Part of letter addressed to Susie Ormsby, 88th Regiment, Chatham, and sent from Dublin.
‘Heads of Settlement’ on the marriage of Thomas George Segrave and Henrietta Daly, Henrietta’s fortune of £8,000 secured by mortgage of 7 Nov 1893, be assigned to trustees William Daly and Andrew W Blake. Meade and Richardson, 31 Kildare St, [solicitors]. Married in July 1895.
1820 copy of a lease from Francis Blake of Galway to Dominick Martin of Galway, late of Westport. Recites a lease for 100 years dated 9 July 1792 between the Principal Officers of His Majesty's Ordinance and James Skerrett of the City of Dublin, barrister, of "the piece of Ground at Galway whereupon the old Fortification called the Town Wall and Bastion stood together with the Ditch and Fosse being 63 feet wide ... the Ordinance Stores and Magazine and that Piece of Ground whereon John Lewis Tyrors Harden then were with all and singular the Houses and Edifices thereon erected at a yearly rent of £20". The premises were granted to James Skerrett in trust for Francis Blake and the former died without declaring the trust. The indenture, recited above, is in the hands of Francis Blake who is about to institute a suit against the executors of James Skerrett to oblige them to declare the trust. Dominick Martin has agreed to purchase Blake's interest in the premises so described for the remainder of the unexpired terms of the 100 years lease for the sum of £800. On the back there is a receipt signed by Francis Blake, for £800 received from Dominick Martin.
1824 copy of memorial of the same. Witnessed by Lewis Wingfield McCarthy, Attorney at Law, and Patrick Crow, Galway, merchant.
A list of ‘Proprietary shares or debentures of public companies’, valued at £10,854.17.6. by J S Carnegie, Dublin, government stockbrokers.
A list of dividends on stock representing part of the settled estate, which passed to Denis Bowes Daly on the death of Denis St George Daly. [slightly faded, torn and crumpled].
A list of the Daly Settled Estate, joint owners Major Denis St George Daly, deceased and Col Denis William Daly, compiled by W Callan, giving the names of 28 tenants [on holdings under 6 acres] on the Dunsandle, Kilconnell and Killimor estates, estimated value £592.
A list of the untenanted lands on the settled estate, joint account, of William Daly, deceased, giving townland name, a description of the lands, the poor law valuation and an observations column. Richardson and Synnott, 31 Kildare St, Dublin, [solicitors].
'A map and survey of Ballaamere in the Barony of Gallen and County of Mayo for Thomas Ormsby Esq., 15 Sept. 1795' by John Conmey. This is a map of 540 acres, scale 20 perches to 1 inch and shows Ballinamore House, Killedan church, woods, roads, rivers, bogs and gives townland names and their acreage. Includes a map and surey of Devleash, bside the road from Kiltimagh to Ballyhaunis, 90 acres.