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

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last year. Possibly relatives of Dorothy McNeill. (2) Irish Times [no date], ‘An Irishwoman’s Diary’, including a note on ‘Woman Maltster’, Mrs Dorothy West.

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Other Bennett family records, c1806-1880

Other Bennett family records, c1806-80. A small number of records relating to parents and older relatives of John H Bennett are present in the collection. These include a diary of his uncle, Edward Hallaran Bennett, a box of old letters and cards containing items going back to the late eighteenth century, and some photographs. Among the letters and cards are three small parcels containing locks of hair. B609/9/G/1 Box of family letters, notes, cards, and items, nineteenth century. Includes calling cards and prints of coats of arms of Robert Bennett, Recorder of Cork, and of John Hallaran, William H Bennett, and of relatives and friends of the above (includes engraved plates for cards of William H Bennett and John Hallaran); Note, with cutting, recording the death of William (Cotter), brother of Mary Hallaran, on 22 January 1806; Letter, 5 March 1817, from E Bennett to Robert Bennett forwarding three guineas; Letter, 8 February 1839, from James Bennett to his aunt Anna Hallaran, Charleston; Letter, 2 March 1839, from William H Bennett to the same aunt; Letter, 6 April, from same to his aunt Eve Allin; Note, 26 October 1839, ‘A token of love for James Bennett from his Mother’; Note, 1 February 1844, lock of hair of ‘I.B.’; Three personal letters to John Bennett, 1847, 1848, 1862; Letter, undated, from EH Bennett to his uncle John Bennett regarding his walking tour in the Alps; Pages from a brief diary of a walking tour in the Alps, 1865 [probably by WH Bennett]; Note, 16 May 1860, containing lock of hair of John Bennett; Note, 16 September 1866, containing lock of hair of JRB, ‘Dick’ Bennett; Letter, 23 January 1871, [to James Hallaran] from Humphrey Lynch, offering to sell his interest in his farm to him (includes a note, possibly by John H Bennett, commenting on the letter); Lace envelope directed to Miss Fanny Boston containing ms booklet in fancy paper entitled ‘the whole tenor of the Gospel comprised in one short view’; ms and printed copies of poems and religious extracts [5 items]; some loose envelopes with penny postage stamps [3 stamps]; County & City of Cork Horticultural Society, free ticket [1856], (Richard J Perry’s name on back); Blank receipt, 1850s; Newsprint map of the United States of America, 1861.

B609/9/G/2 Order of attachment issued 4 June 1819 requiring Patrick Scollard to appear to answer Robert Bennett of a plea of breach of covenant to the value of £90 18s 9d.

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