19th Century Cork Sutton Mariners, Sailing Ships and Crews

Captain Jeremiah Clancy (b.1837) listed his birth year as 1834 on UK M&M (a common manipulation).

Mate Laurence Spillane (b.1828, Kinsale) moved as Mate to the George Brown in 1869.

References:

CLIP; IMNCL; UK M&M.

JANE & MARY ANNE

Place and date built: Tonnage/ Vessel type:

Cork 1835

109t; Schooner

Home port:

Cork

Owner: Activity: Master:

Brown&C, Richard Farrell

Coastal trade

1835 – 8 Abraham Sutton b.1813 (Clonakilty)#17872 1841 – 50 John McCarthy b.1810 (Kinsale) 1852 – 3 John Spillane b.1819 (Crosshaven) 1864 – 6 J Noonan 1866 – 7 Patrick Mulcahy b.1836 (Dungarvan)

1868 – 70 Henry Johns b.1834 (Youghal)* 1875 James Nagle b.1830 (Youghal)* 1878 Michael Glavin b.1846 (Youghal)*

Mate:

1836 Bartholomew Reidy b.1786 (Passage)#2169 1869 – 70 Peter Farrell b.1842 (Youghal)* 1878 Edward Coleman b.1852 (Youghal)* 1835 John McCarthy b.1815 (Cork)#2301 1835 James Donohue b.1813 (Kinsale) #6045 1835 Lewis Condon b.1815 (Kinsale)#9309 1835 Thomas Sullivan b.1795 (Cork)#17873 1835 Bartholomew Reidy b.1786 (Passage)#2169 1836 Michael Vagan b.1810 (Cork)#101 1837 John Driscoll b.1821 (Kinsale)#7226 1838 John MacDonald b.1806 (Crosshaven)#2302 1845 – 50 Patrick Buckley b.1824 (Cork) Remained in service in Cork ports for over 50 years.

Seaman:

Fate of ship:

Additional information:

One of the many excellent schooners described by O’Mahony as built by the Browns of Passage (Browns verified in Lloyd’s Register 1864). Lloyd’s , in earlier times, had this ship’s name as Janet & Mary Anne with Captain A. Sutton, whereas Captain Abraham Sutton of Clonakilty documented his ship as Jane & Mary Anne in UK Nat. Archives records. Captain Abraham Sutton was the fourth of five master mariner brothers and a prime mover in establishing the Sutton family in the coal and shipping business during the late 1830s and early 1840s. He would

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