Anglo-Saxon Old Plymouth UK | Sutton Harbour (Sutton Pool). It is likely that the Pilgrim Fathers left from this harbour.
Captain Gerald L Walsh, according to Walsh family history, slipped on the deck of the Eagle at the Port of Cardiff in 1884 and died. He had been rushing home to Cork after the death of his daughter, Cecilia. The Eagle carried his body back to Cork. Captain Gerald Walsh was a great nephew of the prior owner, Captain Abraham Sutton (b.1813, Clonakilty), and a grandson of Captain Nathaniel Sutton (b.1794, Clonakilty). CLIP indicates that Gerald Walsh became owner of Eagle in 1875; then in 1882 ‘ownership’ pa ssed on to his daughter Katherine of 5, St Patrick’s Terrace , Cork, well before his death in 1884.This ‘ ownership ’ is likely to signify both shares and a management role in the vessel. This pattern of female ownership and management in late nineteenth-century Cork was quite common (see Nancy McSweeney and White Eagle ). *IMNCL; CLIP; Lloyd’s; UK M&M; Sutton and Walsh Family Histories; England Census 1881; Old Plymouth UK | Sutton Harbour (Sutton Pool) (Accessed 9.02.2021).
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ECONOMY
Place and date built: Tonnage/ Vessel type:
Newport 1825 143t; Schooner
Home port:
Cork
Owner: Activity: Master:
White, J Harley
Coastal and foreign trade
1834 – 5 Charles John b.1806 (Cork)#4844 1835 – 8 White 1838 – 40 John James Williams b.1814 (Solva, Pembroke) 1839 – 41 Llewellyn 1842 – 4 S Edwards 1846 – 7 David James b.1818 (Newport, Pembrokeshire) 1851 – 2 John Dempsey b.1809 (Kinsale) 1855 –6 John O’Brien b.1835 (Cork)
Seaman:
1836 Edward Murphy b.1813 (At sea)#12238 1853 Cornelius O’Donoghue b.1835 (Cork)
Apprentice: Fate of ship:
Moved to the Port of Cardiff and foundered 28 November 1860 (Unseaworthy Ship Commission). Captain Charles John would next become Master of Clara Prothero .
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