Copy probate of the will and codicil of Mathew Butler, North King Street, Dublin dated 3 Feb. 1812. The will specifies that all his property on North King Street be ‘sold at publick auction within one month after my death that is to say the interest in the lease of the house I now live in with all the stock and trade contained therein and warehouses and household furniture wines and spirits except twelve dozen of claret and twelve dozen of port which I bequeath to the Rev. William Russell of Hendrick Street …’. He also refers to his interest in Nos. 44 and 61 North King Street. Probate granted 14 Feb. 1812.
Copy administration of the goods and estate of James Butler, late of Beresford Place, to Frances McDonnell, widow and the natural and lawful sister of the said James Butler. Copy made by John Thunder, solicitor, Rutland Square on 5 July 1862.
Lease of Anne Boyd, city of London, to Richard Lynch, North King Street, of a ‘house, yard and shed late in the possession of John Byrne or his undertenants and formerly in the possession of Andrew Langan … and known formerly by No. 45 but now known as No. 46, North King Street, city of Dublin …’, for 99 years at the yearly rent of £16. With counterpart.
Assignment by Richard Lynch, grocer, to Patrick Regan, North King Street, baker, of the residue of leases on premises on North King Street referred to in the deeds of 1 Jan. 1796 and 1 Sept. 1829 (See CA CS/2/2/4/2 and CA CS/2/2/4/5). In consideration of the sum of £65 10s 9d.
This section contains property documents including title deeds, leases, legal correspondence and memoranda relating to the acquisition of properties in Dublin by the Capuchin friars. For the most part, the documents relate to the present-day St. Mary of the Angels Friary located on Church Street. The section also includes legal documents relating to properties located on streets immediately adjoining Church Street (such as Bow Street and North King Street). These documents relate to buildings which were either previously held by the friars (and have since been disposed of), or to properties which continue to be used for various apostolates such as the Capuchin Day Centre located on Bow Street.
This section contains mainly legal documents including various types of deeds of title including leases, mortgages, wills, property abstracts, searches and financial documents. The section also includes correspondence from solicitors engaged in legal work connected with the conveyance of property. The material is divided into various sections relating to the location of the plots of ground to which the document refers.
Lease by Thomas Pakenham, 2nd Earl of Longford to Fr. Bonaventure Delaney OSFC, ‘Roman Catholic Priest’, of one undivided moiety of a plot of ground on the west side of Church Street, parish of Saint Michan’s, Dublin, ‘formerly in the possession of James Topham and afterwards in the tenancy of Robert Clements, … and whereupon a Roman Catholic chapel is now built …’, for 99 years at the yearly rent of £23 1s 6d. With an identical lease by John Vesey, 2nd Viscount de Vesci to Fr. Delaney of the other moiety of the aforementioned plot of ground on Church Street, for the same term of years and annual rent and subject to the same covenants.
Assignment by Fr. Bonaventure Delaney OSFC to Fr. Daniel Murray, Fr. Nicholas Malone OSFC and Richard Spring of moieties of the aforementioned plot of ground on the west side of Church Street whereupon a Roman Catholic Church is built, for the remainder of the 99 years specified in the above-noted lease of 4 Aug. 1826. (See CA CS/2/2/1/2). In consideration of 5s.
Articles of Agreement of William Lygon Pakenham, 4th Earl of Longford, and Thomas Vesey, 3rd Viscount de Vesci, with Fr. Daniel Patrick O’Reilly OSFC relating to the purchase (for £1,000) of premises on the west side of Church Street whereupon a Roman Catholic Church is built.
