Co. Waterford: Ledger of the Godfrey family of Kilcolman Cas...

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Co. Waterford: Ledger of the Godfrey family of Kilcolman Castle, in Lismore, Co. Waterford, 1924-1926.
The ledger containing household expenses for the Godfrey family of Lismore from January 1924 to September 1926. 40 ff (the rest blank).
Expenses include services of a washerwoman; purchases of food; school fees of W.M. Godfrey at Clifton College, Bristol; Dungarvan Show; Dromana Hunt Ball; “John Vaughan, shoeing horses”; etc.
John Ernest Godfrey was agent to the Duke of Devonshire at Lismore Castle (where his father-in-law John Edmund Currey had previously been agent) until 1926 when he inherited Kilcoleman and the title of baronet on the death of his father; he died in 1935 and was succeeded by his son Sir William Maurice Godfrey, who sold Kilcoleman in the 1960s and on whose death in 1971 the title became extinct. As a Ledger, w.a.f. (1)