Thady Flynn Correspondence
TitleThady Flynn Correspondence
ReferenceU130/C
Date
30 Dec 1819 - 1837 (1850, 1853)
Production date 1819 - 1853
Scope and ContentLetters to and from Thady Flynn, steward of Ballyedmond House, near Midleton, Courtenay estate.
Letters are mainly from George Courtenay, and also Mrs. Courtenay, but also single items from Robert Barry, Maurice Daly, William Fitzgibbon & Co., William Stewart, Messrs. Broadwood & Co Piano Manufactory, Martin Conway of the Steam Packet Office in Cork, Catherine Tracey, John Wilson, James Graves, Mr. Mills.
Various subjects are mentioned, such as: paying a coal and culm bill (C/1), discharging an account for timber (C/2), remit of money to George Courtenay delayed as tenants and depending on crops (C/3); letters enclosing (Grand Jury) Presentment 'road money' (C/10, 11), requests for writing paper and sealing wax and money for Mrs. Courtenay at Dromadda (C/16), request for money from Mrs Courtney for Masters/Tutors fees for teaching their children (C/19, 20, 22); mentions of tenants having trouble paying rent (C/21, 44, 46), request for money to pay off discharged servants including a footman (C/30, 45), instructions to credit Peter Dee for hatter's wool (C/38), order for box of soap and starch for the laundry (C/9), request for white paint (C/39), request for a list of houshold utensils for use in Dromada (C/40, 41), instructions for sending a piano forte by steamer from Cork to London (C/47, 48), and a petition for aid from Catherine Treacy, Aghada, distressed widow of James Treacy, lately employed as Butler at Ballyedmond (C/50); settlement of Robert Barry's account also noting 'I suppose you have heard of Mr. Barry the Grocer, attack on Mr. James S.Barry at Lota' (C/12); £10 needed to pay 'the Italian Master' [tutor], before he leaves the country (C/14); Some of the Mrs. Courtney letters are from Foaty/Fota House (C/51).
1850, 1853; 2 letters re. rent charges, including, letter, 29 Apr 1853 to Richard Waldron, Ballyedmond, Midleton, from Henry Mills, Upper Temple Street, Dublin (C/66).
Letters are mainly from George Courtenay, and also Mrs. Courtenay, but also single items from Robert Barry, Maurice Daly, William Fitzgibbon & Co., William Stewart, Messrs. Broadwood & Co Piano Manufactory, Martin Conway of the Steam Packet Office in Cork, Catherine Tracey, John Wilson, James Graves, Mr. Mills.
Various subjects are mentioned, such as: paying a coal and culm bill (C/1), discharging an account for timber (C/2), remit of money to George Courtenay delayed as tenants and depending on crops (C/3); letters enclosing (Grand Jury) Presentment 'road money' (C/10, 11), requests for writing paper and sealing wax and money for Mrs. Courtenay at Dromadda (C/16), request for money from Mrs Courtney for Masters/Tutors fees for teaching their children (C/19, 20, 22); mentions of tenants having trouble paying rent (C/21, 44, 46), request for money to pay off discharged servants including a footman (C/30, 45), instructions to credit Peter Dee for hatter's wool (C/38), order for box of soap and starch for the laundry (C/9), request for white paint (C/39), request for a list of houshold utensils for use in Dromada (C/40, 41), instructions for sending a piano forte by steamer from Cork to London (C/47, 48), and a petition for aid from Catherine Treacy, Aghada, distressed widow of James Treacy, lately employed as Butler at Ballyedmond (C/50); settlement of Robert Barry's account also noting 'I suppose you have heard of Mr. Barry the Grocer, attack on Mr. James S.Barry at Lota' (C/12); £10 needed to pay 'the Italian Master' [tutor], before he leaves the country (C/14); Some of the Mrs. Courtney letters are from Foaty/Fota House (C/51).
1850, 1853; 2 letters re. rent charges, including, letter, 29 Apr 1853 to Richard Waldron, Ballyedmond, Midleton, from Henry Mills, Upper Temple Street, Dublin (C/66).
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