1825. Death of Maurice O’Connell, aged 98, Elder Brother of General Daniel Count O’Connell, Grand Cross of the Order of the Holy Ghost, First Cousin of Maurice, Baron O’Connell, Grand Chamberlain to the Emperor of Austria, Uncle of Counsellor O’Connell (Daniel O’Connell)

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1825.  Death of  Maurice O’Connell, aged 98, Elder Brother of General Daniel Count O’Connell, Grand Cross of the Order of the Holy Ghost, First Cousin of Maurice, Baron O’Connell, Grand Chamberlain to the Emperor of Austria,  Uncle of Counsellor O’Connell (Daniel O’Connell)

 

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1834. Erin Mavourneen-Erin go Bragh, Protestant Meeting in Bandon, Co. Cork.

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1834.  Erin Mavourneen-Erin go Brágh, Protestant Meeting in Bandon, Co. Cork.

At first instance it might appear strange that phrase in Irish would raise a cheer at a Protestant Meeting with a strong tinge of Orange.   However in the early 19th century there was a body of  Irish Protestant opinion that they were the true inheritor of Ireland’s traditions.  The reference to demagogues is to Daniel O’Connell.

A touch from later of the tangled loyalties of Bandon Protestants come up later in Sam Birds memoir, he wrote as ‘Brian Boru’

Memoir of Sam Bird, Bandon and Belding, Michigan, USA, from the 1870s his father’s fondness for a glass of grog at night, The old Irish Church, The King’s James Bible Translated from Irish, Shooting Snipe, Anti Home Rule Politics, the family decimated by TB, Methodist Preachers, writing with the Non de Plume Brian Boru

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Records Lislee (Courtmacsherry), Church of Ireland, Co. Cork some from 1775

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Some of the records were copied by the Vicar for transmission to the Rolls Court at the end of his incumbency. At that time the Church of Ireland was the State Church and ran a parallel legal system dealing with probate matters.

Among the names in the community are those long associated with the area O’Hea, McCarthy, Collins, Coghlan, Hurley, O’Sullivan. The Travers family are associated with the sea as Master Mariners, Ships Husbands. There a number of marriages from Tide Waiters early Customs and Exise and Water Guards early Coastguard some English. During the Napoleonic Wars the signal tower at Seven Heads was occupied and some of the personnel married locally.

The Lislie Landlord family is represented, and their marriages including on to a Charles Andrews a Barrister of Comber, Co. Down in 1839.

A number of pages are missing as they did not copy well.

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1866, 15th Masonic Lodge of Ireland, Skibbereen, West Cork.

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The Freemasons in Ireland were perceived as sectarian whatever the merits of it.  In many instances the members were engaged in charitable activities.  On the Continent the Freemasons were often associated with Radical Politics.  Here it seems to be the custom that local military officers were in the lodge when their regiment was garrisoned there.

The local Landowners are represented, a number of Methodists, Hadden, Swanton, Levis.

Concert, April 1863 at The Mardyke, Skibbereen, West Cork, in Aid of Masonic Female Orphan Asylum with Patrons Named.

The Worlds Only Female Freemason: In Pious Memory of THE HONOURABLE ELIZABETH ALDWORTH wife of Richard Aldworth, of Newmarket Court, Co. Cork, Esq. Daughter of Arthur First Viscount Doneraile, Her Remains Lie Close To This Spot (St. Finbarrs Cathedral, Cork), Born 1685 Died 1775. Initiated into Freemasonry in Lodge No. 44 at Doneraile Court, In This County A.D. 1712.

 

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Beginning of Methodism in West Cork, 1779 John Bredin, Swantons Gortnagrough 1783, John Hamilton 1898 Henry Deery Membership 1799 was 160 and in 1810 was 320.

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Beginning of Methodism in West Cork, 1779 John Bredin, Swantons Gortnagrough 1783, John Hamilton 1898 Henry Deery Membership 1799 was 160 and in 1810 was 320.

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Methodism West Cork from 1779

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Gortnagrough, Ballydehob, in School folklore Collection 1937 and Folk Museum and West Cork Methodism.

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Gortnagrough, Ballydehob, in School folklore Collection 1937 and Folk Museum and West Cork Methodism.

Gortnagrough:

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In Mary Driscoll story about her homeplace she says that a couple over 70 then in 1937 have stories in Irish and English, Mr and Mrs. Sam Kingston. They are probably the grand parents of Letia Camier who with her husband Tommy runs the Folk Museum in the same townland.

Gortnagrough Folk Museum

Gortnagrough Folk Museum

James Hutchinson Swanton J.P., 1815-1891, Grandmother, Margaret O’Sullivan, Ballagahadown, Caheragh, Leading Methodist and Businessman, Gortnagrough, Ballydehob and Rineen Co. Cork and Wesley College, Carrisbrook House, Ballsbridge, Dublin.

Beginning of Methodism in West Cork, 1779 John Bredin, Swantons of Gortnagrough, Ballydehob, 1783, John Hamilton 1898 Henry Deery. Membership 1799 was 160 and in 1810 was 320.

Durrus Folklore Project:

School Folklore Project 1937-8, Durrus, Co. Cork, Schools Church of Ireland, Catholic.

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Records of South West Cork families such as Dalys, Haggertys, Swanton, Jagoe. Lannin, Levis, Dukelow, Beamish, Harrington, Mahony, McCarthy, Stout, Kingston, Raycroft, Jennings. Skuce, in Registers of Rochester New York, Register Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, Rochester Genealogy Relevant Canadian Records.

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Records of South West Cork families such as Atteridge, Brooks, Coghlan, Daly, Haggertys, Gallagher, Gosnell, Lannin, Hithcock, Justice, King, Levis, Love, Dukelow, Beamish, Stout, Jermyn, Kingston, Raycroft, Jennings, Pick, Riordan, Sullivan, Skuce, Shannon, Swanton, Woulfe, Young, in Registers of Rochester New York, Register Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, Rochester Genealogy Relevant.

DNA evidence suggest the Hegarty/Haggerts originated in Derry/Donegal possibly came down to west Cork for Battle of Kinsale , 1600, like O’Neills, O’Donnell, Gallaghers, Wards.

Canadian Records.

Often through going through these records and the Canadian and USA Census and death and marriage it is possible to establish the dates of birth and marriage of Irish born, North Americans.   This is of particular value in view of the loss, destruction or non availability Irish Records.
Many thanks to Sharon Haggerty for this.

Population Density and Emigration of West Cork Protestant families, from Mizen and Muintervera Peninsulas, to Rochester…

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