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.
Copy will of Ebenezer Morrison of the city of Cork, extracted from the Registry of the Diocese of Cork and Ross. He bequeaths to Rev. Archdeacon Corker and Robert Rogers his interest ‘in the marsh called Island Nagay otherwise Morrison’s Island held under a lease made by Charles Dunbarr, and also in the Marsh thereunto joining held under a lease made by Nathaniel Lavite, deceased, … situate in the south suburbs of the city of Cork’ in trust for his daughter Margaret Morrison.
Copy will and last testament of Isaac Mee, Cork city, merchant. He bequeaths all his leasehold interests in Cork to his wife, Susanna Mee. He appoints his wife, and friends, Michael Wood and Daniel Callaghan, merchants, his executors.
Copy of an extract of the will of Thomas William Joseph Barry, 8 Queen Street, Cork. He bequeaths to Fr. Matthew O’Connor OSFC all ‘his estate and interest in the house No. 8 Queen Street in which I now reside, and the premises on which has been built Father Mathew Hall free and discharged from the mortgage which now effects said premises’ on condition that one mass shall be said in Holy Trinity Church every week for eighty years. With a rescript for commutation by the Sacred Congregation of this weekly obligation for eighty years to 400 masses as £50 is the maximum value of the house. In Latin and English. See CA HT/2/3/7 and CA HT/2/1/1/26.
Copy will of Patrick Mullen, 78 Lower Dorset Street, Dublin. He bequeaths to his wife, Elizabeth Mullen, all his properties, including nos. 133 and 134 Church Street and nos. 27 and 49 Bow Street. The will is dated March 1854. A copy administration from the High Court of Justice is annexed. The administration notes that Patrick Mullen died on 27 December 1857 and grants the probate onto the said Elizabeth Mullins (10 February 1858).
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 will of the Reverend John Burrows of Prospect in the County of Dublin. Certain lands are mentioned: Fernsboro also known as Renahan Bawn, Derivorue, Abbeyland, Toneymore, Aghaboy, Aughakine, Aughabrack and Granard in the County of Longford. There is a lot of detail about who is to inherit what.
Copy will of William Clarke, merchant, Cork, dated 27 Oct. 1818 with nine codicils. The copy was extracted from the Probate and Matrimonial Division of the High Court of Justice, Ireland. The final codicil is dated 4 Oct. 1825. The will and codicils relate primarily to the provision of a legacy/trust for his daughters, Anne Walker and her husband Rev. Thomas Walker. An addendum notes that the said William Clarke, latterly of Kilinalooda Glebe, Cork, died in February 1826 and that his will was proved on 18 Sept. 1867. Letters of administration were granted by the Court of Probate to Sir William Henry St. Lawrence Clarke Travers, 2nd Baronet, 3 Queen’s Gardens, Hyde Park, London, grandson of the deceased residuary legatee named in the said will (referred to as Sir William Clarke).
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).
