FITZPATRICK FAMILY

Reference code:

IE UCDAD S0006/17

5 boxes

Administrative history

John Fitzpatrick, Earl of Upper Ossory (1745ñ1818) left two daughters Gertrude (1774ñ1841) and Anne (1774ñ1841) by his marriage to Anne Liddell (d.1804). He had three other children by his subsequent marriage to Emma Wilson, a Roman Catholic: John Wilson Fitzpatrick (1807ñ1883), Richard Wilson Fitzpatrick (1811ñ1850) and Emma Wilson Fitzpatrick.

John Wilson, later 1^st Baron Castletown of Upper Ossory, inherited his father’s estates in Ireland, situated in county Laois, on the death of Lady Gertrude. On his death in 1883, the total value of the estate of 23,143 acres was £15, 758 per annum

Archival history

The Fitzpatrick 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 families.

Scope and content

Deeds, title documents and correspondence of the Fitzpatrick family, sometime Earls of Upper Ossory and Barons Castletown, Queen’s county [Laois], particularly of John Wilson Fitzpatrick, Baron Castletown of Upper Ossory, including papers, 1817ñ42, concerning his relations with his half-sisters, the Ladies Anne and Gertrude Fitzpatrick, daughters of John Fitzpatrick, Earl of Upper Ossory, by his first marriage.

Papers concerning the marriage of Augusta, daughter of John Wilson Fitzpatrick, 1850, the death of her husband Colonel Francis W. Dawson at the Battle of Inkerman, November 1855, and the administration of his estate.

Papers concerning the administration of various trusts and the estate of the late Rev Archibald Douglas, Blackrock, county Dublin, 1850ñ5; and Fitzpatrick’s interests in other property including Spiddal Lodge, county Galway, 1839ñ54.

Family and personal papers of John Robinson Price, Fitzpatrick’s agent, 1822ñ69.

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