19th Century Cork Sutton Mariners, Sailing Ships and Crews

MICHAEL WALLACE

Place and date built: Tonnage/ Vessel type:

Cork 1830

104t; Schooner

Home port:

Cork

Owner: Activity: Master:

M Wallace

Coastal trade

1832 – 4 D Davis 1836 – 7 Nathaniel Sutton b.1794 (Clonakilty)#17877 1837 Daniel Sullivan b.1808 (Ilfracombe)#17888 1833 – 40 D Davies 1835 Morris Bready b.1809 (Cork)#3300 1837 – 40 Denis Reardon b.1816 (Cork) 1835 Patrick Donovan b.1804 (Kinsale)#7118

Mate:

Seaman:

Apprentice: Fate of ship:

1832 – 3 Timothy Hart b.1817 (Clonakilty)

Unknown.

Additional information:

Ship spelling: Michael Wallis (Lloyd’s) Michael Wallace (O’Mahony).

Captain Nathaniel Sutton was the oldest of five Clonakilty master mariner brothers and he had three master mariner sons, Robert (b.1826/29, Kinsale), Nathaniel (b.1832/35, Kinsale) and George Nathaniel (b.1842, Cork). Mate (future Captain) Denis Reardon was an apprentice under Captain George Sutton (b.1804, Clonakilty) 1832 – 37, a mate under Captain Abraham Sutton (b.1813, Clonakilty) 1842 – 5 and would captain the Sutton brig Garland 1849 – 62. Apprentice Timothy Hart would later be Mate under Captain Denis R eardon on Sutton’s brig Garland 1854 – 8. He would also serve as Mate on the Sutton ships Ocean and Charles . # UK Nat Arch BT112; Lloyd’s; UK M&M; Sutton Family History; O’Mahony, Maritime gateway to Cork.

References:

MINNIE

Place and date built: Tonnage/ Vessel type:

Unknown

104/121t; Schooner

Home port:

Cork

Owner:

Crowley, George Sutton Jr, Sutton&Donovan, Michael Donoghue

Activity: Master:

Coastal trade

1870 – 6 Patrick Murphy b.1826 (Courtmacsherry)* 1878 – 9 James Coleman b.1839 (Cork)* 1880 – 4 Michael Donoghue b.1845 (Courtmacsherry)*

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