Papers of the Burton family, County Carlow
- Identity
- Statement Reference Code IE CCA P1
- Creation Dates 1570-1972
- Level of Description Fonds
- Extent 604 items
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- Context
- Creator(s) - The Burton family of Burton
Hall and Pollacton House, County Carlow
Administrative / Biographical history -
Benjamin Burton (died 1728) was an Alderman in Dublin and served as Lord Mayor in 1706. He
represented Dublin as a Member of Parliament (MP) between
1703-1723. He purchased lands in 1712 at Burton Hall
(formerly called Ballynakelly) and elsewhere in Carlow from
the Trustees for the Sale of Forfeited Estates. He
established a bank in Dublin in the early 1700s but in 1733
the bank collapsed and Parliament passed an Act vesting the
real and personal assets of directors in trustees. Several
documents in the collection make reference to this Act of
Parliament. Apart from Benjamin Burton, several other
members of the family are frequently named in documents in
the collection. His son, Charles Burton, was knighted in
1750 by the Viceroy and created a baronet in 1758. He was
also an MP for Dublin between 1749-1760. Another son of
Benjamin Burton, Colonel Robert Burton, was MP for County
Carlow between 1727-1760, and for the Borough between
1761-1765. In all, between 1700-1770, eight members of the
Burton family held seats in Parliament for Carlow, Clare,
Sligo and Dublin. Charles, the 2nd Baronet, remodelled
Pollacton (or Pollardstown) House circa 1803. He married
Catherine Cuffe, daughter of the 2nd Baron Desart, in 1778.
Their son Charles, the 3rd Baronet, was born in May 1779 and
married Susannah, daughter of Joshua Paul Meredith. Their
son, Charles, the 4th Baronet, died unmarried in 1842. The
baronetcy created for Charles Burton in 1758 became extinct
in 1902 with the death of Sir Charles William Cuffe Burton.
He left most of his assets to his niece, Grace Ellen Burton,
wife of Sir Francis Charles Edward Denys, who assumed the
additional name of Burton, and her sister, Gertrude Mary
Burton. Lady Denys Burton’s heir was her third daughter,
Georgina Denys Burton. She was the last of the family to
live at Pollacton House. She left her property to her nephew
who demolished Pollacton House in the early 1970s. The house
at Burton Hall was sold in 1927 and demolished around 1930.
Content & Structure Scope & Content - This
collection comprises estate papers of the Burton family.
Most documents relate to property transactions and refer to
lands in and around Carlow town; in the city and county of
Dublin; and the townland of Dangansallagh, county Tipperary.
The collection also contains several marriage settlements
and wills. Arrangement Documents have been arranged in
chronological order. Often, archival collections containing
documents relating to property transactions are sub-divided
by townland or other land division. However, this did not
prove to be consistently possible in the case of this
collection.
Conditions of Access & Use Access - Conditions
Available for research by appointment with the Archivist.
Conditions Governing Bound volumes and documents on
parchment Reproduction may not be photocopied but digital
photography is generally permissible.
Related Material - Carlow County Archives holds a
further small collection of documents relating to the Burton
family and dating from the 19th-20th centuries. This
collection has not yet been catalogued and is therefore
currently unavailable for research.
Note - Placenames are often spelled inconsistently
in documents or have varied over time. In order to simplify
searching, where it is known, the modern spelling of
placenames has been placed in parentheses in the catalogue
after the spelling used on the original document. More
infrequently, the same convention has been used for personal
names. Where used in the catalogue, square brackets indicate
uncertainty.
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