Daniel MacCarthy Glas Collection- Descriptive List

Descriptive list of the Daniel MacCarthy (Glas) Collection

Part of:

PR70/B

Scope and Content: Lyons writes regarding the MacCarthy monument in Dunmanway Catholic church, and includes a sketch of one of its panels, which memorializes Daniel MacCarthy and his wife Harriet. Lyons notes that there is not enough space on the panel to record the date of Daniel's death [4 April 1884].

Reference:

PR70/B/596

Date:

1 June 1886

Title:

Letter from Charles MacCarthy Collins, Union Bank, Brisbane, Queensland [Australia]

to Florence [Strachan] MacCarthy, the MacCarthy Glas, Bradworthy, England. Level: Item Extent: 3pp Part of: PR70/B Scope and Content:

MacCarthy Collins writes asking Florence for his help in tracing the pedigree of the late Reverend Charles H MacCarthy, Rector of St Werburgh's in Dublin who died in 1878. The author notes that Charles was his mother's brother and that she originally told him that he was a member of the Spanish MacCarthys. He includes a sketch of his own family tree.

Reference:

PR70/B/597

Date:

[?c.1900]

Title:

Letter from [one of Florence Strachan MacCarthy's children] to Donal Percy

MacCarthy, Post Office Box number 217, Independence, Oregon, USA. Level: file Extent: 2 items (1 letter [1p] and 1 drawing) Part of: PR70/B Scope and Content: The writer of the letter encloses a drawing of the MacCarthy monument erected by Daniel MacCarthy in Dunmanway Catholic church in 1872. They note that "Papa's name" [Florence Strachan MacCarthy] would have been included on one of the panels along with his sister [Elizabeth] and brother [Henry Popham] but he was still alive when the monument was erected, so they have asked for Florence's name to be added.

Reference:

PR70/B/598

Date:

11 August [?1904]-2 May [?1905]

Title:

Letters from [?Alice MacCarthy], 48 Priory Street, Colchester, Essex and Convent of

Mercy, Brentwood, Essex [England] to [?Donal Percy MacCarthy]. Level: file Extent: 4 letters Part of: PR70/B Scope and Content:

Letters appear to have been written by Alice MacCarthy [née Linton], wife of Daniel's son Florence Strachan MacCarthy, to her son Donal Percy MacCarthy. The letters mainly discuss Donal's recent arrival in New York, USA and his plans to establish a business growing hops or farming poultry.

Reference:

PR70/B/599

Date:

9 March 1909-13 June 1912

Title:

Letters from Edward Colegrave, The Clock House, 7 Arundel Street, Strand, London

WC [England] to Alice MacCarthy, Donal Percy MacCarthy, and Florence MacCarthy. Level: file

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