This section includes deeds, leases and other documents relating to title to 133-134 Church Street and a yard at the rear of the said properties extending out onto 27 Bow Street. These plots are now partly occupied by the present-day Father Mathew Hall. Many of the documents relate to Fr. Nicholas Murphy’s efforts to secure these properties which enabled the extension of the Church Street Hall. A long-term lease of the properties was obtained in 1886 and the outright purchase of the plot was secured in 1963.
Lease of Eliza Mullen, widow, Lower Dorset Street, to Nicholas Reily, 53 North King Street, of the house and premises of no. 27 Bow Street, parish of St. Paul’s, Dublin, for 29 years at the yearly rent of £20.
Extract from the Register of the High Court of Justice (Ireland), Probate and Matrimonial Division, regarding the estate of John Cordner, late of 153 Whiton Street, Jersey City, State of New Jersey, United States, formerly a tramway official, who died on 22 Aug. 1880. The extract refers to the granting of letters of administration by the Court to his widow and to the payment of his debts and distribution of the residue. The extract was prepared by Thomas J. White, solicitor, 4 Usher’s Quay, Dublin.
Lease by Michael Clarke, 141 Church Street, to John Kelly, 55 Church Street, of a ‘small house numbered one and situated in Thunder’s Court at the rear of 141 Church Street’, for 86 years at the yearly rent of 2d and in consideration of £28.
This section includes deeds, leases and legal documents relating to title to properties on Bow Street now part of the present-day Capuchin Friary on Church Street. The deeds mainly refer to nos. 20-23 Bow Street and to properties held from Jameson & Sons, distillers. The section also includes correspondence from John Jameson regarding rights of passage from Church Street to Bow Street.
Memorandum of agreement between Mary Anne Magrane, widow, Church Street, and Fr. Daniel Patrick O’Reilly OSFC and other Capuchin friars, North King Street, regarding the purchase of the houses and premises known as nos. 22-23 Bow Street held by the former under a lease (dated 1 Jan. 1849) from William Bagot for the life of the Duke of Leinster or for the residue of a term of 31 years at the yearly rent of £18. The purchase price is stated as £250. With draft (28 Nov. 1874) compiled by Terence O’Reilly, solicitor, 5 North Great George’s Street.
Letters of William Read & Son, 4 Dawson Street, Dublin, solicitors for John Jameson & Son, distillers, to Terence O’Reilly, solicitors for the Capuchin friars, concerning a dispute over rights of passage from Church Street to Bow Street. On 9 May 1883, William Read wrote ‘your clients are enjoying the use of those passages and have not for a considerable time paid any rent for same … and our applications and draft of leases have hitherto been treated with silence on your part …’. On 31 Oct. 1882, John Jameson instructed his solicitors to let it be known ‘that he will not press for the present payment of the arrears of rent due £103 10s 0d nor will he ask for interest thereon provided the principal be paid within a reasonable period (say twelve months) and the future rent paid punctually’. With a rental account of John Jameson & Sons with the Capuchin community, Church Street. 2 Oct. 1882.
Deed of assignment from Fr. Richard Dominick Clarke OSFC to Fr. Paul Neary OSFC, Fr. Nicholas Murphy OSFC, Fr. Columbus Maher OSFC and Fr. Bernard Jennings OSFC of his interest in premises on Bow Street (formerly nos. 22 and 23 and the premises at no. 25 on the said street) for the residue of the terms specified in the original leases. In consideration of 10s.
Assignment of a lease from Margaret Maughan, High Street, Dublin, to Thomas Murphy, 27 Cabra Road, Dublin, of premises on Bow Street now in the possession of Thomas Fallon for the residue of the term of two hundred years specified in the original lease of the said property dating to 11 May 1843. In consideration of £110.
Copy will and probate of Matthew Murphy, 43 Montpellier Hill, Dublin, veterinary surgeon (d. 15 Nov. 1897). He devises the rents and profits accruing from his various properties (including premises on Bow Street) to his nieces Elizabeth and Mary Anne Murphy. They are to be paid an annuity of £25 per annum. The probate was granted on 4 January 1898. The certified copy of the will and probate were made on 26 August 1904. With a statutory declaration by Matthew Murphy stating that he is the eldest son of Matthew Murphy (d. 15 Nov. 1897) and that his mother (Ellen Murphy) was a daughter of Thomas Fallon (d. 20 Sept. 1871). The declaration is signed 26 August 1904.
