The Sealy, Cornwall and Allin families of County Cork. Merchants and Bandon Gentry

Our new publication is entitled 'The Sealy, Cornwall and Allin Families of County Cork: Merchants and Bandon Gentry'.  It is now available on Amazon.  This latest study focuses on three protestant families who had important connections with Bandon.  Proceeds from the sales of the book with be donated to the Allin Institute Restoration project.  Fundraising initiatives have recently commenced in earnest as the community building has fallen into considerable disrepair in recent years. The building was bequeathed to the community by James Allin in 1867.

A Social History of North Main Street and Kilbrogan Hill, Bandon, County Cork

Our new publication entitled Bandon, County Cork.  A Social History of North Main Street and Kilbrogan Hill is now available from Amazon.  The study focuses on the evolution of a part of Bandon once filled with tanneries, malt houses, shops, public buildings and residential dwellings.  It is intended to be of assistance to those researching their ancestors who once lived in the area.  Family members of familiar Bandon settler surnames such as Bennett, Fuller, Hunter, Appelbe, Lee, Loane, Williams, Robinson, Clear, Baldwin, Burchill, Tresilian and Teulon all either held leases or lived on the street themselves for a time.  The study also analyses the immense influence of the Devonshire Estate as far as it related to the street.

The Baldwins of Lisnagat

We have now added a paper about the Baldwins of Lisnagat to the Bandon Genealogy website.  It can be located under Bandon Family Tree Links.  This paper was been very well researched by a family member, Alexandra Bugahiar and we thank her very much for her wonderful contribution to our site.

The Tresilian Family of County Cork - Landowners and Bandon Merchants

The Tresilian Family of County Cork is our first publication which is now available at Amazon. The family came to County Cork from Cornwall in the early 1600s. Our study focuses on how they were affected by the economic developments of the time, how they integrated into the community, amassing considerable land holdings and building up successful businesses only for many of the family members to see their wealth evaporate by the mid 1800s. They had all disappeared from Bandon and the surrounding area by the time of the 1901 census. The Tresilians married into similar Bandon merchant families such as Popham, Sullivan, Allman, Coughlan, Belcher, Bernard, Seymour, Jagoe and Jenkins.

Bandon People in 1834 census who left for America

According to notes added to the Bandon Protestant Census of 1834, some members of the following families left for America after the census and before the 1846 census.

Family Name Christian Name Street

Applebee Alex
Archdeacon Castle Bernard Park
Brangan Joley
Bright Shannon Street Lower
Bruce William
Burchill Artillery Barracks
Burchill Boyle Street
Cassidy Castle Road
Connel Church Street
Donovan Main Street
Good Careys Cross
Grinley Main Street
Harrison Shannon Street Lower
Knowles Foxes Street
Leonard Castle Road
Morris Boyle Street
Roche Shannon Street Lower
Splain Boyle Street South
Stanley Main Street
Watson Shannon Street Lower
Williams Shannon Street Lower

A few Methodist Baptisms

We have now added a few Methodist Baptisms from the Bandon Circuit during the period from 1824 to 1844 to our site www.bandon-genealogy.com

Cead Bhlian ag Fas - The Townlands of Timoleague

Charlie Madden of Timoleague has produced a wonderful book entitled 'Cead Bhlian ag Fas' which compares the townlands of Timoleague in 1911 with the townlands of 2011, 100 years on. We have now posted a pdf on our website www.bandon-genealogy.com and we hope this will be of help to those people researching their ancestors in the Timoleague area.