Search in the Registry of Deeds for acts affecting the house and concerns on Walkin Street, Kilkenny city, commonly called ‘The Munster Arms’ under the names of Margaret Empson and Joseph Empson between 22 Mar. 1859 and 2 May 1895.
Copy writ of summons from Nicholas Shorthal, solicitor, 54 Middle Abbey Street, Dublin, to Fr. Thomas O’Connor OSFC to appear at the High Court of Justice (Probate and Matrimonial Division) in relation to a case of Peter Jackman, plaintiff, versus Charles and Catherine Dunphy, Rev. William Cassin, and Patrick Egan, defendants. The case involves a dispute about the will of John Jackman, late of King Street, Kilkenny (died 28 July 1895).
Correspondence, copy wills, executors’ accounts and other legal documents relating to bequests for masses and other legacies (for support of the foreign missions) left to the Capuchin community in Kilkenny.
Notes compiled by John O’Connell (1843-1905), a grandson of Daniel O’Connell, ‘The Liberator’. The book contains accounts of various Provincial Chapters of the Capuchin Order in Ireland, records of personnel changes in various Capuchin communities, and notes on meetings and other activities of the Third Order of St. Francis in Kilkenny. Records include membership and ordination lists. Newspaper cuttings are pasted into the volume. A photographic print of the Capuchin Friary at Rochestown in also extant in the volume. A partial index is also given: • List of Third Order Brothers in 1895 • List of Third Order Novices in 1897 • List of Third Order Novices in 1898 • Members of Council in 1895 • Collectors on Feast days • Canopy and Banner bearers • Monthly collectors • Portinuncula arrangements • Capuchin Chapter, 1898 • Third Order election, 1898 • Immaculate Conception and Christmas Arrangements, 1898 • List of Third Order Brothers for 1899 • Ordinations • Appointment of a Commissary Visitor to Third Order branches in England • Vergers and collectors, Holy Thursday • Sunday and Holiday collectors • List of Third Order brothers in 1902 A list is given on page 21 of ‘students who left the convent in Kilkenny … for Church Street, Dublin, about the ninth of April 1900, received the tonsure and minor orders on Saturday, 22nd September 1900’. The list includes the names of Brothers Sylvester Mulligan, Angelus Healy, Stanislaus Kavanagh and Albert Bibby’.
Weekly attendance register for the brothers of the Third Order of St. Francis attached to the Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny. The entries are listed under the names of professed brothers and their record attendance at weekly meetings of the Third Order. Occasional reference is made to a brother having died or ‘gone away’. The first professed brother listed is John O’Connell (See CA KK/4/1/2). Towards the end of the volume there is an entry titled ‘annals account for 1901’
Attendance register of the brothers of the Third Order of St. Francis attached to the Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny. The entries in the volume are listed under name with his record of attendance at the weekly meetings. Some of the entry pages are titled ‘novices’. Notes and endorsements relating to subscriptions and receptions are extant on the final pages of the volume.
The volume is titled: ‘Secretary’s book for the Third Order of St. Francis attached to the Capuchin Convent, Walkin Street, Kilkenny, the Reverend Father Albert Mitchell OFSC, Director, [Feast of the] Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, 1873’. The volume contains brief minutes of the meetings of the Third Order of St. Francis in Kilkenny. Information is supplied in respect of the election of councillors, resolutions passed and other membership and organisational matters. The final page of the volume contains a ‘list of Franciscan Manuals loaned out to members of the 3rd Order of St. Francis on Sunday, 5th November 1876 at 2d each’.
Quarterly income and expenditure account book for the Third Order of St. Francis, Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny. Income was principally derived from subscriptions, the supply of habits, cords and scapulars and collections at masses. Expenditure accounts include money expended on masses, washing, cloth for habits, relief for sick members, candlesticks, manuals, and other devotional objects. Towards the end of the volume there is an account of subscription payments by members listed under baptismal names, names in religion, address and record of monthly contributions (1876-1891).
Quarterly income and expenditure account book for the Third Order of St. Francis, Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny, for 1896-1907. (cf. CA KK/4/2/3). The second portion of the volume consists of a monthly subscription record for 1937-46. The entries are listed under the name of the Third Order brother with a record of his monthly contribution.