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1795-1921 Parish of Templemichael, County Waterford, Vestry minutes in two volumes.
Estimate:
€500 - €700
Passed
Live Auction
The Eclectic Collector
Description
Description: Manuscript minutes commencing with 'The Ploughlands of the Parish of Temple Michael, alias Rincrew', followed by a list of vicars and curates. The minutes of the usually bi-annual meetings of the vestry recorded and signed. An early page, otherwise blank, records that, 'Richard O'Connor, clerk of Templemichael Church murdered in rebellion 1797-8'. A second volume commencing Easter 1910 also containing a bundle of correspondence from the 1960s relating to the Parish. An invaluable record for local historians and genealogists.
Provenance
The Moore (Earls of Mount Cashell) family;Holroyd Smith family;Catherine 'Kitty' Fleming;thence by descent to the present owner.