So Ellen Hogan is the daughter of Patrick Hogan and his first wife Julia Coughlan. We just learned a little about her younger brother, Ned Hogan.
Charles Pierce = Mary Leary Edmond Hogan = Betty Collins
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Patrick Cooney = Ellen Pierce = Patrick Hogan = Julia Coughlan
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Patrick Cooney Ellen Hogan and Edward Hogan
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Annie McSweeney
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Patrick Francis Hogan
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Lena V Hogan
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John McLaughlin = Julia Hogan
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Mary - Margaret - John - James
We saw that Ellen Hogan was baptized 25 October 1861. I don't know much else about her. I think it was Mae Kiely who told me that Ellen was first married to Denis Driscoll. They had a son and named him after his father, Denis Driscoll. I couldn't find any record of this marriage or baptism online.
Ellen Hogan Driscoll’s second husband was John McCarthy. Their children were Jerry McCarthy, Norah McCarthy, Ellen McCarthy, Margaret McCarthy, Minnie McCarthy, and Jimmy McCarthy. I remember my mother and father talking about visiting Jimmy’s two sisters who had a candy shop in Innishannon.
Alice Taylor mentions them in "The Village" which was published in 1992. She writes that "Innishannon lay on the banks of the river Bandon, cradled in a sheltered valley between wooded hills on the upper reaches of Kinsale Harbor."
There was an ancient ford where animals and wagons could first cross the Bandon River - Innishannon grew up into a walled community with many castles surrounding it.
INNISHANNON, a post-town and parish, partly in the Eastern Division of the barony of EAST CARBERY, but chiefly in the barony of KINNALEA, county of CORK, and province of MUNSTER, 12 miles (S. W.) from Cork, and 138 (S. W.) from Dublin, on the river Bandon, and on the mail coach road from Cork to Bantry; containing 3840 inhabitants, of which number, 653 are in the town. This place, which was formerly of considerable importance, and, according to Smith's History of Cork, was walled and had several castles in it, was, together with its ferry across the Bandon, granted by Henry V. to Philip de Barry in 1412 ...
"The present town consists principally of one neatly built street, containing 108 houses, of which several are of a very superior description, and has a cheerful and pleasing appearance. The river Bandon is crossed here by a neat bridge of six arches, over which the new line of road is carried; and its situation on the river, which is navigable for vessels of 200 tons' burden up to Colliers' quay, and for lighters into the town, is well adapted for an extensive trade. A canal to Bandon was contemplated some short time since, and a rail road to Bantry is at present under consideration. The cotton-manufacture was formerly carried on here to a considerable extent, but is now almost extinct. Fairs are held on May 29th, and Oct. 3rd; a constabulary police force is stationed here, and petty sessions are held on alternate Tuesdays in a sessions-house.
The parish comprises 7080 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act, and valued at £5815 per annum: the land is in general good, though in some parts the soil is light and shallow, the substratum being generally schistus based on argillaceous grit; the system of agriculture has been lately much improved. There are about 300 acres of woodland in gentlemen's demesnes, and a tract of turbary (bog) of about 100 acres. Indications of copper exist, but no attempt has been made to work it. The alternation of greenstone and freestone is singularly curious, and the sudden transitions of the rocks also render the parish interesting to the geologist.
The scenery is beautifully picturesque; the vale in which the town is situated is covered with hanging woods extending on the west to Bandon, and on the east to Shippool, and is on both sides embellished with pleasing villas and thriving plantations, among which the tower of the church forms a picturesque feature.
The principal seats are Downdaniel, the residence of the Rev. R. L. Conner, a modern mansion near the site of the castle of that name, partly built with the materials of the ancient structure, and commanding a fine view of the vale; Fir Grove, of R. Quin, Esq.; Shippool House, of Capt. Herrick, R.N.; Woodview, of F. Seely, Esq.; Sunning Hill, of Mrs. Quinn; Belmont, of Major Meade; Cor Castle, of Chambre Corker, Esq.; Frankfort, of Major Westcott; the residence of the Rev. T. Meade; and Rock Castle, of E. Becher, Esq., on the lawn of which and on the margin of the river were the ruins of Cariganass castle, on removing which, by the uncle of the present proprietor, several cannon balls were found.
The river above the town abounds with fish, and is much frequented by anglers. The church, situated in a thick plantation near the river, is a very neat edifice with a square tower.
In the R. C. (Roman Catholic) divisions the parish is the head of a union or district, comprising also the parishes of Brinny, Knockavilly, and Leighmoney; the chapel was built at an expense of £1500, in 1829, on a site of two acres presented by E. Hale Adderley, Esq. There is also a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. About 100 children are taught in two public schools, of which the parochial school is supported by a grant of £30 per annum, from the trustees of Erasmus Smith's fund, and a donation from the rector, who provides a house rent-free; and there are four private schools, in which are about 250 children."
Alice Taylor writes that Innishannon was "granted by Cromwell to an Englishman named Thomas Adderley and he built the present village in 1752. He brought in a linen industry and gave free houses to the French Hugenots; he also introduced a silk industry , for which mulberries were grown … Adderley, however, went bankrupt and the estate passed into the hands of Frewen family."
University of Ireland Galway provides this information on its website - http://landedestates.nuigalway.ie/LandedEstates/jsp/family-show.jsp?id=772
- "Adderley (Innishannon) - Thomas Adderley (1712-1791), son of Francis Adderley of Innishannon, county Cork and Elizabeth Fowkes and descendant of Edward Adderley and his wife Mary Hale of Innishannon and Alderley, Gloucestershire, was a politician and developer of the linen industry … He held an estate in the Innishannon locality which became heavily encumbered following the succession of his son Edward Hale Adderly (died 1870 aged 100) who sold it to the Frewens pre Griffith's Valuation. see http://www.innishannonschool.com/history16a.htm
- "Frewen (Cork) - Thomas Frewen [of Brickwall House, Northiam, Sussex] was one of the principal lessors in the parishes of Ballymodan and Inishannon, baronies of East Carbery and Kinalea, county Cork at the time of Griffith's Valuation. The Frewen property was formerly the Adderley estate. The Frewen Papers contain a mortgage for £40,000 from John Frewen Turner (father of Thomas) to Edward Hale Adderley in 1830 (FRE/402). The Frewen estate amounted to almost 3,000 acres in the 1870s.
I found our family in the 1901 Irish Census of Innishannon village. Innishannon is listed in the Parliamentary Division of South East Cork - Poor Law Union of Bandon - District Electoral Division of Innishannon - Constabulary District of Bandon - Sub-District of Innishannon - Village of Innishannon - Townland of the Village of Inishannon - Barony of Kinalea - Parish of Innishannon. Quite a mouthful, but all important information for family research.
The family is living in house 31 of 67 buildings. John McCarthy is the 32 year old head of the family - he is a general laborer who is able to read and write.
Ellen McCarthy, his wife, is 36 years old, is able to read and write, and is the only one in the family who speaks Irish.
John's stepson Denis Driscoll, is 15 years old and attends school. His 3 year old daughter Ellen also attends school! Talk about baby infants! 2 year old Jeremiah and 3 month old Julia round out the family. They are all Roman Catholic and were all born in Cork.
House 31 is a 2nd class house - probably a stone building with a slate roof - it is 2 rooms with 3 windows in the front of the house. There is one family of 6 living in the house rented from landlord Moreton Frewen who owns every building on this page.
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moreton_Frewen,
Moreton Frewen "was the fifth son of Thomas Frewen, MP for South Leicestershire, and was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he gained his BA in 1877. He emigrated to Wyoming during the cattle boom in the 1870s and 1880s. A charming if financially incompetent adventurer from an English landed gentry family known for reckless financial and political schemes, he managed to marry Clarita "Clara" Jerome (1851–1935) in 1881, daughter of the New York financier Leonard Jerome, and sister to Lord Randolph Churchill's wife Jennie. They settled together on a huge Wyoming ranch, 'The Prince of Wales Ranch' where Frewen built an enormous log Lodge/Castle later destroyed by fire and ran up ever increasing debt, earning the sobriquets 'Mortal Ruin' and 'the splendid pauper.'"
The next thing that I found was the 1911 Irish Census - house 63 in Innishannon Village.
John McCarthy is a 46 year old laborer who has been married for 14 years. Ellen is now 48 years old. She has had 7 children in the 14 years they have been married. She is still the only one in the family who speaks Irish.
The children are: Ellen who is 13, Jeremiah is 11, Julia is 10, James is 8, Maggie is 6, Norah is 5, and Minnie is 3. All but Norah and Minnie are in school.
The family of nine is still living in a 2nd class 2 room house with 3 windows in front. I wonder if it is the same house? Moreton Frewen, Esquire is still the landlord and owns every one of the 66 or 68 buildings in the village. There are several shops and public houses, a dispensary, RIC barracks, a court house - even a hotel and a reading room!
Look at the right upper corner - Townland - does that say Farmaloe & Cahirfineen? Is this a section of the village?
Actually, it says Farnahoe & Laherfineen. The website -
http://www.bandon-genealogy.com/Innishannon_townlands.htm - tells us:
"Laherfineen (139 acres). Lathair Finghin – Fineen’s site or location. Innishannon village lies at the south side of the townland and the townland of Farnahoe. Inishannon was at one time a walled town. Thomas Adderly of Gloucestershire was the builder and owner. He sat for nearly forty years in the Irish Parliament. The Adderlys were among the first Bandon planters and at Innishannon in about 1747 they founded the linen industry the material from which was said to have been the best in Ireland. Huguenot refugees were employed about 1760. Between the town and the Bandon River were a bleach mill and a bleach green. Further east was a corn mill. Innishannon Bridge was built in 1665 and is one of the oldest in the country."
According to http://theesotericcuriosa.blogspot.com/2010/05/prince-of-paupers-moreton-mortal-ruin.html
Moreton Frewen. MP
Clara Jerome
"Frewen's finances recovered somewhat when in 1896 an uncle died while sailing and Frewen inherited the hunting lodge of Innishannon in County Cork Ireland
Innishannon
"In 1897, Moreton’s nephew, Winston Spencer Churchill, had traveled to India
Moreton substituted some of the rolling Churchillian phrases, more reminiscent of Gibbon, with plain and simple prose. Unfortunately, he was not a good proof reader and the first edition appeared with “many scores of shocking misprints and with no attempt to organize punctuation” or so Winston complained. After the sarcastic comments died down over the misprints, the critics vied with one another in its praises. Moreton also obtained for Winston, the aspiring journalist, his first typewriter and persuaded Winston’s cousin the Duchess of Marlborough to pay for it ...
"Frewen was elected MP for Northeast Cork and held his seat from 1911 – 1914. Unfortunately, during the “Troubles” Innishannon Lodge was burned to the ground, a fate shared by five of Frewen’s neighbors. The Scotch gamekeeper was murdered and the hatchery, his pride and joy, destroyed as were the spawn of salmon it contained. This bitter blow was made still more bitter by the fact, that politically, Moreton was a “Home Ruler” and had a deep concern for the plight of the Irish rural poor. Frewen Castle on Powder River was razed about 1912
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"When Frewen died at age 71, on September 2, 1924 his estate consisted of less than £50."
Before we look a little closer at Jimmy McCarthy, I want to return to Alice Taylor's book. She wrote that "Much employment was provided on the Frewen estate where local girls were trained in good housekeeping and cooking and young men in the care of horses and gardening.
"As well as Frewen's house there were many stately homes around Innishannon … on summer evenings carriages swept up to the old stone bridge and while the local aristocracy played games beneath the sheltering trees on the banks of the river, village children earned six brown pennies for holding their horses.
"After the 1916 Rising many of the village people who worked in these big houses were caught in the crossfire of divided loyalties. Five large Ascendancy houses, including the house of the Frewens, were burnt. When life returned to normal some of these workers found jobs in the factories and shops of Cork and Bandon, and many took the boat to England and America."
Alice Taylor has a chapter in "The Village" called 'The Chapel Woman.' I think this is about our McCarthy family! She starts off the chapter saying "Old Mrs. McCarthy had been the chapel woman all her life, and when she died her daughter Nonie took over, regarding it as a family inheritance rather than a job." We saw in the 1911 Irish census that Norah was 5 years old - she would be Nonie.
Ms. Taylor goes on to say that "Nonie carried around in her head the history of the graveyard which surrounded the church. She knew who was buried in every corner, even those who had left no address or who lay beneath the small rock-like marking stones without inscription … She was a soft-spoken, stooped little lady who arranged weddings, funerals, and christenings, and she was a reference book on all church events past and present."
Nonie also looked after the dispensary, and she had a little sweet shop in her home called "Nonie's." Unfortunately, Nonie became crippled by arthritis. Her older sister, Ellen, came home to take care of her and her duties. In the 1911 census, Ellen was 13 and the oldest child. Alice Taylor does not mention where Ellen had been, but she says that Ellen took over the care of the church and the dispensary, she ran the sweet shop, and she took care of Nonie. Eventually, Nonie ended up in a wheelchair.
Alice Taylor says that Ellen "though over eighty years of age she looked far younger, having about her none of the usual frailties of old age. She was tall, solid and upright, and had a pleasant, broad face crowned with a fine head of brown curly hair streaked with grey. The only thing to mark the passage of time was that she was very deaf."
Ellen McCarthy died suddenly, and Nonie McCarthy died shortly afterwards. They are buried in the family plot behind the Catholic Church. These are the two sisters that my mother and father must have visited.
I guess it is time to take a look at Ellen's and Nonie's brother - Jimmy McCarthy.
