DELACHIROIS FAMILY

Reference code:

IE UCDAD S0006/50

1 box

Administrative history

The Delachirois were a Huguenot family who settled in Lisburn and were prominent in the linen trade. Samuel Delachirois (1699ñ1780) 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 (1735ñ90) 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.

Scope and content

Papers relating to the affairs of the Delachirois family, Donaghadee, county Down, principally Daniel Delachirois (1735ñ90), including anchorage tolls for the port at Donaghadee and case papers arising from challenges to Delachirois’s right to impose tolls, 1748ñ83.

Estate papers, 1772ñ87, including correspondence with his solicitor, George Carson, Dublin, concerning neighbouring landowners’ encroachments on the turf bogs on his estate.

Access:

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