I would be most interested in rents or any documents identifying the Dreaper family. Richard Dreaper was, I believe, a middleman for the Wandesford and owned/rented a farm in early 1800s. Best wishes on your search. Tom Draper > > > Add/check your County Kilkenny surname at: > http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/Kilkenny/ > > Today's Topics: > > 1. NLI-Wandesforde papers (Deborah Fox) > 2. Re: NLI-Wandesforde papers (khanley@keyisp.com) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 08:31:40 -0400 > From: "Deborah Fox" <deborahlargefox@verizon.net> > Subject: [KILKENNY] NLI-Wandesforde papers > To: <irl-kilkenny@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <07EC41C7F92442CA84DC47DE3486FCFB@DeborahLaptop> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Preparing for my May trip, I am trying to organize my research. Hoping > to research the Wandesforde estate papers, I downloaded the 202 page > finding aide to the collection. While many items are apparently not > useful to genealogical research, there are many papers dealing with > rents, tenants, and the mines. Has anyone looked at the Colliery Account > books or rent receipts? What I am wondering is--do these contain lists > of names or are they simply financial in nature? I will only have a day > or two to research at the NLI (it is clear that I will have to make > another trip!), and would like to narrow my list of files to request > before I go to maximize my chances of obtaining lists of names. > ___________________________________________ > Deborah Large Fox > www.deborahlarge.com > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 09:15:22 -0400 > From: "khanley@keyisp.com" <khanley@keyisp.com> > Subject: Re: [KILKENNY] NLI-Wandesforde papers > To: irl-kilkenny@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <380-22007445131522527@M2W005.mail2web.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > > Deborah, > What area of Kilkenny are you researching? > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > mail2web LIVE ? Free email based on Microsoft? Exchange technology - > http://link.mail2web.com/LIVE > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the IRL-KILKENNY list administrator, send an email to > IRL-KILKENNY-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the IRL-KILKENNY mailing list, send an email to > IRL-KILKENNY@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IRL-KILKENNY-request@rootsweb.com with the word "unsubscribe" without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the email with no additional > text. > > > End of IRL-KILKENNY Digest, Vol 2, Issue 29 > *******************************************