Material relating to 7 Newenham Street, Limerick - Jesuit property, The Crescent, Limerick. includes:
Lease:
Lessor: Robert O'Callaghan Newenham
Lessee: Michael Rochford
Property: The plot of ground marked ‘Number 7’, part of the South Priors Land in Richmond Place measuring 25 feet in breadth and 172 feet in depth bounded by in front by Richmond place and in the rear by a stable lane.
Terms and Conditions: Land let for the term of the lives of Michael Rochford, Patrick Rochford and Paul Rochford, nephews of the lessee at an annual rent of £28-8-9.
Date: 21 May 1813
Size: 1 membrane
Other: Later copy included.
Lease:
Lessor: Michael Rochford, merchant, city of Limerick.
Lessee: Reverend William Deane Hoare, clerk, of the suburbs of the city of Limerick.
Property: The dwelling house in Richmond Place lately built by the lessor and now in the possession of the lessee together with the yard, offices, vaults, areas and appurtenances thereunto belonging.
Terms and Conditions: In consideration of the sum of £113-5-0 sterling the house is to be let for the lives of Deane Wallace Hoare, Charles Burton Hoare and Edward Hoare, at a yearly rent of £100 sterling to be paid in two even and equal instalments.
Date: 25 July 1814
Size: 1 membrane
Other: Later copy included.
Surrender:
Parties: (1) Reverend William Deane Hoare, clerk, of the suburbs of the city of Limerick. (2) George Maunsell, John Kennedy and Robert H. Maunsell in the estate of Michael Rochford is now vested.
Property: The dwelling house in Richmond Place built by Michel Rochford, which was leased to William Hoare in 1814 together with the yard, offices, vaults, areas and appurtenances thereunto belonging.
Surrender: Hoare surrenders the property back to the trustees of the estate of Michael Rochford in accordance with the terms of his lease of 1814.
Date: 1 May 1819
Size: 3pp
Other: Later copy included.
Assignment:
Parties: (1) Robert Maunsell, Joseph Fisher and Richard Nugent. (2) Daniel Gabbett. (3) Robert George Maunsell
Property: The plot of ground marked ‘Number 7’, part of the South Priors’ Land in Richmond Place, measuring 25 feet in breadth and 172 feet in depth bounded by in front by Richmond place and in the rere by a stable lane.
Assignment:Maunsell, Fisher and Nugent with the approbation of Daniel Gabbett assign the lease of the property to Robert George Maunsell in consideration of the sum of £650 sterling paid to them.
Date: 16 August 1821
Size: 2 membranes
Other: Later copy assignment included.
Renewal Lease:
Lessor: Charles Burton Newenham of the city of Cork, solicitor.
Lessee: Robert George Maunsell of the city of Limerick.
Property: The plot of ground marked ‘Number 7’, part of the South Priors’ Land in Richmond Place, measuring 25 feet in breadth and 172 feet in depth bounded by in front by Richmond place and in the rear by a stable lane.
Terms and Conditions: In consideration of the payment of the renewal fine of £13-2, Newenham inserts the life of George Maunsell in the place of that of Michael Rochford, deceased, who was one of the lives originally let for this land in 1813. Land is let at a yearly rent of £25-6 sterling.
Date: 3 September 1836
Size: 1 membrane
Other: Later copy included.
25 May 1836; (13 March 1838)
Copy of the last will and testament of Robert George Maunsell. The house at Richmond place is bequeathed to his wife Maria, and on her death to his children, daughters, Anne, Louisa, Maria, Georgina, Mabella, Emma, Eliza and sons Standish Grady and George. His eldest son Robert is bequeathed all his other landed property. He is to distribute the charges on his estate among his wife, younger sons and daughters. He appoints Henry Maunsell and Robert Thomas Maunsell executors. The codicil makes provisions for a further son and daughter, John Minton and Martha Sophia Edith Maunsell.
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Assignment:
Parties: (1) Maria Maunsell, widow of Robert George Maunsell, and children John Minton Maunsell and Martha Sophia Edith Maunsell. (2) Anne Stone Maunsell, Louisa Emma Maunsell, Maria Maunsell the younger and Robert Thomas Maunsell
Property: The plot of ground marked ‘Number 7’, part of the South Priors Land in Richmond Place, measuring 25 feet in breadth and 172 feet in depth bounded by in front by Richmond place and in the rere by a stable lane, with the house and its contents.
Assignment: Maria Maunsell the elder acting also on behalf of her youngest children John and Martha assigns the property to her elder children on condition that they pay her an annuity of £50.
Date: 8 October 1842
Size: 3 membranes
Other: Later copy included.
Fee Farm Grant:
Grantor: Anne Stone Maunsell, spinster.
Grantees: The Honourable Lewis Alexander Grant and Georgina Grant otherwise Maunsell, his wife, Mabella Maunsell, Emma Maunsell, Eliza Maunsell, Standish Grady Maunsell, George Maunsell.
Property: The plot of ground marked ‘Number 7’, part of the South Priors Land in Richmond Place, measuring 25 feet in breadth and 172 feet, in depth bounded by in front by Richmond place and in the rear by a stable lane, with the house and its contents.
Grant: The property is granted by Anne Stone Maunsell to the grantees on condition of payment in two even and equal instalments of an annual fee farm rent of £27-7-5 sterling.
Date: 21 June 1858
Size: 1 membrane
Other: Later copy included.
14 July 1864
Search for acts affecting the house and premises at Richmond Place, Newtown Perry, in the parish of Saint Michael, Limerick city, by Robert George Maunsell, The Honourable Lewis Alexander Grant and Georgina Grant, otherwise Maunsell, his wife, Mabella Maunsell, Emma Maunsell, Eliza Maunsell, Standish O’Grady Maunsell and George Maunsell, for Joseph Murphy. Search consists of the abstracts of nine deeds dated 1838-1862.
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25 July 1864
Search for judgements and bonds against Robert George Maunsell from 1844-1864. The search does not yield any results according to the registrar for judgements W.H.Scrivner.
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Assignment:
Parties: (1) The Honourable Lewis Alexander Grant and Georgina Grant otherwise Maunsell, his wife, Anne Stone Maunsell, Mabella Maunsell, Emma Maunsell, Reverend Thomas Henry Gollock and his wife Eliza Gollock, otherwise Maunsell, Standish Grady Maunsell, and George Maunsell. (2) Reverend Thomas Kelly, Roman Catholic Clergyman, of the city of Limerick.
Property: The plot of ground marked ‘Number 7’, part of the South Priors Land in Richmond Place, measuring 25 feet in breadth and 172 feet in depth bounded by in front by Richmond place and in the rear by a stable lane, with the house and its contents.
Assignment: The property is assigned by Lewis Alexander Grant and others to Reverend Thomas Kelly in consideration of the sum of £700 sterling and the payment of an annual fee farm rent of £27-7-5.
Date: 26 August 1864
Size: 2 membranes
Other: Copy included.
22 September-3 November 1864
Copies of affidavits by Eliza Grace Gollock and Georgina Grant, acknowledging assignment (26 August 1864) in which they give up their interest in the property at Richmond place, Limerick, with accompanying certificates issued by various Commissioners of the Court of Common Pleas in Ireland.
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18 August 1864
Acknowledgement by Louisa, Countess of Seafield, nee Maunsell, and her husband Lord Henry Loftus that they have no claim whatsoever on the house at Richmond Place, in the parish of Saint Michael, Limerick, formerly owned by Louisa’s father, Robert George Maunsell.
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Deed of Trust:
Parties: (1) Reverend Thomas Kelly, upper Gardiner street, city of Dublin. (2) Reverend Edward Kelly, Reverend Peter Foley and Reverend Denis Murphy of the Crescent, city of Limerick.
Property: The plot of ground marked ‘Number 7’, part of the South Priors’ Land in Richmond Place, measuring 25 feet in breadth and 172feet in depth bounded by in front by Richmond place and in the rere by a stable lane, with the house and its contents.
Trust: Reverend Thomas Kelly grants this property to Reverends Kelly, Foley and Murphy in consideration of the sum of 5 shillings paid to him.
Date: 23 December 1872
Size: 3 items
Other: Earlier draft copy included with the opinion thereon of L. M. Porter
1885
Schedule of the deeds and documents relating to premises situate at Richmond Place, the Crescent, Limerick belonging to the Jesuit order drawn up by Francis A. O'Keefe solicitors, 101 George street, Limerick; List of title deeds connected with property belonging to Robert George Maunsell, Richmond Place, Limerick.
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