Deeds, correspondence and related legal documents concerning negotiations for the purchase of premises on Walkin Street (later Friary Street) by the Capuchin Order. The principal vendor and fee farm grant holder was the Rev. Andrew Craig Robinson (Church of Ireland Rector of Ballymoney, County Cork). Some of Robinson’s relations also had interests in the properties. The file relates primarily to the protracted negotiations for the purchase, and to efforts to trace title to the properties (Robinson had inherited the fee farm grant of rents accruing from the premises through his mother, Margaret Anne, a daughter of Captain James Montgomery Blair). Reference is also made to various mortgages on the properties and to the original fee farm grant of 1705 made by James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde. The Capuchins eventually secured the property in 1919 for £650 (See CA KK/2/1/1/3/13). The final conveyance contained a covenant by the vendor to indemnify the property transferred against all rents accruing out of any other premises which he continued to hold on Walkin Street.
Creator: J. J. O'Hara Christian Brothers' Past Pupils' Union, J. J. Irvin, P. Durnan: Tertiary Order of the Carmelite Brotherhood, St. Joseph's, Drumcondra, Brother B. J. Byrne
File consists of correspondence relating to the rent of a property on Prussia St., the purchase of a hall and a wooden chapel, the screening of a film to raise funds for the school and the purchase of a relief model of the world for use of the blind students.
William Fitzpatrick, James McCann and Sons, stocks, shares
Correspondence between William Fitzpatrick, Superior at St. Josephs School for the Blind in Drumcondra, and James McCann and Son, Stock and Shares Brokers regarding the purchase by St. Joseph’s of Dublin Corporation stock in May 1906. Also enclosed are the certificates.
William Fitzpatrick, James McCann and Sons, stocks, shares
Letters sent to William Fitzpatrick, Superior at St. Josephs School for the Blind in Drumcondra, from James McCann and Son, Stock and Shares Brokers regarding the purchase by St. Joseph’s of Dublin Corporation stock in February 1907. Also enclosed are the certificates.
William Fitzpatrick, James McCann and Sons, stocks, shares
Correspondence between William Fitzpatrick, Superior at St. Josephs School for the Blind in Drumcondra, and James McCann and Son, Stock and Shares Brokers regarding the purchase by St. Joseph’s of Dublin Corporation stock in August 1904. Also enclosed are the certificates.
William Fitzpatrick, James McCann and Sons, stocks, shares
Correspondence between William Fitzpatrick, Superior at St. Josephs School for the Blind in Drumcondra, and James McCann and Son, Stock and Shares Brokers regarding the purchase by St. Joseph’s of Dublin Corporation stock in August 1903.
20 April 1909-3 May 1909
William Fitzpatrick, James McCann and Sons, Dublin Corporation
Certificates issued by James McCann and Son, Stock and Shares Brokers containing evidence of purchase of stocks from Dublin Corporation by William Fitzpatrick, Superior at St. Josephs School for the Blind in Drumcondra.
23 May 1910-17 November 1910
John Joyce, The Union of London and Smiths Bank Limited, Belfast Corporation
Correspondence between John Joyce, St. Joseph's School of the Blind, and The Union of London and Smiths Bank Limited regarding the purchase of Belfast Corporation redeemable stock.
26 November 1915-17 December 1915
Bernard Byrne, James McCann and Sons, stocks, shares
Letters from James McCann and Son, Stock and Shares Broker to the Reverend Bernard Byrne, Superior of St. Joseph's School of the Blind confirming the sale of stocks owned by the school for the blind in order to fund the purchase of the lease which the school premises were held under. Also enclosed is a letter to the [Bank of Ireland?] From Bernard Byrne asking for an overdraft in order to complete the purchase of the lease.
Correspondence with Listowel Urban District Council to purchase twenty-four grave spaces in the Listowel Cemetery; Application for Exhumation Licence to Kerry County Council and list of deceased Sisters.
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