Alleyn Wolfe 1797-1862
Farmer then Turnkey
https://www.academia.edu/9877041/The_Wolfes_of_Cork_City?email_work_card=view-paper - is a PDF file by Acheson found online : gives details on all of Alleyn´s children
~1797 Alleyn Wolfe was born Kilnagross, county Cork, to John Wolfe & Elizabeth Wilson - Ancestry Fraser tree. Kilnagross just N of Clonakilty
1821. Alleyn Wolfe, farmer, of Kilnagross, married Jane Jennings of Courtmacsherry in St Finnbarrs, Cork on 4/4/1821.
http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~sharonmh/Cork.Registers/St%20Finbarre%27s.htm
Alleyn & Jane had 11 children over 23 years, 9 boys, 2 girls:
1.1822. Elizabeth Wolfe , bap.Lislee, nr Courtmcsherry, address Droumgariffe
2. 1823. John Wolfe b. Bandon 1823-1891
3. 1826. Alleyne Wolfe 1826-1894. Turnkey in 1861, magistrate's clerk in 1875 . Living 13 Bachelor's Quay in 1877 when his youngest son, Abraham, 9+, was buried in the New Cemetery
4. 1827 William Wolfe Railway Clerk 1827-1903, in Montreal, having remarried there in 1896
5. 1829. Barnabas Wolfe 1829-1885
6. 1835 George Wolfe 1835-1884
7. 1840. Abraham Jennings Wolfe
8. 1841. Isaac Jennings Wolfe
9. 1842. Jane Wolfe
10. 1843 Jacob Wolfe 1843-1937
11. 1845. Joseph Alleyn Wolfe
No baptisms for any of these on Irish.ie records
When son Barnabas was married in 1857, he listed his father’s occupation as Turnkey at the City Bridewell which stood on the Coal Quay in Cork at the site currently occupied by a 20C Garda Station. Reports of the Inspectors General of Prisons in Ireland from this period list ‘Alleyn Wolfe’ as a Turnkey at Cork City Gaol earning an annual wage of £27 6s 0d . Some family recollections have Alleyn in the Police. No evidence of Alleyn in the R.I.C. before 1857 has been uncovered although it is worth pointing out that his later children were born in County Waterford??. It was the long standing policy of the R.I.C to always post their members outside their home counties. A report for 1861 lists Allen Wolfe as a turnkey at Cork City Bridewell earning £39 15s 0d annually . Also listed is Alleyn Wolfe junior as turnkey earning £30 15s 0d annually. 1826 Alleyn's son, Samuel William Wolfe, living in Canada late in life, recorded some of his recollections of the Wolfes. Of Alleyn he related that he was “reputed to have been tall and handsome". Samuel's son Pierre stated that Alleyn was " autocratic and did not mind using the whip on the boys" - all courtesy of Gary Acheson . I have searched the RIC records myself and he is definitely not included, although there is an Alleyne Wolfe appointed in 1881, service number 46923, seemingly then aged 19, from Queenstown - so this could only be a grandson . And this Alleyne Wolfe was in the 60th Foot Regiment at Templemore - FMP
1840. Abraham Jennings Wolfe was born to Alleyn and Jane
1853. Alleyn Wolfe , turnkey, is earning £ 27. 6s - this could be him or his son Alleyn 1826!!- FMP Newspapers
1860 An Alleyn Wolfe signed a petition against night baking, he listed from Great George's Street to Mardyke Place - FMP Newspapers
1860. Referred to as Alleyne Wolfe, Esq. of Dauugaraff/Drunagaruff! when his eldest son John, 1823, married in Norfolk- FMP Newspapers
1862. ??Alleyn Wolfe died 8/3/1862 Cork . Buried in St Anne's Shandon [ where my Stephen Lyons married Catherine Buckley in 1851!]- no obituary found in either set of Newspapers . Could this really be he??
1870. Jane Wolfe died 25/2/1870 Cork - have d.c., says ´wife of ´ not widow!! - on her page