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Account book of the Irish Jesuit Province.

A file of account sheets of the Hibernian Bank Limited in account with Fr William Delany SJ and Fr Thomas Wheeler SJ

A file relating to a case Daniel Ryan deceased, Kenny versus Ryan. Includes a letter from [ ], Solicitor, Galway to Irish Fr Provincial Patrick Keating SJ concerning '...Delahunt's affair.' Continues 'The parties I got the money from are now pressing for payment.' (22 September 1897, 1p).

Parties:
Rev. William Ronan SJ, Mungret College, Limerick and Rev. Thomas Wheeler SJ, Rev. Thomas V. Nolan SJ and Rev. James Bury SJ, Milltown Park, County Dublin.

Property:
(Peppen) Phrapper/Phepper Lane and Beresford Street, Parish of Saint Michan, County Dublin and part of the farm, town and lands of Ballenrankah/Ballyrankah now called Ballyrankin, Parish of Kilrush, Barony of Scarawalsh, County Wexford and Palace Row, northside of the gardens of the Lying In Hospital, Dublin.

Costs from Thomas J. MacGrath, Solicitor, 15 Kildare Street, Dublin to Rev. Thomas Wheeler SJ, Fr Thomas V. Nolan SJ and Michael Browne SJ in respect of a deed of indemnity and the will of Miss Mary Nicholson and a bequest of 3300 to Fr Nicholas Walsh SJ..

Death certificates for Fr Thomas Wheeler SJ.

Documents regarding Thomas Wheeler's entrance into Holy Orders. (In Latin)

File of letters addressed to Fr Thomas Wheeler SJ. Mainly relates to financial matters as Fr Wheeler was Province Procurator at the time. Includes letters from:

• W.J. Gannon, Stillorgan, who wishes to become a lay brother with a congregation in Hatfield, England (1 December 1907);
• Fr Timothy Kenny SJ, St Patrick’s, East Melbourne thanking Fr Wheeler for ‘getting the faculties to bless Beads’ (29 July 1908);
• Fr. William Delany SJ, University College, St. Stephen’s Green requesting that a separate passbook and chequebooks be established solely for ‘the Kennedy account’, and that no money be drawn unless for the purposes expressed by Mr Kennedy. (8 September 1909);
• Fr Richard O’ Reilly S.J. , St. Stanislaus College, Tullamore detailing the offer of Mr. Joe Corcoran of £500 for the 46 acres of land belonging to the Jesuits adjacent to Tullabeg (3 November 1910) and the legalities involved in the sale of land, trustees and the future of Tullabeg (13 November 1910)

File of photographs belonging/taken by Fr Bernard Page SJ:

• Boys at Clongowes
• Jesuit villa house, Rossdhu, Moyard, Connemara, Galway (1906)
• Celtic Cross and Round Tower, Monasterboice, Louth
• Cong Abbey, Mayo
• Murrisk Abbey, Mayo
• Achill Head, Mayo
• Burrishoole Abbey, Mayo
• Lord Ardilaun’s seat, Ashford, Cong, Mayo
• Ashford Castle, Cong, Mayo
• Milltown Villa group (1909)
• Distant view of Muilrea, Mayo
• Distant view of Croagh Patrick, Mayo
• Jesuits Matthew Davitt, Thomas Wheeler and Joseph Wrafter
• Jesuit on horseback, ready to climb to Crucachan, [Roscommon or Kerry]
• Jesuit on top of Crucachan, [Roscommon or Kerry] - Back row: Mr William Hackett, Mr Frank Browne, Mr Patrick Connolly. Front row: Mr John O'Connor, Fr Vincent Byrne, Mr John Byrne and Fr McCormack.
• Cromwell’s Fort, Inisboffin
• Connemara cattle, Galway
• Connemara school, Galway
• Connemara landscapes, Galway
• Diamond Mountain, Connemara, Galway
• Killary bay, Mayo & Galway
• Glendalough, Mayo
• Ballinakill bay and Kylemore Pass
• Salruck and Little Killary, Galway
• View from Rossleague, Letterfrack, Galway
• Villa House, Rossleague, Letterfrack, Galway (1907)
• Jesuit villa group, Rossleague House, Letterfrack, Galway (1907). Back row: Bernard Page, Frank Browne, John O'Connor and James Dillon-Kelly. Front row: Frs James Whittaker, Lambert McKenna and Frederick Gill.
• Ordinations at Milltown Park (31 July 1907)
• Letterfrack, Galway
• Lough Fee, Galway
• Lough Fee and Lough Muck, Galway
• Kylemore Castle, Galway
• St Kevin’s Bed, Glendalough, Wicklow
• Fr Vincent Byrne and Mr Flynn and Barraghy next to the Old oratory on Croagh Patrick, Mayo
• Mr James McCann SJ driving a car
• Front of Belvedere House, Belvedere College SJ, Dublin
• Interior of Belvedere House, Belvedere College SJ, Dublin
• Belvedere College cycling club trip with Mr Frank Browne to Mellifont Abbey, Louth
• Bellerive, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
• Botanical gardens, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
• Schoolboys with Archbishop of Melbourne, Thomas Carr Taken in 1/45 of second while archbishop was speaking to boys by same BFP

Group photograph of Irish members of the Society of Jesus. Includes:
Edward Dillon (1);
J Dwyer (2);
Mulcahy (3);
Sullivan (4);
John Fallon (5);
? (6);
? (7);
Esmonde White (8);
Michael McGrath (9);
McEgan (10);
? (11);
Joseph Flinn (12);
? (13);
? (14);
? (15);
Egan, J (16);
? (17);
? (18);
? (19);
Patrick O'Brien (20);
Patrick O'Mara (21);
Michael Garahy (22);
Patrick Connolly (23);
Bart Coghlan (24);
Ermest Spillane (25);
? (26);
Gus O'Kelly (27);
James Maher (28);
William O'Keefe, (29);
Edward Sydes (30);
Richard Murphy (31);
William Lockington (32);
? (33);
? (34);
Thomas Wheeler (35);
Patrick McGrath (36).

Group photograph of Irish members of the Society of Jesus. Includes:
Br Michael Naughton; Br Joseph Mulvany; Joseph Lamsfus; William Kelly; Laurence Potter; Mulcahy; Thomas O'Dwyer; Gaspar van Spaendonck; Ernest Spillane; Bart Coghlan; Patrick Connolly; Michael Garahy; Timothy Corcoran; Esmonde White; Sydes, D.; Kelly; Patrick O'Brien; Joseph Healy; William Lockington; M Maher; Fallon; O'Meara; Edward Dillon; John Egan; Joseph Flynn; Gus Kelly; Patrick McGrath; Michael McGrath; Andy MacErlean; Thomas Wheeler; Albert Power; John MacErlean; Henry; William Kelly; John Hughes; Eugene Browne; Peter Finlay; William Flynn; Andrew Rorke.

Letter from Emily Foley, 156 Clonliffe Road, Dublin 3, to Fr Thomas Wheeler SJ relating to the costs of drawing up her will.

Letter from Fr Alfred d’Adhémar SJ of the Toulouse province to the Irish Provincial Fr Nicholas Walsh SJ. Discusses the progress of Mr Thomas Wheeler SJ, and his departure from the province. (In French).

Letter from Fr Arthur Collingwood SJ to Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V Nolan SJ.

Letter from Fr Charles Farley SJ, Procurator at Clongowes Wood College SJ to Fr Thomas Wheeler, Minister at Milltown Park, Dublin concerning some financial expense details (20 September 1900-8 November 1906), compiled by Br Denis Fennell SJ, which he hopes will satisfy the Procurator of Milltown Park, Dublin, Fr Eugene Browne SJ.

Letter from Fr Jeremiah Sullivan SJ, St Ignatius College, Riverview, Sydney to Fr Thomas Wheeler SJ concerning the voyage to Australia and news from Riverview. Refers to retreats given by Fr Edward Sydes and Fr Tom Walsh. Remarks '...(they) are Sydney's great rival preachers...(Fr Walsh) is to give a retreat to the St. Vincent de Paul Society this week and is styled on their posters and handbills as "one of the most attractive and eloquent of the younger Jesuits" '.

Letter from Fr John S. Bourke SJ, St Patrick's College, East Melbourne to Fr Thomas Wheeler SJ, Dublin, Ireland concerning news from Australia. Expresses concern over Fr Patrick Tighe's landing in Australia. Remarks 'consumptives are not admitted nowadays and three who came as far as Fremantle with us were turned back there.'

Letter from Thomas Wheeler SJ to Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V Nolan SJ.

Letter from J. P. Hall, Solicitor, 100 George Street, Limerick to Fr Thomas Wheeler SJ, Crescent House, Limerick concerning Fitzgerald's Estate.

Letter from Mr John Mary O'Connor SJ, writing from Brussels, to Fr Thomas Wheeler SJ. Asks the latter to communicate with Messrs Sheridan & Kenny – solicitors of Fr O'Connor’s mother – in relation to the ‘Dowling mortgage’.

Letter from Norbert L. Moran, solicitor, Dublin, to Fr Thomas Wheeler SJ. Encloses a bill for miscellaneous costs (not included). Also refers to his efforts for a sale of Tobercurry.

Letter from Sheridan & Kenny, solicitors, to Fr Thomas Wheeler SJ. Encloses a cheque for £136.1.3, being part of the costs incurred by Fr Wheeler in the case of the estate of Dowling, and the debt due by the latter to Fr O’Connor.

A file of letters concerning the Dromore property (Loyola House) belonging to the Society of Jesus. At the time the Jesuits were not occupying Dromore, but leasing the land for grazing. The estate was eventually sold in 1918. Includes a note, written on the back of an Income Tax Assessment form, concerning the names vested in the Dromore estate.

Letters from Mr Henry Croasdaile SJ, Stonyhurst College, Lancashire, England to Fr Thomas Wheeler SJ. Accompanied by cheques for amounts of money, which constitute his share of property left to him by his mother on her death.

Letters written to Fr Thomas Wheeler SJ from W.J. Gannon, House of John of God, Stillorgan, County Dublin, and Anathoth, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England, relating to his future spiritual life. In the first letter he writes, ‘I am now satisfied that it is God’s holy will that I am not to serve Him as a Jesuit…’.

A file relating to 35 Hardwicke Street, Dublin. Includes deeds relating to this property (25 March 1810-17 June 1854). Includes a letter from Maxwell, Weldon and Company Solicitors, 40 North Great George's Street, Dublin to Fr Thomas Wheeler SJ, The Presbytery, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin concerning the deeds '..for the purpose of enabling us to report on the title of you community to the premises, 35 Hardwicke Street' (5 March 1912, 1p). Includes:

• lease by Richard Warren, Hardwicke Street, Dublin, Attorney-at-law to Thomas Higgins, Dublin, Attorney-at-law, 25 March 1810;
• assignment of house on Hardwicke Street, Dublin by Thomas Higgins, Dublin, Attorney-at-law, to Owen Nowlan, Waterstown, County Kildare, 27 April 1815;
• deed of assignment by Owen Geoughehan Nowlan, Waterstown, County Kildare to Rose Delahoyde, widow, Dublin, 24 August 1815;
• settlement on the intermarriage of James Lecky [soldier[, Eight regiment of Foot, with Miss Elizabeth O'Grady, Temple Street, Dublin [1810]-[1850];

In 1814, a Jesuit community took over the vacant Poor Clare convent in Hardwicke Street, Dublin. St Francis College was established at Hardwicke Street in 1832 however it proved to be too small for this emerging school. New premises were needed and Belvedere House, Great Denmark Street was bought in 1841.

Material relating to Jesuits in Athlone, County Westmeath in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Includes:

• extract from the Journal of 'The Old Athlone Society' comprising an article entitled 'The Jesuits and Athlone In The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries', by Fr Francis Finegan SJ, p.77 – 83 (1970-71, 8pp);
• typescript entitled ‘Residentia Athloniensis’ concerning early references to a Jesuit house in Athlone, c.1605 by Fr Patrick O'Kelly S (19 October 1961);
• letter from W.W. English, Old Athlone Society to Fr Francis Finegan SJ (9 October 1971);
• list of Jesuits from the Meath diocese 1563 - 1773 and
• biographical notes of Jesuits born in Meath diocese post 1773.

Note written by Fr Edmund Hogan SJ concerning books he bought out of his book fund that should have been paid by Fr Wheeler SJ.

Poem in Spanish dedicated to Fr Thomas Wheeler SJ written on the Feast of the Epiphany.

A file of receipts from the Sun Fire Office, later the Sun Insurance Office, London for premiums received from the Jesuit Fathers.

File containing extensive documentation concerning the will of Charles Kennedy and his bequest to the Society of Jesus. The Society used the proceeds from this bequest to construct University Hall, Hatch Street. The extent of the file can be explained by the numerous properties owned by Charles Kennedy and the necessary documentation that inevitably accompanies ownership of property, receipts and vouchers from professional companies involved in the construction of University Hall and the fact that the will of Charles Kennedy was contested by his brother Frank Kennedy. His legal action was unsuccessful (29 January 1909 & 30 January 1909 & 30 May 1912, 3 items).

A file relating to the will of John C. Mackey, Nenagh, County Tipperary, father of Fr Ernest Mackey SJ in which he names his son as one of his beneficiaries (one fifth of his property).

Will of Miss Margaret Maxwell, 22 Dawson Street, Dublin in which she bequeathed her estate to Fr Nicholas Walsh SJ, Fr Thomas Wheeler SJ and Fr Peter Finlay SJ, Milltown Park, Dublin for masses to be said for her soul and the souls of her parents.