Bennett's of Ballinacurra Descriptive List (Ref. B609)

B609/

B609/9/B/10 Mixed file of John H Bennett matter. Includes the following: calling card of Belgian consul in London, 1890; letter, 14 August 1896, from S Fleming, thanking him and his wife for a floral present; newscutting announcing forthcoming wedding of John H Bennett and Esther Frances, widow of JH Trevor McNeill, daughter of Sir George Duffey, MD [they were married on 15 June 1918]; newscutting recording ‘Coming Of Age of Mr JW Bennett’; programme for Midleton Golf Club Grand Dramatic and Musical Entertainment. Participants include JW Bennett and Miss Bennett [year not given; c1909?]; Photograph of two women [unknown] in Dutch pilgrim costume. Possibly connected to an item from the programme above, ‘By the Side of the Zuyder Zee’. B609/9/B/11 Tributes and cuttings. ‘John H Bennett, a tribute’ by Herbert Hunter, 1952 (two typescript copies); ‘John Hallaran Bennett: An Appreciation’, typed two pages, printed in the Cork Examiner, 21 June 1935 (copy of newspaper present); Irish Times, 24 June 1935, featuring photograph of John H Bennett, who has just died; Belfast Telegraph, 6 June [1934], regarding the Ulster cricket team’s visit to the Royal Cork Yacht Club, where Bennett toasted them as Vice-Admiral; cutting regarding an ‘Attorney-Author’, Henry Bennett, nineteenth century solicitor and author of light verse, and possible relative of Judge John Bennett, Recorder of Cork.

B609/9/C

John W ‘Jack’ Bennett and Gwendoline Bennett Records, 1904-38

John W ‘Jack’ Bennett and Gwendoline Bennett Records, 1904-38. Only a small number of records of the children of John H Bennett by his first marriage, to Brida Williams, are present. These consist mainly of letters and other items relating to Jack Bennett’s time at school in England and his subsequent service in the Great War. A photograph album of Gwendoline Bennett is present. A few letters from Jack and Gwen to their father are present above (B609/9/B/2), and there is much reference to them in John H Bennett’s diary. There is also reference to Gwen in the diaries of Dorothy McNeill, her stepsister. Jack Bennett was born in 1890 and was killed in action in France on 13 October 1915. Gwen was born in 1891 and died in 1952. She lived in England for most of her adult life.

B609/9/C/1 John W Bennett, letters and other items 1904-15. File of personal items of Jack Bennett, son of John H Bennett, from his time at Mostyn House School and Shrewsbury School and subsequently his time with the Royal

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