Subfonds B - 18th century letters and papers

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IE BCA ROSSE/B

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18th century letters and papers

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  • 1705-1887 (Creation)

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Parsons Family, Earls of Rosse
(c.1590-)

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Birr Castle Archives

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Eighteenth-century letters and papers, 1705-1887, of both branches of the Parsons family, but almost all of them deriving from the Parsonses of Parsonstown - excluding the papers of Sir Laurence Parsons, 5th Baronet, later 2nd Earle of Rosse, which constitute Sections C-F.

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