Murphy and Reeves Rathpeacon

[Sean O Callaghan]

Hi balldw- yes, sorry, I should have mentioned that gaffy found the 1861 marriage. I meant that I managed to find the marriage cert online and look at it. Strangely, it only gave the surnames, not first names of the fathers of both Catherine and Timothy. However, when I searched for a birth for Catherine, using the age on her death cert of 1880, I found that there was a Catherine Reeves born in the parish of Blarney (Blarney is the parish for all the certs) in 1842 and the ages match. Her father was Thomas Reeves and mother was Catherine Allen. The wedding cert of Thomas and Catherine (1841) do not give fathers' first names, only surnames of Reeves and Allen, and the parish is still Blarney.

[Sean O Callaghan]

One of the witnesses to the 1841 marriage is an Elizabeth Reeves, so I imagine she may have either been the sister or the mother of Thomas, but she could equally have been any other relative, I suppose.

[ballydw]

www.CorkRecords.com  In the search panel enter name Reeves there are quiet a few records on here, may not be connected to yours but worth a look.  Have noticed on the Censuses in Ireland for Cork majority of Reeves families were C0I, Weyslian/Methodist very few catholic so your idea that they may have been Quaker might be possible.

[Sean O Callaghan]

Ballydw, Thank you. That is an interesting site. I think the Thomas Reeves may be related to our Reeves, but I could not then find that the link to the Cork newspaper in which he is mentioned worked. I just put Reeves into the census, and, as you say. almost all of the Reeves are Protestant. I think that Catherine may have converted to Catholicism, though, and I wonder how common that would have been at the time. She is listed as Roman Catholic in one record which I have now found, but the family lore is definitely that she was Protestant and more than likely Quaker.

[ballydw]

Usually I think in bygone days and I stand "corrected" on this that when another denomination married into the Roman Catholic church,  an undertaking was given that the children would be raised in the catholic faith, did your Murphy/Reeves marry in the Catholic Church?

[shipwrights]

Reeves Quakers in Cork, Maria Reeves married Joseph John Fisher, son of John Fisher, son of Reuben Fisher, and Mary Hanks of Birr, daughter of Jeremiah Hanks, son of Jeremiah Hanks and Elizabeth Thomson, Maria was from Woodhouse Tipperary but resident in Cork, on her marriage she removed to Youghal. The marriage of Maria and John in Cork Meeting House 14.01.1813. Members of this family became members of the established church, hope this is of interest

[gerryscanlon]

Good afternoon everyone, This seems an informed group and I wonder if any of you can shed some light on my grandparents who lived in Rathpeacon Hall from sometime after their marriage in 1906 until leaving in a hurry in the early 1920s. They appear in the 1911 census as living in Rathpeacon Hall. Edmond Scanlon married Bridget Teresa Murphy who was the daughter of DJ Murphy, who owned and operated the former Western Star Pub in Cork. My father, DJ Scanlon was born at Rathpeacon Hall in 1914 but his mother Teresa died in London in 1940. All of her children , my many aunts and uncles, are deceased but they all spoke fondly of Rathpeacon Hall, which sadly is just ruins nowadays. But the land appears to be owned now by Timothy Murphy. I am now living in Ireland and would love to know if we have any relatives in Co.Cork. Any insights would be greatly appreciated.

[hanes teulu]

The 1861 Murphy/Reeves marriage can be viewed on Catholic Parish Registers
https://registers.nli.ie/

 - date 2 Feb 1861, Diocese Cloyne, Parish Blarney and White Church

[Kiltaglassan]

Welcome to RootsChat, Gerry 

Rathpeacon Hall in the townland of Rathpeacon.
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