1822 Petition of Nathaniel Evanson, For Roadworks Durrus/Kicrohane ‘In View of Want of Work and Deficiency of Food’ and other  Evanson Magistrates.

These are from the Chief Secretary papers currently being digitalised.   The project was made possible by a bequest from the late Professor Francis J Crowley. Born in New Haven, Connecticut, Professor Crowley was educated at Yale and Princeton, and became a professor of French at the University of California at Los Angeles. Both his parents were born in Ireland, and in his will he bequeathed most of his estate to the Republic of Ireland to be used for the preservation of records of the history of the Irish people.

http://www.csorp.nationalarchives.ie/

The original are available for inspection in the Dublin Archives.

 

 

 

 

Rev. Alleyn Evanson TCD AB, -1853) Pre 1828, Four-Mile-Water Court, Durrus, sitting Bantry, 1835.  Son of Nathaniel and MAry Townsend Baldwin (1764-1827).  Middle Man, Land Agent.  While a curate in Schull 1829 he stated that there were 1,200 Protestants in the Parish, Freeman Bandon, 1841 election voted Longfield/Leader.  Probate 1853, £5 (may be nominal for conveyancing). Friendly with Father Ryan, Drimoleague features in an account 1836 of journey from Drimoleague written by John Windle in Dublin Penny Journal.  After death wife moved to Mespil Estate, Dublin is brother Hungerford and Dr. Henry Baldwin of Cork guardians of young children. Subscriber Lewis Topographical Dictionary of Ireland  1837.   In 1835 his rent charge over lands at Brahalish Durrus was granted to Henry Baldwin Evanson probably his brother entitling him to vote.  Either his sister or cousin Martha Evanson married Rev. John Madras, their grand daughter m 1867 Ann Marie (Millie) Curtis, Magourney she descended from Huguenot Rev. John Madras and married Daniel O’Connell’s grandson, his father was Charles O’Connell, Resident Magistrate, Bantry.

 

Charles Evanson, Pre 1830, Charlemont, Douglas, son of Nathaniel Evanson, Durrus and admitted his brother Nathaniel JP, as Freeman of Cork on St. Valentine’s Day, 1794.  Alderman, Sheriff and Mayor of Cork 1804.  HIs son Rev. William Alleyn married the sister of the Provost of TCD, Lyndon MacDonnell.  Listed in tree register as having planted 1,100 trees in Durrus/Kilcrohane.  Funded personally relief work Douglas in 1820 petitioned Chief Secretary for more resources.  Donor to building of Rosnacaheragh Catholic Church, Durrus, sitting Passage West, 1835, listed 1842, sitting Douglas 1850, voted 1850 for Denis Galwey as High Constable for Ibane and Ballyroe (Clonakilty).

 

Charles Evanson, son of Charles JP, Lord Mayor Cork, prob born Durrus Royayne’s Court, Douglas, Cork Quarter Sessions 1856.  His son Richard Charles Evanson, RM, Probate 1902 of Mrs. Henrietta Allen Coghlan, widow, Shanagrague, Co. Cork, to Richard retired RM, £624.  1856 passed into Military College Sandhurst, only son of Charles Evanson, JP, Charlemont, Cork, ed Mr. Moynahan.

 

Nathaniel Evanson, 1675,  Cromwellians, house at Gearhameen, Durrus, known locally as ‘Durrus Court’. Moved c 1690 from Castledonovan to Durrus.

 

Nathaniel Evanson, 1799, Four Mile Water, Durrus, 1831, listed at North Main St., Bandon 1824, son Nathaniel Kings Inns 1818 his is Brookfields, probably Bandon.   Senior member 1810, Bandon Militia.  1822 petitioning Chief Secretary for road works in Durrus/Kilcrohane in view of want of work adn deficiency of food.  1826 election voted for Hutchinson.  In 1835 his rent charge at Dromnea, Gearhameen and Rasavourney, Rossiviree in Durrus was granted to Charles and Abraham Evanson entitling them to vote.

 

Richard Charles Evanson, RM, Probate 1902 of Mrs. Henrietta Allen Coghlan, widow, Shanagrague, Co. Cork, to Richard retired RM, £624.  1856 passed into Military College Sandhurst, only son of Charles Evanson, JP, Charlemont, Cork, ed Mr. Moynahan.

 

 

 

 

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1822 Petition of Joshua H Cox, Manor House, Dunmanway for continuance of Mother’s Pension of £200 Mentions Favourable Treatment of French Officers in 1796, French Officers on Parole entertained at Balls, Petition of Herbert Gillman, Woodbrook, Dunmanway, to be Re-Instated as Magistrate,  Mentions his Role in preventing Spread of the ‘Insurrectionary Spirit’ in the South of Ireland in the Winter of 1821, Other Baldwin Magistrates, Co. Cork.

The reference to the French Officers are those captured in the abortive attempt to invade Ireland in 1796 through Bantry Bay.  The officers were on parole and enjoyed the local social life balls etc for a number of months.

The Coxes descend from Cox of Bandon, a barrister, who became a Judge in the late 17th Century in Dublin.  The family founded the modern town of Dunmaway and the linen industry by introducing artisans from Fermanagh an North Leitrim whose descendant are still in the area.

These are from the Chief Secretary papers currently being digitalised.   The project was made possible by a bequest from the late Professor Francis J Crowley. Born in New Haven, Connecticut, Professor Crowley was educated at Yale and Princeton, and became a professor of French at the University of California at Los Angeles. Both his parents were born in Ireland, and in his will he bequeathed most of his estate to the Republic of Ireland to be used for the preservation of records of the history of the Irish people.

http://www.csorp.nationalarchives.ie/

The original are available for inspection in the Dublin Archives.

Major Bennett Watkins Gillman,  Pre 1910, The Retreat, Clonakilty, son of Herbert Gillman, Bennet’s Grove, Clonakilty, late 12th Regiment of Foot, his son John St. Ledger Gillman b 1870, JP.   1870, listed 1,204 acres.

Doctor Gillman, 1843, Bantry Quarter Sessions.

Herbert Gillman Esq, 1824, Bennet’s Grove, Clonakilty, Superceded 1810-30, petitioned Chief Secretary to be reinstated, originally appointed 1813, his role in preventing the spread of the “insurrectionary Spirit’ which broke out all over the south of Ireland in the winter of 1821 Subscriber Lewis Topographical Dictionary of Ireland  1837.

Herbert Gillman -pre 1870), 1813, Woodbrook, Dunmanway, (same name twice), Superceded 1810-30, appealed 1822.  Subscriber as Junior may be son Lewis Topographical Dictionary of Ireland  1837. Reps  1870, listed 484 acres.

Herbert Gillman, sitting Ballineen, 1835.

Herbert Webb Gillman (1832-1898), 1875, Clonstead House, Coachford, born Australia? President Cork Historical and Archaeological Society.  copied many historical documents destroyed 1922.  Family moved to England post 1922, Longs later bought property.  Executor of Herbert Gillman, Clonteadmore, 1877, £1,500. His estate £2,294 executors Liutenant Webb Webb Gillman RHA adn Ann Gillman widow both Clonteadmore.  

James Gillman, Junior, 1799, Balhenbrack (Balteenbrack), Dunmanway

John St. Ledger Gillman b 1870, JP. 1896, son of Major Bennett Watkins Gillman, JP,  The Retreat, Clonakilty, grandson of Herbert Gilman, Bennet’s Grove, Clonakilty, m 1891,  Jane Rolf, d Thomas Sherlock, Solicitor, Bandon, listed 1913.

A Talk to Commemorate the 150th anniversary of Bantry Methodist Church Building (now Dr Matt Murphy;s Surgery) by David Ross & Abraham Kingston.

 

When:  Monday 29th February 2016 @ 8.00pm

 

Where:  Christian Fellowship Church Bantry

There were at least two Alexander O’Driscolls JP in the Skibbereen area one Catholic the other possibly Protestant. It is difficult to distinguish.

Alexander O’Driscoll, 1799, Clover Hill, Skibbereen, (two of same name in Skibbereen at the time not clear who is who) Middle man, 1824, Clover Hill, 1831, 1822, correspondence with Chief Secretary appealing dismissal of 1820. Superceded 1810-30, listed 1838, dead with address Mount Music/Bunaulin, Caheragh when daughter Kate married Herbert Baldwin Esq., 1845. 1835 Subscriber at Gortnascrena, Skibbereen, Lewis Topographical Dictionary of Ireland 1837.

 

Alexander O’Driscoll, Norton Cottage, Skibbereen (two of same name at time), Ancestor Alexander married daughter of McFineen Dubh O’Sullivan, son of Tim ‘The Gauger’, sister Mrs Freke of Baltimore Castle,  1827 attended dinner given by Jeremiah Murphy, Hyde Park, Cork with Catholic Bishop of Cork, Dr. Murphy, John Cotter, Perriers, Gibsons, Jonas Travers. 1835 Subscriber , The Hill, Monkstown, Lewis Topographical Dictionary of Ireland  1837.  Ex-Officio Poor Law Commissioners 1839 at The Hill, Cork.

Alexander O’Driscoll Esq., sitting Passage West, 1835, Bantry Quarter Sessions 1842. Land record, Cork, 1870, 522 acres.

23rd November 1845, Skibbereen Kate O’Driscoll Herbert Baldwin Esq Mount Music (Bunaulin), Gortnamille Eldest daughter of late Alexander O’Driscoll She remarried James O’Sullivan, Esq., Bantry, in Macroom 16th April 1859 Cork Constitution

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Will of Alexander O’Donovan, Squince, Skibbereen, West Cork, Various Townlands, Farm at Myross, Fishery, Salt Store, Fishing Boat, Possible Grand Father-in-Law of Timothy O’Donovan, Justice of The Peace, and Grandfather of Rickard Donovan, First Catholic Clerk of the Peace for Co. Cork 1838 since the 17th Century.

The listing of townlands is either archaic or difficult to transcribe as is often the case in old memorials.

Courtesy Registry of Deeds Project.

The fishery element is interesting.  One of his grand daughters  married Timothy O’Donovan was clearly independently wealthy building a fine mansion at O’Donovan’s Cove, Durrus.  In his written evidence to the Fishing enquiry in Bantry 1836 he has a remarkable grasp of the fishing business.   There are various historical references to branches of the O’Donovan family being involved as investors in the fishing business in the 18th century.

He bequeaths the estate to his son a Doctor.  Rickard Donovan’s father was a Doctor in Clonakilty.

Various branches of the family are referred to here:

The scholar Dr. John O’Donovan also had this name in his extended family.

 

For his researches:

 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GCiBrLiBZtDkU8Ug5hZn9HnIZgfN1dvK2kkfaDUb600/edit

 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/16VJptRac8CKsG_ylR0Zm78DLE-rPwWHJ_q2n4HKpW5s/edit

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eq_IayaxdUyWZWbpDf6LWlLNg7o-3tNJiqPGYIALy80/edit

 

 

http://irishdeedsindex.net/mem.php?memorial=345908

Any ideas where Squince House might be?

DESCENDANTS OF SAMUEL AND ELLEN JERVOIS:

(confirmed lines of descent are written in black text, probable but unconfirmed lines of descent in

red ).

1. Joseph Jervois d.c. 1798. m. ?

1. Frances E. H. Jervois m. Maurice Hewson.

2. Samuel Jervois m. (1797) Lucinda Alleyn.

1. Mary Anne Jervois b. c. 1799 m. 1819 William Scott (issue)

2. Ellen Jervois b.c. 1800 d. 1865 Lough Ine, Skibbereen m. Henry Owen Becher (issue)

3. Samuel Jervois b. 1801 d.1881 Skibbereen (Civil Record) m. (1832) eldest daughter of Alexander Donovan of Squince House Esq. (Nick Reddan’s newspaper extracts)

Fishing Business Bantry Bay, part of North Atlantic Fishery 17th Century.

The enclosed relates to Edward Davenant who leased part of Whiddy from the O’Sullivan estate.   From other sources it appears that the Bantry Fishery and those of Hull at Leamcon and Baltimore were part of a business financed from London. Also included would be the fishery in the West County of England and it appears that Hull also had a fishery in Newfoundland.

In the 1836 Fishery Enquiry in Bantry John Young of the family associated with fishing testified that c 1640 his family had lost a lot of money in the collapse of a Spanish Bank in Bilbao.

John Young re 1640:

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

Hull:

Richard Boyle, Great Earl of Cork, on Sir William Hull of Leamcon, Schull and Sir Thomas Crook, founder of Baltimore who ‘Unjustly took his Falcons’, and Sir Fineen O’Driscoll gave him Falcons

The Descendants of Sir William Hull, 1600, Leamcon, Schull, West Cork, From Opulence to Penury.

Edward Davenant entry to Cambridge University 1584:

Courtesy Seamus Crowley, Mizen Journal 2001.

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17th century, Bantry

1612	Peter Akocke	Whiddy Island	Will Index
1629	Richard Steventon	Whiddy Island		http://www.corkpastandpresent.ie/genealogy/irishwills/#/14/	http://www.corkpastandpresent.ie/genealogy/irishwills/#/102/
1632	Agnes Predis	Bantry		http://www.corkpastandpresent.ie/genealogy/irishwills/#/102/
4th November 1633	Edward Turner	Balligobane	Merchant. Wife and exectrix Joan presumably a widow as her husband haad been Newton, he was earlier married to Joan.	Eldest daughter Ann , Margaret. 3 daughters by Joan Sarah, Mary, Esther, four by wife of former husband Samuel, Jonas, John, Mary Newtown	Brothers Isaac, Henry Turner sister Sarah Hugett, England,	Oveseers Anthony Stowell Oneskayne (Enniskeane?), Edward Eyre, Durris, witnesses Edward Eyre, W. Snelling (active in fishing industry), Thomas Whiddington, Charles Dennis (the Bantry Dennises may dereive from him)	Welply’s wills. Snelling referred to as overseer was the subject matter of a peition wiht Edward Davenant by Gavin Gibsn, Vicar of bantry that they were withholding tithes. on pilchards. Further suit with Wiliam Davenant fish merchant brought by Mark Paget Vicar of Bantry 1637 re same went to House of Lords.
1632	Robert Marshall	Bantry		http://www.corkpastandpresent.ie/genealogy/irishwills/#/102/	Dr. Casey Vol. 6
1637	John Hopton	Durrus		http://www.corkpastandpresent.ie/genealogy/irishwills/#/102/
1637	Thomas Woods	Bantry	Will Index
1637	Margaret Johnson	Kilmocomoge			Cork and Ross Wills 1584-1800
1639	Edward Davenant	Whiddy Island	Will dated Whiddy 29th December 1636. He was brother of Bishop of John Davenant of Salisbury, active in Bantry Fishery since 1608 when he leased Whiddy Isladn from Sir Owen O’Sullivan’s widow.To son Edward D.D. New Sarum, Wilts	His father-in-law was Simms, London. One daughter marrried John Palmer of Whiddy, another son JOhn of Whiddy married Ann Boyle both drowned crossing to Whiddy 1641. William may have been anaother son.	Paddy O’Keeffe papers, Cork Archives
1641	JOhn Palmer, Ann Palamer nee Boyle	Whiddy	Drowned crossing. He son of Edward fish merchant English but in Whiddy. She may be related to Richard Boyel, earl of Cork.
1668	George Waters	Whiddy island and probably London	Gent	In his will he was posessed of 70 ploughlands in Bantry and Bere and an agent for the transport of soldiers to the Kng of Spain	Paddy O’Keeffe papers, Cork Archives
1669	Maria Galwey	Bantry		Dr. Casey Vol 6
1676	Henry Meagh	Newtown (Bantry?)		Dr. Casey Vol. 6
1679	Captain Cornelius Leury	Bantry		Dr. Casey Vol. 6
1881	John Beavill	Bantry
1681	John Crimin	Bantry		Cork and Ross Wills 1584-1800
1685	Walter Lang	Berehaven		http://www.corkpastandpresent.ie/genealogy/irishwills/#/102/
1685	Simon Srevenson	Skarte (may not be Bantry Scart)		Dr. Casey Vol 6 from 1156
1686	Walter Lang	Berehaven		Cork and Ross Wills 1584-1800
5th Febuary 1707	Thomas Mandkocy?		Graave no 316, Abbey oldest		Paddy O’Keeffe survey
1707	Thomas Handcock	Bantry		http://www.corkpastandpresent.ie/genealogy/irishwills/#/102/	Cork and Ross Wills 1584-1800
Durrus
Pre 1600	Edward Eyres	Possibly born England	Named as overseer in will of Edward Turner, Ballygobbib (Bantry) 1633 with Anthony Stowelly, Enniskeane	Copied by Welply prior to destruction 1922

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