1871 Cork Notables from Melbourne Advocate, Australia

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1871 Cork Notables from Melbourne Advocate, Australia, a Catholic Newspaper.

Of the personnel Michael Joseph Barry:

1817-1889 Michael Joseph Barry Barrister Poet ‘Kishohue Papers’ , Songs of Ireland, The Green Flag, step Together, nephew of Bishops Dr. England probably of Charlestown, Carolina. Imprisoned 1843 ultimately became Police Magistrate Dublin. Lived Highland Cottage, Blackrock. Young Irelander Editor Southern Reporter, co-author of ‘A Treatise on the Practice of the High Court of Chancery of Ireland with Mr. Justice Sadlier, died early 1889 after a sojurn on the Continet a widower with no children. . Highly thought of by Gavan Duffy and others A notice by Frank MacDonagh in The Nation (16 Feb. 1889) characterises Barry as a ‘brilliant songwriter who helped build up a National literature for Ireland.’ Report on 1850 dinner for Sir Robert Kane, President Queens College.

Thomas Sheehan:

Died 1836 Thomas Sheehan Barrister Newspaper Owner Author ‘Sketches of the Munster Bar’, owner 1826 Cork Mercantile Chronicle radical paper expousing tenat working man rights. Buried Ballyphane St. Josephs grave in Ogham

The Englands were from Bandon one became Archbishop of Savanagh, South Carolina.

Father O’Leary:

Arthur O’Leary, born Acres. Fanlobbus (Dunmanway), West Cork, 1729-1802, Hedge School to Capuchin College, St. Malo, ‘A poor Friar buried between salt houses and stables poring over his books’ at his foundation Blackamoor Lane, Sullivan’s Quay, Cork, ministering to Irish speaking prisoners St. Malo, Chaplin to Spanish Embassy London, British Government Pension, elected as member of Monks of Screw friend Baron Yelverton ‘a fine smooth brogue, his learning extensive and his wit brilliant,.

 

Briseann an Duchais Trí Súil an Chait, The Maverick DNA of Black Jack Fitzgibbon, (Lord Clare 1749-1801), First Irish Born Attorney-General of the 18th Century, Pioneer of World-wide Metropolitan Policing, his sister Lady Arabella Jeffares, Blarney, Supporter of Tenant farmer and Rightboys, sister Eleanor married to Cork Barrister, Dominic Trant, the insult of Trinity Fellow Patrick Duignan to Father Arthur O’Leary, ‘The Friar with the Barbarous Surname’ and an account of the Cork Rightboys in 1785 by Cork Apothecary John Barrett Bennett.

 

 

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Death 1828, John O’Driscoll, from Cork, Chief Justice Dominica.

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Death 1828, John O’Driscoll, from Cork, Chief Justice Dominica.

There is a long line of Cork Lawyers who worked in the British Colonial Legal Service.  Also who practiced in Australia and the USA.

Redmond Barry from Ballyclough, Mallow was Chief Justice in Melbourne and said of  the Munster bar c 1840 ’40 hats work for 20′

 

 

Died 1828 John O’Driscoll Chief Justice Dominica Parents shopkeepers Cork, patron, Marquis of Lansdowne, Author of ‘View of Ireland, 2 volumes 1823 and ‘History of Ireland’. papers donated to Cork Antiquarian John Windle. Subscriber Cork Library 1820. Kings Inns 1816 O’Driscoll, John, Esq. Counsellor, [Cork] city
We regret to announce the death of Counsellor O‘Driscoll of this City, who had
recently been appointed Chief Justice of Dominica. The following notification of this
distressing event has appeared in a London paper:–―Grenada. June 9.–I have to
communicate to you the death of John O‘Driscoll, Esq., late Chief Justice at
Dominica. He died on the 3d. Instant, at Roussean, after a short illness.–His remains
were consigned to the grave on the 4th, attended by his Excellency the Governor, and
ll the public functionaries…Mr. O‘Driscoll was on the eve of returning to England to
bring out his lady and family.‖‘ CC (19/07/1828)

1835, The Cow-Pock Institution, Inoculation in Clonakilty 1822, Rooska, Bantry, Pit with Small Pox Victims, Old Practice of Shinnack, 50 Years before Jenner.

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1835, The Cow-Pock Institution, Inoculation in Clonakilty 1822, Rooska, Bantry, Pit with Small Pox Victims, Old Practice of Shinnack, 50 Years before Jenner.

The Reverend John Richardson, Rector of Belturbet, Co. Cavan, author of ‘The Great Folly, Superstition and idolatry of Pilgrimages in Ireland, Especially of that to St. Patrick’s Purgatory, together With an Account of the Loss that the public Sustaineth thereby, truly and impartially Represented his account at Ballyvourney, Co. Cork, 1727 of 13th century wooden statue of St. Gobnait (Patroness of Bee Keepers) as an antidote to small pox being kept by the O’Herlihys.

1822, Dr William Folliott, Clonakilty, County Cork, to Chief Secretary’s Office, Dublin Castle, making case for increase of vaccination against small pox in District Edward Hunt, Kinsale, 1822, observes that many Magistrates are uneducated men ‘who in many instances are Tythe Proctors and in most instances are as Middlemen the cruelest and most unrelenting oppressors of the unfortunate tenantry under them’

1748 disfigured wit Small Pox:

1748, Thomas Trendle (Trender?), Skibbereen escaped Convict en route to Cork Gaol, Marked with Small Pox, Wig, Description of Clothing, Reward £5 from William Hull, Skibbereen, Ship Masters Notified.

Clais na Bolainghe (Clashnabullagee), Small Pox Trench/Pit, containing remains of those who died of Small Pox, identified in 1842 Ordnance Survey Orthography, 1842, Townland of Rooska adjoining Bantry Bay.

Doctor Barry, 1800, on ‘Shinach’ (Small Pox) and practice in Cork of inoculation with Cow Pox 50 years before Dr Jenner’s vaccination and late 18th century inoculations by Mr. Goodwin, Bantry, West Cork.

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William Jennings (1837-1922), Toughbaun, Dunmanway, West Cork and Bairnsdale, Victoria, Australia.

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William Jennings (1837-1922), Toughbaun, Dunmanway, West Cork and Bairnsdale, Victoria, Australia.

From Family History:

When William Jennings was just 21 years old he married Jane Jennings who was 19 years in Cork, Ireland, and set sail to gather a fortune at the Australian Goldfields and return home in a few years. They brought little more than a trunk of essential clothing. During the 3 month voyage to Melbourne, small pox broke out and Jane was desperately ill and frantically worried as to her appearance and a possible rejection by her young husband. She lost the sight of one eye as a result.
They travelled by boat from Melbourne to Port Albert and then by bullock dray to the Omeo area.

No tales were told of the goldfield days, which were obviously a fiasco. In 1862, William found a secure position as the resident Mounted Constable in charge of Bruthen Station…

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Fragments from St. James Church Records, Durrus, West Cork and Census Records Copied Prior to 1922 Destruction.

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Fragments from St. James Church Records, Durrus, West Cork and Census Records Copied Prior to 1922 Destruction.

Some of the Irish pre 1901 census records were pulped due to a paper shortages in World War 1,  no such destruction in the UK.  Other were destroyed due to lack of space.  The greatest  destruction was in the loss by the explosion in the Public Records Office in 1922.  It is not know if this was deliberate or accidental.  In the prior years due to the Troubles there was a fear that Protestant Churches might be in danger and the Records were exhorted to place the church records in the Public Records Office in Dublin for safe keeping.  The result was an unmitigated disaster.

However there was some copying of records prior to 1922 for genealogical purposes.

 

Thrift Notes Item 4117, copied prior to 1922 Destruction, from research commissioned by Inspector Hynes, Melbourne a descendant of Blair Family of Blair’s Cove, Durrus

 

 

Genealogical Office p 3 (1)

 

Marriage Licence Bond:

 

The Reverend Daniel McCarty of the City of Cork, Clerk and Thomas Kennedy of the same cooper, bound in £1,000 – dated 26th July 1793.  Daniel McCarthy may marry Sarah Blair of the Parish of St. Paul’s, Cork, Spinster.

 

Daniel McCarty (Muclagh):

 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BnjAwZ6eFk_0sTMsjxYBo3YFQLNqJ4J2utWIftpJXqs/edit

 

 

Family extracts from Fragment St. James, Destroyed:

Extract from the Records of St. James, Durrus, West Cork, 1797 to 1827, from an Old Parchment in the Dublin Office, copied before their Destruction at the Public Records Office, Dublin, 1922, names mentioned Kingston, Shannon, Whitley, Croston, Baker, Webb, from Cole Family History.

Lost Census:

 

A glimpse of the 18th and early 19th century Linen/Flax Industry in Durrus and Schull, West Cork, from the Lost Census of 1766, 1821, 1841, 1851, with names Cole, Croston, Webb, Whitley, Johnson. 1836 Evidence of Father John Kelleher (Early Statistician) and Reverend Edward John Alcock both Durrus to Poor Laws (Ireland) relating to Spinning in Area.

Flax Growing in West Cork.

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Flax was grown in West Cork in the 18th and early 19th century and its growth was promoted by landowners including Lord Bandon and the Earl of Bantry. There are numerous references to linen weavers in the period. See re 1749 and Cox in Dunmanway:

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2013/11/17/3264/

It underwent a revival during World War 1 and later World War 2. These articles are from the Adrdfield/Rathbarry JournalNo. 1 of 1998/9 and Roscarbery Past and Present Vol 5 2003.

In Bennet’s History of Bandon he refers to Sir Richard Cox’s efforts to develop flax growing and linen in Dunmanway in the early 18th century. The memories of William Jennings 1837-1922 who went to Australia refer to his longing for the Flax Mills on the River Bandon in Dunmanway:

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2014/01/20/william-jennings-1837-1922-toughbaun-dunmanway-west-cork-and-bairnsdale-victoria-australia/

In Ross Cathedral records the following appear, John son of Daniel Carthy, Froyle, flax dresser 30 July 1739, Tim Connolly, linen weaver, 1774…

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Genealogy Chart of James Gallwey, Outlawed in 1690 and Mary O’Mullane, including French Branch descended from Andrew Gallwey born Enniskeane, Co. Cork, 1717, owner of Chateau and Estate at Turbily, improver of Breton Agriculture, host to Arthur Young, son officer in American War of Independence.

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Genealogy Chart of James Gallwey, Outlawed in 1690 and Mary O’Mullane, including French Branch descended from Andrew Gallwey born Enniskeane, Co. Cork, 1717, owner of Chateau and Estate at Turbily, improver of Breton Agriculture, host to Arthur Young, son officer in American War of Independence.

The Enniskeane Galweys were Land Agents including to the Dunmanway Shouldhams in the mid 18th century.  The Shouldhams were half McCathy being descended from a McCarthy heiress on the female line.

This is further evidence of the extraordinary spread of the Gallwey/Galway family. They had been prominent Cork Merchants since 13th century and the later family probably built on these links.  Andrew’s father Henry was a Bantry Merchant probably in the Pilchard business.  This had extensive Iberian links as witnessed by the 90 year old Mr. Young’s evidence to a Parliamentary Enquiry in Bantry in 1836 when he testified as to the Young families losses…

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