Ann Maria Curtis, Dungourney, granddaughter, of Martha Evanson, Ballydivane/Friendly Cove, Durrus, married 1867, The Liberator’s (Daniel O’Connell)  grandson (Son of Charles Resident Magistrate, Bantry).

Martha married Rev. John Madras, their genealogy is here:

Genealogy of Cork Huguenot Madras family post 1750 from Amsterdam to Cork 1735 by letter from India Office 1939, interconnected families Longfield Connor Fort Robert, Evanson Durrus, Travers Butlerstown, Baldwin Curravody, Alleyn, Daniel O’Connell, Catholic Descendants.

 

 

 

Magistrate:  Rev. John Henry Madras (1804-1852), Pre 1831, 1835 sitting Dripsey, Of Huguenot extraction via Amsterdam married 1800 Martha Evanson, Ballydivane/Friendly Cove, Durrus, 3 sons 4 daughters.  Died at residence Rathard, Aherla.  His granddaughter Ann Maria Curtis, Dungourney, married 1867, Daniel O’Connell’s grandson (Son of Charles RM, Bantry),

Richard S. Harrison Article 1994, re Friends (Quakers) in Bandon, 1655-1807, Reference to Spat with Swanton Member?, in Skibbereen, 1696.

Courtesy Cumann Seanchais na Bandain/ Bandon Historical Society and Richard S Harrison.  Richard Harrison has done excellent histories of Drimoleague and Bantry.

The Swanton reference is interesting there are two contrasting views on the family origin.  One is that they come from Scotland part of a small plantation in Castlehaven  late 17th century.  In the mid 18th century many of the family in Ballydehob converted fro the Church of Ireland to Methodism.

Some of the Shipseys were Quakers at one stage.

 

Quakers Skibbereen and Bandon, 1696

 

The Registers of the Cork City Meeting of the Quakers (Births Marriages and Deaths) 1653-1859 and other records from Dr. Albert Casey’s Collection.

 

A Journal of a Voyage from Philadelphia to Cork in the year of our lord 1809 together with a Description of a Sojourn in Ireland, Margaret B.Harvey

 

William Penn:

 

My Irish Journal, William Penn includes his sojourns in Cork 1669-70.

 

Original signature William Penn

 

1711, William Penn, Founder of Pennsylvania, USA, Properties near Clonakilty, Co. Cork

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Jerry Crowley, Apothecary, North St., Skibbereen possibly originally from Ballyourane, Caheragh, West Cork, Famine Relief, Phoenix Club Swore O’Donovan Rossa in As Member, Extended Family Evans, Haddens

In the early 19th century the demarcation between a doctor and apothecary (chemist) was not clear cut.  There are many references to Doctors who in fact were apothecaries.

Recent DNA evidence may suggest two separate lines of Protestant ancestors.  Firstly the West Cork Landlord families, Cox, Evans,  Jervois, Hull, Robinson and secondly the Armagh weaver families who settled in the triangle Clonakilty/Skibbereen/Dunmanway, Johnson, Williamson, Young among others.,

He may also be of the same extended family as father Crowley from Caheragh who was jailed in the late 1880s during the Land War during a controversial criminal defamation action initiated by the Protestant Minister in Goleen.  Fr. Crowley later went to the USA and became a controversial Catholic bible hall preacher.

For family relationships:

 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/10x-KU_Witor3g7ZUB1tg3PiE0ewRnU45AVXfr-WJFsM/edit#heading=h.xt3xcbjg5hja

 

 

Skibbereen Apothecaries:

 

Skibbereen
1833	…Carey		Son aged 2 James William died
1817	Francis Clerke
1824	Jonathan Clarke
1800, 1824	James Crowley	North-st	Pigot’s directory 1824	Married Sarah Evans, Lissangle, 1810. Probably of Ballyourane, Caheragh family major farmers.
1827	Jermiah Crowley		North St	Slater’s Directory 1846. Brother James d 1843 of TB.	Phoenix Society later Fenains founded in his house, now Cahalane’s hairdressing saloon North St, present were Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa, Mortimer Downing, Jeremiah Crowley, Morty Moynihann, Daniel McCartie
1826	Daniel Donovan
1837, 1845	David Hadden	Apothecary, Pysician and Surgeon	Born 1817, leading Methodist	Probably born in wexford as was his brother William Henry who trained as an apothecary and later practised medicine in Walhalla, Australia	He married one of the Evan sisters, Lissangle, Caheragh,  James Crowley married Rebecca Evans
B 1828	William Henry Hadden	Apothecary, later Doctor in Walhalla, Australia	Brother of David, father John, a Methodist missionary, mother Eleanor Evans one of 11 children, born Wexford but appliied to Apothecary’s Hall at age 15 from Skibbereen
1808	Alexander McCarthy	1808 set up own shop	1829 return transcribed by Kae Lewis
1816	John McCarthy
1824	Cornelius O’Driscoll	Hollybrook	1829 return transcribed by Kae Lewis	May be related to Crowley and Evans apothecaries by marriage
1828	G.A.Rountree
1824	Stephen Sweetnam
1827	Denny Taylor

 

 

 

 

1852, Emigration Direct from Cork to New York, Philadelphia, New Orleans,  British North America with Free Steam Passage to Liverpool, Free Weekly Food Allowance of Over 2 Lb, Bread, 5 Lb. Oatmeal, 2 Lb.  Rice, I Lb. Flour, I Lb. Sugar and Molasses, 2 Oz. Tea, 21 Quarts  of Water

Oillscoilan t-Sleigh, The Academy of Master Madden late 19th century, Ardfield, Clonakilty to Prepare Boys for the British Civil Service Exams. Pupils included Michael Collins and Sam Maguire.

Up to the mid 1960s the opportunities for second level education even for families with a degree of comfort was limited.  In the 19th century as an alternative to home farming or going to America the prospect of the Imperial Civil Service was attractive.

One of Master Madden’s great grand sons taught at second level in Dunmanway in the 1960s.

Apart from Sam Maguire and Michael Collins another pupil was Séan Hurley from Durrus.  He went to work in the Chinese Customs in Shanghai and assisted Chinese Revolutionaries. The first Irishman to be given an honorary Chinese passport.

Seán (John Joseph) Hurley (1883-1961), Durrus, West Cork, China and Dublin, First Irishman to have a Chinese Passport and early founder of Aer Lingus. Obituary 1961.

‘Keep your Water Boys’, Exhortation from Woman of The House at Ardfield, Clonakilty, West Cork, 1890s to use Urine for Clothes Washing in Lodging House Attached to Cramming School where Boys, including Michael Collins, prepared for British Civil Service Examinations and collection of Urine by Donkey and Cart in Kilcrohane 1810s.

 

Courtesy Sharon Hosford, History of Dunmanway Model School, (1849-1999)

 

 

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Sam Maguire

Among the most noteworthy past pupils of The Model School, Dunmanway is Sam Maguire. Born to John and Jane Maguire in the townland of Maulabracka, Sam came from farming people. They were large tenant farmers on the Shouldham Estate. Sam was one of a family of seven children. ( Mary, Elizabeth, Paul, John, Richard, Willie and Sam).They had the reputation of being kind, generous and hard working people.

Sam attended both Junior and Senior departments in the Model School where he learned such subjects as algebra, mensuration, geometry, agriculture, line-drawing and music. Sam was an excellent student and it was decided that he’d make a good candidate for the British Civil Service. After finishing at the Model he was sent to the renowned Oillscoil an tSleibh at Ardfield to study under Master Madden for the entrance exams.

He graduated into the civil service in London, and far from home, began to feelt he importance of his identity as an Irish man. The Land War (1879-1881) was of major concern to the family, being tenant farmers themselves. The founding of the Gaelic League (1887) and the development of the G.A.A. (1884 onwards) was enthusiastically supported by Sam. He began playing Gaelic football in London and from 1900 onwards his name appeared on many team records. Although Sam played in several finals, he never won an All-Ireland medal. He did however become very involved in the legislative and organisational affairs of the G.A.A., particularly in London.

Later Sam came in prominence in the I.R.B. and has said to have introduced Michael Collins into the movement. His activities within that movement are a matter of much speculation. He certainly had great organisational talent and leadership skills to bring to whatever operations to which his convictions as a Nationalist guided him.

He was the man of principles. After the treaty Sam returned to Dublin and joined the Irish Civil Service. However he frequently clashed with his superiors and was eventually dismissed from the public service. He returned home to Maulabracka in 1924, discouraged, disillusioned and in poor health. He died there and is buried in St. Mary’s Church  of Ireland Cemetery in Dunmanway.

The people of Dunmanway wanted to perpetuate the memory of this remarkable man. In May 1949 a Celtic cross was erected at his grave and in April 1974 the “Sam Maguire Memorial Park” was opened in Dunmanway.

The Sam Maguire Cup was commissioned by comrades and friends and wrought to the design of the Ardagh Chalice. It is awarded each year to the winners of the All-Ireland Gaelic Football Championship and seems a fitting way to remember a man who did much to spread G.A.A. in England and for whom our heritage was so important.

It might be noted that a recent Grand Master of the Orange Order in Ireland Robert Saulter,  grandfather Salter, is buried next to Sam Maguire at St. Mary’s, Dunmanway.

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Eliza (Dizzie) Townsend (Mrs. Lionel Fleming), in Ballydevlin, Goleen, West Cork c 1820s, no roads, rooms lit by smokey candles made of mutton fat, a diet of cabbage, sea weed, mutton, salt ling, salted pork, pigs head and crubeens, playing Handel and Mozart with the Rev O’Grady.

Rev. O’Grady: Re the Coghlans and Dowes of Carrigmanus through the Simpson family. Daughter of Susanna Goodwin Bishop Simpson and Joshua Dowe (father of Dr. of Joshua Isaac Dowe), was: Susanna Dowe 1803–1873 BIRTH ABT. 1803 Schull, Cork, Ireland DEATH 10 MAY 1873 • Kilmoe, Goleen, Co Cork, Ireland 1st cousin 4x removed She married Rev. Thomas O’Grady of Carrigmannus. Henry Baldwin Long farmed on Carrigmanus lands (as did Richard Long ) until the family moved for a short while (abt. 1915 – 1929) to Moneens, near Bantry which was also owned by Thomas, thus confirming family connection. The Christian names of “Simpson and Goodwin” carry on through the O’Grady family.

Until Richard Griffith completed the road from Skibbereen to Crookhaven in 1824 there was only a saddle path. When the road opened, for the first time, wheeled vehicles came to the western area.

Her Father:

Rev. Horace/Horatio Townsend, pre 1824, Derry, Rosscarbery, noted agriculturalist, 13 children of whom Dizzie married Lionel Fleming JP, Ballydevlin later Newcourt. Managed estates of Lord Shannon in Timoleague until his death. 1835 Subscriber Lewis Topographical Dictionary of Ireland 1837.

From excellent Townsend family history site:

http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~townsend/tree/record.php?ref=5D05

Notes for Eliza Townsend (Dizzie)

Married 10 January 1819. Lionel John Fleming (1) of Newcourt (2) was the son of Becher Fleming (1760-1837) of Newcourt (3), Co Cork and a barrister. Lionel’s grandmother was Mary Townsend [506] who married Thomas Somerville of Castlehaven. Lionel’s sister, Martha Fleming, married John Sealy Townsend [333]. See 1958 Edn Burke’s Irish Family Records – Fleming.

Dizzie attended school at Clifton, Bristol ca 1807 with her sister Katherine Townsend [5D06].

According to the book “The Irish Country House” by Peter Somerville-Large, Lionel’s father sent the couple after their marriage to Ballydevlin House, near Goleen on the north side of Roaring Water Bay, in order to keep Lionel occupied until he inherited the Newcourt estate. The entry for the parish of Kilmoe in Samuel Lewis’ Topographical Dictionary of Ireland 1837 reflects this. Life at Ballydevlin was very basic and all supplies had to come from Skibbereen, thirty miles away, and the couple found themselves very isolated. Although she ran a school and helped the poor, Dizzie found life at Ballydevlin very lonely compared with the hustle and bustle of Derry and implored her father to persuade her father-in-law to relinquish the Newcourt estate in favour of Lionel. This cut no ice and it was not until 1837 that Lionel inherited the estate.

Notes for Eliza Townsend (Dizzie) Married 10 January 1819. Lionel John Fleming (1) of Newcourt (2) was the son of Becher Fleming (1760-1837) of Newcourt (3), Co Cork and a barrister. Lionel’s grandmother was Mary Townsend [506] who married Thomas Somerville of Castlehaven. Lionel’s sister, Martha Fleming, married John Sealy Townsend [333]. See 1958 Edn Burke’s Irish Family Records – Fleming. Dizzie attended school at Clifton, Bristol ca 1807 with her sister Katherine Townsend [5D06]. According to the book “The Irish Country House” by Peter Somerville-Large, Lionel’s father sent the couple after their marriage to Ballydevlin House, near Goleen on the north side of Roaring Water Bay, in order to keep Lionel occupied until he inherited the Newcourt estate. The entry for the parish of Kilmoe in Samuel Lewis’ Topographical Dictionary of Ireland 1837 reflects this. Life at Ballydevlin was very basic and all supplies had to come from Skibbereen, thirty miles away, and the couple found themselves very isolated. Although she ran a school and helped the poor, Dizzie found life at Ballydevlin very lonely compared with the hustle and bustle of Derry and implored her father to persuade her father-in-law to relinquish the Newcourt estate in favour of Lionel. This cut no ice and it was not until 1837 that Lionel inherited the estate.

Fleming Family History:

http://nycnuts.net/ancestors/fleming/contents/index.html

Godwin Swift letters Crookhaven 1757

1824 Sir Richard Griffith, Road Engineer, Progress Report, Skibbereen to Crookhaven, Wheeled Carts now Appear, where heretofore Loads were carried on the Backs of Horses, New Entrance to Town Of Bandon, Road From Courtmacsherry to Timoleague, Road from Clonakilty to New Fishery Pier At Ring, New Road Skibbereen to Bantry, Macroom to Killarney, with a Note on The System of Labour Organisation Used.

Courtesy Peter Somerville Large.

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Great War Window Memorial by A.E. Childs (1875-1930) of An Túr Gloinne, Dublin at Christ Church, Innishannon, Co. Cork.

 

 

Stained glass including Tower of Glass (An Túr Gloinne) 1908 designed by A. E. Childs managed by Sarah Purser and Harry Clarke Studios commissioned by Father Jimmy O’Sullivan, Pastor of Kilcoe and Lisheen Parish, West Cork, born Shannonvale, Clonakilty 1841, ordained Louvain Belgium 1870 died 1926.

St. Ann’s Church, Dawson Street, Dublin, some windows by Wilhelmina Geddes of An Túr Gloinne (Tower of Glass) Studios some commemorating Ernest Lawrence Julian and Robert Hornidge Cullinan both killed at Suvla Bay 1915 erected by their friends at the Irish Bar and War Dead of WW1 and WW2 of the parish.

 

The Roman Catholic Cathedral in Perth, Western Australia

 

http://www.bandonunion.ie/christ-church-innishannon/