Glengariff, Co. Cork Church of Ireland Marriages 1864-1955
21 Friday Jun 2013
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Davy Crockett, Rev. James Fontaine, Battle of the Alamo and the Huguenots of Bantry Bay, Co. Cork.
19 Wednesday Jun 2013
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Davy Crocket’s ancestor James Crockett born c 1674 (may be later) was the child of one of the 13 Huguenots who worked with James Fontaine in a short lived fishing enterprise around the late 17th century to the early 1700s. He was Louise de Sax Crocketagne (Anglicised to Crockett) mother Antoine. The fishery was in the Castletown/Dursey area. Rev. Fontaine’s settlement was at Bank Harbour, 5 miles east of Castle Town Bere. The road down to the pier is the L8952.
Davy Crockett’s ancestor James Crockett born c 1674 (may be later) was the child of one of the 13 Huguenots who worked with James Fontaine in a short lived fishing enterprise around the late 17th century to the early 1700s. He was Louise de Sax Crocketagne (Anglicised to Crockett) mother Antoine. The fishery was in the Castletown/Dursey area.
From Bishop Dive Downes Tour 1700:
Interestingly Fontaine (James Fountain 1702) and his son James Fountaine Junior (1710) were appointed Justices of the Peace for Co. Cork suggesting that they were well connected.
Rev. Fontaine’s memoir, last chapter re West Cork
https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Tale_of_the_Huguenots_or_Memoirs_of_a_French_Refugee_Family/15
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/w/a/c/Mary-Wacaster-Tx/FILE/0003page.html
Ancestor of Davy Crockett, Battle of the Alamo, http://www.writework.com/essay/biography-davy-crockett-and-battle-alamo
A Huguenot settlement was established here about the year 1700. The organiser of the project was Jacques de la Fontaine, the son of a French Protestant minister. This adventurer came to England and carried on some small business for a time. He then became a Protestant clergyman, and in the year 1694 came to Cork, where he ministered to a small Huguenot congregation. He heard of the fisheries at Berehaven, which he thought offered a wider field for the exercise of his energies. He repaired hither, rented some land and houses, brought over his colonists, and formed a fishing company. He was soon appointed Justice of the Peace, and in this capacity became most obnoxious to the natives.
He made himself a busy tool of the Government, and interfered in matters which scarcely concerned him. Smuggling was carried on largely at the time, and he thought he would put a stop to it. The task was beyond his powers and brought him to grief. He was fully aware of the enmity of the natives and of those engaged in the smuggling trade, and he made preparations to protect himself in case he should be attacked. Having some knowledge of erecting forts, he raised earthworks around his residence, which got the name of the ” Sodfort.” His foresight was soon justified, for in June, 1704, a French privateer entered Bantry Bay and proceeded to storm the Sod Fort. Fontaine stood well to his guns, and after an engagement that lasted from eight in the morning until four in the afternoon, the privateer withdrew with the loss of three killed and seven wounded. The Government granted him a pension of five shillings a day for his skill and bravery in the action, and he was supplied with five guns which he was authorised to mount on the battery.
Frederick Peel Eldon Potter, editor of the Skibbereen Eagle, and ‘Keeping an Eye on the Russian Tsar’, Ernest Blythe, Editor Southern Star, Skibbereen, Co. Cork, 1918
18 Tuesday Jun 2013
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Grave of Potter, Editor and owner of Skibbereen Eagle author of “keeping an Eye on the Tsar of Russia’
http://www.graveyards.skibbheritage.com/Gravestone.aspx?GravestoneID=653
Ward and Lock’s Guide to Cork and neighborhood including Killarney and Bantry c 1892
18 Tuesday Jun 2013
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From University of Villa Nova, Joe McGarrity collection (from Carrickmore, Co.Tyrone associated with IRB in USA and later promoter of the Irish Sweeps associate of Dr. Patrick McCartan 1878-1963 who ran for Presidency of Ireland 1945.
Letter from Florence McCarthy 1609 re building of Castles at Donemark, Bantry, Co.Cork 1215
18 Tuesday Jun 2013
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From University College Cork’s electronic texts
http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/E600001-030/text001.html
Donemark is a short distance from Bantry.
Petition of Maurice de Carrreu (Carrew) to King of England c1300 including Donemark, Bantry.
Thomas Young Cotter 1805-1882, Bantry born First Colonial Surgeon 1835, South Australia. Related to Bantry Young Family, Fish Merchants.
17 Monday Jun 2013
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Looking up the Church of Ireland records for Bantry I came across Thomas Young Cotter, born in Bantry in 1805. His father Richard may have been born on Cloyne, Co. Cork and he married Ellen Young in London. It is possible that she was of the Bantry Young family who were prominent merchants and engaged in the fishing business. The Youngs are probably in Bantry since at least 1600. Richard was a purser with the Royal Navy in the West Indies and was late joined there by Thomas.
The Bantry Youngs connect DNA wise with the Gosnells, Evans of Ardrala, Youngs of Aughadown and probably Crowleys and O’Sullivan Pritties of Ballyourane, Caheragh.
Foe early Cork Medicals see entries for Bantry under Youngs (Dr. Cotter’s mother people):
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17Xdk_bdkpBSVHaTP45WxSY0r4v6-kluvlPz7ZynQxfU/edit#gid=0
Thomas’s medical history is documented in a biography
http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/cotter-thomas-young-1923
He had a literary turn editing the South Australian Magazine and The South Australian Almanac. His father had earlier published ‘Sketches of Bermuda’
From Bryan Richards
According to the Muster List of HMS Cerberus, Richard Cotter was born Abt. 1776 Cloyne County Cork. I now discovered Richard and Ellen Young married twice, once in Bantry and again at what is now known as the Queen’s Chapel Savoy London. Another son Pownal Pellew Cotter was Master of HMS Terror on the 1841 expedition and Cape Cotter in Antarctica was named after him. My wife is descended from his another son James MacNamara Cotter. Ellen is most likely the daughter of Thomas Young a Fish Curer of Main Street Bantry. Ellen died in Bantry 1870, one of her daughters was named Jane Lucy Cotter and when widowed she rented from a John Lucy. Latest theory is her mother was Jane Young nee Lucy.
Marriages 1856-1893, Cape Clear Island (Cléire), Church of Ireland.
17 Monday Jun 2013
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https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqhnQGE3ANjzdGhUTmRlQXhzSDlROW5xdFJ0UTdXTUE#gid=0
The Catholic Church records contain some Church of Ireland/Methodist members either in the marriages or as sponsors or witnesses.
Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Fishing Industry, sitting in Bantry April 1836. Evidence of Richard Young gave evidence that his great grandfather had lost £2,000 when a Finance House in Bilbao had collapsed. This may have been the Consulado de Bilbao in 1651
13 Thursday Jun 2013
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The Commission was investigating the state of the fishing industry on the south west coast. One of the Commissioners was Redmond Barry, an inspector of fisheries. He was a small landlord, a Catholic from Glandore who worked tirelessly to improve agricultural and general condition in the area.
Among those who gave evidence was John Young then 87 whose family had been extensively involved in the industry. There were a number of seine owners and owners of a hooker. The Youngs had been involved in fishing in Bantry for generations and Richard Young gave evidence that his great grandfather had lost £2,000 when a Finance House in Bilbao had collapsed. This may have been the Consulado de Bilbao in 1651
Click to access catalogo_diputacion.pdf
Timothy O’Donovan, a small landlord and Magistrate of O’Donovan’s Cove, Durrus, gave a written submission on the futility of certain controls as not being effective and only resulting in litigation.
O’Donovans:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eq_IayaxdUyWZWbpDf6LWlLNg7o-3tNJiqPGYIALy80/edit
http://eppi.dippam.ac.uk/documents/11292/eppi_pages/151986
Timothy O’Donovan (1790-1874), 1818, O’Donovan’s Cove, in ruins 1875, Durrus, listed 1838, son of Richard Esq. and Jane d Alexander O’Donovan, Squince. 1820. Memorial to Lord Lieutenant by William Swanton, Gortnagrough, Ballydehob, West Cork. High Constable (Rate and Tax Collector), Barony of West Carbery For Relief on Losses Caused to Him in Banking Collapse when He had transmitted Due Amount to County Treasurer, Leslies, Stephen and Roches Bank, Supported by Lord Bantry and Magistrates Timothy O’Donovan (Durrus), William Hull (Schull), Richard Townsend (Skibbereen), Rev. Edward Jones Alcock (Durrus), Nathaniel Evanson (Durrus), Robert Kenny (Bantry). In 1823 he applied for relief of poor of Ballydehob, which he had founded. Present at enquiry Skibbereen 1823 into enquiry into fatal affray at Castlehaven caused by Rev. Morritt’s tithe extraction. Correspondent with Antiquarian Dr. John O’Donovan re O’Donovans of Carbery. Brother of Dr O’Donovan and Richard O’Donovan J.P. and uncle of Richard O’Donovan J.P.. His son’s wife is grand daughter to Daniel O’Connell, the mother of his wife was a Miss Lavellan, Co. Limerick, a daughter of Philip Lavellin of Water Park in the County of Cork. Her sister was married to Mr. Puxley of Dunboy Branch. The grandson the present (1860) Mr. Puxley is a man of immense wealth the principal owner of the famous Allihies Mines in the Barony of Bere. Signed public declaration in Skibbereen 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, Thomas Somerville, Richard Townsend Senior, Rev. Alleyn Evanson, Richard Townsend, Lyttleton Lyster. 1835 Subscriber Lewis Topographical Dictionary of Ireland 1837. In 1838 in the Liberal interest where at Bantry voter registration 15 were registered as opposed to 6 ‘Orangemen’ the tenants of Timothy O’Donovan J.P. were chiefly among those who registered. Among these were probably McCarthys of Tulig later prominent in Nationalist politics of whom John McCarthy (1859-1931) became a leading politician in Nebraska and wrote a poem in praise of Timothy O’Donovan. Attended Great Meeting in Bantry 1840 re Poor Laws. Chaired 1846 distress meeting Bantry on proposition of Father Michael Barry PP Bantry. Landlord and political organiser. Member Election Committee, Rickard Deasy, Clonakilty (later Attorney General) 1855 Member election committee McCarthy Downing, Skibbereen. Juror Cork Spring Assizes 1863. Land record, 1870, Kate O’Donovan, O’Donovan’s Cove, 1,940 acres and Reps Timothy O’Donovan 1,940 acres. 1874, Death at 85 of Timothy O’Donovan, J.P., Esq, O’Donovan Cove, Durrus, West Cork, The Last Survivor of the Ancient House of O’Donovan Bawn or Clann Cahill, Justice of the Peace since 1818 Probate to daughter Mrs Anne Barry, widow, effects £2,000, attended 8, Grand Jury Presentments
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10 Monday Jun 2013
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The Bantry Circuit of Methodism from 1783
08 Saturday Jun 2013
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I am indebted to
Robin P Roddie
Archivist
Methodist Historical Society of Ireland
Edgehill College
West Cork History 