A Collection of Deeds & Correspondence Relating to Llands Formerly Owned By Robert Shaw MP Terenure Dublin Circa 1808-1882.

Terenure House and Bushy Park, Dublin

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This collection comprises: (1) A 7pp. contemporary copy of a deed of assignment of part of the lands at Terenure, Co. Dublin in March, 1837; (2) A 13pp. Conveyance of Lands of Terenure 19th January, 1849. Primarily between Richard E. & Henry Hawker Bourne, but tracing the ownerdhip of the lands from the ownership of Sir Robert Shaw MP back to 1808. (3) A 4pp.part mss.petition filed on the 18th, December, 1856 in the Court of Chancery (Ireland) by Margaret Bourne, the wife of Henry Hawker Bourne & filed by her friend Beverly Smith. The respondents are her husband H.H. Bourne, John & Richard Edward Bourne & Matthew Coffey. (4) The final portion of this collection comprises 8 items, including 7 mss.letters pertaining to matters connected with issues arising from the foregoing documents circa 1857-82. It seems as if Margaret Bourne's petition arises from the breakdown of her marriage to H. Haker Bourne and an attempt to get back a dowry paid by her father of £2000. It seems as if this was used by her husband to invest in the Terenure and possibly other lands in Dublin. The Shaw family of Bushy Park, Terenure, was a very important and prominent family in Dublin's financial and civic life. Bushy Park House and Estate was the family home from 1796 until its sale to Dublin Corporation in 1953. The estate included lands in Terenure, Kimmage, Crumlin, Roundtown, Dublin city and the Parish of Rathfarnham, which, unlike today, were mostly farmlands in the nineteenth century. The estate lands were managed effectively and parts were leased to tenants to generate income, which in turn was used to maintain the family house. Sir Robert Shaw, 1st Baronet (29 January 1774 -10 March 1849) was a Tory UK Member of Parliament who represented Dublin City from 1804 to 1826. Sir Robert's great-great-grandfather, William Shaw, had gone to Ireland and fought for King William at the Battle of the Boyne in 1689, and was rewarded by the grant of land there. William's great-grandson, Robert Shaw sr., moved to Dublin in the mid-18th century, prospered as a merchant and became Accountant General of the Post Office. In 1785 he acquired Terenure House, an estate of 35 acres (140,000 m2). His eldest son, Robert, was born in 1774. On 7 January 1796 Robert jr. married Maria, daughter and heiress of Abraham Wilkinson, and as a dowry received £10,000 together with a 110-acre (0.45 km2) estate, Bushy Park (possibly named after Bushy Park in Teddington) which adjoined Terenure House. Six months later he succeeded his father to the Terenure estate, which he sold in 1806, establishing Bushy Park House as the family seat (which was then occupied by members of the Shaw family until 1951). Between 1799 and 1800, Shaw served in the Irish House of Commons for Bannow. In a by-election on 31 March 1804 Shaw replaced the former Tory MP John Claudius Beresford. Shaw retained the seat until he retired, at the dissolution of Parliament, in 1826. He was also appointed High Sheriff of County Dublin for 1806 07. He was created a baronet (i.e. becoming Sir Robert) on 17 August 1821, being formally invested by George IV when he visited Ireland in 1822. Maria died in 1831 having borne nine children. Sir Robert's cousin, Bernard Shaw, had died in 1826 and Sir Robert had provided Bernard's widow, Frances, with a cottage on the Terenure estate where she lived for the next 45 years. One of Frances' grandchildren, George Bernard Shaw, was to be a regular visitor. On several occasions Sir Robert proposed to Frances, but he was turned down each time In July 1834 he married Amelia Spencer at Twickenham Parish Church. The couple kept a home in Twickenham, and were closely involved in the formation of the Twickenham Independent (Congregational) chapel. Sir Robert died on 10 March 1849 at Bushy Park, Dublin. These documents represent are an important primary record relating to the Terenure House estate and the subsequent evolution of Bushy Park. Size: Folio. Seller Inventory # 017670

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