| Description | c.500 volumes and c.15,000 documents recording the arrival and settlement of the Drapers Company in Londonderry, 1585-c.1900. A detailed calendar of this collection is available. The records include, for example:
Estate papers, c.1820-1891.
c.2,000 leases (including many women leaseholders), c.1820-1880.
Rent records, 1813-1890.
Petitions and memorials from tenants, 1810-c.1900.
Records relating to the Drapers' Company's involvement in education, 1807-1906.
Records relating to the Drapers' Company's involvement in medical care, 1817-1889.
Records relating to the Drapers' Company's involvement in philanthropy, 1829-1882.
2 sets of manuscript minutes of a meeting of the Governors of the District of Moneymore held to appoint schoolmistresses, 1820.
Volumes of copy-out letter books, which include information on assisted emigration, c.1780-1900. For example, volume dated 1843-1848 notes that Widow Henry was amongst '3 persons with their numerous families [who] have disposed of all they had to support them, that is their patches of land in the hopes of obtaining assistance from the Company to emigrate and if the Court would refuse such assistance about 26 or 27 wretched persons would cling to their cottages until they were forced out by ejectment and even then if possible they would lurk on the estate somewhere or other', 31 May 1847.
Bundle of letters to W.P. Sawter, Clerk to Drapers' Company, London from his daughter Elizabeth Miller, wife of the Drapers' Irish agent, 1873-1890.
30 bundles of petitions relating to financial aid for widows, 1832, 1839, 1850, 1851, 1852, 1853, 1854, 1855, 1856, 1857, 1858, 1859, 1865, 1867, 1868, 1869, 1871, 1872, 1873, 1874, 1876, 1880, 1881, 1882, 1883, 1885, 1888, 1889, 1893, with an additional petition, no date.
Petition from the Ladies' Committee in Maghera relating to opening a clothes store for the poor, 1839.
Petition relating to financial aid for Moneymore Ladies' Blanket and Coal Club, 1867.
2 petitions from the Ladies' Committee, Moneymore, concerning a 'Biblewoman' (a preacher), 1868; 1869.
Petition relating to the education of orphans, 1871.
A bundle of petitions, including a petition for financial aid to enable a girl to become a teacher, 1872.
Petition relating to financial aid for Moneymore Ladies' Coal Club, 1872.
Petition of Miss Kathleen Irvine for financial help, 1879.
Petition relating to church matters, including a grant to the Church of Ireland Clergy, Widows' and Orphans' Society, 1880.
A bundle of petitions relating to education, including the establishment of a school for Catholic young ladies, 1881.
Petition relating to financial aid for women, 1884.
A bundle of petitions relating to education, including grants of 2 scholarships for women, 1884.
A bundle of petitions relating to education, including the establishment of the Young Women's Christian Association in Belfast, 1890.
A petition relating to pension for ministers' widows, 1894.
A petition relating to the estate of Elizabeth O'Neill, 1896.
Bundle of documents relating to education, 1880-1889, including the first report of the Irish Association for Promoting the Training and Employment of Women, 1885.
Surgeon McKee's return for the distressed sick tenantry, 1817.
3 bundles of documents relating to various charities, 1846-1891
2 petitions from the Irish Lace Fund requesting financial aid, 1885, 1887.
A selection of photocopies from this collection are available for consultation in Draperstown Branch Library, County Londonderry. |
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