Sources for Irish Women’s History

ID	6826
Collection	Caledon Papers
Reference	D/2433
Description	This large collection of c.500 volumes and 12,000 documents comprises the estate, business, family and political papers of the Alexander/Caledon family, 1639-1951, although the bulk of the collection dates from 1776-1951. A detailed calendar of this collection is available. The Caledon estate correspondence includes, for example: 4 accounts of wages for servants at Caledon House, 1794-1797. An account of the succession of real property of the 4th Earl of Caledon upon the death of the Countess, Dowager of Caledon in 1863. Accounts relating to the maintenance allowance paid to the Countess of Calendon for the infant 5th Earl, 1898-1902. c.50 letters from Lady Caledon mainly relating to the finance of the Caledon estates, 1933-1935. The Caledon family papers include, for example: Personal letters to the 2nd Countess of Caledon, including letters from her grandmother, Lady Balcarres, her mother, Lady Hardwicke, her daughter in law, her sister, Lady Stuart de Rothesay and Maria Edgeworth, Sarah Ponsonby, the Duchess of Gloucester, the Duchess of Kent, Sir Robert Peel and the Honourable George Knox, 1811-1852. Family correspondence between the 2nd Earl of Calendon and his wife, c.1822-1825. Letters to Dowager Lady Calendon from Thomas Romney Robinson and others about natural history and astronomy, 1841-1845. Letters and papers of Dowager Lady Caledon, 1839-c.1851. Correspondence between the 4th Lady Caledon and her bankers, lawyers and estate agents, 1854-1951. 2 manuscript volumes of inventories of the contents of the Dowager Countess of Calendon's London house, 1928. 6 letters from John Tillotson, Archbishop of Canterbury to Lady Russell, mainly relating to ecclesiastical affairs in England, 1689-1693. Letters and papers of Lady Blount of Herfordshire, 1723-1761. A letter from [?Oliver] Cromwell to his wife, 1651. Papers of Lady Elizabeth York, daughter of the 5th Earl of Balcarres, 1770s-1856.
Access	By prior appointment.
Date	1639-1951
Century	17th, 18th, 19th, 20th
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Repository Name	Public Record Office of Northern Ireland
Address	2 Titanic Boulevard Titanic Quarter Belfast
UK Postal Code	BT3 9HQ
Telephone	+44 28-9053-4800
Email Address	proni@communities-ni.gov.uk
Repository Web Address	https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/campaigns/public-record-office-n...
Comment	Some of the information listed from this repository has been extracted from lists available in the archives. The lists were compiled by Public Record Office of Northern Ireland staff and we are grateful for their assistance. It must be remembered that due to time constraints not all items in this repository were examined individually.
latitude	54.60430
longitude	-5.91036