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Desertmore (Ovens area) Parish, Co. Cork, 1699, Some Papists married to Protestants breed their Children Papists Recent DNA Evidence Confirms Complex Genetics of Cork City and West Cork.
http://corkgen.org/publicgenealogy/cork/parishes/desertmore-1061.html
Mazier Brady:
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Rev. Horatio Townsend, (Pupil of Collins) Author 1813 ‘Statistical Survey Co. Cork’, Genealogy.
http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~townsend/tree/record.php?ref=5D00
There is a reference in the family history to him and family members being taught by Collins. Probably not John Collins, ‘The Silver Tongue of Carbery’ even though he was a contemporary and in the area.
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Unpublished Verse in Memory of Sarah Curran (Mrs. Sturgeon) by Rev. John Chetwode (c 1740-1814)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Curran
Her Father:
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Meziere Brady’s History of Caheragh Parish, West Cork, from 1319 With Norman Connections.
There is a reference to John de Cogan and later the Colege of Youghal.
It is probably that the Norman had a settlement in the area coming up the Illen and Durrus Rivers. A legacy is a cluster of Norman names Burke, Barrett, Goggin, in the area.
18 Sunday Oct 2015
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Bishop Dives Downes Tour of West Cork 1700, Religious Breakdown Clergy Don’t Bother Exacting Tithes on Turf.
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Genealogy of Rev. John Murphy (1795-, Church of Ireland, Newtown, Bantry, West Cork.
Grand Jury 1843 Murphy Family:
| County of Cork Record Jury, Summer Assizes 1843, All Jurors Esq. | Sir William Abraham Chatterton, Bart, Castlemahon, Blackrock, Cork | Samuel Allen, Midleton | Henry Allen, Cloyne House | John Thomas Atkins, Ledington, Youghal | John Harold Barry, Ballyvorane, Mallow |
| Henry Standish Barry, Reencoulig, Midleton? | William G. Browne, Coolcower, Macroom | Gerard Barry, Ballinahina, Fermoy | Michael Alleyn Becher, Ballydivane, Clonakilty | Henry Barry, Barry’s Lodge, Midleton | |
| Henry Baldwin, Mount Pleasant, Bandon | James Bouge, Laragh, Bandon | Thomas Crofts, Velvetstown, Buttevant | Hatton Couran, Grange | Alfred Callaghan, New Castle, Limerick? | Patrick Coleman, Kinsale |
| Richard Donovan, Lisheens, Ballincollig | Thomas Garde Durdin, Shanagarry | Ralph Evans, Carker, Doneraile | Sampson Twogood French, Cusquinny, Cobh | Henry Baldwin Foot, Carrigacunna, Mallow | James Foott, Springfort, Mallow |
| Richard Fitzgerald, Muckridge House | William Hume Franks, Carrig, Mallow | William Fagan, Feltrim | Walter Giles, Frogmore, Youghal | Michael Gallwey, Gurtnascreena, Skibbereen | Thomas Gollock, Leemoun, Cork |
| Thomas Murdoch Green, Ahadoe | Richard Gumbleton, Castleview | William Hennessy, Fortwilliam, Doneraile | Standish Harrison, Castle Harrison, Buttevant | Edward Heard, Ballintubber, Kinsale | Thomas Knowles, Oatlands, KInsale |
| Thomas Limrick, Union Hall, Thomas Hingston Limrick who was the rate collector for the Skibbereen Union a few years later. One of Col. Limrick’s four sons.
Started badly in life by being committed for burglary and robbery aged 14 in 1831 (as noted in Irish Prison Registers 1790-1924). |
William Henry Lysaght, Clogheen | William Leader, Nashville, Kanturk | Henry B. Mitchell, Mitchelsfort, Watergrasshill | Edward Morrogh, Glanmire | Michael Murphy, Newtown, Bantry |
Meziere Brady:
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1755, £201, Cost of Improvements to House Barns at Glebe, Balinadee, Co, Cork, including Provision for Balk Timber, Horse Hair, Lime, Quarrymen, Horse Rental, 177 Improvements Mason 1shilling 7 pence a day, Labourer 7 pence a day..
1777:
From Meziere Brady:
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The Wit, Epigrams and Poetry of the Reverend De La Cour ‘The Mad Parson’, Blarney, Co. Cork.
http://www.ricorso.net/rx/az-data/authors/d/Delacour_J/life.htm
http://landedestates.nuigalway.ie:8080/LandedEstates/jsp/estate-show.jsp?id=2893
From Crofton Croker:
At Killowen, near Blarney, the Rev. James De la Cour was born, whose ‘ Prospect of Poetry,’ unfortunately for him, was much admired. It is reported that some complimentary lines addressed
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to him on this publication, by Thomson, the author of the Seasons, commencing with Hail, gently warbling De la Cour,’’
James Thomson, The Seasons London: Henry Woodfall for A. Millar (1744)
affected his reason, so as to render him guilty of many irregularities, for which he was deprived of his gown.
The Prospect of Poetry (evidently an imitation of Pope) was first published in 1?33, and has since been reprinted in Cork more than once, with some of De la Cour’s other poems, the beauties and faults of which closely resemble those…
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Genealogy of Cork Huguenot Madras family post 1750 from Amsterdam by letter from India Office 1939, interconnected families Longfield Connor Fort Robert, Evanson Durrus, Travers Butlerstown, Baldwin Curravody, Alleyn.
The Rev John Madras referred to was a curate in Durrus c 1800 when he married Miss Evanson.
From Meziere Brady:
Graveyard inscription courtesy Richard henchion.
Youngest Son of Madras family mentioned as life also Evansons, Whites of Bantry:
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1657, Inventory of Lands of The See of Cork (Dioceses of Church of Ireland) in Barony of Carbery East and West (Including Dunmanway, Kilcrohane, Schull, Ballydehob) With Conflicting Claims to Land.
From Meziere Brady:
http://www.corkpastandpresent.ie/history/bradysclericalandparochialrecords/.
There are ledgers in the National Archives and in the RCB Library, Rathgar, Dublin containing details of rent payments to 1810 for these lands.
West Cork History 