People Connected to County Cork

Republic of Ireland

See also

County Cork Burials

County Cork - Main Page

County Cork, Ireland - Monumental Inscriptions, Cemeteries and Graveyards

County County Cork - Famous People

Historical Buildings of County Cork

People Connected to "Ireland" - unknown Specific Place or County

They came from Ireland - Origin Unknown

Irish Families Researched by Geni Users

Resources

• County Cork Genealogy at Family Search's wiki
• County Cork at GENIUKI
• Cork Genealogy at From Ireland
• Cork forum at RootsChat.com
• Cork discussion board at Ancestry.co.uk
• Cork at Ireland Reaching Out
• Cork at Irish Townlands
• Cork Ireland at FTDNA

How to use this Page

1. Please link any GENI Profiles with links to County Cork to this project.
2. You can ALSO add the earliest heads of families to the list of County Cork Families on Geni below (don't forget to link their profiles to the project as well). These would usually be male! Please restrict people added to the list to the earliest head of family!

Note People with links to County Cork can be linked to the project but not necessarily added to the list below.

People connected to County Cork can also be linked to the following projects.

Historical and Political people

Accommodated by the project Historical County Cork (to follow) which covers the History of County Cork and historical/political people. Some of these are also listed in the Famous people category.

Famous or Notable People

Those people of note with connections to the county are listed below. Some of these connections are a little tenuous - counties like to lay claim to people of renown! Please visit County Cork - Famous People and add them to the listing there.

Emigrants

People from County Cork who went to the "New world" and were early progenitors in those countries. Where the earliest ancestor is known please add them to the list of "County Cork families on Geni" below if that was their roots, or to the appropriate county project.

Where the earliest known ancestor is the emigrant add them to the list below. In some cases if there is a project that covers them in detail please link the project.

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Heads of County Cork Families on Geni

Names with Bold links are to Geni profiles. Other links take you to external biographical web pages.

A

• Lt. Col. Edward Alleyn of Kinneigh

B

• William (or Henry) Baldwin
• Unknown Banfield
• Sir William Barry
• Catherine Beamish
• Fane Becher
• Francis Bernard
• Pierre Besnard
• Richard Boyle
• Thomas Browne
• John Busteed

C

• Jeremiah Coughlan
• Christopher Creagh

D

• Thomas Daunt
• Edward Dunscombe

E

• Lieut. Nathaniel Evanson

F

• Stephen Fleming
• William Freke
• Richard French

G

• John Gillman
• Sir Vincent Gookin

H

• Thomas Hennigan
• Capt. Thomas Hungerford

I

J

• Capt. Samuel Jervois

K

• Thomas Knolles / Knowles

L

M

• Donal Caomh MacCarthy
• John Meagh (Meade)
• William Morris
• Patrick Murnane

N

• Richard Newman
• Rev. John Norcott

O

• Crom O'Donovan
• Denis O'Leary

P

• Thomas Poole
• John Popham

Q

R

• Unknown Radley of Bandon
• Michael Reordan
• Rev. Thomas Roberts
• Francis Rogers

S

• Rev. Thomas Somerville
• Rt. Rev. Edward Synge

T

• Pierre Teulon
• Col. Richard Townsend
• John Travers
• Henry Turner

U

V

W

• Robert Warren
• Ralph Westropp
• Nicholas Wrixon

X-Y-Z

Emigrants from County Cork

Please add the names of people from County Cork who settled in the "New World"

Australia

• Rev. Michael Henry Becher (1819 Cork - 1883 Melbourne, Australia)
• Becher Hungerford (1822 Cork - 1900 Victoria, Australia )
• Capt. Emanuel Hungerford (1785 Cork - 1872, New South Wales, Australia)

Canada

New Zealand

• George Willoughby Hungerford
• Thomas Walter Hungerford (1832 Cork? - ? New Zealand)

South Africa

• Sarah Maria Wilhelmina Armstrong (1779 Cork - 1836 South Africa)
• Ann Sarah Brangan (1786 Bandon - 1844 Clumber near Grahamstown)
• Ann Cawood Hulley (1813 Cork - 1887 King William's Town)
• Edward John Shawe son of ann Daniel above - (c. 1819 Cork - 1879 Clanwilliam)
• Thomas Wade (1814 - Cork - 1887 Heidelberg, South Africa)

1820 British Settlers in South Africa

South America

Brazil

St. Helena Island

• Charles Joseph Sampson (1775 Cork - 1860 St Helena)

United States

• Dennis DeCourcey (1833 Ballyagune - 1908 Washington)

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