| ID | 8381 |
|---|---|
| Reference | T/2571 |
| Description | Copies of personal correspondence relating to the Richardson family of The Woodhouse, Bessbrook, County Armagh and Moyallon House, County Down, c1850-1925. A detailed calendar of this collection is available. The collection includes, for example: T/2571/1/1-23 Copies of 23 personal letters to John Grubb Richardson, 1853-1878, including copies of 3 letters from his daughter, Helena Richardson, Moyallon House, 1864; a letter from his daughter, May Richardson, Moyallon House, 1864 and an unsigned letter from his daughter, Anne Richardson, Moyallon House, referring to the arrival of a new housemaid, 'a respectable woman, though with no pretension to beauty', 1878. T/2571/2/1-16 Copies of 16 personal letters to Anne Wakefield Richardson, 1844-1900, including letters from her sisters, Jean, Gertrude and Edith Richardson and a letter from Rosamund Stephen, Ravensdale. County Louth, referring to politics and home rule, 'I think it would be a good thing to arrange a simple course of lectures for those mountain women in which one would explain how the country is governed at present, and what kind of change Home Rule wd. make', 14 September 1892. T/2571/3/1-218 Copies of 218 personal letters to Mrs Jane Marion Richardson (nee Wakefield), referring to family affairs, with some mention of the Quaker religion, 1850-1900. Her correspondents include her husband John; her stepson, James Richardson; her stepdaughter, Helena Richardson; her daughters, Ethel, Anne, May, Gertrude; her sister in law, Elizabeth Richardson, 1862-1863; her cousin, John Grubb Richardson; her brother, Thomas Wakefield; her mother, Marianne Wakefield, 1856. T/2571/4/1-27 Copies of personal correspondence relating to the Richardson family, 1852-1925. For example, a letter from Jane Wakefield, York, to her future sister in law, Sarah Malcomson, c1853; a letter from M Wakefield to her daughter, Jane referring to hotel accommodation, no date but pre-1853; a lighthearted letter from William Maynard, Moyallon House, to Gertrude Richardson, October 1878 and a letter from Jennie [Jane ] Richardson to her sister, Gertrude Richardson, c1870s. T/2571/6/1/4 Photographs of Sarah Ethel Pim, 1899. |
| Access | By prior appointment. |
| Date | 1850-1925 |
| Century | 19th, 20th |
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| Note | A specific reference number precedes a description of the document. This is needed to call up each document. |
| 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 |