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1782, died after a long illness Thomas Donovan, Esq., North Lowerton, West Carbery, left the bulk of his large fortune to the Rev. Mr. Walsh, in the Parish of Schull and his well chosen library of thousands of volumes and a gold watch and a gold beaded cane to the Rev. Mr. James Crowley of the same parish.

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1782, died after a long illness Thomas Donovan, Esq., North Lowerton, West Carbery, left the bulk of his large fortune to the Rev. Mr. Walsh, in the Parish of Schull and his well chosen library of thousands of volumes and a gold watch and a gold beaded cane to the Rev. Mr. James Crowley of the same parish.

In old deeds and wills you come across example of wealth 18th century Catholics in the area such as Alexander Donivan of Squince, Castlehaven.

Decorative walking canes were once very common both in Ireland and in China.

From Rosemary Ffolliott newspaper extracts.

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Robert Swanton, Ballydehob, Co. Cork, United Irishman and Judge of the Marine Court, New York, 1764-1840

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1764-1840Fr. Coombes a noted Cork historian wrote the following in respect of Robert Swanton.

The Swanton Memorial

An Historical Memorial in Skibbereen

by James Coombes

From the Swanton Family History Worldwide by Louise May Swanton

Two forgotten Ballydehob patriots are linked in a memorial in the old Protestant cemetery in Skibbereen. On the obelisk which surmounts the memorial there is a draped urn with the single word ROBERT inscribed on it. One of the four panels had the following inscription:

Sacred to the Memory of
ROBERT SWANTON
Counsellor at Law
One of the Judges of the Marine
Court of the City of New York
Who departed this life
in Ballidahab
On the 15th of February 1840
aged 76
He was a humble Christian and faithful
Friend and Benefactor

Be ye kind to one another, tenderhearted,
Forgiving one another even as God
for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.
Epb. iv.3
Do ghradhaigh se na Gaedhil agus an Ghaeilge

Another panel commemorates three children of Thomas Swanton, Maria (d. 21 July 1852, aged 11 years 5 months); Ellen (d. 1 April 1856, aged 17 years 9 months); Annie (. 21 Nov. 1857, aged 17 years 9 months). It also contains the inscriptions: “Omnibus inservientes sed servi unius Domini” and “Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord.”

A third panel commemorates Sarah wife of Nathaniel Evanson, IV July 1830 aged 33. Sarah was almost certainly a sister of Thomas Swanton, who was a nephew of Robert Swanton.

Robert Swanton was born about the year 1764. Richard Deasy of Clonakilty wrote of him in 1845 that he had been a ‘most active agent of the United Irishmen’ and that he had ‘organised the country into a military preparation with sergeants and officers’.

Shortly before the rising of 1798 Lord Edward Fitzgerald, the Sheares brothers and other leaders were arrested. Swanton fled to America. According to one account, he had also been arrested and had escaped from jail. The late Thomas Roycroft of Skibbereen kept alive the tradition that he had been hidden in a butter barrel, smuggled out to sea in a rowing boat, and that he had boarded a ship six miles from the coast.

He soon made his mark in his adopted country, and in the 1820’s, was a leading figure in the ‘Friends of Ireland in New York’. He was the author of ‘A Manifesto to the People of Ireland’ issued by the ‘Friends’. Among his colleagues in this society were Dr. William Power and his brother Father John Power, vicar general of New York, and one of the most eminent priests in America. They were sons of Andrew and Elizabeth Power (1), who lived in the house now (1981) occupied by Mr. Joe Connolly of Deelish Skibbereen. They were nephews of Father John Power, the saintly pastor of Kilmacabea. Further research would probably unearth more details of Robert Swanton’s American career. For the moment, we must be satisfied with the obituary published by the New York Evening Post on 4 April 1840.

“It is with heartfelt regret that we announce the death of Robert Swanton, for many years judge of the Marine Court of this city. He died on the 15th of February last in the County of Cork, Ireland, which place he revisited about four years ago after an absence of more than 36 years. The loss of this inestimable man cannot fail to be severely felt by the poor and oppressed to whom he was an undeviating protector and friend.

Possessed of considerable wealth but disdaining the vanities and luxuries for which wealth is so eagerly sought, he freely contributed to the relief of the indigenous and to promoting the interest of numerous relatives and friends. He was no less alive to the political and moral welfare of his fellow creatures. He was an unswerving and ardent advocate of the rights of man.

In the great effort undertaken at the end of the last century by a magnanimous and self-devoted band of patriots to rescue their native land from the grasp of the oppressor, he nearly sacrificed his life, was driven from his home, to become a friendless and destitute exile. But in the cherished land of his adoption, his sound sense, his intelligence, his integrity and his devotion to popular rights were soon appreciated and earned the esteem and love of a numerous circle of friends.

Neither prosperity nor advancing age dampened the ardor of his philanthropy. We have no doubt that after he had passed the alloted span of man’s existence here, he was willing to sacrifice all for the social regeneration of man as when, 44 years ago, he placed his name on the roll of the “United Irishmen”.

The Truth Teller (2) said of him “To the above just tribute to the memory of a good man – ‘the noblest work of God’ – we add that the following extract of a letter from him, for examination of which we are indebted to one of his distinguished friends, dated Cork 30th November last, showing that in his 80th year he was still the same unchanged, unchangeable and uncompromising Democrat which marked his previous course.

The octogenarian asked an old friend in New York “What are the prospects of my esteemed fellow citizen, Martin Van Buren? Electioneering rumor is busy even here. Well have you tacked British to the self-styled Whigs of the present day”. In allusion to the name the opposition have taken he continues, “You and I have often been amused with names, but never gulled by them. I know that American Democracy will — the people will — be true to themselves and Martin Van Buren will be our next President. I hope to be with you in time to give my feeble support to the good old cause”. The prophetic voice of Robert Swanton is now a voice from the grave: “appreciate, believe, act.”

1641 Depositions, Bantry, Schull, West Cork.

01 Wednesday Aug 2012

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After the rising of 1641 claims for compensation were submitted mainly from settlers of a Protestant background.  They have now been digitized at Trinity Collegehttp://1641.tcd.ie/

 

Hull losses:

 

Click to access b1947-033.pdf

 

http://1641.tcd.ie/about.php

 

The collection comprises the world’s largest collection of 17th century living conditions.

Included in the list are some from the Bantry area;

Parish Durrus, Barony Bere and Bantry

823.76  Martha May and brother Nathaaniel May, he is described as a yeoman.

824.211 Nicholas Harvy, late Blackrock, yeoman

825.23  Raplh Oliver of Whiddy Island, yeoman

Parish of Kilmocoge

822.142 Thomas Moorecocke of Dromanare (Dromdoneen0, wheelwright

822.249 Thomas Heyford, of Bantry, Gent

822.273 Thomas Henry of Whiddy, yeoman

823.23 John Brown of Whiddy, yeoman

823.55 William Wood of Carir Inskeene (Inchinarihen?), joiner

823.87 John Winter of Bantry Parish husbandman

823.100 John Lak of Whiddy Island, husbandman

823.122 Thomas Moorcock, Dromanara (Dromdoneen), parish k , yeoman

823.143 Edmund McCarty of Bantry, yeoman

823.169 Valentine Gordon of Bantry, spinster, Scottish protestant

823.190 Anthony Blunt of Bantry, yeoman

824.149 Agnis Tucker of Whiddy Island, widow

824.223 Katherin Heyford, wife of Owen Heyford of Bantry

825.7 Christopher Speringe of Bantry, timberman

825.264 William French of Kilmacom (Kilmomoge), tanner

825.318 Robert Collins of Whiddy, yeoman.

Parish Skull, Barony West Carbery

822.135 Thomas Wey, Clerk

823.212 John Northern of Lencom (Leamcon), yeoman

824.253-9 Sir William Hull, Knight

Irish Loan Reproduction Fund Loans, Durrus/Kilcrohane, west Cork, 1846-53.

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The Irish Reproductive Loan Fund was a micro credit scheme set up in 1824 to provide small loans to the ‘industrious poor’. Local associations and committees administered the scheme, most often from a small town in a rural area, and county committees oversaw their work. The records of the local associations and county committees are in the UK National Archives and cover the years 1824 to 1846 for county Cork. As well as the notes of security for the loans, there are loan ledgers, repayment books and defaulters’ books. The minimum information supplied is address and occupation, but much additional detail is often given in the local association records, including notes on health, family circumstances and emigration.

 

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Reproduction Loan Records Durrus/Kilcrohane 1853

Verified by Constable Heffernan, Carrigbui, 1853.  The handwriting is somewhat difficult to make out, there are comments like gone to England, America, in poor circumstances or middling circumstances.

Cruttees T91/142B  
     
Richard Duklow 23/3/1848  
Michael Baker 23/3/1840
Michael Baker 13/7/1840
James Dukelow 18/1/1846  
   
Aghagouna (Part Clashadoo) T91/142B/0136  
     
John Dukelow 26/10/1846
Jehr. Sullivan 10/5/1846
Timothy Sullivan 29/6/1846
Denis Wholley 22/6/1846
John Wholley 22/6/1846
Jehr. Sullivan (Comba) 20/7/1846
Timothy Sullivan (alias S Kelly) 13/7/1846
Michael Coppinger 20/7/1846
Ballycomane T91/142B/0137  
Michael Hurly 20/4/1846
Mary Connolly 13/7/1846
Coomkeen or Cumkeen T91/142B  
Patrick Horrigan 20/4/1846
Denis Carthy 18/?/1846
Carrigboy T91/142B/0139  
Edward Goggin 20/4/1846
Patrick Murray 20/4/1846
Barth. Mountain 14/5/1846
Patrick Murray 18/5/1846
Cornelius Curran 18/5/1846
Henry Caverly 8/6/1846
Richard Caverly 8/6/1853
William Goggin 29/3/1846
Daniel Minehane 29/6/1846
James Mahony 24/6/1846
James Harrington 13/7/1846
Carrigboy T91/142B/0140  
Michael Hanly 10/8/1846
Denis Sullivan 13/7/1846
Patrick Sullivan 27/7/1846
James Holland 10/8/1846
Patrick Donovan 10/8/1846
Michael Walsh 10/8/1846
John Mole? 7/10/1846
Lar Lyhane 10/8/1846
John Mahon 26/10/1846
Droumreigh or Droumreagh T91/142B  
     
Daniel Sullivan 11/5/1846
Michael Brien 11/5/1846
Denis Carthy 11/5/1846
Maurice Brien 20/7/1846
Michael Sullivan 20/7/1846
Michael Sullivan (Omgh) 20/7/1846
Jeremiah Sullivan 27/4/1850
Frank Hunt 3/8/1846
James Hunt 20/8/1846
     
Coolcolaghta or Coolcologhta T91/142B/0142  
     
Denis alias Connie Sullivan Snr. 18/5/1846
Mary Carthy 18/5/1846
Patrick Donovan 18/5/1846
Edward White 20/7/1846
Richard Baker 30/7/1846
Daniel Donovan 3/8/1846
Rossmore T91/142B/142B  
     
James Callaghan 20/5/1846
John Patison 25/5/1846
Timothy Driscoll 15/3/1846
Timothy Daly 26/10/1846
Edward Attridge 10/8/1846
Denis Connolly 26/10/1846
Brahalish T91/142B/0144  
Charles King 27/7/1846
Mary Sullivan 8/6/1846
Owen Sullivan 8/6/1846
Timothy King 10/7/1846
James Williamson 27/7/1846
Kitty Carthy (Silvy?) 27/7/1846
Blair’s Cove T91/142B/0145  
James Sullivan (Barnagh) 15/6/1846
Mary Sullivan 13/7/1846
Rossnacaheragh T91/142B/0146  
Timothy Sullivan 15/3/1846
Michael Wholahane 16/7/1846
Mary Sullivan 6/7/1846
John Driscoll 6/7/1840
Tom Foley 20/7/1846
Michael Donovan 20/7/1846
John Daly 27/7/1846
Gearameen T91/142B/0147  
     
Daniel Hartigan 22/6/1846
William Johnson 29/6/1846 (possibly also Parkanna and Classadoo)
Coolnahorna (Upper Clashadoo) T91/142B/0148  
David Hartigan 22/6/1846
Daniel Callaghan 13/7/1846
Boulineagh T91/142B/0149  
Daniel Holland 29/6/1846
Coalta (Kealties) T91/142B/0151  
John Shanahan 29/6/1846
Kitty Sullivan 29/6/1846
Patrick Donovan 22/6/1846
Jude Martin 27/7/1846
James Donovan 27/7/1846
Maurice Foley 27/7/1846
Cornl. Flynn 2/8/1846
     
     
Clossadoo (Clashadoo) T91/142B/0153  
     
James Mahony 22/3/1846
Norry Mahony 22/6/1846
David Hartigan 22/6/1846
Norry Smith 6/7/1846
John Canty 13/7/1846
Ellen Driscoll 13/7/1846
Moulimill or Moulemil T91/142B/0153  
Corn Mahony 22/3/1846
William Patison 3/8/1846
Tom Baker 2/8/1846
Susana Levis 3/8/1846
Richard Patison 3/8/1846
Tullig T91/142B/0155  
Timothy Coghlan 10/8/1846
Glebe (Clashadoo) T91/142B/0155  
John Carthy 18/1/1846
Jehr. Hayes 6/7/1846
Jehr Hayes 27/7/1846
Filechilla T91/142B/0156  
Eileen Flynn 3/8/1846
Upper Glen T91/142B/0157  
Richard Hunt 13/7/1846
Glenloch T91/142B/0158  
Timothy Connolly 107/1846
Mary Regan 13/7/1846
Daniel Whollehane 13/7/1846
Denis Carthy (Down) 30/8/1846
Daniel Lairin Laurin? 20/7/1846
William Scott 20/7/1846
James Harrington 27/7/1846
Murthy Donovan 27/7/1846
Daniel Holland 2/8/1846
John Driscoll 10/8/1846
Mary Connell 10/8/1846
Glenloch T91/142B/0159  
Daniel Carthy 10/8/1846
Daniel Carthy
Patrick Donovan 10/8/1846
Kilcrohane T91/142B/0161  
Michael Gallagher 7/10/1846
     
Rouska (Rooska) T91/142B/0162  
     
Richard Varian 10/8/1846
John Murphy 27/7/1846
Timothy Driscoll 3/8/1846
George Varian 3/8/1846
Craghamadra T91/142B/0163  
Timothy Mahony 27/7/1846
Moreigh T91/142B/0164  
James Brian? 27/7/1846
Keelovenogue T91/142b/0165  
John Murphy 3/8/1846
Skehaneyleary T91/142B/0166  
Vincent White 20/7/1846
Reenachappil T91/142B/0167  
Jesey/ Lynch 3/8/1846
Cumachee T91/142B/0168
Jerry Mahony 18/8/1846
Daniel Donovan 10/8/1846
Aghaville T91/142B/0169  
Ellen Spelane 10/8/1846
Skrehanamuclla (lower Coomkeen) T91/142B/0170  
Charles Dukelow 26/10/1846
Parkaeuina T91/142B/0171  
William Johnson 26/10/1846 Classadoo

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