Young Captain John Twohig was best man at the wedding of Abraham George Sutton JP (b.1842, Cork) to Elizabeth McCarthy on 20 Oct 1868 at St Pat’ s Cork. Abraham George Sutton (b.1842), a coal merchant and shipowner, was in business with his father, Captain George Sutton (b.1804, Clonakilty) and served as mercantile representative on the Board of Harbour Commissioners 1869 – 89. John Denis Sexton (1838 – 77), who was a brother to the aforementioned Sexton sisters, was also a ropemaker and he married Catherine Sutton, a daughter of Captain William Sutton (b.1814, Clonakilty), a sister of Abraham W Sutton (1840 – 1915), Cork ship chandler, and a sister of Captain Robert Sutton (b.1836, Cork). This same Captain Robert Sutton (b.1836, Cork) survived an incident during the American Civil War when he was a mate on a gun-running/blockade-running ship, the Sophia of Liverpool, that was fired upon and destroyed by the USS Mount Vernon off the North Carolina coast on 4 Nov 1862. Though his captain and some crew members died, Mate Robert Sutton survived, returned to Ireland in January 1863 and passed his Master Certificate exam in November of 1863 (Appendix 6: Sophia ). *IMNCL; CLIP; UK M&M; Sutton Family History; O’Riordan, Portraiture of Cork Harbour Commissioners ; Sutton, ‘Two mariner families and a yacht’, Clonakilty Historical and Archaeological Journal.
References:
JOSEPH R PIM
Place and date built: Tonnage/ Vessel type:
Passage West 1836
107t; Schooner
Home port:
Cork
Owner: Activity: Master:
Brown&C
Coastal and foreign trade
1837 Robert Mahony b.1776 (Waterford)#6443 1837 – 6 J Martin 1839 – 41 John Keohan b.1814 (Kinsale) 1841-6 James Guest b.1809 (Crosshaven) 1847 T Walker
Fate of ship:
Moved to the Port of Padstow 1848.
Additional information:
This schooner was built by the Brown brothers of Passage West and launched 2 Jul 1836 (O’Mahony). She was named in honour of Joseph Robinson Pim 1787 – 1858. The Pims were an Irish Quaker mercantile family who developed businesses
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