The Irish Bomfords

Links between the Lyster and North Families in Ireland in the 1800s

Source: Sheila Perino emails 3 & 7 November 2007, based on a history of the Lyster family from Rocksavage, Roscommon, Memorials of an Ancient House: A History of the Family of Lister Or Lyster by Henry Lyttelton Lyster Denny - 1913.

Deed 1854 26 262 in the Registry of Deeds

Transcription:

[paragraphs and commas added]

A memorial of an indenture of lease made the seventeenth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty four between

John Limrick of Union Hall in the county of Cork esquire

of the first part

Elizabeth Anne Townsend of Skibereen in the county of Cork widow

Lyttleton Henry Lyster of the city of Dublin esquire

Joseph Henderson of the said city of Dublin esquire

and Anne Henderson otherwise Lyster his wife

Roger North of the said city of Dublin esquire

and Matilda North otherwise Lyster his wife

George Olgivie of Brooklyn near the city of New York in America esquire

and Louisa his wife otherwise Louisa Lyster

Pauline Lyster of the city of Cork spinster

Joseph Pigott Rogers of three Spring Field Road Wen’s Tree Hill, Bristol, in England esquire

and Margaret Frances his wife of the city of Cork

of the second part

and Commissioners for administering the laws for relief of the poor in Ireland of the third part

Whereby after reciting as therein it is witnessed that the said John Limrick

by and with the consent and approbation of the said Elizabeth Anne Townsend, Littleton Henry Lyster, Joseph Henderson and Anne Henderson, Roger North and Matilda North, George Olgivie and Louisa his wife, Pauline Lyster, Joseph Pigott Rogers and Margaret Frances his wife testified as therein

demised granted set and to farm let unto the said Commissioners and to their successors and assigns all that and those that part of the lands of Cooradarigan now in the possession of the said Commissioners being part of the half plowland thereof and on which the work house of Skull union and fever hospital have been erected and built together with the lands adjoining thereto or by what other name or names soever the said lands now are or heretofore have been known reputed or distinguished containing in the whole six acres and twelve perches statute measure be the same more or less all situate lying and being in the parish of Skull Barony of Westcarbery and County of Cork being part of the lands formerly in the tenure and occupation of the Reverend Paul Limrick deceased and his under tenants and as more particularly set forth and described in the map or plan traced on said lease

To hold the said demised premises with the appurtenances unto the said beneficiaries their successors and assigns from the twenty ninth day of September last for the term of twenty one years in as full large ample and beneficial a manner as the said Reverend Paul Limrick or his representatives theretofore held and enjoyed the same at the yearly rent of six pounds thirteen shillings and four pence sterling to be paid half yearly as therein and which lease contains a covenant on the part of the said John Limrick to renew said lease whenever he should himself obtain a renewal and the covenants usual in such leases

and the executions of said lease and this memorial thereof respectively by the said John Limrick is witnessed by Edward Geale of Marboro [sic] street in the city of Dublin and by Paul Limrick of Marlboro [sic] street in the city of Cork solicitors

John Limrick (seal) …………………..etc etc

Ed^w Geale ~ Sworn before me this 3^rd day of Novr 1854. P V Fitzpatrick A R

(CN email 20 Apr 2009)

Deed 1868 19 292 in the Registry of Deeds

Transcription:

A memorial of an indenture of lease dated the twenty ninth day of November one thousand eight hundred and fifty nine made between

John Limrick of Union Hall in the county of Cork esquire Eliz Anne Townsend of Zion Cottage in said county widow Joseph Pigot Rogers and Margaret Frances his wife of [blank] Littleton Henry Lyster of the city of Dublin esquire Matilda North of [blank] Paulina Baker of [blank] and Louisa Ogilvie of [blank] all of the one part

and Frederick Browne of Skull gentleman of the other part

said memorializing indenture witnessed that for the considerations therein the said John Limrick as well for his own part as in trust for the several persons of the first part demised unto the said Frederick Browne all that and those part of the lands of Meenvane on which a dwelling house had been erected containing in front thirty eight feet and in depth from front to rere eighty six feet bounded on the north by Alexander Cole’s ground on the south by the high road leading to Crookhaven on the east by a plot of ground on which the houses of Alexander Cole were built and on the west by Robert Williamsons house and situate in the parish of Skull barony of West Carbery and county of Cork

To hold the same from the twenty ninth September then last for the term of twenty years subject to the yearly rent of two pounds six shillings payable as therein

and said memorializing indenture contained a covenant on the part of the said John Limrick his executors administrators or assigns that when and so often as he or they should obtain a renewal or new lease of the same premises to execute a renewal or new lease of the premises thereby demised to the said Frederick Browne his executors adm~ors or assigns until by such renewals and the term thereby granted the term of sixty one years from twenty ninth September then last should be fully completed.

Witnesses to said indenture as to the execution by the said John Limrick and Frederick Browne were William Bennett Baldwin of Ardmanagh in the county of Cork esquire and Alexander Cole of Skull in said county gentleman and witnesses to this memorial as to its execution by the said John Limrick are the said William Bennett Baldwin and William Regan of Skull in said county farmer

John Limrick (seal) …………………. etc ……………….. etc …………………….

Sworn before me at Skibbereen in the county of Cork this 22^nd day of June 1868 a Commissioner of Her Majesty’s Superior Court of Common Law in Ireland for taking affidavits for said courts in and for said county of Cork and I know the deponent James Cha^s Mooney Com^r.

(EN email 17 Feb 2009; CN email 9 Apr 2010)

Note: this deed was registered 3 years after Matilda Lucy Lyster is thought to have died. The date of the deed itself is earlier: 29 Nov 1859

Note 2: Marriage of LYTTELTON HENRY LYSTER of 161 LR GLOUCESTER ST and JANE LYSTER of BLACK LOCK CO CORK on 19 March 1846 at St Thomas parish, Dublin. Husband son of Lyttleton Lyster, bride dau of Charles Lyster (COI records, CN email 20 Nov 2010)

Memorials of an Ancient House records the following issue of Lyttleton Lyster and Charlotte Cameron Limrick:

Georgina Margaret, b. 1812, d. 1813;
Lyttelton Henry Lyster of Union Hall, Co. Cork, and of Dublin, b. at Great Suffolk St., Charing Cross, 21 July 1814; bapt. Hammersmith Church 14 Aug. following. Obtained commission ist Royal Surrey Regt. about 1848 (was Lieut, in 1853). He inherited, through his mother, portion of the Limrick estates at Schull, Co. Cork, which he sold about 1860. He was, in his earlier life, a keen athlete, yachtsman, and sportsman. During the terrible visitation of the cholera in the south of Ireland he worked with the doctors as a volunteer, eventually contracting the disease, but only in a mild form. He d. 24 Nov. 1890, at Laracor Vicarage, Co. Meath, and was bur. in the Churchyard at Laracor. He m. at St. Thomas's, Dublin, 1846, his first-cousin, Jane Lyster, dau. Charles Lyster (above). She d. in Londonderry 13 June 1904, and was bur. in the City Cemetery there, 16 June. Though in her eighty-seventh year (having lived in the reigns of five sovereigns), her wavy auburn hair was still quite bright, and scarcely touched with grey.
Louisa Caroline Lyster, d. 31 Dec. 1894, having m. at Myross Church, 24 March 1836, Rev. William Francis O'Neil, by whom, who d. 10 Jan. 1842, she had issue two sons, William and Hugh, who d. unm., and a daughter, Charlotte O'Neil. She m. 2ndly George Ogilvie, Esq., and by him had issue a son—George Ogilvie, of Brooklyn, New York.
Elizabeth Marianne, b. 1816, d. unm. 1836, bur. Brade; William Alen, b. 1818, d. unm. 1837, bur. Brade Churchyard, Myross, Co. Cork;
Charlotte, b. 1819, d. unm. 1848;
Paul Limrick, b. 1821, d. 1822;
Margaret Lucy, b. 1822, d. 1823
Anne Judith Lyster, b. 30 Dec. 1824; m. Rev. Joseph Rawdon Henderson, an English Rector, and d. 1863, having had issue by him four daus.
Matilda Lucy Lyster, b. 2 April, bapt. Myross 14 May 1827; d. 1867, having m. 1849 Rev. Roger North (nephew of Peter North, who had m. Georgina Lyster, p. 84), and had issue
George Annesley Lyster of Posilipo, Monkstown, Co. Dublin, formerly of Schull, Co. Cork, which property he sold about i860 ; b. at Glandore, Co. Cork, July 10, and bapt. at Myross Church 20 July 1828; godson and namesake of his cousin George Annesley, Earl of Mountnorris ; d. 2 Oct. 1910 at Monkstown, and was buried at Dean's Grange Cemetery there. He m., 25 May i860, Marian Morgan, dau, Patrick Morgan, Esq., County Inspector Royal Irish Constabulary, by whom, who d. 8 Oct. 19 10, he had an only surviving child
Pauline Lyster, bapt. Myross 9 Jan. 1831, d. 31 Dec. 1904, having m. ist, 21 Jan. 1855, Yelverton Baker, Esq. She m. 2ndly, 17 April 1865, Michael J. O'Brien, Esq. By her first marriage she had issue a son and two daus.
Richard Townsend, b. 1833, d. 1834;