Divided Loyalties in a West Cork Parish: the Reverend George Frederick Stoney of Berehaven, Dismissal 1868 by Reverend John Halahan, Rector of Berehaven, .  Falling out with Henry Lavellin Puxley

Dr. Miriam Moffitt, Church of Ireland, courtesy Susan Martin.

 

https://www.ireland.anglican.org/news/7857/divided-loyalties-in-a-west?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook

 

Enclose details of Henry Lavellin Puxley and other family members Magistrates.  The reconstruction of his Dunboy castle has stalled.  The Lavellan part of the name is an old Norman family from Carrigaline some of whom converted.

 

 

…

Henry Puxley TCD (1741-1803), 1763, Bantry, son of John Puxley, Customs Official killed by O’Sullivan, dispute over seizure. Barrister 1764. Freeman of Cork 1768.  Married Sarah Lavelllin, Carragaline, 1771. Listed supporter of Act of Union, 1799  

Henry Lavellin Puxley (1835-1909), M.A. (Oxon), 1860, Dunboy Castle, Castletownbere, Llangan Carmarthenshire, Non-Resident, £237, son of John Lavellin Puxley,  who m 1830 Fanny Rosa Maria White, Bantry House returned as Sheriff for Cork County, 1863. Lavellins an old Cork Catholic Norman family who converted. Sara Lavellin, Carrigaline married Henry Puxley of Dunboy late 18th century.  M Anna Adelind d Lieutenant Colonel Indian Army. Henry Lavallin Puxley began an extraordinary Gothic extension of Dunboy Castle (burned by IRA 1921) in 1866, but the works were cut somewhat short by the devastating impact of his  wife’s death in 1872 at the age of only thirty-six. On this line the Puxleys are related to Timothy O’Donovan, J.P., O’Donovan’s Cove, Durrus. In 1870s had over 7,000 acres.  Probate in London Irish estate £2,251 to Herbert H.L. Puxley and Frank L. Puxley, buried Hove, East Sussex. Land record, 1870, 9,158 acres.

John Puxley, 1752, Beerhaven, probably killed by O’Sullivan 1754 dispute over smuggling he being in Excise.  Son Henry TCD, 1757 aged 19. Erected by the brothers Henry and John Puxley in the  late 1730s, their new residence was initially called Puxley Castle. But in time it acquired a more illustrious name, since it lay “within two  hundred yards of the ruins of the celebrated Dunboy Castle,” indelibly remembered as the site of “the prolonged siege of its chieftain Their descendant Henry Lavallin Puxley began an extraordinary Gothic extension of Dunboy Castle (burned by IRA 1921) in 1866, but the works were cut somewhat short by the devastating impact of his  wife’s death in 1872 at the age of only thirty-six.

John Lavellin Puxley TCD (1772-1856), Dunboy, Allihies, Copper Mining Magnate.  Member Hanover Association meeting Cork 1791 re Whiteboys.   Freeman of Cork. Pre 1830. Voted in 1812 Cork election for Hutchinson and Longfield. Member 1832 Cork Friendly Club.  Signed public declaration in Skibbereen to Alexander O’Driscoll on his removal as Magistrate 1835 with Lord Bantry, Simon White, Arthur Hutchins, Thomas Baldwin, Samuel Townsend Junior and Senior, Thomas Somerville, Richard Townsend Senior, Rev. Alleyn Evanson, Timothy O’Donovan, Richard Townsend, Lyttleton Lyster. listed 1838, started mines in 1812 at peak employed 1,600 miners. M Sarah Hobbs, da Thomas Bantry.  John Puxley, Berehaven qualified as Barrister 1797.  Son of Timothy O’Donovan, J.P., Durrus,  wife is grand daughter to Daniel O’Connell, the mother of Timothy O’Donovan’s  wife was a Miss Lavellan, Co. Limerick, a daughter of Philip Lavellin of Water park in the County of Cork. Her sister was married to Mr. Puxley of Dunboy Branch?. The grandson the present Mr. Puxley is a man of immense wealth the principal owner of the famous Allihies Mines in the Barony of Bere

John Lavellin Puxley, 1830 (two of same name), m 1830 in Allihies  Fanny Rosa Maria White, Bantry House parents of Henry Lavellin Puxley (1835-1909), J.P..   Attending Protestant Conservative Society meeting 1832.  Listed 1835 at Kilbey.

…

Dirge of Murty Óg O’Sullivan Bere, composed in Irish by his nurse translated by Jeremiah Joseph Callnan, Murty killed John Puxley in turn he was betrayed by his servant Scully, killed, his body dragged by boat from Berehaven to Cork beheaded and his head lay for years on Cork Jail.

1848, 1849. Payment by Puxleys of Mining Royalties for Allihies Copper Mines to Bantry Estate. Lord Bantry complains of a Chronic Shortage of Money by Himself and Son Viscount Berehaven.

 

Alexander Donovan, Clonakilty, 1822 Admission Gray’s Inns, 1836 Reporter Court of Common Pleas, London, Judge Dominica, his brother Rickard Donovan, Clerk of the Crown for Co. Cork from 1838 (Equivalent to State Solicitor), Extended family Network by Marriage including Daniel O’Connell and the Puxley Mining Family of Beara.

 

Sentenced to Death at the Cork Assizes August 1754, John Fitzgerald otherwise Sullivan (Little John) and Daniel Connell for the murder of John Puxley Esq. the Corke Journal to publish the dying speech of Connell. They were apprehended at Eyries, Beara when Morty Oge O’Sullivan was slain. The Caoin still survives.

 

1740. a Memorial of Several Gentlemen Residing at or near Berehaven in West Cork, setting forth the necessity of having a Barrack built for one company and half of foot to prevent running of Goods and the Shipping Off of Men to Foreign Service

 

Most of those listed are Magistrates.  For Cork Magistrates:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZvT84JCKTIhMqqZjJsF_AUJLH8S820ksObykwOty3wg/edit

Some are also listed on Grand Jury records as Bridge Overseers:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pJok8mzM29v09-JYfaucXT17VBQhGekUZc9peMRvwps/edit…

https://books.google.ie/books?id=iJVRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA522&dq=Berkley+Taylor,+1715,+cork&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi_qdj845PaAhXJIMAKHQeNDWYQ6AEILjAB#v=onepage&q=Berkley%20Taylor%2C%201715%2C%20cork&f=false.

 

 

1731 Limerick Cork Road via Bruff, Kilmallock, Ballyhoura, Mallow, Whitechurch, 23 George 2nd, 16, Trustees

 

Richard Earl of Cork and Burlington

Right Honourable James Earl of Burlington

Right Honourable William  Earl of Inchiquin

Right Honourable John Earl of Orrery

Right Honourable Richard Viscount Shannon

Right Honourable Arthur Viscount Doneraile

Right Honourable Allen Viscount Midleton

 

 

Sample:

 

 

..

 

 

 

..

1712 Execution granted to Ann Nettles executrix of Robert Nettles by Richard Browne and Richard Hedges against Popish inhabitants Godfrye and Keadgh Leary (probable ancestor of outlaw and  Captain Hungarian Hussars, Art Ó Laoighre) for £160.

Transcribed 1944 by Dr. Edward McLysaght from bundles of old documents in a chest in the Town Clerk’s Office, Kinsale.  Many of those listed against whom executions (judgements ) were obtained were previously or after of significant wealth.   Included here is Keadagh (Keady) Leary/O’Leary.  Likely the ancestor of Art Ó Laoighre, the family of Raleigh, Macroom, were agents to various estates and significantly well off.  Art’s descendants numbered barristers adn doctors.

The Cork O’Leary families like the Ballydehob, Swantons display an economic acumen.  A noted example is a scion of the Roscarbery branch Michael O’Leary of Ryanair.

1677. Lease from Helen, Elizabeth, Countesses Clancarthy, Donogh McCarthy Earl of Clancarthy to Keadagh O’Leary Probably Ancestor to Art Ó Laoighre, The Outlaw, Claim before the Trustees of Irish Forfeitures, Probate by Cork Consistory Court.

 

24th July 1755, Doctor Edward Barry, College Green, Dublin, Offers fine Oakwood in Lands at Tuigeah, Inchileelagh, Co Cork for Sale Where Old Keadagh Leary Lived Probably Grandfather of Outlaw Art Ó Laoighre.

 

 

1765. Letting of Lands at ‘The Lough’, Cork by Cornelius Leary Father of Art Ó Laoighre, Hungarian Hussar in Employ of Empress of Austria, Outlaw, Raleigh, Macroom, Judicially Murdered, and Callanans Apothecaries.

 

Inscription Kilcrea Graveyard to Art O’Leary, (Outlaw), Died 1771 aged 26 Years Having served The Empress Maria Theresa as Captain of The Hungarian Hussars and Treacherously Shot by Order of the British Government His Sole Crime ‘That He Resisted to Part with a Favourite Horse or The Sum of …’, his son Cornelius O’Leary (1768-1846), Captain of The Guard, French Service, Barrister-at-Law, C.F. Purcell O’Leary, Barrister-at-Law (1815-1846), son of Cornelius.

 

Art O’Leary, French Educated, Captain of The Hungarian Hussars, refused offer for his winning horse of £5 under Penal Laws by Abraham Morris, proclaimed an outlay, killing at age of 26, his wife an aunt of Daniel O’Connell ‘Caoineadh Art Uí Laoighre.

…

 

 

 

 

…

1715, Common Place Book of Francis Hodder, Catalogue of Fruit Trees Planted, How to tell the Age of a Horse, Genealogical Information of Hodder/Roberts families in Bandon/Kinsale area.  From Conner papers, Manch, Dunmanway.  Transcribed 1944 by Dr. Edward McLysaght.

 

If a full listing is required e mail,  pat25a@gmail.com

 

 

..

 

 

..

 

 

…

 

 

From 1594, Presentments, Corporation Records, Deeds of Kinsale Naming Inhabitants and Addresses.

 

 

Transcribed 1944 by Dr. Edward McLysaght from bundles of old documents in a chest in the Town Clerk’s Office, Kinsale.

For anyone interested in a fuller list email me at pat25a@gmail.com

1788 Kinsale Heart Tax Returns with Exemptions. Loss of Window Tax Returns and Irish Tax Revenue 1818-8. Applications to Reopen Closed Hearths on Advice of Physicians for Those with Fever.

 

1749. Opening of Kinsale Charter School by The Incorporated Society in Dublin For Promoting English Protestant Schools. 20 Boys Admitted making Nets. Corporation and Local Subscriptions of £78 a Year.

 

Some Classical Schools Co. Cork, Ireland, Bandon 1610, Kinsale 1767, Clonakilty 1808.

 

October 1766, Seizure by Mob of Disorderly Fishermen at Kinsale, Co. Cork of Sloop Laden with Potatoes Bound for Gibraltar

 

 

..

 

 

…

 

…

..

 

The background seems at the start of the Penal Laws to be that those affected by Tory activity, house burning etc would bring an action before the Magistrates and then an execution penal fine would be levied. Looking at those against whom the levies were made Meades, Moroghs, Galweys, O’Sullivans of Bantry significant merchants or parish priests. Incidentally some family members of those had converted to the Church of Ireland by mid 18th century.  Period 1712-1772.

Many of the same Magistrates appear a lot of whom are listed as Bridge Overseers for Co. Cork under the Grand Jury for the period.

McLysaght Analecta Hibernia, No. 14, 1944, Transcriptions, Conor Papers, Manch, Kinsale Corporation from 1594.

…

1712-1772, Co. Cork, Executions (Debt Collection) Obtained. Parties Named, some addresses some Bantry, Berehaven, Glengariff, Castlehaven.

 

Many of the Magistrates involved are also listed as Bridge Overseers in the Cork Grand Jury Records 1709.

 

 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pJok8mzM29v09-JYfaucXT17VBQhGekUZc9peMRvwps/edit?usp=drive_web&ouid=100968344231272482288

 

Transcribed 1944 by Dr. Edward McLysaght from bundles of old documents in a chest in the Town Clerk’s Office, Kinsale.

 

Most of those listed against whom judgements were obtained were of substance.  In Bantry, the Galweys, Meades, Muroghs feature all prominent in pilchard fishery. Richard  Goodwin in wha is probably Comhoola 1712 got a judgement may have been involved in wood extraction and smelting. The family are later prominent in Bantry

 

1712, William Archer, execution of £18 against Dermod McHugh and John Casey, both Bantry.

1712, Magistrates Hugh Hutchinson (later Clonee, Durrus) and Michael Parker execution in favour of Richard Godwin, Comhoola, for £18 against Dermod Lyne, Ardgroom, Florence Sullivan, Glengariff.

1713, execution in favour of Francis  Boyce for £18 against John Mort Sullivan, Charles Mccarthy, Berehaven.

1714, Execution in favour of Thomas Holmes, for £43 against Andrew Morogh, merchant, Denis Hurley, farmer, both Bantry.

 

1719. Execution of £24 in favour of John Harrison against Henry Galwey, Nicholas Meade both Bantry.

 

 

 

 

 

 

…

 

…

1841, West Cork  density,  comparable to China, Haita, India and Rwanda.

1841, population density.  This map is taken from The Atlas of the Irish Famine, John Crowley, William J. Smyth and Mike Murphy, Cork University Press 2012.  The population density of the populated areas is calculated by excluding mountain, lake and bog.  The result is a density comparable to China, India and Haiti.

..

For other areas scroll around page 220:

http://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/21220/page/591138

Follow heading notice how few larger holdings:

..

…

…

Map of Old Dioceses of Ross.

Courtesy History of Castleventry Parish, 2011.