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Genealogy of Townsend family Co. Cork from 17th century, with intermarried families of Baldwin, Barry, Beamish, Carleton, Daunt, De Burgh, Fleming, French, Galway, Herbert, Hungerford, Maunsell, Meade, Morris, Newman, Robinson, Roche, Somerville, Synge, Trench, Warren.

07 Sunday Dec 2014

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Some Townsend Magistrates:

Colonel Bryan Townsend -1727), 1692, m Mary Synge, son Richard inherited Castletownsend on his death 1727.

Cornelius Townsend, 1732. Bridgemount.  Subscriber  of 1766 ‘The History of the Irish Rebellion’, Cork, 1766,

Edward Maunsell Townsend, 1762, Whitehall, Skibbereen

Captain Arthur Fitz-John Townsend  (1874- , 1877, Seafield, Castle Townsend, born Dublin, son of Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Fitz-John Townsend JP TCD (1841- , 1877, Seafield, Castle Townsend, only son of Judge John FitzgHenry Townsend LLD, Admiralty Judge of High Court, and Ellen d Rev.George Armstrong, Boer war and Mary d Arthur Bush Master Queen’s Bench. Ed Malvern, Army, Military Consul Turkey 1903-6..

Edward Townsend, Blackrock, Cork Summer Assizes 1828

Edwin/Edward Hume Townsend, listed 1875-6, Coolnaconarthy House, Clonakilty, his eldest son Canon Rev. Horace Webb, b 1838, Belguum, Bombay.

Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Fitz-John Townsend TCD (1841- , 1877, Seafield, Castle Townsend, Resident, £23, only son of Judge John FitzgHenry Townsend LLD, Admiralty Judge of High Court, and Ellen d Rev. George Armstrong, served Cameronians, India and Abbysinnia, m 1. 1870 Mary d Arthur Bush Master Queen’s Bench, 2 children, 2 Elizabeth d Major  Richard James Martin.

  1. Handcock Townsend, Myross wood, Skibbereen, Bantry Quarter Sessions, 1862, listed 1875-6

Henry John Townsend Pre 1910, Castle Townsend, Resident, m Jane Adeliza Clementina edo John Hamilton Hussey de Burgh, Kilfinane Castle, Co. Cork eldest son and heir Maurice Fitzgerald b 1865, 2nd Life Guards representative of Townsend family in Ireland in 1910..  Townsends descend from Norfolk.  Youngest son Captain Hubert de Burgh Fitzgerald Townsend Stephens  Townsend b 1867, ed Stubbigton, Hants, Cork Spring Assizes 1863, Ballydehob road presentments 1863, as J.H. Member election committee McCarthy Downing, Skibbereen, 1868.

Henry Owen Becher Townsend TCD (1775-1847), Glandore/Castletownsend, Son John and Mary Morris.  Ed Mr. Sandiford.  Inherited on his father’s death in 1810 lands at East and West Myross, Skibbereen and Kilmoe (Ballydehob) following family strife he settled on Kilmoe.     m 11, Sarah Fenwick dissolved 2. Ann Homan, Landwaiter 1810, Fisheries Inspector 1820.  Member RDS.  Supporter Daniel’Connell, Castletownbere 1839, attended Reformers Dinner, Bandon, 1839 for Daniel O’Connell, MP.  Petition 1840 on Catholic Equality.  1844 purchases Malmaison (now Bow Hall) , Castletownsend.  Deputy Vice-Chairman Skibbereen Poor Law Union 1844.   Left his entire estate to his son John Fitzhenry Townsend.  

Rev. Horace 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.

Rev. Horatio Townsend, D.L., 1739. Subscriber  of 1766 ‘The History of the Irish Rebellion’, Cork, 1766,

Rev? Horatio Townsend, Belgrove, Great Island, Cove?, Subscriber at Glanmire  1821 Dr Thomas Wood’s ‘Primitive Inhabitants of Ireland. Member 1832 Cork Friendly Club Deputy Lieutenant 1838 ar Woodside. Petition 1840 on Catholic Equality.  Report on 1850 dinner for Sir Robert Kane, President Queens College, member committee on Cork School of Design 1849, listed 1913.

Horatio Hamilton Townsend, 1878, Cordangan Manor, Tipperary, £40, 1899 Cosheen, Schull, m Elizabeth Stawell Ware, Woodfort, Mallow, daughter Zena m 1899 Methodist Minister Rev. John Charles Lord (born Cavan), KIlbrogan, Bandon.

Captain Hubert de Burgh Fitzgerald Townsend Stephens Townsend (1867, 1896, Shepperton Park, Leap, Skibbereen, ed Stubbigton, Hants. son of Henry John Townsend JP, Castle Townsend, Resident, m Jane Adeliza Clementina edo John Hamilton Hussey de Burgh, Kilfinane Castle, Co. Cork oldest brother Maurice Fitzgerald b 1865, 2nd Life Guards representative of Townsend family in Ireland in 1910. Captain Essex Regiment.    Townsends descend from Norfolk, listed 1913, listed 1921  

John Townsend, 1671

John Townsend, 1714

John Townsend, 1721

John Townsend, 1760, Mardyke (One in Cork one in Skibbereen), in 1777 chasing banditti in Murdering Glen outside Bantry with Samuel Jervois and John Townsend and Daniel Callaghan.

John Townsend TCD, BL, (1737-1810), 1775 from family history not official list, Shepperton and Dublin, son Richard and Elizabeth Becher, Barrister 1767, JP 1775, MP, Dingle, Castlemartyr, Commissioner for Revenue 1799, Excise, m Mar d Jonas Morris and Mary Townsend Barley Hill/Ballinagorna, Clonakilty, Subscriber  of 1766 ‘The History of the Irish Rebellon’, Cork, 1766,

Rev John Townsend, 1785, Cloghnikilty (Clonakilty)

John Townsend, 1791, Shepperton, Member Hanover Association meeting Cork 1791 re Whiteboys.  Skibbereen, 1831

John Fitzhenry Townshend (1807-, Seacliffe, Castletownsend, Admiralty Judge, listed 1875-6, Seacliff, 30 Upper or Lower? Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin 2. Son of Henry Owen Becher (1775-1847) and Ann Homan,  m Ellen Armstrong, Taught by Mr Coughlan prior to Trinity 1801.  His father in his will left him property at east and West Myross Skibbereen and Kilmoe (Ballydehob).  Bencher Kings Inns 1877.  

St. James Erskine St Clair (1762-1837), Bart, 1793, 2nd Earl of Rosslyn, Adjunant Ireland 1782, Grand Master Freemasons Scotland.

John Henry Townsend, Dunbeacon, Durrus, Member election committee McCarthy Downing, Skibbereen, 1868.

Commander John Townsend (1764-1849), 1801, Borough Magistrate by provision of charter.  Had been in RN, son of Ohipil Mary Delap, m Eleanor Townsend and in Ross Cathedral 1819 Agnes Somerville. 1835 commenting on good conduct of military in 1835 elections.  Bandon Brunswick Constitutional Club 1828.  Under him as Recorder and Seneschal of Manor of Clonakilty, sessions were held every quarter and peace is maintained, Horatio Townsend.   Also Freeman of Cork  Recorder Clonakilty 1801.

Jonas Morris Townsend (1790-1844), 1831, Shepperton, Skibbereen, son of John and Mary Morris, m 1815,  Jane Digby, 1828 application to Dublin Castle re gas supply for Skibbereen.

Maurice F.S. Townsend, 1919, Shepperton Park, Leap, listed 1921

Piers Townsend, 1904, Whitehall, Church Cross, Timoleague, name Hughes Ely Wexford assumed Townsend name, 1879, ed University of Durham, m Caroline d Major Noel Shore, Connaught Rangers, listed 1913, listed 1921.

Rev. Philip Townsend, Pre 1831, sitting Cecilstown, 1835

Richard Townsend (1725-, 1753/5, Castle Townsend, m 1752, Elizabeth Fitzgerald d Knight of Kerry, Colonel Cork Militia Dragoons, 1756, in 1777 chasing bandetti in Murdering Glen outside Bantry with Samuel Jervois  and John Townsend and Daniel Callaghan.  MP for Co. Cork, Dingle 1782-95), Revenue Commissioner 1759-83.  Excise Commissioner.

Richard Townsend, 1766, Coronea, Skibbereen,  Subscriber as Richard Junior  of 1766 ‘The History of the Irish Rebellon’, Cork, 1766,

Richard Boyle Townsend (1756-1826/7), 1793, Castletownsend, BA, TCD, 1773, Father Colonel John Townsend, mother Elizabeth Fitzgerald, m Henrietta Newenham, d John Devonsher Newenham, Maryborough, Carrigaline.  Freeman, Cork 1777.  MP Dingle 1782, 1790.  Member Hanover Association meeting Cork 1791 re Whiteboys.  Signed petition 1827 against Catholic Emancipation. Refused to vote for Act of Union, Member Freemasons Shamrock Lodge 27.

Rev Richard Townsend, 1795, Skull (Schull), 1831, (Hibernian Chronicle), 4/2/1799, CORK, Committed to the county gaol by Rev. Rich. Townsend, Timothy Driscoll, charged with administering unlawful oaths, and with conspiring to take away the lives of Richard and Wm. Hull, Esqrs.  1825 two day Admiralty sitting re’ Clio’, St. Johns New Brunswick, Skibbereen, Richard Townsend with Richard Townsend Junior, William Somerville Limrick, Richard Neville Somerville, award partially overturned by Baron Pennyfeather Cork Assizes.

Richard Townsend Esq Senior., 1798, Castle Townsend, Skibbereen.  Present as Richard Senior at enquiry Skibbereen 1823 into enquiry into fatal affray at Castlehaven caused by Rev. Morritt’s tithe extraction. 1825 two day Admiralty sitting re’ Clio’, St. Johns New Brunswick, Skibbereen, Richard Townsend with Richard Townsend Junior, William Somerville Limrick, Richard Neville Somerville, award partially overturned by Baron Pennyfeather Cork Assizes.  Signed public declaration in Skibbereen to Alexander O’Driscoll on his removal as Magistrate 1835 with Lord Bantry, Simon White, John Puxley, Arthur Hutchins, Thomas Baldwin, Samuel Townsend Junior and Senior, Thomas Somerville, Richard Townsend Senior, Rev. Alleyn Evanson, Timothy O’Donovan, Richard Townsend, Lyttleton Lyster.  1831, listed 1838, involved with James Redmond Barry, Glandore and Thomas Somerville, Drishane in setting up Agricultural and Country Bank in Skibbereen, April 1835   Involved in attempts to amicably resolve tithes 1838.

Richard Townsend, 1715, Castletownsend from 1727, High Sheriff, 1726, eldest son of Colonel Bryan and Mary Synge, inherited Castletownsend, 1727, on death of father. M Elizabeth Becher, Aughadown, Member Atlantic Club.  Freeman of Clonakilty 1715, High Sheriff Co. Cork 1726.  Brother of The other ‘Townsend’ Freeman elected at this time was Richard’s brother, John Townsend [300] who was elected Sovereign of the borough in 1728.  Page 3 of Militia Commissions Co Cork 1727-1756 shows that Richard was appointed a Colonel of Dragoons on 11 January 1727 vice Michael Becher.

Richard Townsend Esq., Junior, Pre 1823.  Present at enquiry Skibbereen 1823 into enquiry into fatal affray at Castlehaven caused by Rev. Morritt’s tithe extraction.  sitting Union Hall, Skibbereen, 1835.  Signed public declaration in Skibbereen to Alexander O’Driscoll on his removal as Magistrate 1835 with Lord Bantry, Simon White, John Puxley, Arthur Hutchins, Thomas Baldwin, Samuel Townsend Junior and Senior, Thomas Somerville, Richard Townsend Senior, Rev. Alleyn Evanson, Timothy O’Donovan, Richard Townsend, Lyttleton Lyster.  Member Hanover Association meeting Cork 1791? re Whiteboys. Skibbereen as Clontaff 1847 distress meeting.

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 at The Point, Castletownsend, Lewis Topographical Dictionary of Ireland  1837.

Richard Orpen Townsend -1860), 1835.

Richard Townsend, Castletownsend. Presentment sessions East Division of West Carbery, Skibbereen 1845

Richard Townsend, (1829-1912), 1890, Dunbeacon Cottage, Durrus, b Sydney parents Jonas Morris and Mary Somerville, knows in family as Australian Richard. M 1880, NSW, Lucy Campbell Savage, left family to claim moiety of Durrus estate 90 acres left by uncle Richard Mellifont Townsend, regarded as Ireland’s oldest magistrate.  Executor and friend Francis Fitzmaurice, Solicitor, Dunmanway (Killed by IRA April 1921) estate to children Richard Savage Townsend and Mary Somerville Townsend, Barraba House, New South Wales c £500.

Robert Uniacke Fitzgerald Townsend TCD, (1838-, Ringville, Queenstown, Pre 1910, son of Dr. Richard Merrion Sq., Dublin and Mary Catherine d Adam Newman, Dromore House, Surveyor and land Agent, Governor UCC, m 1866, Elizabeth Gertrude d Rev. Thomas Uniacke Townsend, Inistioge, Co. Kilkenny 3 children.

R.H. Townsend, Myross Wood, subscriber Zenith Marine Disaster, Baltimore, 1895

Samuel Townsend, Senior (1768-1836), Christ Church, Oxford, Whitehall, Skibbereen, son of Edward Mansell (Splendid Ned) and Anna Baldwin, m 1794 Mercy Baldwin, d Walter Baldwin, Curravordy, Bandon.  Member Hanover Association meeting Cork 1791 re Whiteboys.   Freeman Cork, 1798.  1821 meeting on distress Skibbereen called on Landed Proprietor to take into account deplorable state of tenantry. 1822 local fishery committee.  High Sheriff, Deputy Lord-Lieutenant, Co. Cork 1835, sitting Skibbereen, 1835. Signed public declaration in Skibbereen to Alexander O’Driscoll on his removal as Magistrate 1835 with Lord Bantry, Simon White, John Puxley, Arthur Hutchins, Thomas Baldwin, Samuel Townsend Junior and Senior, Thomas Somerville, Richard Townsend Senior, Rev. Alleyn Evanson, Timothy O’Donovan, Richard Townsend, Lyttleton Lyster.

Samuel Townsend, Esq. DL?, Junior, Whitehall, Skibbereen. Bandon Brunswick Constitutional Club 1828, listed 1838,  sitting Skibbereen, 1835.  Signed public declaration in Skibbereen to Alexander O’Driscoll on his removal as Magistrate 1835 with Lord Bantry, Simon White, John Puxley, Arthur Hutchins, Thomas Baldwin, Samuel Townsend Junior and Senior, Thomas Somerville, Richard Townsend Senior, Rev. Alleyn Evanson, Timothy O’Donovan, Richard Townsend, Lyttleton Lyster. Attending Famine Relief Meeting Dunmanway 1846.    Skibbereen 1847 as Reenadowna distress meeting. Attending Railway meeting Drimoleague 1856.  Bantry 1861, 1874 as Samuel R.,

Samuel Nugent Townsend, St. Keames,  Member election committee McCarthy Downing, Skibbereen, 1868.  

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,  subscriber at Dundanion, Blackrock, 1861 to Smith’s History of Cork.

Colonel Thomas H. Townsend D.L., Drishane, Castletownsend, Attending Railway meeting Drimoleague 1856, listed 1875-6, 3rd Foot, Crimea.

William Tower Townsend, 1883, Myross Wood, Leap, Skibbereen, executor estate of John Limrick JP, Union Hall 1890.  Rep of R.E. Hull, Leamcon Manor in probate of his wife Harriet who died 1837 further grant in 1897.  Chairman Irish Landowners Association 1910, listed 1913, listed 1921

This has been complied and updated by Colonel John Townsend, in Australia and Doctor Richard Townsend.

Apart from the individual biographies from the 17th century it provided a valuable insight into Cork life from that period with references to original documentation

http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~townsend/tree/intermarriage.php

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/some-cork-and-kerry-families-such-as-galwey-roches-atkins-oconnells-mccarthys-st-ledgers-orpen-skiddy-in-john-burkes-1833-commoners-of-great-britain-and-ireland/

Cork estates:

http://landedestates.nuigalway.ie:8080/LandedEstates/jsp/estate-show.jsp?id=2288

http://landedestates.nuigalway.ie:8080/LandedEstates/jsp/estate-show.jsp?id=2474

http://landedestates.nuigalway.ie:8080/LandedEstates/jsp/estate-show.jsp?id=2781

http://landedestates.nuigalway.ie:8080/LandedEstates/jsp/estate-show.jsp?id=2649

http://landedestates.nuigalway.ie:8080/LandedEstates/jsp/estate-show.jsp?id=2766

http://landedestates.nuigalway.ie:8080/LandedEstates/jsp/estate-show.jsp?id=2472

http://landedestates.nuigalway.ie:8080/LandedEstates/jsp/estate-show.jsp?id=3766

http://landedestates.nuigalway.ie:8080/LandedEstates/jsp/estate-show.jsp?id=2475

http://landedestates.nuigalway.ie:8080/LandedEstates/jsp/estate-show.jsp?id=3765

Population Density and Emigration of West Cork Protestant families, from Mizen and Muintervera Peninsulas, to Rochester New York, Wisconsin and Percy Township, Northumberland County, Ontario from early 19th Century.

10 Sunday Mar 2013

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https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Durrus,+Co.+Cork/@51.6217107,-9.521993,11z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x48459fe7ccd270df:0x231e3744ac95441a

Effects of the Famine many of the same Surnames as in North America:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SjD7EiRBDPjnsK4c4B9xIu9HV2WPBOuY0jj5_Td7ogc/edit

The late 18th century and early 19th century was a boom period for Irish agriculture caused by the Napoleonic wars. After the end of the wars a deep depression descended made worse in areas such as West Cork by the collapse of the home weaving sector.  Emigration commenced in late 1820s of Protestant families and gathered pace in the later decades.  These families were small to middling tenant farmers with a sprinkling of labourers and carpenters, masons, blacksmiths, etc.  The area looked at is the triangle bounded by Skibbereen, Bantry, and Crookhaven.  Among the families (Catholic) from this area and period were those of the singer Bing Crosby.

At the time Rochester, New York was enjoying a boom due to the opening of the Erie Canal linking the Atlantic to the Great Lakes.  In politics some of the families especially from the Durrus area took to the area like ducks to water.  The following is  description    There is an interesting piece of history in Rochester connected to Co. Cork. “The community designated as Cork was in the section comprising Ontario, Davis, Kirk (Woodward) and North streets. The community was settled in the early 1840s and was composed of Protestant Irish immigrants from County Cork, Ireland. For years they were known as Corkonians and later as the “ninety-nine cousins”, it being claimed that the little colony bragged of 99 voters, unconditional Republicans. The families comprising the section were the Attridges, Bakers, Dukelows, Gays, Gosnells, Skuses, Swantons and Whitleys. James Baker, a political leader of the clan, a deacon of the North Street Methodist Church, a teetotaler, was the excise commissioner, in charge of granting licenses to the saloons of the city, there being one in the rear of many grocery establishments. In the 1880s and 1890s, when the detective force of the city consisted of but a small fraction of the present force, the “cousins” were represented by four: Baker, Dukelow, Skuse and Swanton.” Another article about the 99 Cousins also stated that the Shannon and Killip families were part of this family compact, and that they were a powerful force in local politics, with representatives in city government from the mayor’s chair down to the street cleaning department, and many on the police force.’.  The Mizen/Muintervara had an active history of political agitation.  In the 1830s the men of Durrus were led by a Catholic Landlord one of the O’Donovans of O’Donovan’s Cove to a monster meeting re Repeal to Mount Gabriel. It is interesting that John Attridge of Durrus was the godfather to one of the O’Donovan children.

There are accounts of  Monster meeting addressed in Durrus by the temperance pioneer Fr. Mathew.  Late during the Land Wars 1880s Durrus was a hot spot needing RIC reinforcements and the Protestant Tenants on the Earl of Bandon’s estate went on a rent strike.  They were described by his agent Richard  Wheeler Doherty as little better them animals.  This was the local background and the interconnected  families in Rochester built a political machine under the Republican Party which was more often be associated with Irish Catholic emigrants and the Democratic Party.   Details of the  records many from the US census are here…

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqhnQGE3ANjzdFdtYlpQTFJ2NXhtc2dGYmtRVFY0VFE#gid=0

It is also interesting that some of the Durrus families emerged in London during the Fenian Agitaton and their descendant were associated with Michael Collins in London. John Dukelow from Crottees married a Catholic lived at various houses around Durrus and emigrated to Poplar in East London. He died of cholera. His family were interconnected with the Swantons, and Hurleys in London during the Fenian Agitation. The Hurleys keep appearing were probably the tenant of a large farm in Ballycomane pre 1780 (one of them may have married one of the Vickeries who took over the farm). Michael Ducklaw is living in Edwardsburgh, Ontario in 1871 and the neighbouring farmers are Hurleys possibly a branch of the Durrus Hurleys.

The census records show the low economic status of the emigrants, labourers etc and with low property values.  As the decades roll on the children are emerging into the US mainstream becoming teachers, clerks photographs etc.  In the 1880 census there is a question on native language, many reply by putting in Irish.  It is not clear if they bi-lingual or meant the variant of English spoke in Ireland.  In the 1900 census some reply to ethnic origin by putting in Irish/English as say the Canadians put in Canadian/Engish/French.  Before that they invariably put in Irish to the question, it may reflect contemporary tensions in Ireland. For any amendments, additions comments contact pat25a@gmail.com

The family names were selected by using those common in the Tithe Aplottments 1830s, and Irish Loan Reproduction Records of the 1840s and are an educated guess.  They include those of Allen, Baker, Dukelow, King, Coughlan, Daly, Skuce, Attridge, Salter, Melville, Copithorne, Lannin, Gay, Varian, Peer, Gosnell, Croston, Williamson, Swanton, among others.

In 1860 Land Grants became available and many of the Rochester families decamped to there.

Some families from the 1840s settled in Percy Township, Northumberland County, Ontario.  Names such as Dukelow, Beamish, Williamson, Baker and Roycroft appear.  In the case of Mary Dukelow b 1833 probably Durrus she married Charles Beamish 1821-1881 possibly from Kilcoe in Rochester, New York in 1851.  This shows a link to the significant Cork community in Rochester.  He emigrated to Ontario in 1848 and they appear in Canadian census at Percy Township thereafter.

http://automatedgenealogy.com/census52/View.jsp?id=14200&highlight=5&desc=1852+Census+of+Canada+page+containing+Hu%3F+Beamish

In the recently published Atlas of the Irish Famine there is a map of population densities based on the 1841 census.  The map is adjusted for mountain and hill, bog and lakes.  It shows the Mizen and Muintervara with population densities among the highest in the non urban world, akin to India and China. It is hard to believe now but hundreds of thousands of people if not more especially from North America have an ancestor who came from the area.

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