Copy lease of William Tankerville Chamberlain (1751-1802) , Justice of the Peace, Court of King’s Bench, Dublin, to William Hamilton and Mountjoy Hamilton, Stafford Street, Dublin, of a dwelling house on Church Street ‘near the old bridge’ for 900 years at the yearly rent of £10. The original lease is dated 4 March 1796. The copy was made at the Registry of Deeds for Thomas Falls, solicitor. The file includes a copy memorial of the said lease.
Will of Thomas Black, Eccles Street, Dublin. He assigns his personal estate, rents and hereditaments to his sons George and William Black and to his daughter Catherine Black. No reference is made in the testament to the location of any properties in Dublin. Thomas Black died on 4 Dec. 1872 and the probate was granted to the said Catherine Black on 18 Feb. 1873.
Flier for a Grand Bazaar to raise funds for the completion of the Church of St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin. The prizes included: ‘30 fat sheep or £100 (1st); pony and phaeton or 50 guineas (2nd); Kerry cow’ (3rd); Diamond ring’ (4th); magnificent medallion, pure gold’ (5th); splendid Harp by Egan’ (6th).
The file also includes a flier for the ‘Lottery for the Marble Pulpit exhibited by the Operative Stonecutters’ Trade Association’, 1 May 1886 and a blank authorisation card for collectors for funds to pay off ‘the heavy debt on this Church and New Convent which is giving the Fathers much anxiety’. The card is authorised by Fr. Albert Mitchell OSFC. Another flier notes that ‘the new Church, which is now nearly completed, but over six thousand pounds in debt, is to be in every way worthy of being the temple of the Living God’. Reference is also made to the previous Capuchin chapel on the site: ‘The inhabitants of the neighbourhood are of the poorest class … at the ceremonies of religion in the old humble Church … the attendance of one thousand weekly attests the virtue of these poor Irish Catholics’. With a newspaper clipping from the 'Irish Press' referring to the discovery of a book of tickets for the said Grand Bazaar draw by Patrick Fitzsimons. The 'Irish Press' clipping is dated 20 October 1949.
Explanatory remarks on the Landowners and Encumbrancers’ Association with an outline of the aims of the organization. A list of committee members is provided.
Flier promoting the aims and objectives of the Irish Loyal and Patriotic Union. The flier affirms that the organisation aims to unite those ‘interested in the preservation of the Legislative Union between Great Britain and Ireland’.
Schedule arising out of a common search in the Registry of Deeds for acts affecting premises 138, 139 and 140 Church Street and Willis Court, Parish of St. Michan, Dublin. The schedule specifies that the search was for all acts by certain named persons (Frederick Kennedy, John Coyle, Mary Anne O’Brien and Edward O’Brien) from 27 May 1865 to 29 Nov. 1886. J.J. Armstrong, clerk, certifies one of the schedules to the effect that no deeds were registered. The requests for the searches were called for by Frederick Kennedy on 15 Mar. 1883, and by Larkin & Co., solicitors on 2 Nov. 1886. With a receipt for duty payable by Mary Anne O’Brien on said properties on Church Street.
Assignment from Frederick Kennedy, 4 Lower Ormond Quay, Dublin, to John Coyle, 57 Rutland Square West, Dublin, of nos. 138-140, Church Street, subject of a covenant of renewal and in consideration of £250. The file includes a copy of the deed of assignment.
Notes compiled by William Woodlock referring to the life and work of the Irish writer, poet, and lyricist Thomas Moore (1779-1852). A letter from James Merriman, stock and share broker, 32 College Green, Dublin, to William Woodlock (26 February 1886) is extant on the reverse of one of the pages. An incomplete filer seeking funding for the Mater Misericordia Hospital in Dublin is extant on one of the other pages.
