Hi
I have written two volumes and travel about England attending family history fairs.
In respect to the Ford estate papers, apparently when Fordes left they put much of the family papers on a dump but someone collected them and sent them with the Forde bits to Northern Ireland. The Forde papers are in the Northern Ireland records office.
Here are the references
MIC599 - Microfilm - Contains volume of Maps of the Coolgreany Estate with Maps of Individual townlands and names of the tenants. Includes Knockgreany and Ballyfadd.-
D566 - Forde Papers - Contains rentals, rent books, leases relating to the Wexford estate again a copy of anything which mentions the Green/e families of Knockgreany, Ballyfad and Coolgreany.
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Forde papers D240
T2749
Forde, Lady Harriet, papers D2577
Forde, Mathew, documents T155
T219
T637
T3373
Forde and Milliken papers D2410
Forde and Stitt documents T1436
Forfeited Estates' Trustees papers T3365
The village of Coolgreany lands were purchased by Nicholas’s fifth son, Matthew Forde (who later sat in the Irish House of Commons in 1642) as part of a wider acquisition of estate lands in Kinelarty in County Down, which he purchased from Thomas Cromwell, Viscount Lecale between the years 1615 and 1636.”
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yes, I have read the book by Peggy Doyle is that is the one you mean?
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