Volume 1: Pages 210 to 253 - Cork Past and Present
Volume 1: Pages 210 to 253 - Cork Past and Present
Volume 1: Pages 210 to 253 - Cork Past and Present
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ST. ANNE, BRANDON . [CORK.<br />
"The<br />
ST. ANNE, SHANDON.<br />
church of St. Anne was begun <strong>to</strong> be built, upon the<br />
old foundation where St. Mary, Sh<strong>and</strong>on, s<strong>to</strong>od, anno 1722, <strong>and</strong><br />
is <strong>to</strong> be made a distinct parish on the demise or removal of the<br />
present Incumbent. It was erected by a subscription, <strong>and</strong> is a<br />
very neat plain church. The steeple is of hewn s<strong>to</strong>ne, 120 feet<br />
high, with a h<strong>and</strong>some spire, fifty feet more, erected the last<br />
summer ; also a musical ring of bells, chimes, <strong>and</strong> clock ;<br />
which building being on an eminence , is a great ornament <strong>to</strong><br />
the city. It was designed after the model of St. Mary's, in<br />
Limerick." [Smith's <strong>Cork</strong>, vol. i. p. 376.]<br />
1772. ARTHUR HYDE, A.M., is admitted <strong>to</strong> the Rec<strong>to</strong>ry of St. Anne's,<br />
vacant by the death of Dr. George Tisdall, <strong>and</strong> on the presentation<br />
of Arthur Hyde, esq., of Castlehyde, the patron for this<br />
turn. [D.R.]<br />
1772. The present parish register begins.<br />
1785. May 26. Lord Muskerry sells his perpetual advowson<br />
or right of alternately presenting <strong>to</strong> St. Mary's, St. Anne's, <strong>and</strong><br />
St. Paul's, for £600, <strong>to</strong> Richard Longfield, of Castlemary. [D.R.]<br />
Arthur Hyde (son of George Hyde, who was son of Arthur<br />
Hyde, of Castlehyde, by his second wife, Mary, dan. of Colonel<br />
George Evans), was born in county <strong>Cork</strong>, <strong>and</strong> when sixteen<br />
years old entered T.C.D. as a Pensioner , on 28th September,<br />
1744, <strong>and</strong> graduated A.B. in 1748.<br />
He was ordained Deacon on 23rd June, <strong>and</strong> Priest on 9th<br />
July, 1751. On 24th June, 1751, he was licensed <strong>to</strong> the<br />
Curacy of Clonfert ; <strong>and</strong> on 29th June, 1753, <strong>to</strong> that of Castlemartyr.<br />
From 1754 <strong>to</strong> 1793 be was R. Litter; from 1761 <strong>to</strong><br />
1769 R. Culdaff, Derry; from 1769 <strong>to</strong> 1787 R. V. Kilmoe ; <strong>and</strong><br />
from 1772 <strong>to</strong> 1805, when he died, R. V. Sh<strong>and</strong>on.<br />
He married, on 14th Oc<strong>to</strong>ber, 1756, Anne, only dau. of<br />
Benjamin Green, esq., by Alicia, dau. of Arthur Bernard, esq.,<br />
of Palace-Anne, county <strong>Cork</strong>. By her he had issue Rev.<br />
Arthur Hyde (Precen<strong>to</strong>r of Ross from 1791 <strong>to</strong> 1815, q. v.) ;<br />
<strong>and</strong> five daughters, Alice, Ann (died 1760), Sophia, Mary.<br />
Elisabeth, <strong>and</strong> Ann (born 1766).<br />
1805. April 22. WARHAM LEADER, A.B., R. St. Anne's, Sh<strong>and</strong>on, on<br />
the presentation of William Leader, of <strong>Cork</strong>, esq., patron for<br />
this turn. [D.R.]<br />
1813. John Symson, of <strong>Cork</strong>, leaves by his will, dated on 2nd<br />
March, £1,000 for the poor of St. Anne's. He died in 1816.<br />
1817. June 3. Alderman John Forster died, leaving £50 <strong>to</strong><br />
the poor of this parish. Mr. Rogerson also left £100.<br />
Warham Leader (third son of William Leader, esq., of <strong>Cork</strong>,<br />
Barrister -at-Law, <strong>and</strong> of Mount Leader, county <strong>Cork</strong>, by his<br />
wife, Margaret, dau. of Warham St. Leger, esq., of Heyward's<br />
CORK.] ST. ANNE, BRANDON. 251<br />
Hill, county <strong>Cork</strong>), was ordained Deacon on 1st Sept., 1799, <strong>and</strong><br />
Priest on 24th August, 1800, both at Cloyne. He was, from<br />
1805 <strong>to</strong> his death on 26th Oc<strong>to</strong>ber, 1818, Rec<strong>to</strong>r of St. Anne,<br />
Sh<strong>and</strong>on.<br />
He married, on 10th Oc<strong>to</strong>ber, 1817, at Cove, Henrietta,<br />
youngest dau. of Robert Atkins, esq., of Firgrove, near Mallow,<br />
but had no issue . His relict, Henrietta, married Rev. Mathew<br />
Moore, Rec<strong>to</strong>r of Cahirconlish, Limerick.<br />
Rev. Warham Leader was brother <strong>to</strong> the late NicnoLAs<br />
PHILPOT LEADER, esq., M.P. for Kilkenny ; <strong>and</strong> was uncle <strong>to</strong><br />
NICHOLAS PHILPOT LEADER, now M.P. for <strong>Cork</strong> county.<br />
1818. Nov. 5. RICHARD LoNOFIELD CONNER, A.B., R. St. Anne's,<br />
Sh<strong>and</strong>on, on presentation of Colonel Richard Longfield, of<br />
Castlemary, patron for this turn. [D.R.]<br />
1824. Oct. 26. The tithe composition of St. Anne, Sh<strong>and</strong>on,<br />
as fixed for twenty-one years, is <strong>to</strong> be £260 3s. 9d. The<br />
average price of oats for seven years, ending 1st Nov., 1821,<br />
was 15s. per barrel. [D.R.]<br />
1834. The Protestant population was 3,551.<br />
In April, 1834, R. L. Conner, A.M., gets three years' licence<br />
for non-residence, which licence was renewed from time <strong>to</strong><br />
time on the ground of ill-health. [D-R.)<br />
1834. August 25. Thomas Johnson, shipbroker, sells, for<br />
£40, the site of a new chapel of ease , which was licensed for<br />
divine service on 30th June, 1837, <strong>and</strong> consecrated by the<br />
name of St. Luke on 21st Oc<strong>to</strong>ber, 1837. [D.R.]<br />
1837. St. Anne's, Sh<strong>and</strong>on, a rec<strong>to</strong>ry, with cure, 3 miles long<br />
by 1 broad, containing 2,777 acres. Gross population, 23,350.<br />
Two Curates employed, at an annual stipend <strong>to</strong> each of £75,<br />
British. Tithe composition, £240 3s. 3d. Minister's money,<br />
£325. Surplice fees, £73. Rents of houses, £52 12s. 4d.<br />
Subject <strong>to</strong> visitation fees, 6s. 8d.; diocesan schoolmaster, 16s. 7d.<br />
No glebe-house. Incumbent is non-resident, by permission, in<br />
consequence of ill-health ; he resides near Innishannon, in the<br />
county of <strong>Cork</strong>. One church, capable of accommodating 700<br />
persons, built more than a century, but at what cost unknown.<br />
No charge on the parish in 1832 on account of the church.<br />
Divine service is celebrated in the church twice on Sundays,<br />
<strong>and</strong> on every Wednesday <strong>and</strong> Friday. The sacrament is administered<br />
monthly, <strong>and</strong> on the great festivals. The benefice is a<br />
rec<strong>to</strong>ry. [Parl. Rep.]<br />
1860. R. L. Conner, Rec<strong>to</strong>r; John Lee <strong>and</strong> W. M. Woolsey<br />
are the Curates. The church in order. No glebe or glebe-house.<br />
The Rec<strong>to</strong>r resides at Innishannon. Divine service twice oxt<br />
all Sundays, <strong>and</strong> once on the chief holidays, <strong>and</strong> on all Wednesdays<br />
<strong>and</strong> Fridays throughout the year. Sacrament twice a<br />
month ; average of communicants, 52 ; also on the chief festivals<br />
; average 124. 30 boys are on the rolls of the Green Cons<br />
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