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Title: Trying to Track down The name Yanks
Post by: JdW22k on Wednesday 09 November 16 21:28 GMT (UK)
Hi all trying to track down the name Yanks or Yank which was/is associated with loughmahon pensula in Mahon Blackrock  Ballinure Cork around the early 1800s to the to mid 1800s Thanks for help in advance.
Title: Re: Trying to Track down The name Yanks
Post by: *Sandra* on Wednesday 09 November 16 22:07 GMT (UK)
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Sandra
Title: Re: Trying to Track down The name Yanks
Post by: JdW22k on Wednesday 09 November 16 22:10 GMT (UK)
Thanks will try that.
Title: Re: Trying to Track down The name Yanks
Post by: aghadowey on Thursday 10 November 16 09:34 GMT (UK)
When asking for assistance it helps if you tell us what you know and explain exactly what sort of information you are looking for.

If you click on 'report to moderator' this thread will be moved to the Cork board where it belongs.

There are lots of online Irish records (free) that you can check yourself for more details. Here are just a few which cover Cork-
Cork Resources and Offers board here on Rootschat (http://www.rootschat.com/forum/cork-resources-offers/)
Census records- 1901 & 1911 as well as other fragments of earlier ones (http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/search/)
Civil records- births, marriages, deaths (https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/civil-search.jsp)
Church records (https://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/)- see here (https://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/parishes/Cork%20&%20Ross%20(RC).pdf) for Cork R.c. records
Irish Catholic Parish Registers (http://registers.nli.ie/)
Title: Re: Trying to Track down The name Yanks
Post by: spades on Friday 11 November 16 02:49 GMT (UK)
Topic moved to Cork Board as per OP's request.

Spades
Title: Re: Trying to Track down The name Yanks
Post by: Maggsie on Friday 11 November 16 12:58 GMT (UK)
The only Yank or Yanks I could find were from Germany.
Yanke
There is a Mary in the USA her husband is Nick and he was from Greece.
She was born in Ireland and her maiden name was Lane.
The 3 spellings of Yank Yanke and Yanks are not in the roostireland site, the Tithe records or Griffiths Valuation.
In familysearch they have some but in the mid 1800's and the 1900's
There was a Joseph Yank in Ancestry when I looked at the original Doc. it was Gank.
Another John Yank was John Black.
I would need more info as to where they went to.
Maggsie
Title: Re: Trying to Track down The name Yanks
Post by: rathmore on Friday 11 November 16 13:23 GMT (UK)
found a Gulielmus Yank Baptism in Dublin in 6.5.1869
St. William street, Dublin

http:www//churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie
Title: Re: Trying to Track down The name Yanks
Post by: rathmore on Friday 11 November 16 13:23 GMT (UK)
http://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie
Title: Re: Trying to Track down The name Yanks
Post by: JdW22k on Sunday 13 November 16 13:23 GMT (UK)
Thank you I will look at these and see if they have any connection to Ballinure or Black rock town as it was called then in Cork. Befote the construction of the line Mahon Thanks.
Title: Re: Trying to Track down The name Yanks
Post by: BrenC on Sunday 03 December 17 20:13 GMT (UK)
Hi,
Just came upon your post. The Yanks was a popular bathing spot in the townland of Mahon in Blackrock. The link below is the 1840 Ordnance Survey map. Just toggle down to Cork, move east along the river Lee until you come to Blackrock Castle and then southwards until you come to a little promontary called Ringmahon Point. Just below, you will note a little lane joining the water's edge. That is the Yanks. Girls bathing to the north, boys to the south of the point where the lane meets the water's edge! The lane was called the Yank's bóithrín. I am doing some local history research on the area and would welcome any knowledge you may have about  the name. It is thought to be an early  20th century name perhaps based on a returned 'yank' living there. regards.
http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V2,572930,571747,10,7