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A Letter from Mrs. Ann King to the Revnd John Talbot - 20 June 1770.
A letter from Mrs. Ann King to her brother, the Reverend John Talbot in England, dated 20 June 1770. On undated watermarked paper. The letter has a very early example of the straight line ROSCOMMON namestamp. Postage paid of 4d (cancelled) and a postage due of 1 and 2 (in manuscript on front). (To read a transcription of the letter see HERE) This interesting letter is from Mrs. Ann King (nee Talbot) to her brother the Reverend John Talbot of Kirklington, North Yorkshire in England. In the letter she tells us that their other brother resides at Mount Talbot. The Talbots of Mount Talbot were descended from a younger son of the Talbots of Malahide in the 16th century. They were transported to some of the O'Kelly lands in county Roscommon under the Cromwellian settlement. She also mentions Will Talbot - possibly William who, in 1828, was a member of the Grand Jury Panel of County Roscommon. The Roscommon Talbots intermarried with the Berminghams - Lords Athenry, the Rose and Lloyd families of county Limerick, and the Crosbies - Earls of Glandore. From this letter it seems they may also have been related to the Clanrickard and Butler (of Kilkenny) families?
John Talbot of Mount Talbot married Marianne McCausland in 1845 and they were divorced by Act of Parliament dated 29 July 1856. In the 1870s William John Talbot, a minor, owned over 3,500 acres in county Roscommon. He was also the owner of over 450 acres in county Galway. More than 400 acres of the estate of William John Talbot were vested in the Congested Districts' Board on 18 Nov 1912. W. J. Talbot and his wife died in the early 1920s having left Mount Talbot to live in London. The estate was divided by the Land Commission. Mount Talbot House was built ca. 1750 and was burnt during the War of Independence in 1922.
Sources: www.thepeerage.com, http://www.landedestates.ie/LandedEstates/jsp/estate-show.jsp?id=1445, |
