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Cork / Re: George Hobson
« on: Sunday 03 December 17 20:23 GMT (UK)  »
Hi,
there wasa John Hobson living on Castle Road, Blackrock in the early 1890s. Replaced in the house by an Annabella Hobson. She disappears from the record in the mid-to late 1920s.  Rgds

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Cork / Re: Trying to Track down The name Yanks
« 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

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Cork / Re: Samuel A Hobbs of Cork
« on: Thursday 30 November 17 14:26 GMT (UK)  »
Hi, by chance I just came across your posts. I have done some local history research on the area of Blackrock, Cork. Samuel Andrew Hobbs rented Pleasantview(later Lakeview) on a lease dated 4th Feb 1807. A Samuel A. Hobbs appears in the local tithe list dated 1827. This house i.e. Lakeview, appears on the 1840 Ordnance Survey Map on the below link - just toggle down to Cork city and find Blackrock Castle to the east of the city on the edge of the river Lee. Lakeview is just to the south of the Castle. Rgds
http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V2,599997,749998,1,10

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