Judgement and negative searches in the Registry of Deeds for acts involving William Lygon Pakenham, 4th Earl of Longford, John Vesey, 2nd Viscount de Vesci, Thomas Vesey, 3rd Viscount de Vesci, and Thomas Pakenham, 2nd Earl of Longford in relation to Church Street properties.
Copy probate of the will and testament of John McGrane, Sandymount Green, County Dublin, dated 2 May 1863. He bequeaths his leasehold tenements, lands, stocks-in-trade and household goods to his wife Mary Anne McGrane. The probate is dated 18 Sept. 1868. The copy was compiled by Terence O’Reilly, solicitor, 5 North Great Georges Street. With a cover letter from Fr. Daniel Patrick O’Reilly OSFC to Terence O’Reilly. 4 Feb. 1881.
Proposed design for the completion of Holy Trinity Church, Cork by Edward Welby Pugin (1834-1875) and George Coppinger Ashlin (1837-1921). Print by J. Lewis, 29 Dame Street, Dublin. With a typescript note possibly by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. referring to the provenance of the proposed design. The note affirms that in June 1877 Ashlin had ‘been employed by Fr. Thomas, Superior of Cork, to examine the foundations of the Church of the Most Holy Trinity, Cork, with a view to completing the front of the Church, and erecting a Tower. … The proposed design shows portions of the Friary at both sides of the Church’. This proposal did not materialize, and the completion of the Church façade, and the erection of the spire was not done until the celebration of the centenary of the birth of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC in 1890.
The file contains the following edition of this local newspaper: 1 Jan. 1868 (No. 68,857). The edition has a manuscript annotation ‘Mr. Bibby’ referring to an article by Rev. Wm. Andrews titled ‘Roman Catholic Proselytism’.
Articles of Agreement of William Lygon Pakenham, 4th Earl of Longford, and Thomas Vesey, 3rd Viscount de Vesci, with Fr. Daniel Patrick O’Reilly OSFC relating to the purchase (for £1,000) of premises on the west side of Church Street whereupon a Roman Catholic Church is built.
Copy undertakings and draft agreements by Thomas Burnell, Carrick Quarry, Edenderry, to Fr. Daniel Patrick O’Reilly OSFC, 49-50 North King Street, Dublin, to deliver stones for the construction of St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street. The undertaking reads: ‘I hereby undertake and agree to supply you for the new Roman Catholic Church now in the course of erection in Church Street, City of Dublin, with the best quality of hammer dressed white limestone …’. A schedule is attached specifying the type and quantity of stones to be provided. With guarantees given to the gentlemen of the building committee.
Probate of the last will and testament of Sir William Saint Lawrence Travers, Rosmore, County Cork. He devises and bequeaths to his wife Elizabeth Barbara all his estate and property (real and personal) and appoints her his residuary legatee. Sir William died on 31 Aug. 1877 and his will was proved on 17 Nov. 1877. It is noted in the probate that the ‘effects sworn’ amounted to ‘under £3,000’.
The file contains the following edition of this twice-weekly newspaper published by Francis Counihan at offices in Limerick and Clare: 29 May 1867 (Vol. XVI, No. 1,482). The title page is annotated: ‘Mr. John Maher, 89 North Brunswick Street, Dublin’.
Lease by Fr. Daniel Patrick O’Reilly OSFC and Fr. James Edwards Tommins OSFC to Thomas Fitzpatrick, 69 North King Street, of ‘that new built dwelling house now known as numbers 48 and 49 North King Street …’, for fifty years at the yearly rent of £50.