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Cork / Re: Collins Family in Cork
« on: Wednesday 25 May 11 13:42 BST (UK)  »
Re John and Ellen Collins posting.  Spelling is probally Midleton -  community is east of Cork City, or just to the north of Great Island.  Have you tried the Casey Journals - they are a series of books compiled by Dr Casey of USA.  They document a lot of old family names from parts of County Cork.  Can be found in select libraries.  Have you tried the records available thru LDS (Latter Day Saints) of Salt Lake City ?  Many local churches can provide access to microfilm copies of old LDS records for a small fee - LDS has a great collection of old family history.  My Timothy Collins by the 1770 to 1780 time period had relocated from Ireland to Newfoundland (part of Canada since 1949). Have you documented birth dates for John and Ellen (including her maiden name ?).  It might be available thru a cemetery or death record.  1880's is 3 to 4 generations back - any Port Entry documents available in Australia ? or Ship Listings of Passengers ? Were John and Ellen the first of the family to arrive in Australia ? or had any of John or Ellens relatives arrive there prior to 1880 ?
Paul

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Cork / Re: gravestones in Cobh (Queenstown)?
« on: Sunday 08 May 11 19:39 BST (UK)  »
This is very helpful.

thank you very much,

Paul

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Cork / Re: Collins Family in Cork
« on: Wednesday 30 March 11 01:31 BST (UK)  »
Hi Agnes,

I've posted messages on different websites over time, one I've belonged to is a Yahoo group named Y-IRL,  it's ran by a Genealogist Jane Lyons. She also has a website   www.from-ireland.net  - it's worth a try.  Here Y-IRL group is searchable so everything ever posted there can be reviewed.

Anything is worth a try.

Regards,

Paul

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Cork / Re: gravestones in Cobh (Queenstown)?
« on: Tuesday 22 March 11 00:58 GMT (UK)  »
Hi all,

some years ago I was in touch with Luke Cassidy who documented the 11,000 headstones at the old graveyard.  If it is online can someone tell me the internet site where it can be found.  Luke unfortunately passed away shortly after my introduction to him.

thanks,

Paul

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Cork / Re: Collins Family in Cork
« on: Tuesday 22 March 11 00:46 GMT (UK)  »
Hi there, 

I too am looking for Collins'es in County Cork - hope you realize that the surname is one of the most common ones in Cork.  Something else I've come across is evidence that Collins at one time was also very common in Limerick County, however whether fact or fiction, they were driven out of Limerick so many moved south and east to County Cork.

Good Luck

Paul

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Cork / Re: Cove, Great Island - Collins, Captain John
« on: Tuesday 22 March 11 00:37 GMT (UK)  »
Hi all,

not sure if you know what a Deed of Settlement is - this one is concerning land,  it was dated 1758 and made the following statement:

Reciting the very Honourable Richard Barry, Esq., by his Lease bearing date [   ] about the twenty-eighth day of July last past did demise unto the said John Collins, his executors, administrators, and assigns all and those the houses and garden situate on the Hill about the Town of Cove in the County of Corke aforesaid as then held by the said John Collins (referring to property on Great Island).

An ad in the Corke Journal April 1765 re passages to Newfoundland:

Application to be made to Captain Collins, at his House in Cove, or to Mr. Timothy Hurly , on the Coal-quay [Cork]

An ad in the Hibernian Chronicle in 1791 states:

TO be let, a commodious house at West Passage, in the Great Island, pleasantly situated for Sea Bathers during the Season, for a long term of years as may be agreed upon, with some Lands.  Application to be made to Captain Collins at Cove.

Good reading about Cove, later named Queenstown and then Cobh are two publications as follows:

History of Cobh - by Mary Broderick.

History of Great Island - by Rev Dennehy and James Coleman (this book documents a Lecture given in 1872 by Rev Dennehy at the Cove National School - town by then was renamed Queenstown).

My thanks to Shane and Ken who have confirmed further how Cove was later renamed Queenstown and then later as Cobh ( I do recall reading somewhere that the name Cobh was chosen because it is pronounced 'cove').

Paul

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Cork / Cove, Great Island - Collins, Captain John
« on: Wednesday 16 February 11 16:35 GMT (UK)  »
I am researching a Captain John Collins who lived at Cove, the Great Island approx 1750 to 1790's. He owned and sailed a schooner the 'Hannah and Lydia' approx 1760's to 1780's to Newfoundland - pursuing the Cod Fishing industry.  John may have had a spouse Ann (based upon Newfoundland sources).  Captain John had at least several daughters based upon newspaper articles in the Hibernian Chronicle.  John may have died Sept 1794 - gravestone inscription has been received from Luke Cassidy of the Great Island.  Found birth notices from Passage West area (approx 1790) of two ladies (maiden name Collins) having children - possible daughters of John Collins. John also sailed other craft for Shea family of Cork City.  John lived on Great Island but had contacts in Cork City. Typical sailing routes included Cork Harbour, Newfoundland, Portugal. An old manuscript of Cove talks also about a 'farm house owned by John Collins' on the Great Island. 
My interest is to determine whether my gggggg grandfather Timothy Collins may have been the son of Captain John. Timothy was in the same community in Newfoundland as Captain John - population of the day was approx 300 to 400 persons.  Timothy married a lady Jane Warford in Sept 1783 and stayed in Harbour Grace NL for a period of time and then resettled nearby in the community of Spaniards Bay, NL.
thanks,

Paul
ps - regardless of whether there is a connection between Timothy and John, all of my research of Captain John Collins is free for the asking.

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