Belcher
Local sources suggest that the Belcher family came to Bandon, possibly from Gloucestershire around 1610. Various family members in the nineteenth century entered the Church as well as the medical and legal professions. In the 1870s Henry Belcher of Bandon owned 140 acres in county Cork. The estate of Anna Belcher and other family members, amounting to over 500 acres, was offered for sale in the Encumbered Estates Court in June 1852. In 1875, houses and property belonging to Samuel Belcher, in the barony of Kerrycurrihy, county Cork, were offered for sale in the Landed Estates Court.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Knocknagappul House | Knocknagappul | Ballinadee | Bandon | Ballinadee 9 | East Carbery (East) | Cork |
OSI Ref: W562518
OS Sheet: 111 Discovery map: 86 |
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Archival sources
- Encumbered Estates Court Rentals (O'Brien, Belcher, 10 June 1852, Vol 16, MRGS 39/007, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
- Landed Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Belcher , 1 May 1875, Vol 118, MRGS 39/054, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
- Landed Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Belcher , 11 June 1875, Vol 119, MRGS 39/054, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
Contemporary printed sources
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : East Carbery (East) Barony: 7(Knocknagappul)
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 117