Samuel Jervois, Brade, Skibbereen. Samuel Jervois , 1769, Brade, Skibbereen, in 1777 chasing Banditti in Murdering Glen outside Bantry with Richard and John Townsend and Daniel Callaghan. Member at Bandon Hanover Association meeting Cork 1791 re Whiteboys. 1792 as Provost of Bandon convened a meeting on foot of a requisition of 200 where it was resolved to support the Protestant Ascendancy. 1799 Supporter of the Act of Union Between Ireland and Great Britain. Maybe the father of Samuel who married Lucinda Allen. Purchased 1770 Shandon Castle Cork (now Irish Ballet Company). Elizabeth Murphy, widow of John Murphy of Newtown, is the sister of Samuel Jervois of Brade. In this deed Samuel Jervois is creating an indenture of 14 hundred pounds on the mortgage of Castledonovan to provide a dowry for his niece Martha (Elizabeth’s daughter), on her marriage to Dr Henry Baldwin Evanson in 1828. Among a number of Magistrate who at a meeting in 1812 in Skibbereen offered substantial monies towards the apprehension of those responsible for the murders of Ellen and Simon Loardan whose bodies were discovered in a lake at Bawnlahan and Glandore Harbour.
The only thing I’m not sure about is whether the lands at Castledonovan came into Samuel Jervois’s hands through his marriage to Lucinda Alleyn, or if they were Jervois lands all along, or perhaps even both families had interests in them. They are mentioned as “family lands” in his post-marriage settlement to Lucinda in 1818, but it’s not clear which family is meant, so Samuel may have already swapped whatever lands Lucinda originally brought into her marriage for the lands at Castledonovan. There is an earlier mortgage linking the Jervoises to Castledonovan (don’t know the date off-hand), but they may have been one of many families who acquired some portion from Daniel O’Donovan or when Lieut. Nathaniel Evanson mortgaged Castledonovan and moved to Four Mile Water. I suspect these lands were passed back & forth many times, probably each time someone married! Members of the Jervois family held over 450 acres in county Cork in the 1870s. In October 1855 and January 1856 over 100 acres of their property in the parish of Nohaval, barony of Kinalea, were offered for sale in the Encumbered Estates Court. The original lease, dating from 1710, was between the Busteed and Hodder families. In 1853 Samuel Jervois was among the principal lessors in the parish of Dromdaleague, barony of West Carbery. Townsend notes the discovery of copper on the estate of Samuel Jervois, at Leap, before 1810. Family history sources suggest that an earlier Samuel Jervois had come to Ireland with the Cromwellian forces in the mid seventeenth century. He had been granted land around Glandore. Will dated 1803 described as of Bandon extracted 1806.
1823. Several Thousand Assemble Kilpatrick Road, to engage in the lawless and dangerous practice of bowling near Bandon. Multitude dispersed by Rev. Joseph Jervois with some of the new Police
Bowlers Aughaville, Dromore, Colomane, Durrus, West Cork. Bill Barrett, Patrick O’Driscoll, Richard Barrett, John Connolly, Jimmy Crowley, J.j. Sullivan, Donald Crowley, Eugene Daly and Possible Origins in Co. Armagh and The North of England
Meeting of Select Vestry, Skibbereen, West Cork, 10th May 1832, to appoint Officers of Health under Statute of the 59th year of His Late Majesty, King George 3, p. 31
Early Church Wardens, 1699, Bishop Mann Visitation of Church of Ireland Dioceses of Cork. Ref D121.1. 1827 Parliamentary Return of Vestries, 1851, 1861 Visitations, p. 31
1824. Cover letter and memorial from the church wardens of the parish of Fanlobbus, Dunmanway, County Cork, concerning prosecution of Sabbath profaners, p. 32
West Cork Select Vestries. 1885-1890, p. 32
March 1798. Rosscarbery, Drimoleague, Castletownbere, Select Vestries meeting to Levy a Rate to provide Four Men to Serve in Militia and to Levy Seven and a Half Pence Per Gneeve. Further meeting August 1803 to levy £1-6-o per ploughland to raise 5 men for Militia and £5-13-9 on town of Rosscarbery. Cost of Levy for Cork City and County, p. 32
Late 18th early 19th Century Interplay of the Select Vestries of the Church of Ireland (State Church) in Local Administration, Barony of Carbery, Castlehaven, Drimoleague, Durrus, Cess Payer Representatives Named, p. 32
1851 Visitation Book West Cork, Church of Ireland parishes, Population 1834 and 1851, Schools, Parish Clerks, Church Wardens.p. 32
1830 keeping the Sabbath in Clonakilty, p. 32
Townlands and Placenames, 1794 Principal Inhabitants Thanks to Government, 1870 Registered Vestrymen, Kilmeen Parish History, 1975 Dan O’Leary, Funded by Jerry Beechinorp. 32
1793-1803. Cork Grand Jury Returns including provision for Militia from 1795., p. 32
The Military Levy was raised through parishes by the Churchwardens, the parishes were subject to a levy or a bounty to be paid in lieu. The surviving records of Drimoleague and Castlehaven Select Vestries confirm this., p. 33
1757 Castlehaven, (Skibbereen), Select Vestry Records, shows interaction of parishes in road building: Cullane, Daniel, app. Director of the High Way in CTend 37. VM 4 OCT 1757., p. 33
March 1798. Rosscarbery Select Vestry meeting to Levy a Rate to provide Four Men to Serve in Militia and to Levy Seven and a Half Pence Per Gneeve. Further meeting August 1803 to levy £1-6-o per ploughland to raise 5 men for Militia and £5-13-9 on town of Rosscarbery, p. 33
Cork Grand Jury (Civil Jurisdiction) To 1899, p.33
File of documents regarding the question whether the police ought to assist civil powers in invigilating the keeping of the SabbathSCOPE & CONTENT:
File of documents regarding the question whether the police ought to assist civil powers in invigilating the keeping of the Sabbath. Includes letter by [Rev] CC Townsend, Rector of the Union of Kilgariffe, Clonakilty, [County Cork], to William Gregory, [Under Secretary, Dublin Castle], complaining about orders to Lieut Barry, Chief Constable, that police ought not enforce laws on the observation of the Sabbath; letters from Maj William Miller [Inspector General], Fermoy, [County Cork], alerting government to orders given to police to be employed in that way, and enclosing letter by WJ Brady, Chief Constable, Castleconnell, [County Limerick], on local churchwarden St Ledger Watkins giving orders to Constable Dennis Eagon, and also enclosing an order by magistrates Richard Mahony, Charles O’Connell, and Francis A Chute, Caherciveen petty sessions, [County Kerry], to the police to invigilate the keeping of the Sabbath. Finally, following advice from Richard W Greene, [legal advisor, Dublin], Miller prepares a circular for all police to say that the duty falls to parish constables where they exist, and that otherwise, police can be involved.EXTENT:
The Mellifonds were of N orman extraction and because of the penal Laws some conformed to the Church of Ireland.
Gilbert Melefont, Gent. 1731/32 Parish Fanlobbus (Dunmanway). Probably Attorney, Dunmanway from 1730s Family heavily involved in Bantry area Donemark tenants of Kenmare Estate, middle men, later Magistrates in Dunmanway Melefont family member attained as rapparees in Balingeary area 1690, Sir Henry Blackhall on Munster Gallweys May be brother of David of Mellifont one of family Mary Mellifont married Henry Gallwey Bantry c 1700. Family of Norman origin prominent Kinsale
Convert Rolls, and Public Recantations, Co. Cork 18th and 19th Century and a Protestant Converts to be Catholic
1831 Persons Appointed Fit and Proper Persons to Taking a Census, Barones Bere, Bantry, East Division, East Carbery, East Division, West Carbery, West Division, East Carbey, East Division, West Carbery, Courseys, Ibane and Barryroe, Kilmmeaky (Bandon)
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Dunbeacon Graveyard:
6th March 1867 Mrs. Ann T.(ownsend) Shanahan Probably Dunbeacon Philip probably died 1892 aged 96 58 Grave: Erected by Philip Shanahan ot the memory of hs wife Ann T d 26th March 1867 aged 58 ” Philip Shanahan. was born Abt 1796; d.5 Aug 1892-Dunbeacon, County Cork, Ireland. Philip married Anne TOWNSEND on 14 Nov 1826 in East Schull, County Cork, Ireland . Anne was born about 1812. She died on 26 Mar 1867 in Dunbeacon. County Cork, Ireland. “
1892 Philip Shanahan Probably Dunbeacon Philip 1892 aged 96 96 Grave: Erected by Philip Shanahan ot the memory of is wife Ann T d 26th March 1867 aged 58
The Presentment system worked insofar as special Magistrates Session met locally to approve work on roads, bridges, harbours etc. Widely seen as corrupt favouring works for certain Landlords at the expense of cess (Rate) payers. This reform meant that prominent local citizens Catholic and Protestant farmers and business people sat at the Presentment sessions and had to approve work before they went to the Grand Jury sitting at the assizes.
1822, 1823, 1830, 1837 John Sweetnam Last Seneschal Aughadown and Schull Manors, later president of te Court of Justice before presumably Resident Magistrates Daughter Frances Gertude married William Clerke (1766-1820) possibly Skibbereen Mills. 1824. Letter from John Sweetman, seneschal of manor court of Bridgestown, Skibbereen, County Cork, to Chief Secretary’s Office, Dublin Castle, acknowledging directive for removal of four prisoners to the county gaol and communicating discomfort at prospect of releasing two debtors for fear of being sued for debts owed by the men; includes memorial from Swicham to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, requesting clarification on application of a recent prison act to manor courts, especially as it relates to prisoners ‘confined for any sum not Exceeding ten pounds’, with response to same from John Sealy Townsend, KC and legal advisor to Chief Secretary’s Office, Dublin Castle. Died February 1824 at Mardyke House, Skibbereen. Ffolliott 1823. Letter from William Hull, Lemcon, Skibbereen, County Cork, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, referring to his former letter, emphasising the need to provide a simpler and less expensive means for the lower classes to recover small debts owed to them. Encloses, in support of his claim, a document entitled ‘ “a Manor Court Decree” taken by Richard Connell against Edward Butler, both of Kealfada, County Cork, demonstrating that the legal costs far outstrip the amount of the original debt; decree originally signed by John Sweetnam, seneschal [of Aghadown and Schull Manors], 4 October 1823. .
1876 Mr. John Sweetnam Last Seneschal Aughadown and Schull Manors, until 1859. Mardyke. Married Anne d George Beamish, Dunmore, Clonakilty. Not legally qualified, ‘private gentleman’, paid c £80 per annum not highly regarded. Manor Courts abolished 1859. Ballydehob with the Estate of Boyle later Duke of Devonshire. Son George b 1848 Rectr Creagh c 1900 ed St. Bee’s College. Evidence of John Jagoe, Bantry to Parliamentary Commission, Bantry c 1838 Correspondence with Chiel Secretary over recent 1822 Prison Act to Manor Courts Chief Secretary papers .
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1821 Dr. Stephen Sweetnam MD Doctor, Airhill, Schull Guys .
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Medical
1857-, 1892, 1897 Herbert Molesworth Sweetnam, Doctor, Skibbereen and Innishannon, General Practitioner B.A.T.C, Dublin T.N.C.S. and P.Ed and Z M: T.F.P.S.G. “Herbert Molesworth Sweetnam, Westropp House, Innishannon, Co Cork. Seventh son of Stephen Sweetnam, MRCS Eng of Schull, Co Cork. Educated at Faughnan’s School, Rosscarbery and at Trinity College, Dublin where he took the degree of BA and half the MB degree. He subsequently studied at the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh and took the diplomas of LRCS and P Edin and LFM Glasgow. After practising in Skibbereen for some years, he settled at Innishannon in general practice. Medical Officer of the Innishannon Dispensary District and medical officer to the Post Office and referee to various Insurance Companies. Married first in December 1886 Rosa Sydney (who died 1895), daughter of Alexander John Montgomery of Dublin, and secondly in April 1898 Frances Penella, second daughter of Percival Symes Swan of Baldwinstown, Co Wexford, late agent of the Bank of Ireland, Tipperary and had issue by the second marriage, one son and one daughter
” 1899, attending funeral of R. H. Townshend, J.P., Myross Wood, Leap. Present Airfield, Schull at death of mother Mary Jermyn Sweetnam, widow of doctor aged 83 in 1897. “1892, attending funeral of Martin Jennings, Oldcourt, Skibbereen Southern Star 24th December 1892
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1893, 1895, 1898 J. Sweetnam M.D. Doctor 1898 donor to Goleen relief fund 1893, attending funeral of Michael Sheehy, T. C., P.L.G., Skibbereen. 1895 Funeral of Bantry Solicitor Daniel O’Donovan aged 26. Native Skibbereen: Attending the 1894 funeral of George Robinson, Landlord and Magistrate, Southern Star 3rd February 1894, magistrates attending, R. Carey, H. Cullinane, Dr. Jennings, Dr. Levis, Captain Morgan. The O’Donovan, Colonel Somerville. .
1870 G. Sweetnam Doctor/Medical Student? Dary of Geoge Vickery, medical student, 1870.
.. 1863 Dr. Richard James Sweetnam Qualified Royal College of Surgeons 1863 Air Hill. British Navy 1870? .
1807-1885, 1824, 1829,1835, 1846, 1870s Stephen Sweetnam M.R.C.S.L. Eng Dispensary Doctor Schull 1834-1852. Dispensary Officer 1840. 1829 acting as trustee over Skibbeeen properties from JOhn Attridhe to JOhn Sweetnam, Esq., River Cottage, Skibbeeen. Cert 1835. Praised for his work during famine. Relief Committee 1846. 1849 attending Ballydehob meeting proposes Agricultural Society for the Schull Union and Durrus/Kilcrohane. ListerAirfield Schull in Slater 1856 “Active as dispensary doctor in Schull during famine, 2nd wife Maria Jermyn Long 1835, She possbly Westfield, Aughadown. Possible first wife Jane Clerke 1832. Buried with Maria Aghadown Lower. 1877. Opening Skibbereen Railway
Daniel Donovan
David Hadden
John Levis, Glenview
S. W. Levis, Coroner
Dr. McCormack, Goleen
Dr. Popham, Bntry
Samuel Robinson
Dr. Swanton, Bantry
Dr. Sweetnam, Schull
Member election committee Nicholas Leader 1865 Cork County election. ” In the 1870s John (Swetman) Sweetnam of Skibbereen owned over 200 acres in county Cork while Stephen (Sweetman) Sweetnam MD, held over 220 acres in the Schull area. Members of this family held lands in the parishes of Abbeystrowry and Aghadown, barony of West Carbery, at the time of Griffith’s Valuation. Many were clergymen or medical practitioners. See http://www.learysweetnam.com “The Cork Southern Reporter : Thursday 10 November 1836
THE REV. MR. BARRY, P. P. OF EAST SKULL, has commenced the erection of a NEW CHAPEL for a poor population, in a remote District.
This necessary and long contemplated object could not, through a want of resources, have been before now carried into effect.
Mr. B. returns his thanks to the benevolent persons who, notwithstanding the many similar appeals and present weighty demands for local charities, have so liberally contributed the following sums : –” “1876 Dr. Stephen Sweetnam MD Doctor, Airhill, Schull Guys “”Inscription:
Stephen Sweetnam MD
died 8th April 1885
aged 78
Maria Sweetnam
died 11th May 1897
aged 83
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Dr Sweetnam was the dispensary doctor in Schull during the Great Famine. He was active in bringing relief to this area and is often referred to in famine reports from Schull. Maria Sweetnam (nee Long of Aughadown) was Dr Sweetnam second wife, his first wife was Jane Clerke of Skibbereen.”” “” Young Clerke was admitted to membership of the Inner Temple in London in November 1821 28. Another brother Jonathan Clerke 29 gained medical qualifications in Dublin and London in 1828. Stephen, brother of Frances Gertrude Sweetnam also gained medical qualifications at the same time and in a parallel manner to Jonathan Clerke.39 Alexander Clerk
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1866- George Sweetnam Probably Skibbereen district, may have gone to TCD 1911 Minister, Co.Derry Son Thomas William, medical student. “Son. 1877 Frank A. Sweetnam Father Stephen, doctor Aged 18, Midleton College
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The Sweetnams were Seneschal son the Carbery/Freke Estate.
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