19th Century Cork Sutton Mariners, Sailing Ships and Crews

References:

*IMNCL, CLIP, UK M&M, Slater’s Directory 1870 , Sutton Family History.

ISABELLA

Place and date built: Tonnage/ Vessel type:

Nova Scotia 1842 131t; Brigantine

Home port:

Cork

Owner: Activity: Master:

Dawson & C

Coastal and foreign trade

1842 Jeremiah Walsh b.1815 (Dungarvan, Waterford) 1845 – 6 Robert Twohig b.1809 (Kinsale)# 1846 – 9 John Gibbons b.1823 (Dungarvan) 1850 – 5 Patrick McNamarra b.1819 (Crosshaven)

Mate:

1842 – 5 James Nugent b.1827 (Dungarvan) 1846 William Martin b.1808 (Cork) 1847 John Mahony b.1823 (Cork) 1849 Benjamin Matson b. 1816 (Cork) 1842 – 3 John Foley b.1820 (Dungarvan) 1845-6 John Driscoll b.1830 (Clonakilty) 1846 Thomas Driscoll b.1826 (Cork)

Seaman:

Fate of ship:

‘The 131t Cork schooner Isabella was wrecked at the Saltees (Lavender Rock) on 18 Dec 1855. She was bound for Cork from Newport with 130t of coal. She struck “St Patrick’s Bridge” (not the Cork City bridge but a natural causeway stretching out to sea near the Saltees) and went to pieces. Captain McNamara and the crew got ashore on some wreckage. One man was crushed by a spar, but the coastguard saved the others. A bell dated 1841 Baltimore at the Enniscorthy Museum may be from this ship’ (Bourke). Note that while Bourke described the vesse l as a schooner, Lloyd’s described this McNamarra-captained vessel as a 131t brigantine but the ship is the same. This ship sailed to North America under Captain Gibbons. Captain Jeremiah Walsh became a son-in-law of Captain Nathaniel Sutton (b.1794) when he married Nathaniel’s daughter, Catherine, on 28 May 1842. Parish Records at St Pats, Cork indicated Jeremiah to have been the captain of Isabella at that time. Captain Robert Twohig was documented from research of Cork ship records from 1845 at the UK National Archives at Kew, London. He was probably brother of John Twohig b.1804 (Kinsale).

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