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NAME 
DELACHIROIS FAMILY
  
IDENTITY STATEMENT  
Reference code: IE UCDA S6/50
Title:Papers of the Delachirois family
Dates: 1748–90
Level of description: Fonds
Extent: 1 box
  
CONTEXT 
Administrative history  

The Delachirois were a Huguenot family who settled in Lisburn and were prominent in the linen trade. Samuel Delachirois (1699–1780) inherited the estates of his first cousin, Lady Mount Alexander, at Donaghadee and Carrowdore, in 1771. It is to the affairs of his eldest son, Daniel (1735–90) that this collection principally relates.

Archival history
The Delachirois family papers are part of the archives of the firm of Franks & Oulton, solicitors, 21 Lower Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin, acquired in 1971. The parent collection is being listed on the basis of individual clients, usually landed clients.

  
CONTENT AND STRUCTURE 
Scope and Content 

Papers relating to the affairs of the Delachirois family, Donaghadee, County Down, principally Daniel Delachirois (1735–90), including anchorage tolls for the port at Donaghadee and case papers arising from challenges to Delachirois’s right to impose tolls, 1748–83.

Estate papers, 1772–87, including correspondence with his solicitor, George Carson, Dublin, concerning neighbouring landowners’ encroachments on the turf bogs on his estate.

  
CONDITIONS OF ACCESS AND USE
Access:Available by appointment to holders of a UCDA  reader's ticket.
Language:English
Finding aid:Descriptive catalogue
  
ALLIED MATERIALS  
Related collections 

Delachirois-Crommelin papers in the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, Catalogue T 3688.

 


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