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Leases and related legal documents relating to transactions involving a dwelling house and adjoining premises at 6 Queen Street, Cork. The file includes:
• Lease from Edward Robinson, the city of Cork, attorney at law, to John Henry Gamble, of the aforementioned premises on Queen Street for 500 years at the yearly rent of £45. 28 July 1845. With counterpart.
• Conveyance from the Encumbered Estate Commissioners to Robert Hall, merchant, of the aforementioned premises at no. 6 Queen Street, in consideration of £250. 15 Nov. 1850.
• Lease by William Wise, Woolston House, North Cadbury, Bath, and Hugh Stanley Wise, Newton Abbott, Devon, to Thomas William Joseph Barry, hotel proprietor, Cork, of the said premises at No. 6 Queen Street, Cork, for 199 years at the yearly rent of £21. 27 Nov. 1890. With counterpart. See also CA HT/2/1/1/26.
• Conveyance by William Wise and Hugh Stanley Wise to Edwin Hall, Blackrock, County Cork, of the lessee’s interest of the aforementioned premises at no. 6 Queen Street in consideration of 10s. 24 Sept. 1894.
• Assignment by William Ringrose Atkins, chartered accountant, South Mall, Cork, and John Tweedy, solicitor, College Green, Dublin to William Carroll, Anglesea Street, Cork, of the residue of the unexpired lease of the aforementioned premises at no. 6 Queen Street in consideration of £205. 23 Dec. 1904.
• Assignment by William Carroll, Anglesea Street, Cork, to Rev. Fiacre (Bartholomew) Brophy OSFC and Rev. Matthew (Thomas) O’Connor OSFC, Father Mathew Quay, Cork, and Rev. Jarlath (Thomas) Hynes OSFC and Rev. Augustine (John) Hayden OSFC, Rochestown, County of Cork, of the residue of the unexpired lease of the aforementioned premises at no. 6 Queen Street in consideration of £550.
The original lease of these premises (dated 19 July 1773) is at
CA HT/2/1/2/2.

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.

Conveyance from Fr. Simeon Gaudillot OSFC (1836-1910), Lyons, and other Capuchin friars to Fr. Matthew (Thomas) O’Connor OSFC and other Capuchin friars of the residue of several leases dated: 8 Mar. 1875 (Charlotte Quay, see CA HT/2/1/2/13); 9 Jan. 1873 (lands at Rochestown); 2 Nov. 1832 (Charlotte Quay, see CA HT/2/1/2/10); Oct. 1871 (Charlotte Quay, see CA HT/2/1/2/4) and a sublease dated 19 Mar. 1832 (see CA HT/2/1/2/8); 6 May 1766 (Charlotte Quay); 18 Mar. 1762 (Charlotte Quay, see CA HT/2/1/2/1); 1 Sept. 1862 (Queen Street); 1 Jan. 1846 (Queen Street, see CA HT/2/1/1/9); 1 Oct. 1887 (13 Queen Street, see CA HT/2/1/1/21); 2 July 1863 (lands at Rochestown). See also CA HT/2/1/2/31.

Copy conveyance from Fr. Matthew Thomas O’Connor OSFC, Walkin Street, Kilkenny, and Fr. Augustine John Hayden OSFC, Holy Trinity Friary, Cork, to Fr. Martin John Hyland OSFC, Fr. Patrick Kelleher OSFC and Fr. Michael O’Shea OSFC, Holy Trinity Friary, Cork, of the residue of the several leases referred to in CA HT/2/1/2/30 of lands and properties in Cork city and at Rochestown, County Cork. With a photocopy of original manuscript deed and a typescript schedule of the leases referred to in the foregoing conveyance.

Letters from James Finbarre McMullen (1859-1933), architect, South Mall, and 34 Mary Street, Cork, and others to Fr. Bernard Jennings OSFC, Fr. Fiacre Brophy OSFC, Fr. Matthew O’Connor OSFC and Fr. Martin Hyland OSFC concerning applications made by the Capuchin friars to acquire a portion of the Cork Assembly Rooms building. See also CA HT/2/4/1 and CA HT/2/1/1/25.

Policy of fire insurance from the Law Union & Crown Insurance Company, 126 Chancery Lane, London, with Fr. Fiacre Bartholomew Brophy OSFC, Fr. Matthew Thomas O’Connor OSFC, Father Mathew Quay, and Fr. Augustine John Hayden OSFC, Rochestown, covering 24 South Mall, Cork, for £800.

Notes by Fr. Xavier Reardon OFM Cap. (1899-1986) on matters relating to the history of Holy Trinity Church or to individuals connected with ministry in Cork. The file includes biographical notes on Fr. Matthew O’Connor OSFC (1859-1930) and Fr. Louis O’Riordan OSFC (d. 1857); a report on the opening of the Fr. Brendan Jennings memorial sanctuary (19 Apr. 1908); a report on the completion of Father Mathew Memorial Church, 'Cork Examiner', 29 Aug. 1891; a note affirming that ‘Fr. J.P. O’Connell was the last Provincial Minister after Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC between 1855 and the reconstitution of the Province in 1855’; copy ordnance map extract showing Holy Trinity Church on Father Mathew Quay and the surrounding area including the location of the Assembly Rooms on South Mall.

Transcripts and notes compiled by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. from mass registers of the Cork community. The notes mainly refer to personnel matters giving the names of community members, the dates of transfers, details of chapter meetings and the appointment of guardians. The title page reads: ‘This book contains notes made from an examination of the mass register of the Cork house. I mean the register signed by the Fathers of the masses discharged by the community. The examination extended over the books from 1889 to December 1914, a period of 25 years. It gives the names of the different Fathers in the community, superiors, dates of visitations and transfers from the community. I also examined house books from July 1883 to April 1885 to 1887 during which Fr. Englebert of Huissen OSFC was guardian. He used a special ledger of his own, as appears from an entry made by Fr. Matthew O’Connor OSFC who succeeded him in office’.