Baldwins of Lisnagat : Work in Progress
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The Baldwins of Lisnagat : Work in Progress Alexandra Buhagiar 2014 CONTENTS Tables and Pictures Preamble INTRODUCTION Presentation of material Notes on material Abbreviations Terms used Useful sources of information CHAPTER 1 Brief historical introduction: 1600s to mid-1850s ‘The Protestant Ascendancy’ The early Baldwin estates: Curravordy (Mount Pleasant) Lisnagat Clohina Lissarda CHAPTER 2 Generation 5 (i.e. most recent) Mary Milner Baldwin (married name McCreight) Birth, marriage Children Brief background to the McCreight family William McCreight Birth, marriage, death Education Residence Civic involvement CHAPTER 3 Generation 1 (i.e. most distant) Banfield family Brief background to the Banfields Immediate ancestors of Francis Banfield (Gen 1) Francis Banfield (Gen 1) Birth, marriage, residence etc His Will Children (see also Gen 2) The father of Francis Banfield Property Early Milners CHAPTER 4 Generation 2 William Milner His wife, Sarah Banfield Their children, Mary, Elizabeth and Sarah (Gen. 3. See also Chapter 5) CHAPTER 5 Generation 3 William Baldwin Birth, marriage, residence etc Children: Elizabeth, Sarah, Corliss, Henry and James (Gen. 4. See also Chapter 6) Property His wife, Mary Milner Her sisters : Elizabeth Milner (married to James Barry) Sarah Milner CHAPTER 6 Generation 4 The children of William Baldwin and Mary Milner: Elizabeth Baldwin (married firstly Dr. Henry James Wilson and then Edward Herrick) Sarah Baldwin (married name: McCarthy) Corliss William Baldwin Confusion over correct spouse Property Other Corliss Baldwins in County Cork Henry Baldwin James Baldwin Birth, marriage, residence etc. Property His wife, Frances Baldwin CHAPTER 7 Compilation of tree CHAPTER 8 Confusion of William Baldwin's family with that of 'John Baldwin, Mayor of Cork' Corliss Baldwin (Gen 4) Elizabeth Baldwin (Gen 4) CHAPTER 9 The relationship between ‘my’ William Baldwin and the well documented ‘John Baldwin, Mayor of Cork’ family CHAPTER 10 Possible link to another Baldwin family APPENDIX 1. References to Table 8: Property leased by descendants of James Baldwin in Lisnagat 2. Notes on Elizabeth Baldwin’s daughter , Julia Herrick (Gen. 5) , who married Dr. Herbert Baldwin 3. Lisnagat TABLES AND PICTURES 1 Photograph of the back of Mount Pleasant House (2009) 2 Map showing location of Curravordy and Lisnagat 3 Map showing location of Clohina in relation to Lisnagat and Bandon 4 The Daniel O’Connell monument in O’Connell Street, Dublin 5 Ancestors of Mary Milner Baldwin: 5 generations: 6 Children of Wm McCreight and Mary (nee Baldwin): births and deaths 7 Map showing Timoleague 8 Property leased by descendants of James Baldwin in Lisnagat c.1850 9 Rent paid to William McCreight and family in mid 1800s 10 Pencil sketch of Kilmaloda House 11 Will of Francis Banfield, dated 24 th May 1762 12 Descendant list for Francis Banfield of Corrane and his wife to 3 generations, including his brothers and sisters 13 William Milner and wife Sarah (nee Banfield) (Gen 2 ) and children 14 The five children of William Baldwin and his wife, Mary (nee Milner) 15 A section of the ‘John Baldwin, Mayor of Cork’ family tree 16 The two sister of Mary Milner 17 Kilgobbin Castle, Ballindee 18 The five children and grandchildren of William Baldwin and his wife, Mary (nee Milner) 19 Corliss Baldwins by estimated birth date and their marriages 20 James Baldwin: Letters of Administration 1858 21 Picture of Hewitt Baldwin Poole and his wife, Dorothea Morris (La Belle) 22 Initial outline of tree of Mary Milner Baldwin 23 Descendants, mainly to 3 generations, of William Baldwin and Mary (nee Milner), showing those mentioned in sale particulars of Lisnagat in 1857 24 A section of the ‘John Baldwin, Mayor of Cork’ tree 25 References for 'Descendant list for Francis Banfield (Gen 1) and his wife to three generations, including his brother(s) and sisters' 26 Sketch of map showing location of Lisnagat Cotton Mill and Mill Pond c.1850 27 Property leased by descendants of James Baldwin in Lisnagat c. 1850 (This a repeat of table 8 above) The Baldwins of Lisnagat: Work in progress PREAMBLE Firstly, I would like to thank the Bandon Genealogy website for agreeing to include this report on their site. If you would like to reproduce any of the material in this report, other than for private use, please reference this paper by title, author and this site address: http://www.bandon-genealogy.com What follows is not an easy read! It is less a narrative and more an outline of research findings, including references. I see it as work-in-progress and, as such, statements and findings are open to others to question and hopefully to augment. As the title implies, I would welcome any corrections, additions or comments, via the Bandon Genealogy email address [email protected] Although a Baldwin family living in the Bandon area pre-1850s is the main focus of this report, many other families from County Cork are mentioned. Among these are the following: Banfield, Bernard, Greatrakes, Herrick, Hornibrook, McCarthy, Milner, Milner-Barry, O’Connell, Pead/Peed, Payne/ O’Neill, Poole and Sullivan. Also, the McCreight family, originally from County Down, are of particular interest. As a shorthand way of distinguishing them from other families, I refer to the main subjects of this report as ‘my’ family. I am aware that this family is shared by many others, including my immediate relatives. I would like to thank Pat Allen, James Baldwin and contacts made initially through the web, including Sara Baguley and Carol Redgrove, for their encouragement and help at an early stage with this research. The following people and organisations have generously given their permission for me to share some original documents and photographs: Cork City Libraries Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council Public Libraries (Local History Collection) Edward O'Mahony ("Michael Collins His Life and Times") and the Collins 22 Society Find My Past Ireland National Library of Ireland National Inventory of Architectural Heritage many.coups.net OMS Services Ltd, Eneclann Ltd Paul Turner Rebecca Stumpf Registry of Deeds, Dublin Alexandra Buhagiar 2014 1 1 INTRODUCTION My mother was proud of her mother’s Irish family – the Baldwins. She described them as particularly well-connected, being part of the landed gentry of Bandon, County Cork, but was very vague about names and dates. When describing the Baldwins’ more ancient history, her account was unclear and sounded somewhat grandiose. She linked the Baldwins with William the Conqueror, then Henry VIII, and at other times Charlemagne. This did not fill me with much confidence or belief in any of her claims. However, she provided a couple of details that proved invaluable as a starting point when I eventually began to reach the Baldwins. She had told me that her Baldwin family resided in Bandon and her great grandmother, Mary Milner Baldwin, married William McCreight, a landowner 1. After exploring all the other branches of 'my' family in England, I turned with no high hopes to the Baldwins, only to find that they settled in County Cork in the 1600s and are well documented and researched by well-known genealogists, such as Bernard Burke and John O’Hart 2 My mother’s references to Henry VIII etc. are outlined by others and are part of the Baldwin history 3. I will not repeat this information here. By piecing together information drawn from numerous sources and building on the hard work of others, it has been possible to trace my particular branch of the Baldwin family back to a William Baldwin, born in about 1737, and further back on the female lines to the Banfield and Milner family. William is linked, through the marriage of his niece, to the Clohina line of Baldwins. Terence Kermode in his paper, ‘The Baldwins of Mount Pleasant’ 4, has provided an excellent overview of when and why the Baldwins came to County Cork and I would recommend his paper to anyone interested in the Baldwin family in Cork. He was unable to ‘place’ a number of Baldwins, and in his rigorous way listed these at the end of his paper. This list includes several members of ‘my’ family. I have attempted to disentangle ‘my’ family from the 'John Baldwin, Mayor of Cork' tree and thereby to dispel the confusion introduced by John O’Hart, the 19 th century Irish genealogist. I will refer to one as 'my' family' and to the other as the ‘John Baldwin Mayor of Cork’ family. Much of this confusion arises from the fact that he conflates these two Baldwin families. The families often shared the same forenames and sometimes similar birthdates. The tree of the latter family is outlined in Burke’s ‘A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Ireland’ 5. As I will show in more detail later, there were three Baldwin families who owned or leased land in the relatively small area of Lisnagat – the Mount Pleasant Baldwins, 'John Baldwin, Mayor of Cork' family (my title for this family) and 'my' family. Terence Kermode, it should be noted, refers to the family that I call the 'John Baldwin, Mayor of Cork' family as the 'Lisnagat Baldwins'. 1My mother also mentioned family names that I have been unable to relate in any meaningful way to ‘my’ family thus far; namely, the Crichton and Ruthven families. Given that the name Crichton/Creighton appears in the Irish branch of ‘my’ family, both in the UK and USA, it seems likely that it was once of some importance in the family 2 Sir Burke Bernard, ,editor, (1958 )‘Burke's genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Ireland’, 4th ed. (London, U.K.: Burkes Peerage Ltd): John O’Hart (1887) ‘The Irish landed gentry when Cromwell came to Ireland’; John O’Hart (1892) ‘Irish pedigrees; or, The origin and stem of the Irish nation’, Vol 1 3 See, for example, Terence Kermode’s paper ‘The Baldwins of Mount Pleasant’, on the Bandon Genealogy website http://www.bandon-genealogy.com/ 4 http://www.bandon-genealogy.com/bandon-family-trees.htm 5 p 48 2 Tracing my Baldwin ancestors has afforded a glimpse into the past and a foothold from which to explore Irish history.