| Title: | Messrs Wallace and Co, Downpatrick, to F.W.E. Savage. |
|---|---|
| ID | 3172 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Wallace, J/105 |
| Year | 1890 |
| Sender | Wallace, J. |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | Wallace & Co. |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Downpatrick, Co. Down, N.Ireland |
| Destination | unknown |
| Recipient | Savage, F.W.E. |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | business |
| Source | D 618/258: Presented by Major R. Savage-Armstrong, J.P., Strangford House, Strangford, Co. Down. |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland |
| Doc. No. | 9808583 |
| Date | 20/11/1890 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | LET |
| Log | Document added by LT, 28:08:98. |
| Word Count | 429 |
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| Note | |
| Transcript | ARDKEEN ESTATE 1893 Copy letter from Messrs Wallace & Co, Downpatrick, to F.W.E. Savage Downpatrick 20 November, 1890 Dear Sir, Ardkeen Estate We are in receipt of your letter of [the?] 18 We did not write to the Army & Navy Club any letter to you but we are only too glad to give you all the information that we can at present [respecting?] the above estate, & we quite enter into your feeling about it as are the descendants of the Savage family. When we found it necessary to sell this estate, we found the tenancies & many other matters connected with it in a state of great confusion, & after a great deal of difficulty and enquiry we have brought it now into [-------?] like order & have a Receiver appointed over it under the direction of the Court. The title was exceedingly [troublesome?] and the surveys were fully as much so. We think we have now mastered the former & very nearly so the latter, but it will be many months before the estate is offered to the public for sale, & we [question?] very much if the condition of the property is such as that a private offer would be entertained. This we shall know in the course of a short time, & we will [---?] [--?] too glad to communicate the result to you. You ask how the tenants buy leases. They have [not?] got leases, but the greater portion have had judicial rents fixed, & the rents have of course been lowered [thereby?]. The next rent [roll?] of ten estate is about œ3000, and the acreage about 3500 acres. These two latter we do not [----?] for accuracy, but it is all we can give you at present. There is considerable difference amongst the tenantry on the different portions of the estate. On some [points?] they are struggling, on other [points?] they are a fair sample of tenants, so much so that it has been said a portion of them would be able to buy their holdings. There is not a map that we could spare you, but there is one map made a considerable ago (1885) which shows the estate at a glance. Now a tracing of this map would cost you about œ2-2-0. The notices which have to be seved on the tenants will have a map annexed. [Ours?] we expect will be ready in the course of three or four weeks, & one of these can be sent to you. [-------?], as soon as the rentals are ready we will take care & send you one addressing it, we presume, to [L?] [-?] [lent?], [Cornwall?] Yours faithfully J [s?] Wallace Wm [William?] [N?] Wallace F.W.E. Savage Esq. [L?] [-?] [lent?] [Cornwall?] |
