Rare Survivor of 1922 Destruction of Dublin Public Records Office, Judgement of Rev. Samuel Kyle, Judge Consistory Court, Cloyne 1853, Illegal Baptism, Sommerville V Robinson.

After the Demise of the Consistory Courts the Cork and Cloyne Court records, including wills from the 1500s went sent to the Public Records Office in Dublin and were all destroyed.  One well known archivist on getting up every morning puts a curse on those who set off the bombs.

1850, Cork Consistory (Probate/Matrimonial) Court, Vice-Chancellor (Judge) Venerable Samuel Kyle, Holder of Multiple Benefices and Sinecures, Non Resident in London Registrar, Barrister, Mr. Henry Stopford Kyle, Work done by Deputy, All Proctors Protestant, Case of Intestate Alexander McCarthy, Butter Merchant Intestate and the Ursuline Convent.

1850 Evidence of The Venerable Samuel Kyle, LLD, Vicar General of Dioceses of Cork and Cloyne, on Consistory (Probate) Court, Registrar Henry Stopford Kyle, Barrister, Resident in London, 6 Proctors, 4 Advocates All Protestants. In Registry Attached to St. Finbarr’s Cathedral, Cork, Book of Wills since 1575, Classified wills from 1606-1850, Court Documents from 1755 (All Probably Destroyed in 1922).

Cork and Cloyne Court:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FWBV3gRAeVpYqD5Nlq9j4by9xQGww9Y141pT1mZshpA/edit

 

Consistory Court Cloyne 1853