Laurence Patrick Duke.

The Last Will & Testament of Laurence Patrick Duke of Newpark, Co. Sligo and 27 Upper Leeson Street, Dublin (image at right, top). Dated 3rd. September 1895 and proven on 28th. October 1896 (image at right, bottom).

Laurence died on 7th. September 1896 at his home in Dublin. His executors were his widow Frances Helena Duke and his cousin Robert Alexander Duke.

The document concerns the disposal of land at Ballinamoney or Newpark in Co. Sligo and at Crossna or Tawndresshogue in Co. Roscommon. Crossna is in the Parish of Ardcarne and the Barony of Boyle.

Laurence mentions in the document that his grandfather and father made provision for this same land on 19th. August 1834 (this may have been when they acquired the land?) and Roger Duke (Laurence's father) is mentioned as the Lessor in Griffith's Valuation (1858) for Crossna Townland. All the land, apart from a small portion of bog, is rented out and the Dukes do not appear to have lived there!

Fr. Henry Tonra in his book "The Parish of Ardcarne" does not include the Dukes as major landlords (p.128)even though most of Crossna was in their possession according to Griffith. Fr. Tonra states that according to an unspecified document held in the Ardcarne area, Roger Duke held the land in Crossna in 1858 and Laurence P. Duke in 1883 (p.22). After the death of Laurence in 1896 the land passed to his eldest son Roger Philip Duke. (No further details are currently available).

The document has two seals (below). (The right hand one is illustrated twice).

Images are not to scale.

 

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