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This file contains a copy of the Will and Codicil of Georgiana Trench. Also included in this file is a letter from Weston solicitors 35 Essex Street, London, England. In this letter Weston states that he only has one part of the will dated 11 June 1881and that he encloses a copy of said will and the codicil.
Research on Whigsborough Tower House and Bawn (possible), Co. Offaly (Parish of Birr, Barony of Ballybritt). County Inventory Registration: 864. Contains field sheet with a sketch of the site, a written report over two pages and 16 photographs.
Research on Wheery Church and Graveyard, Co. Offaly (Parish of Wheery or Killagally, Barony of Garrycastle). County Inventory Registration: not applicable. Contains field sheet with sketches of floor plan, a written report over two pages and eleven photographs.
Box containing bundles of weekly returns of income and expenditure (mainly on labour) for Birr Castle, gardens, pleasure grounds, forestry, farm, etc, [sampled from a vast quantity of similar material in order to show how the accounting system then in operation worked.]
The majority of this file is made up of wedding of Sheelah Trench's marriage to Langlois Massy Lefroy which took place on 15 October 1924. Photographs of this wedding include photos of the bridge and groom, a portrait of Benjamin Bloomfield Trench and groups of the extended wedding party which was made up of Theodora Trench, Rosemary Lefroy, Diana Broadbent, Phoebe Lefroy, Reggie Chenevix Trench and Stanley Dobson. The file also contains photographs of Hugh and Helen Lefroy's wedding day, Tony and Judith Hodgson's wedding day and a photograph of an unknown bride.
File of watercolour paintings done of outdoor locations. Examples includes a painting of a small of church and surrounding scenery signed J.G.B with the inscription 'Grandma Trench' on the back and a Boat on a lake mountains in the background. Also included are two watercolour paintings of flowers done by Sheelah Trench for her father Benjamin Bloomfield Trench and new year painting done by Theodora Trench.
File relating to wage negotiations with the Irish Clerical and Allied Workers' Union and the Grocers' and Vinters' Association (1918-1919) Register of National Health Card Holders, Unemployment Cards and Social Welfare Cardholders (1930-73) Souvenir Programme D. E. Williams First Annual Staff Dance (1943) Newsletters and staff publications: News Sheet (1959-1960), The Company Review (1959-1965), Group News (1974-1976), Williams World (1977-1983). Staff sales conference programme (1965) List of staff and their telephone extension numbers (c.1970) Correspondence and minutes Federated Union of Employers, Midlands Branch (1960-1970) Register with weekly hours worked (1970 - 1972) List of staff in several departments, of the Williams Group, salaries analysis (1974) List of staff with national health and unemployment insurance (1932 - 1939)
File relating to Benjamin Bloomfield Trench's with W & C Woolnough & Co. Including a letter from Benjamin stating that he will take another look at books before bring back to his father (8 August 1877).
Largely empty, quarto volume into which the 4th Earl has stuck ‘puzzles’ and other jokes, one of the jokes being a characteristically illegible letter to him from Lord Ashbourne [Lord Chancellor of Ireland], c.1886-1903; and largely empty folio volume, dated 1823, but containing [a child’s?] ms copy of parts of the Book of Survey and Distribution for Co. Galway, [c.1880s?]
