Judge Robert Swanton (1767-1840), Ballydehob, West Cork presiding at New York Marine Court with Tipstaff Casey 1827. Thanks to Ginnie Swanton.

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2014/01/09/robert-swanton-1764-1840-ballydehob-west-cork-united-irishman-active-in-us-politics-and-supporter-of-martin-van-buren-and-judge-of-the-marine-court-new-york/

Some Cork Wills (1528-1859), destroyed in 1922 copied by William Henry Welply of Ballineen, West Cork.

The Welply’s are the McCarthy Mór’s who married Welply’s (a Dutch Man) daughter about 1700 and inherited his large estate in Cork City and Macroom. Welply had no sons and McCarthy assumed the name Welply.

Welply was born in Ballineen 1866 and died in Belfast at the age of 90. He was a School Inspector and after Partition opted to serve out his time in Northern Ireland. The wills were copied pre 1922 most are now destroyed. The RCB Library in Rathgar in Dublin have some of his papers including many visits to Archives and Libraries in Ireland and the UK.

https://www.ireland.anglican.org/about/rcb-library

This is taken from Dr. Albert Casey’s collection.

In 1945 he was a member of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society with an address in Greenisle, Co. Antrim.

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Harry Clarke windows St. Barrahanes Church, Castletownsend, West Cork with floor mosaics designed by Violet Martin.

http://www.abbeystrewryunion.com/#/st-barrahanes-church/4557284996

Some other Harry Clarke work:

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2013/10/29/harry-clarke-windows-at-cabinteely-church-co-dublin-presented-by-joe-mcgrath-founder-of-the-irish-sweeps-and-ancestral-baptismal-font/

Died November 1829 Columbia, Doctor Thomas Foley, Physician to Czar and Surgeon General late Killarney.

From Basil O’Connell newspaper extracts, Dr. Casey Collection, Vol 6 2103. There are many medical entries often abroad some with the British Military medical Service quite a number of Irish doctors abroad.

Biographical data from Kerry Evening Post 1824-1864 and other papers including Cork details gleaned by O’Connell Brothers (Basil and Donal) in the 1950s. They were descendants  of Daniel O’Connell and Basil wrote the O’Connell Tracts in conjunction with his brother a retired officer in the Royal Navy.  They were from the Lakeview branch of the O’Connells outside Killarney.

Basil may have trained as a barrister an was the head of CID in Malaya spending a lot of his leave in the 1940s and 50s in Dublin in Lansdowne Road.  In an amusing letter in the 1950s to Bantry historian Paddy O’Keeffe he signs off saying ‘I’m off now to fight the Communists’

Dr. Casey has this in Vol 6 and 7 of the O’Kiev Cishe Mang

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Cork Newspaper Extracts 1753-1771, 1782-4, collected by John T. Collins.

They are reproduced in Dr. Casey’s collection Vol 6 1753-1771

John T. Collins, was a Cork Genealogist operating in the 1950s. He collected these from private collections including that of Mr. Cussen, Solicitor, Newcastle West, Co. Limerick. These were given to Basis O’Connell who at the time was writing the O’Connell Tracts. Basil in the 1950 was a retired Senior Police Officer who had worked in Malaysia and was a descendant of Daniel O’Connell. The tracts are the Genealogy of the extended family.

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Genealogy of Baldwin family from Salop. England 1580s Co. Cork, to Mossgrove /Garranconnig (Garran a’Chunaig), Mount Pleasant/Curravordy(Corra Mhor Dhuibhe), Lisnagat (Lois na gCat Cat’s Fort), Economic Resources Co Cork 17th century, Prices and Wages.

Online history compiled by Terence Kermode, Suffolk, 2001, with some will extracts and deeds and some interesting comment on behaviour patterns.

Click to access Baldwin-History.pdf

Landed Estates:
http://landedestates.nuigalway.ie/LandedEstates/jsp/estate-show.jsp?id=3005

Bram Stroker

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram_Stoker

A recent publication of Bram Strokers lost Journal has material relating to is time as a Civil Servant where he spent 12 years in Dublin castle. During that tie he attended Trinity College was active in Athletics and the College Historical Society. The last number of years in Dublin was as an Inspector of Petty Sessions around the Irish countryside.

The Petty Session courts replaced a discredited system of local administration of Justice in the hands of Magistrates often held in their front rooms. His work on the duties of Perry Session Clerks was used in the Irish District Courts until the mid 20th century

His father had been a Senior Civil Servant for 50 years and the family had their origins as Tailors in Dublin. His father was a member of the Tailors Guild. On his mother’s side the Blakes one of her Blake family had been executed a a Rebel in 1798 as a United Irishman.

In his lifetime Bran was known more as the manager of Henry irvine the actor and as an impresario rather then an author.

The Journal has been put together by Elizabeth Miller and Dacre Stoker published by The Robson Press, 2012.

1755, newspaper ad for sale of oak woods, Tuigeah, Inchigeela, West Cork, formerly property of Keadah Leary, grandfather of outlaw, Art Leary.

Apply Dr. Edward Barry, College Green, Dublin.

This is from newspaper extracts compiled by Cork historian and in Dr. Casey’s Collection Vol 6, 2378.

There is another Leary related item, the letting of two mature fields at the Lough, Cork, ready for mowing, 1st August 1765. Apply to Cornelius Leary (father of Art) Raleigh, near Macroom. Paper JTC

Art Ó Laoighre:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Ó_Laoghaire