Earl Wandesford's Claim, c. 1765 Co. Cork Lands: M/ss., 7 l...

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Earl Wandesford's Claim, c. 1765

Co. Cork Lands: M/ss., 7 large foolscap pages listing in great detail the property in Cork city held by Eponetus Cross, who died in 1702, and mentions more vaguely his “large estate” in the county. The descent of the property is then given in equal detail, the principal beneficiaries being his granddaughter Susannah, wife of George Wandesford, Viscount Castlecomer, and grandson William Wallis.

Lady Castlecomer left Cork when very young and lived in England. On finding out that she was entitled to a share of the property in Cork, she employed “a Person” to collect her rents, but she was only allowed to receive whatever William Wallis was prepared to give her. On her death (1757), her son John (created Earl Wandesford in 1758) claimed the missing bits and the arrears of rent, but on coming over to Cork he found that the property had greatly deteriorated. 

With William Wallis now dead, as is his only son “the late” Barachias Wallis (died 1765), so Wandesford claims his share of the property from William’s daughters, Helena (the wife of John Colthurst) and Clotilda (a minor, through her uncle and guardian Robert FitzGerald Uniacke).  The notary tasked with drawing up the case is enjoined to “make the Bill full strong as the nature of the Case will require so as that we may have satisfactory answers from all parties”. As a m/ss., w.a.f. (1)