This website uses cookies to track the amount of users to our site. This is achieved through third party metrics (Google Analytics) More info : https://www.offalyarchives.com/index.php/privacy
Two leather-bound and embossed notebooks containing inquest reports handwritten by James Dillon, King's County Coroner. Format of inquest reports is largely identical beginning with a record of the inquest number, date, location of inquest and the name of the deceased. Then follows a list of the jurors present and witnesses called. The reports end with a verdict on the cause of death.
Beginning at Inquest No.1 and ending at Inquest No. 220. Contains an account of his election in 1836 and some calculations throughout for presentment at the assizes.
Manuscript rent roll for the Banagher Estate, King's County. Lists tenants' names and rents paid for the years 1835-1840. Verso contains general directions for seizing sale stocks and property in the even of non-payment of rent: '...you are to proceed against any tenant who does not pay or get time. This rule is of first importance. If you know of any reason why time may not be safely given you are to mention it should such delay be applied for...'
Also includes a printed rental from 1834 possibly drawn up for sale of lands in the encumbered estates court.
File of letters, two agreements and an indenture relating to an agreement between Richard Hawkshaw, Millbrook, Co. Tipperary and Benjamin Bloomfield, Loughton, Co. Offaly. The agreement allowed Bloomfield to lease and plant on the lands of Clinoe owned by Hawkshaw.
Ms. letter from Richard [George], Carlton Chambers, London to The Rt. Hon. Earl of Charleville, seeking to obtain an accurate genealogy of the Charleville family “for the purposes of a national work, having exclusive reference to the aristocracy of the empire”. George encloses a recent printed account of the family and desires that the Earl peruse and return it at his earliest convenience. He expresses his particular interest in the present and preceding two generations of the Charleville family which “shall be a worthy……of Sir Egerton Brydger’s noble genealogies and such as can be published with your Lordship’s approval”. George refers to his own lineage as a way of excusing his intrusion on the Earl’s time, and claims that he is son of the Vicar of Myborough, Devon, and that he has been long engaged in said work, “which has the approbation of many distinguished parties”.
Contains schedules of presentments applied for and abstracts of presentments granted for the following sessions: Lent Assizes, 1840 Summer Assizes, 1840 Lent Assizes, 1841 Summer Assizes, 1841 Lent Assizes, 1842 Summer Assizes, 1842