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Letter from Brian Smith at 1155 Metcalfe Street, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, to his cousin Barbara Dermott and her husband Neil Dermott. He sends a New Year's greeting for the year of 1995, and an update on his family geneaology project.
Leter from Ted in Auckland, New Zealand, to Helen Lamb, regarding the german branch of the Cronhelm family tree. Attached is information on the Cronhelm family.
Photocopy of Loughton guest book. The guest book contains a brief history of the house and of the Trench and Atkinson families possibly written by Theodora Trench and completed by Guy Atkinson after her death. 'Loughton was built in 1777. The library was the dinning room & the hall the dining room, the entrance was on the north side, where the present straircase is. Lord Bloomfield added the present drawing and dinning room & improved the place about 1835. Loughton is said to have belonged to the Peppers from Cromwell's time till 1828, when Thomas Ryder Pepper was killed out hunting, aged about 50. He had neither brother nor child, he was married to Miss Bloomfield & left a request in his will, that his brother-in-law Lord Bloomfield should buy Loughton for a certain sum which he did. The 2nd Lord Bloomfield sold Loughton to his brother-in-law, Mr Trench of Cangort Park in 1870. W T. Trench lived at Loughton 1877 till 1889. B.B.T & D.T first went there in 1890, & bought it in 1893. DT died in 1898 and BBT in 1926. Thora Trench lived on here until joined by her sister Sheelah in 1961. Thora died in 1971 and Sheelah in 1973. Guy Atkinson inherited Loughton in 1970 and it was looked after his parents Anthony and Anne until he moved here in 1975.'
Letter from David J Griffin, Director of the Irish Architectural Archive at 63 Merrion Square, Dublin, to Doctor Keith Lamb at Woodfield, Clara, County Offaly, regarding photographs to be copied and accessioned by the Irish Architectural Archive.