Receipt and expenditure book of the Capuchin community of St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street. Most of the income entries relate to monies received from mass and vespers’ collections and chaplaincy duties. Occasional reference is also made to the building fund for St. Mary of the Angels. The expenditure accounts include entries for wages, groceries, and household goods, stationary, travel expenses, insurance payments and other sundries. A loose account by Fr. Salvator Maria Corrigan OFM Cap. (1834-1919), dated 3 Mar. 1881, is inserted into the volume. This account is extant on a printed flyer seeking contributions towards the completion of building work on St. Mary of the Angels. The flyer is illustrated. An annotation (probably by Fr. Joseph Harkins OFM Cap.) on the first page of the volume reads: ‘Book of current expenditure as per week of the Rev. Capuchin Community of Dublin’.
An account book detailing expenses for publications including subscriptions for newspapers and journals from 1900-1910. The accounts also detail outlays for household expenses such as foodstuffs, lighting, laundry, salaries, and basic provisions. The remainder of the volume covers household expenses for the Church Street Friary under the guardianship of Fr. Augustine Hayden OSFC from October 1913 to July 1916. Includes inserted accounts titled: ‘Badge Department Stock from 1st January to 31st July 1913’.
Quest collection account book of the Capuchin community, Church Street. The collections are listed under the street name and number, the name of the individual or business, and the amount (if any) subscribed. The areas referred to the in the collection book are mostly located in the north inner city and include Eden Quay, North Wall, Sheriff Street, Dorset Street, Summerhill, Ballybough Road, Store Street, Gardiner Street, Talbot Street, Marlborough Street, Amiens Street and Lower Abbey Street. Occasional reference is made to an individual being ‘a Protestant’.
Street collection ledger book containing records of names, addresses and amounts subscribed probably in connection with a prize draw in aid of the Church Street Capuchins. The collections are arranged by street name or particular areas in Dublin. Reference is also made to the friars involved in the collections. The entry pages extant in the volume are pp 9-97; 201-208; 299-458. Inserts include statements regarding the use of income derived from street collections to pay off loans and debts from 1913-5. With gilt title ‘ledger’ to spine.
Correspondence, renewal notices and receipts for payments made by the Capuchin community, Church Street, to the Irish Catholic Church Property Insurance Company, 19 & 20 Fleet Street, Dublin. The file includes fire insurance policies covering the ‘Church, Friary, Committee Rooms of the Third Order of St. Francis, Sacred Heart Chapel and Domestic Offices … situate and known as “St. Mary of the Angels”, Church Street, Dublin’. Also includes receipts for payments made in respect of Employer’s Liability Insurance and forms for the renewal of said policies. With the correspondence of Valentine Iriwn, secretary of the insurance company, with Fr. Charles Brophy OFM Cap. and subsequent guardians of the community. In 1957, the total cost of the buildings and contents insured was £107,800 with a net annual premium of £60 12s 9d. With covers.
Correspondence and receipts regarding ground rent due to John Jameson & Sons (later known as the Irish Distillers Group Ltd.) in respect of 21 Bow Street (comprising a portion of the Chapel ground and a passage into the Chapel yard). The correspondence with Fr. Angelus O’Neill OFM Cap., guardian, relates to a demand for three years’ rent (totalling £225) which had not been collected due to an administrative oversight.
Negative searches in the Registry of Deeds for acts, deeds and wills affecting premises on Charlotte Quay formerly occupied by William Clarke, William Regan and Daniel Murphy. The schedule specifies that the search was for all acts by certain named persons (William Clarke, Sir William Saint Lawrence Clarke, Lady Elizabeth Barbara Clarke Travers, Francis MacNamara and Nicholas Daniel Murphy) from circa 1781-1877.
Correspondence, requisitions on title and other legal documents relating to transactions involving a plot of ground behind Morrison’s Quay. The plot adjoined Father Mathew Hall and occupied a site in the vicinity of the junction of Keeffe Street and Catherine Street. Musgrave Brothers Ltd. sold the plot to the Capuchin friars of Holy Trinity in 1961. Other parties with an interest in the premises included the Cork College of Commerce.
