Hello,
our g grandfather, Denis O Mahony, was baptised in 1849 in Ballycommaine / Ballycommune, to Keane Mahony and Ellen Driscoll. They had been married in West Schull in 1827 and the witnesses were Jeremiah ( Jerh ) Mahony and Denis Driscoll. Keane's name varies between this and Cain, before becoming Charles, which was the name that his son, Denis gave on his marriage certificate in London in 1871. Cian / Charles appears on the Tithe Lists with a Jeremiah Mahony in Glawn ( Glan ) in the parish of Skull, and a Charles appears in Laharan in the same parish, but does not appear in Griffiths. He might have had some connection with Goleen, and seems to have gone to the parish of Durrus sometime about the 1847 - 49 period to farm with relatives, the Hurleys. Tim and Catherine Hurley appear as Denis' sponsors in 1849 and Margaret Mahoney married Michael Hurley before 1828 and also lived in Ballycommaine. Michael Hurley appears in the 1853 Reproductive Loan Records.
We also have a relative, a husband of our g aunt, Francis Dukelow, born 1870 in Clashadoo, Durrus.
Does anybody else have any connections to any of these people?
bridie
Wednesday 16th Oct 2013, 12:40PMMessage Board Replies
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Hi,
There still are O'Mahony's and Hurleys in the Ballycomane area, not sure if they are the same ones as your family. I see you have done a lot of research already and it is possible that O'Mahonys came to the Hurleys during this time to escape the worst affects of the famine which was at its worst then. Have you looked at the durrruswordpress.com website, I am sure you will find information on the Duklows there and they certainly still live and own land in the Clashadoo area.
Danny
dannytobin
Wednesday 16th Oct 2013, 09:38PM -
Hello Danny,
thank you for your reply to my message, I have been a couple of times to Durrus and the surrounding area and have met both O Mahonys and Hurleys. The trouble is that our member of this family left for London in the late 1860s - he married in London in January 1871 and appears later in the 1871 census, but of course the link was broken, and because there are no late 19th century census existing, I have found it very difficult to reconnect this family, although I have found some possibilities from the 1901 census and from directories. It would help if there were any death records .....
And it would of course explain a lot that they went to join the Hurleys during the famine time. Perhaps I will have to rebook another session in Cork looking up the death entries.
Have had more success with our Kerry family, but similar problems further east in Cork with my father's family - and we knew exactly where they were from - only they nearly all left the area.
And the Dukelow information was very interesting, our great uncle, Francie Dukelow, was baptised C of I, and converted to Catholicism to marry my great aunt in Wexford. So I'm not sure how the remaining Dukelows would think of him now, not that that matters really, the poor man being long dead.
Mary
bridie
Monday 21st Oct 2013, 11:16AM