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.

The Barry-Place Family

On the Bandon family trees link on our website www.bandon-genealogy.com, we have posted an interesting pdf from 1911 relating to the Barry-Place family by the kind permission of the family. This contains details about the Rev John Barry who was a younger brother of William Barry, Clerk of Christ Church, Kilbrogan. The family became Methodists. William married Anne Smith, daughter of Rev William Smith and secondly, Anne Vipond. John was married to Ann Place, the daughter of John Place of Kinsale

Bandon Directories - Guys and Slaters

We have just added to our website www.bandon-genealogy.com the Slaters 1870 directory and Guys 1883 postal directories for Bandon and the surrounding areas.

We are currently working on a summary of the Book entitled 'A Short Topographical and Statistical account of the Bandon Union' by W. Spillar 1844 as well as a summary of Townsends work entitled 'A statistical Survey of the County of Cork' 1815. Whilst these two works don't give us extensive details about individual families, they provide a very valuable insight into life in Bandon and the surrounding area in the two timeframes, namely 1815 and 1844. For example we learn from these two works that emigration around these dates was primarily due to the collapse of the weaving industry from 1826 onwards.