| Description | The collection includes letters to and from various women outside the Conolly family, for example, among others:
Letter from Rachel Alsebrook to Thomas Conolly, (number 924), she has delivered Hatchels to the Linen Board and wants payment, 5 June 1787.
Letter from Lady E. Buckingham to Thomas Conolly, (number 1744), relating to the sale of Stretton, undated.
Letter to Miss Byng from L.A. C[onnolly], (number 1428), 1801.
5 letters from Mrs Anne Byng, 4 to Thomas Conolly and 1 to Lord Dunlo, (numbers 744, 841, 1061, 1077, 1511):
12 October 1781
23 April 1784 relating to the election at Brentford
14 December 1795 giving family news
4 June 1796
19 August 1803.
The collection also holds 1 letter to Mrs Byng, from Viscount Dunlo, 31 August 1803.
The Conolly Papers includes the letters and other papers of Lady Ann Conolly, nee Wentworth. These include:
3 letters to Lady Ann (number 52, 250, 1756), from:
Ka Conolly, 8 March 1745-1746
Henry Cole Cutslow relating to the rents at Stretton, 17 October 1767
P. Cashell to [Catherine Conolly?] relating to a secret marriage of Miss Gore, Sir St George Gore's sister, to Mr Coote whose lunatic father lodges at Mr Tipper's within 2 miles of Castletown, this is endorsed with a letter from Ka Conolly to Lady Ann [C], no date.
The collection includes 3 letters from Lady Ann Conolly (numbers 953, 1011, 1066), to Thomas Conolly referring to the King's illness and the letting of Stretton:
10 November 1788
20 December 1790
22 January 1796 on family business.
The collection also includes (number 1671) statement of account, Revd. Robert Freke Gould, representative of the late countess dowager of Strafford and the representatives of Lady Ann Conolly etc., from Whit 1799 to January 1817.
The collection also includes the will of Lady Ann (number 1517), 1803.
The estate of Lady Ann (number 1767), no date.
The Conolly papers includes letters and other papers of Lady Louisa Conolly, nee Lennox of Castletown.
It includes c.89 letters to Lady Louisa, various dates, 1779-1819, with one undated, correspondents include, among others:
James Ash Hermitage, 7 March 1779 asking for employment
Letters from J Daniel relating to fishery
Lord Dunlo, 31 May 1803
Edward Stopford, Carrickmacross, 21 August 1808, wants a glebe attached to his church
John Hamilton relating to widow Conolly of Tullymore's case, late harvest, pounds being broken down, 12 October 1816 with a futher letter from Hamilton, 30 October 1816, again relating to the widow Conolly's case and also relating to outrages on the tenants, murder of a revenue officer, barley being made into whiskey.
Number 1257, an account of cask received and paid for, Lady Louisa Conolly, 8-24 December 1796.
Number 1693-1695, Louisa Conolly's account with George La Touche and Company:
4 March 1820
12 April 1820
2 May 1820.
Number 1773, a petition to Louisa Conolly from Louisa Foley, wife of discharge soldier, Jams Gallagher, asking for help, undated. |
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