZ6eFk_0sTMsjxYBo3YFQLNqJ4J2utWIftpJXqs/edit

He was a descendant of the marriage of Michael O’Sullivan, Bantry, (Heart Tax Collector and land Owner and reputed descendant of O’Sullivan Bere) and Mary Vickery, Whiddy Island.

From Ron Price a descendant of the extended family:

Between 1981 and 1990 I made notes immediately after speaking to various Co Cork people about my Cork ancestry. I now wish to make those notes available to anyone interested. Any clarification comments added at this stage are in square brackets. I would welcome any questions or comments.

Source: Thomas (Tommy) Bryan (b 1930) of Ballybrack, Glenville, Co Cork

Notes from conversation on 8 May 1989

– Definitely heard that William Dukelow was relatively prosperous. As well as his 5 sons who worked on the farm he had 2 hired men working from first thing in the morning. Mrs Roberts views, which are slightly anti-William perhaps influenced by his heavy drinking – she is very anti-drink. He had heard that William was very diligent in managing the farm. They had a very balanced diet supplemented by herrings caught in William’s own boat. Pickled herring for the winter.
– Heard that William Dukelow was killed when walking back from Durrus.
– William Dukelow’s son Charles spent some time in Canada before returning home.
– William Dukelow definitely gave £200 dowry with Anne on marriage. Dowry details were negotiated by the 2 sets of parents. The £200 did not go to Henry Bryan, but £100 to his sisters Frances and Minnie as dowries for their marriages.
– William [was] supposed to have £2000 in Bantry Bank, while some of his neighbours were evicted.
– William drank most evenings in the hotel in Durrus.
– There was a Mr Leathem who preached on the evils of drink – he was a former schoolteacher who had lost his job through drink. He was put up at Brahalish one night after preaching to Mrs Dukelow & girls. William arrived back late, with[a] bottle of whiskey. On hearing of the guest, he insisted in loudly shouting out his name and insisting he shared the bottle with him. Next day Mr Leathem got up late & claimed that it was lucky that he had there to save William from being smothered in drink. Mrs Dukelow regarded him less highly as [a] result.
– Henry Bryan had to sell the Knockeenboy farm to pay off debts. (The land at Ballybrack is no better.) At one point he was rather hard-up – so went back to Brahalish looking for assistance. Anne’s parents [were] not impressed – “you got a good girl; a £200 fortune” &; [they] gave no help. Henry referred to Margaret Dukelow as of the “Cob Dubh” breed (black face in Irish) because of her dark face in response to his request.
– Henry Bryan ‘s family (and his cousin) were the first Protestants to live in Ballybrack neighbourhood. An old local man recently told him the crossroads beside the farm became known as “the Planter’s Cross”.
– Ballybrack farm [was] rented from a Charles Allworth who lived in Sunnyhill, Mallow. He was known as “the halfpenny bun landlord” because he always carried a large halfpenny bun around with him.
– Fanny Bryan of Ballymana eloped with Thaddeus Bryan by climbing out a widow of the Model School she was attending. Thaddeus had a horse waiting – they went off to Thaddeus’ married sister then living near Clonakilty. He then left her there for a couple of weeks which rather offended her. She was aged around 18.
– Fanny Bryan was well educated – could speak three languages – English, Irish & French.
– Heard that Thaddeus & Fanny had eleven children, but [he] can only name ten. – Before William; Anne were married William Dukelow came to inspect the Knockeenboy farm to assess the suitability of the family. [He was] not impressed – house too crowded; cluttered, so he stated. William [was] about to go. Henry had his horse’s bridle hidden to prevent him from going – got William another bottle of whiskey; eventually all was arranged.
– Henry’s daughter Ellen had an accident in the quarry behind the farm & had [a] leg amputated. She never really recovered & died as a result.
– Henry Bryan was a good singer ; musician – played [the] melodeon.
– Henry’s Uncle Charlie took him to his sister Ellen married to Busteed. He wanted to stay on when Charles insisted on leaving – he subsequently referred to him as “the old grey goat”. [see clarification below]
– Ballybrack farm did not originally include the 10 feet on the right-hand side beyond the chimney. The upstairs windows were originally flat-topped.