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If your family went to Canada in the 1820's who were the Bandon Dempseys. Thomas? William ? John? I checked all the Bandon records that I have unsucessfully.
Records before 1800 are extremely scarce.
I did find in a book of Marriage Licence Bonds that THOMAS DEMPSEY married ANNE SUTTON in 1820 in CORK & ROSS. Usually the wealthier people registered there marriages in this way. Were your people Catholic? Church of Ireland?
There were two branches of Dempsey in the 1800s in Bandon. Both branches used the same names for their children, one was protestant. mine was Catholic. I believe they were related. Before 1826 Catholics were 3rd class citizens, kept alive to be fieldhands for the British & Protestant Irish. They couldn't vote or own land for a long time. In 1826 it finally became legal for Catholics to educate their children. Dempsey is a catholic name. I don't know if the protestants were sincere converts or changed religion to better their status in life.
Bandon started in its present form about 1605. Catholics were not allowed to enter the town. The Catholic church (Kilbrogan Chapel) is several miles from the town. The Dempseys must have been some of the first Catholics living in Bandon. There was a huge wall around the town to keep Catholics out. Johnathan (Dean) Swift said there was a sign at the entrance to the town that said " Turks, pigs, infidels welcome, Catholics keep out". He said some joker wrote in chalk " Whoever wrote this, wrote it well, the same is written on the gates to Hell".
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