Timothy Cremin (b.1809, d.1874, Bantry) married Sophia Melefont/Melifont (b.1807, d.1878) in about 1833.
They had 5 children we know of: Patrick b.1837, Michael Henry b.1840, Timothy Francis b.1848, David b.1850 and Ellen b.1852.
The large gap from Michael Henry to Timothy is unusual and there might be other children born in between.
Sophia apparently had some connection with the "landed gentry" and her parents were David Mellefont (a lieutenant of the Bantry Volunteers of 1779) and Sophia Ann Grey.
Patrick stayed in Bantry and erected a memorial to his parents.
Michael Henry Crimmin as it became in Australia, was a sailor who "migrated" to Brisbane, Australia, obtained his masters ticket and had 6 houses when he died. He was a redhead.
He was my wife Jill Claire Crimmin's great grandfather. Jill is also a redhead - alas, none of our daughters or grandchildren are.
There is a large number of Crimmins and Crimmin descendants in Queensland, Australia.
Timothy Francis according to his great grandson, Charlie Lambert of Maryland, US, was supposedly a cabin boy who jumped ship in New York state.Timothy Francis Crimmings died from injuries sustained when he was hit by an automobile in Nov, 1917. There is a large number of descendants of Timothy's in the US.
Charlie supplied a picture of him.According to Charlie, family legend has it that Sophia Melifont was very rich but lost her inheritance due to forgery by her brother-in-law. Unfortunately we know nothing of David or Ellen, or any other possible children. We would like to learn more about both these Cremins/Crimmins and Melefonts and make contact with any descendants both in Ireland and the US.
donaldbarry
Thursday 11th Apr 2013, 12:40PMMessage Board Replies
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Hi Donald,
Thank you very much for your message. I hope that someone who knows of the family or who has some information makes a connection with you.
Did you know that the civil parish of Kilmocomoge is part of the Roman Catholic parish of Bantry? Bantry parish is then part of the Catholic Diocese of Cork and Ross, whose records have been uploaded to the Irish Genealogy website free of charge. If you would like to search these records to see if you can find some information on David and Ellen : http://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/
You can use the Irish Times website to see what records are available for the parish:
Civil registration began in Ireland in 1864 so any births, deaths or marriages in the family after this date would be recorded in these records. Civil records are available from the General Register?s Office in Dublin. Here is their website:
http://www.groireland.ie/research.htm
You can search the indexes to these records online at:
https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1408347
Have you tried looking in the 1901/1911 census records to see if there is any record of possible descendents? You can search these here:
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/search/
Some other websites that you may find useful are:
The National Archives of Ireland http://www.nationalarchives.ie/genealogy1/genealogy-records/introduction/
The National Library of Ireland http://www.nli.ie/en/family-history-introduction.aspx
Genealogy links: http://www.genealogylinks.net/uk/ireland/cork/index.html
Failte Romhat: http://www.failteromhat.com/
I hope that some of this is helpful. Please be patient - as our programme has only begun to rollout across the island of Ireland and volunteers in some areas may not yet be organized.
Kind regards,
Genealogy Support
Thursday 23rd May 2013, 11:10AM -
Donald, My name is Justin Cremin from Bantry. You can email me via "Justin.cremin@hotmail.co.uk". I live in Donemark just outside Bantry by coincidence but our family has lived in Bantry since 1854 and Kealkill just out the road previous to that.
Saturday 18th Jan 2020, 11:18PM