Item 12 - Statement of title of Frances MacDonnell to houses on North King Street

Statement of title of Frances MacDonnell to nos. 47 and 48 on North King Street, Dublin, pursuant to a lease dated 22 Apr. 1794 (See CA CS/2/2/4/1). The statement notes that Frances MacDonnell has ‘continued in possession and receipt of the rents ever since and on the 5th March 1861 purchased the interest of the lessors in the lease of 1794 then vested in the Right Honourable [Henry John Reuben Dawson-Damer, 3rd] Earl of Portarlington’. With a draft conveyance by Henry John Reuben, 3rd Earl of Portarlington, of a freehold interest in nos. 47-50 North King Street. c.1861. The draft conveyance recites that Anne Boyd (by a will dated 12 Mar. 1834) devised all her freehold interest in nos. 47-50 North King Street to the use of the Honourable Eliza Dawson-Damer, the mother of the 3rd Earl of Portarlington. The 3rd Earl agrees to convey the said premises to Frances MacDonnell in consideration of the sum of £705.