I would be grateful if someone could tell me which were the main landed estates in the Thurles area. I am trying to track down an ancestor whose occupation is given as 'land steward' - what did this job involve? And are there any records? [email protected]

One of the large estates around Thurles was the Trant holdings at Dovea .The Trant papers are available in the National Library - if you go to the NLI site http://www.nli.ie/en/homepage.aspx and search the manuscripts catalogue you will get a brief description of the Trant papers available. Another was the Carden estate of Templemore and a smaller branch at Barnane- There is a family history of the latter written by a descendant Arthur Carden . If you google Carden in both locations you may find more information. I expect other listers will be able to add some other estates. It may help if you had a specific time period for your ancestor, Clare ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rosemary Wake" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 4:52 PM Subject: [IRL-TIP] Estates and land stewards >I would be grateful if someone could tell me which were the main > landed estates in the Thurles area. I am trying to track down an > ancestor whose occupation is given as 'land steward' - what did this > job involve? And are there any records? > > [email protected] > > > > _______________________________________________________ > Griffith's Valuation: http://www.failteromhat.com/griffiths.php > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 6 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 508 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len The Professional version does not have this message