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1863, Military Discharge Papers of John Patrick Jagoe, Dunmanway, formerly Farmer, Private 39th Regiment of Foot, Enrolled 1845 over 16 years Service including Gibraltar, Crimea, Canada.

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1863, Military Discharge Papers of John Patrick Jagoe, Dunmanway, formerly Farmer, Private 39th Regiment of Foot, Enrolled 1845 over 16 years Service including Gibraltar, Crimea, Canada.

From the mid 18th century an enormous number of Irish men served in the British Army, Navy and the Army of the East India Company.

Courtesy Elizabeth Thorne, Australia.

Some West Cork  Military personnel:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11urZxIDy4fdnr2ih_r8mtr4i1zI5dqmLgz6ipOIRhCM/edit

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Some Genealogical Data from Townlands of Ahagouna, Clashadoo, Coomkeen from 1783, Durrus District, West Cork

25 Saturday Feb 2017

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https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Ahagouna,+Co.+Cork/@51.6213833,-9.5371587,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x48459fce5a16b103:0x95e1055fb310a27b!8m2!3d51.6213805!4d-9.5349687

Some genealogical Data from Townland of Ahagouna, Clashadoo, Coomkeen from 1783, Durrus District, West Cork

These townlands has an enormous population pre Famine.  Ahagouna was possibly a weaving colony and before Ahagouna Bridge was built possibly 1775-1825 it was the main crossing point at the ford for western traffic on the peninsula.

The famine wiped out the cottier class it is possible to identify most from the Catholic church records (online Muintervara irishgenealogy.ie)  many of these families moved around probably subsisting on sod huts which might only last a year.

Very few of the original families are left but worldwide there are an enormous number of descendants

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Dinnsheanchas (Irish-Place Folklore), and the Goddesses of Ancient Ireland, fertility, sexuality, wa… – http://wp.me/p1UlSr-10b

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These Customs will Live In Ireland as long as Grass Grows and Water Runs and Oppression and Slavery… – http://wp.me/p1UlSr-2UD

Driscoll Blackberry and Strawberry Company, California, USA

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https://www.driscolls.com/about/heritage

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driscoll’s

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Sale of Dunmanway Co. Cork, Lordship of Manor 1858, including Tolls of Ballygurteen fair, Patent all… – http://wp.me/p1UlSr-2RA

Some Skibbereen, West Cork, Births 1591 -1896, Church of Ireland, Methodist, Society of Friends (Quaker).

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https://www.google.ie/maps/dir/Skibbereen/51.556302,-9.2497729/@51.6030256,-9.407358,12z/data=!4m8!4m7!1m5!1m1!1s0x4845a5b8ee671cad:0x28dab316351c3ffb!2m2!1d-9.2621303!2d51.5559244!1m0

 

 

 

 

This is not a comprehensive collection.  From 1865 at irishgenealogy.ie,  births registered in the Skibbereen Registration District can be looked at free online.

Cathlic records are on irishgenealogy.ie church records from c 1820

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The Reverend John Richardson, Rector of Belturbet, Co. Cavan, author of ‘The Great Folly, Superstiti… – http://wp.me/p1UlSr-4K9

1727, Possible origin of Estate of Timothy O’Donovan, Ardahill, Kilcrohane, West Cork.

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1727, Possible origin of Estate of Timothy O’Donovan, Ardahill, Kilcrohane, West Cork.

 

Hull is probably from Leamon, Schull renting ploughlands earlier in Kilcrohane from the Bishop of Cork perhaps a legacy of a Norman incursion.

 

 

Memorial No: 36634

Type of deed Date of current deed 24 May 1727 Vol Page Memorial
L Date of earlier deed 57 147 36634
No Role(s) in earlier deed(s) Role in current deed(s) Family name Forename Place Occ or title A
A P1 HULL William of Limcorish, COR Esq
B P2 DONOVAN Daniel of Dunmanway, COR Gent A
C WD WM DONOVAN Dennis of Raghlahave, COR Farmer
D WD WM DONOVAN Thomas of Dunmanway, COR Gent
E WD DONOVAN Mary of Dunmanway, COR Spinster
F WM ST LEGER J of Co Cork
Abstract Comment for person [A] :plowlands in parish of Killcrohane, Barony of West Carbery, COR
Person [C] :
Person [D] :
Person [E] :
Person [F] :
MS Date registered 21 May 1728 Date abstract added 20131102

Abstract made by: Roz McC

 

Type of deed Date of current deed 24 Nov 1727 Vol Page Memorial
L Date of earlier deed 57 148 37735
No Role(s) in earlier deed(s) Role in current deed(s) Family name Forename Place Occ or title A
A P1 HULL William of Limcorish, COR Esq
B P2 DONOVAN Daniel of Dunmanway, COR Gent A
C WD LANDERS Owen of Killpatrick, COR Farmer
D WD DONOVAN Mary of Dunmanway, COR Spinster
E WD WM DONOVAN Thomas of Dunmanway, COR Gent
F WD HURLIHY Timothy of Dunmanway, COR Yeoman
G WM DONOVAN Dennis of Raghlahave, COR Farmer
H WM ST LEGER J of Co Cork
Abstract Comment for person [A] :property in parish of Killmore, Barony of West Carbery, COR
Person [C] :
Person [D] :
Person [E] :
Person [F] :
Person [G] :
Person [H] :
MS Date registered 21 May 1728 Date abstract added 20131102

Hutchins of Bantry Magistrates and Hutchins family Portrait at Ardnagashel c 1900 House now Demolished.

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Hutchins of Bantry Magistrates and Hutchins family Portrait at Ardnagashel c 1900 House now Demolished.

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There was an unrelated family in Bantry of Hutchinsons.

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Arthur Hutchins, Ballylickey or Ardnagashel. Visited by reformer Sir Francis Burdett 1817. Present at enquiry Skibbereen 1823 into enquiry into fatal affray at Castlehaven caused by Rev. Morritt’s tithe extraction. Notified as Magistrate of Catholic meeting in Bantry re loyalty to King 1825. Signed public declaration to Alexander O’Driscoll on his removal as Magistrate 1835 with Lord Bantry, Simon White, John Puxley, Thomas Baldwin, Samuel Townsend Junior and Senior, Hugh Lawton, Thomas Somerville, Richard Townsend Senior, Rev. Alleyn Evanson, Timothy O’Donovan, Richard Townsend, Lyttleton Lyster.

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Arthur Hutchins, 1855, Ballylickey, Bantry, Resident, £60. Attending 1840 Great Meeting Bantry re Poor Law. Assisting 1848 Henry J. Fawcett, Practical Instructor on Husbandry of Visit to Bantry. Attending Railway meeting Drimoleague 1856, subscriber Dr. Daniel Donovan ‘History of Carbery’, 1876. Arthur listed 1843 at Reendonegan, Bantry. Member election committee McCarthy Downing, Skibbereen, 1868.

Emanuel Hutchins, Ballylickey, Bantry, Listed 1835. 1812 election voted Hutchinson. Emanuel Hutchins, Cregane Castle, Co. Limerick (of Bantry family) Plea for Clemency for Bantry United Irishmen Men, letter 11th August 1799, to The Lord Lieutenant for Bantrymen, Doctor Bryan O’Connor and Attorney, Florence McCarthy. This was against Transportation to Botany Bay.Theobald Wolfe Tone , the leading United Irishmen and Irish Republican figure of the 1780s-90s, had attended Trinity College Dublin and there befriended Emanuel Hutchins of Ardnagashel, Bantry, Co Cork (1769-1839). While at sea off Bantry with French forces in 1796 he remembered his friend, as he noted in his diary. [Re Tone’s diary, see ‘Publication Note’ in ‘Allied Materials’. Re the Hutchins family, see collection U254 Hutchins
Laminated A3 page containing an extract of text from diary of Wolfe Tone, 24 Dec 1796, on board a French Warship in Bantry Bay, mentioning his ‘friend Hutchins’ [Emanuel Hutchins of Ardnagashel, Ballylickey, Bantry]. A note regarding the involvement of both men in a Dublin political club in 1790 follows below the extract, and a profile portrait of Tone is also included. On reverse are copied title pages of ‘Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone’ (Washington: Gales & Seaton, 1826) and ‘Memoirs of Theobald Wolfe Tone’ (London: Henry Colburn, 1827), cited as ‘source’. Three notes regarding the provenance of the item occur: note: ‘Extracted copy from the Two Volumes in possession of Arethusa Hutchins Greacen… Portrait & Vol II page 144 and p 545’; note: ‘Arethusa’s copy is believed to be the one acquired by Emanuel Hutchins who died in 1839’; sticker: ‘Photocopy with Richard N Hutchins.. Solicitor (Retired).. Bantry’.

Richard Hutchins, 1686, Bantry, served in Irish Confederate Wars 1641-1853 under son of Richard Boyle, 1st Earl Orrery, Roger Boyle, Baron Broghill and appointed Poll Tax Commissioner and acquired former O’Sullivan lands.

Thomas Hutchins, 1776, Ballylickey, Bantry. 1758 leases for Ballylickey renewed, major trade in herring, cod, ling, oysters, father a major smuggler. Captain Robert Man, the Lauceston, Bantry. Has drawn a bill in favour of Thomas Hutchins for the cost of impressing seamen. Date: 1746 Feb 23

Samuel Newburgh Hutchins BA -1915), 1875, Fortlands, Charleville, and Ardngashel, Bantry, Resident, £408, succeeded on death of his brother Emanuel. He had been in the Australian Mounted Police during Gold Rush. Married 1875 Marianne Isabella Harrison of Castle Harrison, Charleville. Son Captain Richard Hutchins killed WW1 ArthurRoyal Munster Fusiliers. 1893 member Cork Historical and Archaeological Society

Samuel Hutchins (listed as Hutchinson probably wrong), Pre 1831, Ardnagashel, Bantry, listed 1838, 1843, may be Arthur d 1836, m Matilda, d John O’Donnell Esq., Erris, Co. Mayo, probate to son Robert.

Samuel Hutchins, listed 1835 at Ballylickey, 1838. 1835 in Bantry paying £5 toward Catholic Rent, frequently praised as a Liberal Protestant. 1840 petition on Catholic Equality. Attending address Ardnagashel 1840 Great Meeting Bantry re Poor Law. Listed 1843, Ardnagashel, Bantry. Estate passed to him on death of younger brother Emanuel in 1839, Brother of botanic artist Ellen Hutchins. 1820 Member Cork Library. 1837 donated £5 to Justice (Catholic Repeal) Rent. Set up a soup kitchen during Famine. Extensive property throughout Co. Cork, sitting Bantry, and Castletown North Cork, 1835, Castletownbere 1839, Buttevant 1846 succeeded by his son Emanuel later by another son Samuel Newburgh. 1846 Grand Jury grant drainage 25 acres Ardnagashel.

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