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Bank books of Lord Oxmantown
IE BCA ROSSE/M/21 · File · 1893-1919
Part of The Rosse Papers

Seven bank books of Lord Oxmantown, [from 1908 the 5th] Earl of Rosse. [Not in chronological order.]

Parsons, William, 5th Earl of Rosse
IE BCA ROSSE/M/37 · Series · 1915-1919
Part of The Rosse Papers

Administrative correspondence relating to the prisoner of war relief scheme set up at Birr Castle under the patronage of Lady Rosse; postcards and letters of thanks from the prisoners of war from Irish regiments (but predominantly the Irish Guards) interned in Germany; and acknowledgment postcards of parcels received from same.

Parsons, William, 5th Earl of Rosse
IE BCA ROSSE/M/10 · File · 1874- 1911
Part of The Rosse Papers

Formal invitations to the 4th and 5th Earls – to civic functions in Belfast, and to Edward VII’s and George V’s coronations.

Parsons, Laurence, 4th Earl of Rosse
IE BCA ROSSE/M/6 · File · 1869-1911
Part of The Rosse Papers

Includes letters about Disestablishment, Poor Law reform, Orangeism, Conservative registration, Home Rule and the Irish Land question. Also includes letter from M. McCormack, CC, Kinnitty to Lord Rosse concerning agrarian dispute in Kinnitty parish between Francis Foley and Delaney at Newtown (3 March 1911).

Parsons, Laurence, 4th Earl of Rosse
IE BCA ROSSE/M/36 · File · [1912-1914]
Part of The Rosse Papers

1912-14 Letters and papers of the 5th Earl concerning his shares in the San Sebastian Development Syndicate and the International Nitrogen and Power Company Ltd; part of the operations of the latter involved a process for cutting peat, and there are a
number of letters to the 5th Earl and [Sir Charles Parsons?] on this subject.

Parsons, William, 5th Earl of Rosse
IE BCA ROSSE/M/20 · File · 1886-1914
Part of The Rosse Papers

Letters and papers, mostly of the 4th and 5th Earls and Dr Otto Boeddicker, concerning Parsons family history and genealogy, including information about the Oxmantown/Phoenix Park property, sold by the elder branch of the Parsons family to the crown in 1672. Of particular interest is a paper entitled ‘How the Parsons, Earls of Rosse, got the Titles of Baron and Viscount of Oxmantown’.

Boeddicker, Dr Otto