1820 – Castle Freke, Co. Cork – Architecture of Cork, Lost Buildings of Ireland – Archiseek.com
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Robert M. Salter, (1814-1876), from Ballybane, Schull West Cork to service in State Legislature, Wisconsin, USA, 1862.
He married Jane Camier in 1834, in Cork, and after her death 1843, Jane Sweetnam (1823-1897) He emigrated to the USA 1846 and settled in Jackson, Washington, Wisconsin. He served as Town Supervisor and is credited with bringing fine horses to Washington and Ozaukee Counties.
On his death ‘The Democrat’ on the 9th August 1876 reported that by one of the largest gatherings ever witnessed and there were 81 teams in the procession many coming on horseback.
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Return of The O’Donovan, Colonel South Cork Militia, from the Boer War in South Africa, His Carriage Drawn by Men Through Town of Skibbereen, West Cork, Party at Lissard, Singing and Dancing. Porter Flowing to The Early Hours, Light From Tar Barrels.
From Willie Kingston’s memoir

Magistrate:
Colonel Morgan William ‘The O’Donovan’ Oxon (1861-1940), CB, D.L., MA, 1888, ‘The O’Donovan’, Clann Cathal, Lis Ard, Skibbereen, son of Henry Wintrop ‘The O’Donovan’ MA, DL. and Amelia d ‘The O’Grady’, Courcy O’Grady, Kilbollyowne, Co. Limerick. Ed. Haileybury and Oxford, Lieutenant-Colonel Munster Fusiliers, Colonel South Cork Militia Boer War, Succeeded Colonel Aylmer C. Somerville 1899 as President Carbery Agricultural Society. M Mary Eleanor, odo Rev. J Yarker Barton, Chaplain to British Forces, listed 1921.
