Leabharlann Náisiúnta na hÉireann National Library of Ireland Collection List No. 156 Sweetman Family Papers (MSS 42,040 – 42,049; MSS 47,525 – 47,616; MSS L 172 – 194) Accession No. 6751 This collection contains family and estate papers relating to members of the Sweetman family from the 18th to the 20th centuries, as well as some papers of the related O’Connor and Blake families. The collection also contains the political and professional papers of John Sweetman (1844-1936). The papers of John Sweetman include material relating to Irish land agitations, Catholic education and missionary work, especially the Sweetman Catholic Colony in Minnesota, the Irish Parliamentary Party, Sinn Féin and the Gaelic League. The collections include letters of Charles Stewart Parnell, Justin McCarthy, Timothy Healy, John Redmond, Arthur Griffith, Douglas Hyde, D.P. Moran, Patrick Pearse, Fr. J.F. Sweetman O.S.B. as well as many prominent Catholic clergymen of the day. Compiled by Dr Owen McGee and Harriet Wheelock, 2010 1 Table of Contents INTRODUCTION............................................................................................................. 5 Blake and O’Connor Pedigree....................................................................................... 11 Brodie Family Pedigree .................................................................................................. 12 Sweetman Family Pedigree ............................................................................................ 13 PART ONE – SWEETMAN FAMILY PAPERS ........................................................ 14 I. Brodie, Blake and O’Connor Family Papers......................................................... 14 I.i. Genealogical Papers ........................................................................................... 14 I.ii. Family Papers and Correspondence .................................................................. 15 I.iii. Marriage Settlements and Testamentary Material ........................................... 16 I.iv. Financial Paper ................................................................................................. 18 I.v. Mount William Estate........................................................................................ 19 I.v.1. Estate accounts ......................................................................................... 19 I.v.2. Estate correspondence .............................................................................. 20 I.v.3. Case of Martin Blake v. Malachy O’Connor and others .......................... 21 I.v.3.a. Legal Papers..................................................................................... 21 I.v.3.b. Legal Correspondence ..................................................................... 22 I.v.3.c. Documents arising from the case..................................................... 22 II. Estate Papers........................................................................................................... 24 II.i. Merrion Square, Dublin .................................................................................... 24 II.ii. Land holding pre-1869..................................................................................... 25 II.iii. Drumbaragh Estate, Kells, Co. Meath ............................................................ 26 II.iii.1. Leases, transfers and other legal documents.......................................... 26 II.iii.2. Financial Administration ....................................................................... 27 II.iii.2.a. Account Books.............................................................................. 27 II.iii.2.b. Loose Accounts and receipts ........................................................ 27 II.iii.2.c. Salaries and Labour....................................................................... 27 II.iii.2.d. Stock Accounts ............................................................................. 28 II.iii.3. Estate Correspondence........................................................................... 29 II.iii.4. Maps and Surveys.................................................................................. 31 III. Household Papers.................................................................................................. 33 III.i. Household Accounts........................................................................................ 33 III.i.1. General Household Account Books........................................................ 33 III.i.2. Account books with tradesmen............................................................... 35 III.i.3. Summery Account Books ....................................................................... 35 III.i.4. Receipts................................................................................................... 36 III.ii. Servants........................................................................................................... 37 2 III.iii. Household Inventories................................................................................... 38 III.iv. Household Improvement................................................................................ 38 III.v. Miscellaneous Household Papers ................................................................... 39 IV. Financial Papers .................................................................................................... 40 IV.i. Account Books and loose accounts ................................................................. 40 IV.ii. Stocks, Shares and Investments...................................................................... 41 IV.iii. Bank Accounts .............................................................................................. 42 IV.iv. Income Tax.................................................................................................... 43 IV.v. Correspondence .............................................................................................. 43 V. Legal Papers ............................................................................................................ 45 V.i. Marriage Settlement and Testamentary Material.............................................. 45 V.ii. Other legal documents ..................................................................................... 46 V.iii. Legal Cost....................................................................................................... 47 VI. Family Papers ........................................................................................................ 48 VI.i. Genealogical Papers ........................................................................................ 48 VI.ii. Honoria Sweetman, 1804-1879...................................................................... 49 VI.ii.1. Correspondence ..................................................................................... 49 VI.ii.2. Travel Journals and Receipts................................................................. 50 VI.ii.3. Other items ............................................................................................ 50 VI.iii. Honoria (Nora) Sweetman, b.1833................................................................ 51 VI.iv. Alicia Sweetman, 1834-1884 ........................................................................ 51 VI.v. Margaret Sweetman, 1839-1926..................................................................... 52 VI.vi. Janette Sweetman, and the daughters of John and Honoria Sweetman......... 53 VI.vii. John Sweetman and Agnes Hanly ................................................................ 54 VI.vii.1. Correspondence ................................................................................... 54 VI.vii.1.a. Letters from John Sweetman to his mother Honoria Sweetman 54 VI.vii.1.b. Correspondence between John, Agnes and their children.......... 55 VI.vii.1.c. Other family and personal correspondence of John Sweetman.. 55 VI.vii.1.d. Personal Correspondence of Agnes Sweetman .......................... 58 VI.vii.2. Other items .......................................................................................... 59 VI.viii. John Walter Sweetman, 1898-1961............................................................. 59 VI.ix. Malachi Sweetman ........................................................................................ 60 VI.x. Patrick Sweetman ........................................................................................... 60 VI.xi. William Sweetman ........................................................................................ 61 VI.xii. Honoria and Alicia Sweetman...................................................................... 61 VI.xiii. Walter Sweetman of Clohamon, 1833-1905 ............................................... 62 VI.xiv. John Andrew Sweetman .............................................................................. 64 VI.xv. John Oliver Sweetman.................................................................................. 65 VI.xvi. Other family papers ..................................................................................... 65 PART TWO – PAPERS OF JOHN SWEETMAN...................................................... 67 VII. Political Career..................................................................................................... 67 VII.i. Early political associations, 1866-67 ............................................................