Some Queen’s County farmers in 1821 and a tale of a hound
Small Sources 69: Estate papers are an intriguing mix of the myriad documents generated by a family and their staff in the management of their estate and its tenants, and in their own daily lives, often over several generations. The contents typically comprise rentals, deeds, personal and business correspondence, staff records, maps and wills. While […]
Labourers in Lismore, Waterford in 1850.
Small Sources 24. This small list shows 30 Labourers on the Devonshire Estate, Lismore, Co. Waterford in 1850. Lists of workmen are useful as they tend to be difficult to find in the records. The list below is a composite of names extracted from several related documents in a file of accounts of the Devonshire […]
