This is a small collection of local interest private acts of parliament ranging from 1695 to 1905. An individual (wealthy, influential and of course male) who for example wanted a divorce or who wanted to undo some family arrangement about property had to finance a private act of parliament to achieve his ends.
This is a small collection of local interest private acts of parliament ranging from 1695 to 1905. An individual (wealthy, influential and of course male) who for example wanted a divorce or who wanted to undo some family arrangement about property had to finance a private act of parliament to achieve his ends.
The various acts range from an act concerning fines in the County Palatine of Tipperary (1695), sales of estate lands (18th & 19th Century), dissolving a marriage (1825), building railways (1846 - 1880) and management of Poor Law Unions in Tipperary (1884). One consequence of the struggle over New Tipperary and the Barrymore estate was that leases were broken and a private act of parliament was required to reach settlement (1905)
Names mentioned
Thomas, Lord Cahir
Lord Hutchinson (Knocklofty)
Stephen Earl of Mount Cashel
Viscount Hawarden
Maurice Moore & Diana Moore (later Lady Clare)
Richard Sparrow (Clonmel)
Earl of Glengall
Baron Barrymore
1 archive box