
Person Info
James David Barry: Birth: 1774 in Bandon, Cork, Ireland. Death: 15 AUG 1849 in Poplar Point Farm, nr Washington, DC
Robert Barry (adopted): Birth: ABT 1775 in Co. Cork or Portugal.
Ann Barry: Birth: 29 SEP 1823. Death: 13 MAY 1891 in Coombe Vault Congressional CemeteryWashington, DC
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Note: Born in Cork Co., Ireland. After a stay in London went to Portugal, where he married his wife, Joanna Gould. They resided there for some time. They came to Baltimore, MD in 1793, where he served as the Portuguese consul general in the US. In 1800 the family moved to Washington and Barry joined Thomas Law in business. He was clearly wealthy and important in the early days of the developement of the capital city. (For refences to this, see "Through a Fiery Trial - Building Washington 1790-1800" by Bob Arnebeck.) (For information on his daughters, his only natural children, see Notes on Joanna.) There is an article on "Capt. James Barry" in the Reports of the Columbia Historical Society of Washington,DC, the 1942 volume. A website (www.americanmemories.gov) stores copies of letters from Capt. Barry to Pres. Jefferson, plus President Geo. Washington diary entries mentioning Capt. James & his son, James David, (who spent the night in Washington's house after having dinner there). Ireland was a very poor country in the 18th century, terribly oppressed by the British. So Catholic Portugal, rich with gold from Brazil, was a natural haven for Irishmen of poor and/or merchant families. Many of the latter had started commercial connections between Cork and the ports of Coruna and Cadiz in Portugal and Lisbon, where ships from Brazil and India arrived. Between the 1740s and 1780smany merchants, sailors, priests and soldiers of fortune came to Lisbon. **** The following information was gathered by Pedro O'Neill of Lisbon. "Tue, 16 Oct 2001 23:51:50 GMT From: 'Pedro O'Neill' To: [email protected]@compuserve.com Subject: James Barry and Joanna Gould marriage in Lisbon Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 23:51:50 +0000 Lisbon, the 17th October 2001, Dear Mrs. Brownie MacKie First you must excuse me for my bad english, and for all the time i had to reply your kind e-mails. I wanted to search on the National Archives for some data. Only this week I finally searched for all those many things, including the Barry/Gould Lisbon connection, something that also interests me deeply. So, this i what i have: 1- In the 22th of May 1781, in Lisbon, was baptised Dionisio ( Dennis )Donovan, son of Cornelio ( Cornelius ) Donovan and Helena ( Helen ) Donovan, both from Cork. Godfather was Geraldo ( Gerard ) Gould, and godmother his sister, Joana ( Johanna ) Gould, both were living at Cornelio Donovan house, at Monte de Santa Catarina ( a hill-top place in a Lisbon old quartier,with a beatiful view to river Tagus ). Later Dionisio Donovan changed his name to Carlos ( Charles ) Donovan. 2 - In the 24th of January 1782, in the evening, in Lisbon ( Santa Catarina church ),Diogo ( James ) Barry, married Joana ( Joanna ) Gould. James Barry was born in County Cork, in the parish of Fermoy, son of Robert Barry and Mary Connell. Joanna Gould was born in County Cork, in the parish of Watergrasshill, daughter of George Gould and Ann O'Brien. Signed as witnesses Gerard Gould, Joanna's Brother, and father Dennis O'Driscoll, both living at Lisbon. My Note: Gerard was also "Garrett." 3 - If you have an Ireland map you just see north of Cork the little city of Fermoy, and in the road, between them, Watergrasshill. You have a very nice site on the net about Fermoy history and written by a Michael Barry (!). Look at http://www.murrayfamily.org/fermoyhistory.htm and see what Rev. William Adair said about Fermoy in the 1780's, in the time of young James Barry. 4 - You must see that Ireland in the 18th century was a very poor country, terribly oppressed by England. So, catholic Portugal, rich with the gold from Brazil, was a natural haven for many of those poor irishman, just before they start to discover the new world in the Americas. Many of them where merchants from Cork, who started commercial connections between that port, and the ports of Coruna and Cadiz in Spain, and Lisbon ( where ships from Brazil and India arrived ) Between the 1740's, through the 1780's, Lisbon received many of those merchants, sailors, priests, soldiers and man of fortune from Ireland. Some of them still have generation here, but only a few. 5 - The Gould brothers turned to be very wealth merchants in 19th century Lisbon. The two Joanna's brothers, Geraldo ( Gerard )Gould and Jorge Jo (George John ) Gould, formed a company named Gould Brothers & C., until Gerard's death in 1825. George died in 1844, also a rich man. He had no sons, so in his will he named his nephews, Gerard's sons as heirs. One of them, Francisca Gould, married a british merchant from Madeira Island, named William Newman Roope, other, Christina Gould, married portuguese rich merchant Osborne Teixeira Sampaio, and lived in London. There was a connection between the Goulds and a very rich man named Henrique Teixeira de Sampaio, later to be the count of Povoa (Osborne's uncle , and one of the richest man of Portugal in the 1820's). He married Angelica Slack and Gerard Gould married Francisca Slack in 1789. So they were brothers-in-law ). Interestingly, when In�cio Palyart went to London, after leaving Filadelfia, he formed with A.T. Sampaio ( Osborne's father and count of Povoa brother ) a commercial venture in London named A. T. Sampaio, Palyart & C. When the count of Povoa died, in 1833, he named one of Gerard Gould sons , also named Gerard Gould ( born 1800 )as one of his heirs. that Gerard Gould, and his wife ( born Walsh ), were still living by the year 1870, giving brilliant partys at their house in Lisbon, as said one newspaper from that year. They had four sons, but i dont know if there's a Gould generation today at Lisbon. 6- Well! I hope you liked this very report! Now I will search for the birth of the son of James Barry and Joanna Gould in Lisbon. Do you know his, or her, name? I am also very interested to know what happened in America. In which cities they lived? When they died? The names of his sons? This connection is very interesting to me, as i am searching for the biographies of those irish who came to Portugal in the 18th century. Finally, i want to give a word of support from the portuguese friends to America, in these terrible times we are living. My sincerely best wishes Pedro Diogo O'Neill" |
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