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Two photographs of the Bloomfield tablet in Loughton church

Files relating to Borrisnafarney Church which was built in 1829 with funding from Thomas Ryder Pepper. This subseries deals with church funding, repairs and an attempt to join Borrisnafarney with Aghnameadle.

[Handwritten notes?] on the Lefroy pedigree as it appeared in the [1938?] edition of Burke's landed gentry and a revised proof of the article on family history.

File of correspondence and reports relating to business matters. Includes:

Two copies letters from A. Verner to Jackson and to McLean solicitors, Belfast.

Letter from Benjamin Bloomfield Trench to Mr Mauders following on from interview explaining work history, travelling and a list of references.Reply from Frederick Mauders with suggestions.

Confidential report written W.Y Campbell for E. Spiegel & Co.1, 1 Blumes Hor, Berlin, Germany. The aim of the report was to investigate Robinson Estate and Langlagte Estate and discover of the them if any would be worth investing in.

Correspondence between Benjamin Bloomfield and Henry Trench regarding going into business with James Hardy & Co. Ropeworks.

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).

File of documents resulting from the sale of Ballyeagle Estate. The sale was organised by Philip Charles Chenevix Trench acting as trustees of the estate of the late Archbishop Richard Chenevix Trench. The file includes memoranda of the sale to tenants and arrangements made, a copy of Archbishop Richard Chenevix Trench trustee's balance account and a copy of their cash account.

Photographs of Carriglass Manor and its surrounding estate. The current Carriglass Manor was built by Thomas Lefroy c.1837. The photographs in the file date from the 1920s and were possibly taken by Sheelah and Langlois Massy Lefroy. The majority of the file are photographs of the exterior of Carriglass Manor. The file also contains photographs of Sheelah and Langlois Massy Lefroy enjoying the grounds of Carriglass Manor.

Maps, plans, and printed sale papers, relating to Cronebane, alias Castle Howard, Avoca, Co. Wicklow.

Photographs and negatives of Castle Howard and Avoca village in County Wicklow. The file includes seventeen copies of the same photograph and two aerial photographs of Castle Howard, which was the residence of Sheelah and Langlois Massy Lefroy. The file also includes negatives of a woman [Sheelah Lefroy] fishing on the River Avoca.

This series relates mainly to Sheelah Lefroy and her husband Langlois Lefroy.

Castle Howard was purchased by Langlois Lefroy circa 1924, who in that year would have been flush with the capital which his wife, Sheelah's marriage settlement, brought to them. . He sold Cronebane in 1954, on inheriting Carrigglas Manor, Longford, Co. Longford, from his elder brother, and died in 1957, when his widow, Sheelah, née Trench, moved back to Loughton to live with her unmarried sister, Thora. The last item in the box is a statement of account for 1957-1958 showing the value of the late Langlois Lefroy's and his wife, Sheelah's, investments under the provisions of her marriage settlement of 1924.

This file contains material relating to financial and legal matters.

Examples of records include bank records kept by Theodora Trench and Sheelah Lefroy., valuations and inventories of belongings of the Trench family used for insurance and inheritance purposes and records created in order to secure the marriage of Benjamin Bloomfield Trench and Dora Turnor.