Copy will and last testament of Susanna Mee, Templeville, County Cork. She bequeaths all her rights, title and interest to several premises on Morrison’s Island (otherwise known as Island Nagay) tenanted by her nephew, John Lecky, and Michael Wood, and premises on Queen Street (demised to George Cotter) for the sole benefit of the aforementioned John Lecky subject to £1,000, the interest to be paid to her sister, Margaret Lecky, for life.
Copy lease of Robert Warner, Penrose Quay, Cork, shopkeeper, to Fr. Cherubini Mazzini OSFC, Fr. Louis Pellicetti OSFC and Fr. Bernard Precious OSFC, Catholic clergymen, Queen Street, of stores, premises and concerns lately in the possession of the lessor ‘but now in the tenancy of the said lessees’, on Charlotte Quay for 750 years at the yearly rent of £120. With a map showing the demised premises measuring 136 feet 6 inches by 64 feet 3 inches. The original lease is endorsed on the cover: ‘Property west of the Church’. With three copy leases compiled by JC & A. Blake, solicitors, dated 24 May 1950. With a copy memorial of said lease compiled by the Assistant Register of Deeds dated 27 July 1929.
Assignment from Lady Elizabeth Barbara Travers, widow and residuary legatee of Sir William Saint Lawrence Travers, to Francis Elias MacNamara, South Terrace, Cork, of the residue of a lease dated Oct. 1781 from Benjamin Whitestone to William Clark of a cellar, yards and stores on Charlotte Quay, in consideration of £475. Endorsed on the final page with a declaration from MacNamara and Nicholas Daniel Murphy stating that the aforementioned sum of £475 was the ‘proper money’ of the Munster Bank Limited and that former was merely acting as a trustee for the said bank in the aforementioned deed of assignment. 21 Apr. 1879.
Assignment from the Munster Bank Ltd. (the vendors) to Fr. Simeon Gaudillot OSFC (1836-1910), Fr. Nicholas Maurice Murphy OSFC and Fr. Bernard Joseph Jennings OSFC, Charlotte Quay, Cork (the purchasers) of the residue of a lease dated Oct. 1781 (see CA HT/2/1/2/4) of premises on Charlotte Quay in consideration of £2,500 – £500 to be paid immediately with the remaining sum to be paid in ‘five instalments of £400 each within five years from the date hereof with interest’. With a deed of covenant from the Bank indemnifying the purchasers in respect of any legacies, law suits, equity claims and demands arising out of the will and codicils of William Clarke on the said premises. The file also includes a copy memorial of an assignment from Fr. Seraphim Van Damme OSFC and others to Henry Sutton Noblet, solicitor, 25 South Mall, Cork, of the residue of the aforementioned lease in consideration of £20 (dated 1882).
Copy will of Robert Warner, 71 Penrose Quay, Cork. Warner bequeaths an annuity of £20 per annum to Eliza Wright Walsh and her sister Mary Anne Margaret Walsh ‘arising and payable out of certain premises situate on Charlotte Quay in the City of Cork held by me under lease bearing the date the 4th of December 1844’. He bequeaths his interest in a dwelling house and shop situated on Penrose Quay, held under lease from Mistress Sarah Deaves, to his son (also Robert) ‘with all the stock fixtures and utensils in trade therein … subject to the express condition that he does not intermarry with Annie Farrell otherwise Boland or any woman professing or being of the Roman Catholic Religion’. Certified copy of the will made by Diarmuid Coffey, Assistant Deputy Keeper, Public Record Office of Ireland, 22 Dec. 1950. The copy will also affirms that Robert Warner died on 20 May 1877 and that the administration of the said will was granted to his son. Probate granted on 4 Feb. 1881.
Abstract of title of Alicia Louisa Seward to leasehold premises on Charlotte Quay, Cork. The abstract provides a recital of the title to said premises commencing with a lease dated 5 Dec. 1844 (CA HT/2/1/1/4) from Margaret Wood and Joshua Brown Ryder to Robert Warner. The abstract contains sketch maps of the premises copied from the recited deeds. The abstract concludes by noting that Alicia attained the age of 21 in March 1886. With a typescript copy. See also CA HT/2/1/2/26.
Deed of covenant of title for the assignment of properties on Charlotte Quay from Thomas Wellbank Morgan, 13 Blackheath Rise, Lewisham, Kent, and others to Fr. Maurice (Nicholas) Murphy OSFC, Fr. Thomas (Matthew) O’Connor OSFC, Fr. Joseph (Bernard) Jennings OSFC and Fr. Edward (Peter) Bowe OSFC, Charlotte Quay, Cork. The deed refers to the intended purchase by the Capuchin friars of the said premises as set out in a deed of assignment dated 21 Jan. 1895. With a declaration of James Scanlan, 69 South Mall, Cork, agent, affirming that he has, for the past sixteen years, received the rents of the Charlotte Quay properties for Thomas Wellbank Morgan. 1 Jan. 1895.
Assignment from Theodore Frederick Carroll, 80 South Mall, to Fr. Matthew Thomas O’Connor OSFC, Fr. Bernard Joseph Jennings OSFC and Fr. Peter Edward Bowe OSFC, Charlotte Quay, of the residue of a lease dated 18 Mar. 1762 from Charles Dunbar to James Morrison, William Fritton and Ebenezer Morrison referring to a portion of the ‘marsh called Island Nagay adjoining the Corporation Marsh in the south suburbs of the city of Cork’. In consideration of £1,100. See CA HT/2/1/2/1.
Rental and account of Mrs Alicia Louisa Seward. The rental includes entries under the headings of ‘denominations, tenant’s names, gale days, yearly rents, total due, total received, allowances, arrears and observations’. The denominations include premises on Queen Street (a portion of the Assembly Rooms) and on Father Mathew Quay, the latter of which is occupied by the Capuchin friars. The yearly rents amount to £151 5s 6d.
Epitomes and abstracts of several leases of properties on Charlotte Quay and at Rochestown, County Cork, held by the Capuchins. The epitome commences with a summary of the lease by John Lecky to Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC of a plot of ground upon which Holy Trinity Church was built (see CA HT/2/1/2/10). With a ‘statement of title of the representatives of the late John Lecky deceased to the plot of ground on Charlotte Quay on which the new Chapel is built’.
