Records of the Cork Commercial Buildings Company. Manuscrip...

Estimate

€1,500 - €2,000

Records of the Cork Commercial Buildings Company.

Manuscripts: Four volumes, leather-bound, containing records of the Company during the 19th Century:
·       Treasurer’s Account Current Book, containing details of income and expenditure from 1814 to 1874;
·       Letter book, containing copies of letters from 1840 to 1874, signed by the company’s secretaries, successively Anthony Perrier and James B. Perrier;
·       Transfer Book “no. 2”, containing details of the transfer of shares in the company, generally on the death of a shareholder, from 1857 to 1894; 292 entries;
·       Index of subscribers as of 25 March 1874.

A record of significant Cork interest, involving several hundred individuals in the city and neighbourhood. Also: a bound copy of the act for liquidating the Munster Bank and transferring its assets to the Munster and Leinster Bank, 1887.