19th Century Cork Sutton Mariners, Sailing Ships and Crews

Seaman Kennefick would have been related to Michael Kennefick (b.1829, Crosshaven): shipowner, shipbuilder and later Cork Harvour Commissioner from that locale (see Henrietta). Lloyd’s; UK M&M; UK Na t Arch BT120, BT112; Charbonneau & Sévigny, 1847, Grosse Île;. O’Mahony, Maritime Gateway to Cork ; O’Riordan Portraiture of Cork Harbour Commissioners.

References:

DOVE

Place and date built: Tonnage/ Vessel type:

Nova Scotia 1831

97t brig;

Home port:

Cork

Owner: Activity: Master:

Laurence

Coastal trader

1837 – 39/43 Thomas Walsh b.1817 (Dungarvan) 1839-42 Jeremiah Walsh b.1815 (Dungarvan/Waterford)

Apprentice: Fate of ship:

1835 – 8 Thomas Barron b.1821 (Dungarvan)

Unknown.

Additional information:

Captains Thomas Walsh and Jeremiah Walsh were brothers and the one succeeded the other as captain. While Jeremiah Walsh documented his birthplace simply as Waterford on his UK M&M papers, he listed his birthplace specifically as Dungarvan twice on IMNCL voyage account reports (for Eliza in 1866 and for Louisa in1868). Captain Jeremiah Walsh was married on 28 May 1842 at St Pat’s Cork to Catherine Sutton, the daughter of Captain Nathaniel Sutton (b.1794, Clonakilty).

References:

IMNCL; Lloyd’s; UK M&M; Sut ton Family History.

DUKE OF CLARENCE

Place and date built: Tonnage/ Vessel type:

Cork 1827 156t; brig

Home port:

Cork

Owner: Activity: Master:

Hargrave

Foreign trader

1828 – 9 R Sexton 1829 – 33 Hugh Pollack b.1793 (Belfast) 1834 – 6 John Towell b.1794 (Cork)

1832 – 5 Thomas Cooper Clarke b.1808 (Cork) 1835/38 – 41 Henry Hobbs b.1804 (Cork)#10524

Seaman:

1834 James Goonin b.1815 (Cove) 1836 Paul Wade b.1799 (Dublin) 1830 – 1 John Mills b.1814 (Cork)

Apprentice: Fate of ship:

Unknown.