> Listers: > Looking for any information regarding these two families: DORGAN- > FLYNN and HARTNETT-DUHIG of East Cork. > I have an extended database about the descendants of these two > families: Please visit: www.billdorgan.com. > > > PATRICK DORGAN (Born about 1830, Ballybraher, Cloyne Parish, East > Cork and died before 1886) and ANN FLYNN (Born about 1830, > Ballyandreen, Cloyne Parish, East Cork and died before 1886). Griffith's Valuation of County Cork in 1851-1853 (LDS film #0830537) lists a Patrick DARGAN (a variant spelling of DORGAN). This Patrick DARGAN is the brother of John DORGAN and the father of Patrick J. DORGAN. Patrick DARGAN had a house, offices, and land in Carrigkilter: 14 acres, 5 perches, 3 roods 21 perches and 10 acres, 3 roods and 25 perches. He is also listed in the Valuation of Tenements 1855 in Carrigkilter as Patrick DARGAN. Maurice Cusack leased the land in Carrigkilter before 1855 and Patrick DARGAN later leased the same land about 1855. The landlord's name was Thomas Garde Durdin, a descendant of William Penn who founded Pennsylvania. Thomas Garde Durdin would arrive in East Cork from England each year to collect the rents. While in Cork he stayed at one of his estates: Shanagarry "Castle" or Sunville House. In the 1855 Landlord Index of “County Cork Encumbered Estates” (Volume 4, FHL Film No. 25883), Thomas Garde Durdin, Esq. sold his land holdings at auction on 19 June 1855. At the time he held the “Lands of Killderrig, Carrigkilter, Coalvodig otherwise Sunviille, Ballybraher West, Snugborough, Ballyronahan, Ballybraher East, Ballinamona, and part of Shanagarry - 19 June 1855 - (lot maps).” This is the date that Patrick Dargan “bought” his farm ... a farm that he had formerly “leased” from Thomas Garde Durdin. This is the first recorded Dorgan “deed of sale” since the English Reformation of the late 1500s. I have sent for a copy of this deed fom the Dublin Archives. Patrick DARGAN'S yearly rent was 17 English Pounds for the land and 1 Pound, 5 Shillings for the buildings. If he improved the land, the rent would increase each year. Thomas Garde Durdin died in 1867. In the 1880s, the Land Reform Acts went into effect sponsored by Michael Davitt of the Irish Parliament and later by Charles Stewart Parnell a member of the House of Commons of the English Parliament. The Land Acts sought reform in three areas called the three F's: Freedom of Rent, Freedom of Tenure and Freedom from Eviction without trial. Amazingly, the Protestant landowners peacefully went back to England in the 1880s and 1890s never to return to their estates. The tenant farmers continued to pay their rents to the State in the 1880s and 1890s. After the 1920s the State made these tenant farmers the actual "owners" of the lands they once leased! Patrick DARGAN died before his son, Patrick J. DORGAN, married Mary HARTNETT on November 26, 1886. He is documented as "deceased" on their marriage certificat > > JOHN HARTNETT (Born about 1830, Garryvoe, Cloyne Parish, East > Cork) and MARY DUHIG (Born about 1830, Ballymacoda, Cloyne Parish, > East Cork). Here is what I know about John Hartnett: According to Griffith's Valuation of 1851-1853, there were many HARTNETTs listed in the Parishes surrounding Ballycotton, but there is only one listed in Garryvoe: JOHN HARTNETT, Garryvoe location, Garryvoe Lower. He is the father of Mary Hartnett, the wife of Patrick J. Dorgan. He owned 19 acres, 26 perches and 1 acre, 2 roods, 30 perches. There are other HARTNETTs: Denis, James, and Patrick. One of these HARTNETTs, perhaps Denis, was the grandfather of Mary Hartnett and the other two were her father's brothers, her uncles. Denis HARTNETT belonged to the parish of Kilmahon in Ballybraher. He had 20 acres, 7 perches and 2 acres, 3 roods, 36 perches. James HARTNETT belonged to the parish of Kilmahon in Ballylongane. He had 24 acres, 3 roods, 9 perches and 2 acres, 1 rood, 11 perches. Patrick HARTNETT belonged to the parish of Kilmahon in Monagurra. He had Herd's house and 15 acres, 4 perches and 42 acres, 17 perches. Monagurra and Ballybraher are adjoining townlands while Ballylongane is between Shanagarry and Garryvoe. The 1766 census of Cloyne has one "HARNETT". His religion is noted as "Papist". There are no HARTNETTs listed in Ballybraher or Carrigkilter. There is a John Hartnett listed in Ballycotton and several Hartnett's in or around Ballyandreen. John Hartnett is listed as the father of Mary Catherine Hartnett on her death certificate. The HARTNETTs are most likely buried in the Mogeely Cemetery. > > I don't have any information concerning ANN FLYNN and MARY DUHIG. > > This is what I know about ANN FLYNN: > > Johanna Flynn appears in the records as Ann, Johanna and Nancy > Flynn (Flinn and Fling)! She was most likely from Ballyandreen. > There are Flynns still represented there. She is most likely > buried in the ancestral Dorgan cemetery at Ballymacoda Hill > Cemetery, Shanagarry, East Cork where the name Johanna appears on > one of the two gravestones. > > There is a church baptismal record that Patrick and Nancy (synonym > for Ann and Johannah) Dorgan were the godparents of Michael John > Shinnick who was born December 18, 1873 in Ballycatoo, Midleton, > Cloyne, County Cork. He was baptized in St. Colman's Church, > Cloyne on December 20, 1873. His parents were John Shinnick of > Ballycatoo, East County Cork and Elizabeth Dorgan of Ballybraher, > Parish of Cloyne, East County Cork. John Shinnick and Elizabeth > Dorgan were married about 1872. Elizabeth Dorgan was the daughter > of Patrick Dargan and Ann (Nancy, Johannah) Flynn. > > > This is what I know about MARY DUHIG: > > Mary Duhig (Duffy in English) most likely came from Ballymacoda. > Mary Duhig is listed as the mother of Mary Catherine Hartnett on > Mary Catherine’s death certificate. > > > ANY HELP APPRECIATED. > > > > BILL DORGAN > email: billdorgan@billdorgan.com > website: www.billdorgan.com > > > > > >