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This synopsis reviewed
and fully updated by “The Geneal Geologist”, November 2016 Ø Modern
descendants of the CONNELL family
include LOWNEY
(of Clonakilty, Cork), and MacCAFFREY
(of Dublin, Ireland / Perth, Australia & New Zealand). Ø Many
of the GOOD family left West Cork
for Nova Scotia, Canada (also many moving on to settle in the US), as well as
forming new branches throughout Cork and the UK. There are hundreds of GOOD
relations documented on my Ancestry.com tree but not discussed here. Ø The
SHORTEN family has many branches,
but is a name localised in West Cork, Ireland. As
the three families share many elements of the same story, it is appropriate
to include them all in the same synopsis. Research is continuing. Part
1: The CONNELL / O'CONNELL Family of Ballyvoge & Ballydehob The story of the CONNELL family is limited to very few individuals, but contains
more than its share of mysteries. The homeplace for my wife’s branch of the
family (usually recorded without the O’ until late in the C19th) has been
identified as the townland of Ballyvoge (Ballyvouge/Ballyvogue), west of
Macroom. Records can also refer to nearby Inchigeelah and Kilnamartyra
(parishes and church) and Macroom (regional registration district). The
location of the townland relative to Macroom is shown on the map below. There
are enough records to indicate that there must have been an extensive CONNELL
family in the area, so I would be pleased to hear from anyone who has more
information or is related to this family. The family were Roman Catholic.
·
Jeremiah
“Jerry” CONNELL (1861); ·
Julia
CONNELL (1863); ·
Margaret
CONNELL (1865); ·
Daniel
CONNELL / O’CONNELL (1867), my wife’s GGF; The story of Daniel starts with him
working in a saloon bar at 106 Market Street in Wilmington, Delaware in the
US at the time of his marriage to Gertrude
“Gertie” GOOD in April 1899. There is no record of how he came to be in
the US and the same relating to Gertrude is discussed under her family.
Daniel & Gertrude, were both recorded as being of Irish families.
Daniel’s parents were given as s/o John & Mary M O’CONNELL and
Gertrude (who was living in Philadelphia, PA) d/o John & Hannah GOOD.
Their marriage certificate gives Gertrude as Gertrude H GOOD. Strangely,
they are not located in the 1900 Delaware census (taken on 1st June 1900)
even though 2 children were born to them that year in Wilmington. The
marriage was somewhat unusual in that Daniel was Roman Catholic and Gertie a
Protestant (Church of Ireland), and may have only been possible in the US
(not Ireland). It is not clear how they came to meet nor their apparent age
difference of some 12 years. The couple apparently agreed that any boys would
be raised as Catholics and any girls raised as Protestants. The five children of Daniel &
Gertrude O’CONNELL are confirmed as: · John
O’CONNELL (Jan 1900 - Feb 1900 aged 5 weeks)
Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware, US; · May
O’CONNELL (Nov 1900 - Dec 1900 aged 5 days)
Wilmington; · Daniel
F O’CONNELL (Feb 1902 - Jul 1902 aged 5 months)
Wilmington; · Edna
Elizabeth O'CONNELL (1904 Ballydehob - 1981 Clonakilty)
= Timothy “Ted” LOWNEY, my wife’s grandparents; · Phyllis
Marguerite O'CONNELL (1915 Ballydehob – after 1985 Perth,
Australia) = in 1934 Cuckfield, Sussex, England to James Patrick Dillon MacCAFFREY (1914 Liverpool-1942
Dublin). When her sons emigrated, Phyllis followed (Dillon Ronald "Ronnie" MacCAFFREY (registered as Edward
R in 1938) & Peter Kenneth
MacCAFFREY (1941). The couple also had a daughter Yvonne Ann MacCAFFREY (1937); Assuming as the result of the
premature deaths of their first 3 children, Daniel & Gertie left the US
and settled in the up and coming market town of Ballydehob, close to their
West Cork roots. At the time, they were local celebrities having arrived on
the SS Etruria at Queenstown (Cobh) in Aug 1902 with “their American dollars”
and Gertie was sometime referred to as the “American woman”. Daniel was a
shopkeeper at 29 Ballydehob in 1911. The middle initial “G” is only found on
the 1911 Irish census, the death certificate for his wife and the 1914 trade
directory for Ballydehob, which appears to distinguish him (as a poultry
dealer) from another Daniel O’CONNELL in Ballydehob (known as “Danlo”,
grocer/shopkeeper), without a middle initial. It is suspected that the “G”
was for Gertrude, as Daniel’s birth, baptism, marriage and death records only
have him as Daniel.
There are people still living (2016)
who knew “DG” as children and relate that he was held in high regard by his
neighbours and customers. He was described as an old man, very tall and
“hefty” with a good head of white/grey hair, who used to greet families on
their way home from Mass. He did have a good relationship with his family;
they all got on well with each other and the different religions in the
household did not seem to make any difference. Gertie worked as a teacher at
the local C of I school. Even after the girls grew up and left Ballydehob,
they kept in very regular contact with their father. Their mother died in
1923 of TB. DG retired to Sparrograda, just north
of Ballydehob. Today, the nearby junction (Dreenaclough and Sparrograda) on
the Bantry road is referred to as “DG’s” even though the house has gone
(below). DG tied in 1943 at Schull Hospital.
Ø John CONNELL, mentioned in the Tithe Applotment Book for
1826 as farming 13 acres; Ø Patrick CONNELL, listed in Griffiths Valuation (early
1850’s); Ø Daniel CONNELL (Agricultural Labourer), present with his
family in 1901 & 1911 – wife Anne
and o
Cornelius CONNELL (1883); o
Michael CONNELL (1887); o
Patrick CONNELL (1893); o
Timothy CONNELL (1894); o
Hannah CONNELL (1896); o
Mary CONNELL (1898); Ø Jeremiah “Jerry” CONNELL = Hanora “*Norry” DONOGHUE parents of
Daniel who married in 1843;
My
wife’s GGM is Gertrude Hannah GOOD
(c1882-1923). As mentioned above, it is not clear how she came to the US for
her marriage (whether correctly living in Philadelphia, PA as she stated),
and how she met her husband (in Ireland as a child, or the US after living
with relatives or having travelling there independently). The marriage was
unusual in that it was an RC = C of I match and evidence that seems to
suggest she may have lied about her age (given as 19, when possibly only 17
or just turned 18). There was also a 12-year age difference. Gertie’s actual
age is not known as her birth record has not been located, although she is
known in GOOD family circles as being part of the Ballineen GOOD family. Her
age upon death provides a YOB of 1882. Her middle name of Hannah is from her
mother, her parents given upon marriage matches her family in Ballineen, and
in her last days she was recorded as having died in Ballineen, witnessed by
Daniel (despite her home with Daniel O’CONNELL in Ballydehob). She is
reportedly buried in the now disused Ballymoney St Paul (C of I) churchyard,
Ballineen, but her grave is unmarked. The story of my wife’s branch of the
Ballineen GOOD family, who were Protestant Church of Ireland (part of the
original C17th English settlers from Devon & Somerset), now follows. The
maps show the location of the townland of Phale Upper (townland home of John
& Margaret GOOD) relative to the three main towns of Dunmanway, Enniskean
& Clonakilty, and the distribution of GOOD at the time of Griffiths
Valuation (with a clear concentration on West Cork):
The
head of my wife’s GOOD family is
currently Thomas GOOD, a labourer
from Ballineen, probably born c1800. He is assumed to be the one who married Anne COTTER at the original
Ballymoney church in 1825, and are my wife’s 2xGGPs. It is not clear how
Thomas connects into the greater GOOD families. Nothing is known of Anne’s
origins, but is assumed to also be a local girl. Records for C of I in the
C19th are poor (missing, destroyed or yet to be indexed), so although Thomas
& Anne may have had many children, only two are currently known: sons John GOOD & William GOOD. John GOOD is
only confirmed by his father’s occupation upon marriage. Sometime before
1860, the GOOD family were living around the Rathbarry area (Castlefreke). In
1865, John GOOD married Hannah Maria SHORTEN in Kinneigh. At
the time his occupation was gamekeeper at Castlefreke. After leaving
Castlefreke, the GOOD family moved back to Ballineen where they ran the Post
Office. Only some history of John & Hannah’s children is known: ·
Thomas
GOOD (1863-bef 1871) – baptism would infer a
pre-marriage child; ·
Anne/Annie
GOOD (1867) = John WILLNECKER in 1892 Cork; ·
Maria
GOOD (1870-bef 1876); ·
Thomas
GOOD (1871) at home in Ballineen in 1901 &
1911; ·
Eliza
GOOD (1873-1873); ·
Eliza
Jane GOOD (1875) married a MACQUIRE, then as a widow married Arthur Bowring WALLING in 1914 South Africa; ·
Marie
GOOD (1876) – at home in Ballineen in 1901; ·
Margaret
GOOD (1877) – no history; ·
James
GOOD (1879-c1880) – no history, death based on
family stories; ·
Gertrude
Hannah “Gertie” GOOD (c1882-1923), my wife’s GGM; ·
John
“Jack” GOOD (1881-1958) employed with the British High
Commission in Cape Town, South Africa. He married Catherine Dorothy “Cassie” LYONS in 1902 Johannesburg and the
couple had a daughter Kathleen
Margaret GOOD (1909). After a divorce, John married Florence Eileen MILLER in 1928. John died in Pretoria; ·
Emily
GOOD (1884) - at home in Ballineen in 1911; William GOOD
is not known from any baptism, but again from his marriage in 1862 to Frances FORD of Ballinascarthy at
Kilmacabea (father – Thomas (Labourer), witness - John GOOD, his brother).
William & Frances started their lives together in Rosscarbery, but later
moved on via Timoleague & Bandon, Cork and then Tralee in Kerry by 1878.
At the time of his marriage, William was a shepherd. Their children: ·
Thomas
GOOD (1864 Rosscarbery); ·
Anne
GOOD (1865 Rosscarbery); ·
George
GOOD (1867 Rosscarbery); ·
Mary
Jane GOOD (1869 Rosscarbery); ·
John
GOOD (1871 Timoleague); ·
Un-named son (1873 Bandon); ·
Elizabeth
G GOOD (1875 Cork); ·
James
William GOOD (Tralee, Kerry); Part 3: The SHORTEN Family of
Moneygaff West, County Cork Hannah
Maria SHORTEN, my wife’s 2xGGM, is part of the original family
of C17th English Protestant settlers who arrived from Devon/Somerset along
with the GOODs and many other families. There are numerous examples of GOOD =
SHORTEN marriages in the C19th. At the time of Griffiths Valuation (see map)
the SHORTEN / SHORTIN families where highly concentrated in West Cork. The
SHORTENs can be found in records referring to Moneygaff West (Moneygoff),
Ballineen and Kinneigh:
The
head of my wife’s SHORTEN family is
James Paul SHORTEN (c1799-1887), my wife’s 3xGGF. He was a farmer at
Moneygaff West. In 1833 he married my wife’s 3xGGM Mary
HARROLD (1816-1904). Their children were baptised at the original church at
Ballymoney (Ballineen): · Tamar
SHORTEN (1831) – noting that Tamar is a widely-used family name = Nicholas
WHITE in 1859; · Eliza
SHORTEN (1833-1865) = John BUTTIMER in 1861; · Paul
SHORTEN (1834-1893) = Mary Ann BATEMAN in 1875. Paul’s early death
was covered by the newspaper article below. His widow was left with 7 young
children; · Hannah
Maria SHORTEN (1841-1925), my wife’s 2xGGM = John
GOOD; · Anne
SHORTEN (1843); · Margaret
SHORTEN (1843-1920) = another John GOOD of Phale; · Catherine
SHORTEN (1853) = James KINGSTON in 1882 Rosscarbery;
The outline above is indicative only and not
necessarily fully correct or complete. It should be used for guidance only. |
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