Surrender by Pauline Curtin to Fr. Honorius O’Neill OFM Cap., Fr. Berard Creed OFM Cap. and Fr. Cormac Forrest OFM Cap., Capuchin Friary, Father Mathew Quay, Cork, of a lease dated 11 Mar. 1931 by Thomas Ronayne Sarsfield and others to Kathleen Curtin (from year to year at the annual rent of £52). The consideration money for the surrender is £3,250. The agreement notes that the interests of Thomas Ronayne Sarsfield and the other trustees of the property (22 South Mall) are now vested in the Capuchin friars. With related correspondence.
This section contains leases and deeds relating to the acquisition by the Capuchin friars of premises on Father Mathew Quay. The Quay is situated on a reclaimed marsh which was located outside the old city walls. Historically, the area was known by several names, some of which are used in the deeds described below including Island Nagay, Red Abbey Island and Marsh, and Morrison’s Island after a family which was prominent in the civic affairs of Cork in the eighteenth century. From about 1800 it was commonly known as Charlotte Quay before being renamed Father Mathew Quay in honour of the Capuchin friar and ‘Apostle of Temperance’. After the reclamation of the marsh in the eighteenth century, the area became an important merchant, commercial and industrial centre. John Henry Gamble, a notable businessman engaged in the provisioning trade, held leasehold interests in several of the premises on Charlotte Quay which were subsequently acquired by the Capuchins (see CA HT/2/1/1/5, CA HT/2/1/1/7, and CA HT/2/1/1/9). J.H. Gamble & Company was later acquired by the famous food provisioning company, Crosse and Blackwell Limited. Another prominent trader engaged in business on the Quay was Robert Warner, a master cooper and vintner. In 1875 Warner leased a substantial plot of ground on Charlotte Quay to Fr. Cherubini Mazzini OSFC for 750 years. This ground was subsequently used as the site for the present-day Holy Trinity Friary (See CA HT/2/1/2/13). The section also includes many legal documents covering negotiations between the Capuchins and Alicia Louisa Seward, a granddaughter of Robert Warner, for the outright purchase of the freehold of the property. This purchase was realized in 1951. The section also includes the lease made to Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC in 1832 of a plot of ground on Morrison’s Island upon which Holy Trinity Church was subsequently built (see CA HT/2/1/2/10).
Copy lease from Charles Dunbar, London, to James Morrison, William Fritton and Ebenezer Morrison, Cork, merchants, of a plot of ground or marsh called Island Nagay adjoining the Corporation Marsh in the south suburbs of city of Cork for 999 years. In consideration of £1,000.
Lease from William Fuller, Cork, to Sober Kent, Burgess, Cork, of a dwelling house in which Kent currently resides along with a back yard and garden situated in Red Abbey Marsh otherwise known as Island Nagay or Morrison’s Island, Cork, for 700 years at the yearly rent of £30.
Lease from William Clark, Kilinalooda, Cork, to William Regan, merchant, Cork, of a cellar, stores and lofts occupied by Clark (as ‘a general merchant’), and lately in the possession of Joseph Pike Haughton and John Barcroft Haughton, containing ‘in front to Charlotte’s Quay seventy five feet and in depth at the east end thereof two hundred and twenty four feet situated on the Red Abbey Island, parish of Holy Trinity, Cork’, for 700 years at the yearly rent of £113 15s. Endorsed on verso with articles of agreement (dated 15 Apr. 1875) regarding the reduction of the aforementioned rent to £84 12s 4d. With counterpart.
Assignment from Robert Triphook Esq., Castletownsend Mills, Cork, and Peter Downing, miller, Cork, assignees of William Regan, merchant and flour dealer, a bankrupt, to Daniel Murphy, merchant, of the residue of the aforementioned lease of premises on Charlotte Quay (no. 28) in consideration of £56 17s 6d.
Memorandum of John William Greene, 4 Summerhill, Borough of Cork, corn merchant, to James O’Connell, 17-18 South Main Street, Cork, and others, proposing a tenancy from year to year of the corn store situated on Charlotte Quay, at the yearly rent of £65.
Memorandum of John Hedigan, 5 Charlemont Terrace, Borough of Cork, corn merchant, to Fr. Louis Hennessy OSFC, Queen Street, Cork, proposing a tenancy from year to year of the corn store situated on Charlotte Quay, at the yearly rent of £65.
Declaration of George Alexander, Leighlin Bridge, County Carlow, regarding the estate of the late Sir William Saint Lawrence Travers. He affirms that premises situated on Charlotte Quay held under a lease from Oct. 1781 (CA HT/2/1/2/4) were not included in the settlement made upon the marriage of Travers to Lady Elizabeth Barbara Clarke Travers.
Abstract of title of William Henry Seward and Alicia Louisa Seward, his wife, to the dwelling house, wine and spirit vaults and premises at no. 71 Penrose Quay, parish of St. Anne Shandon, Cork. The abstract provides a recital of the title to this property commencing with a lease, dated 30 Oct. 1873, from Sarah Deaves to Robert Warner, master cooper, at the yearly rent of £30 for two lives. With copy declarations from Alicia Louisa Seward and her agent referring to her title to the properties and to the loss of the original title deeds. Seward was a granddaughter of Robert Warner who acquired the lease of the property in the 1840s.
