[Maynooth / Colehill – County Longford] – Handcock, Reverend William / Handcock, Robert Ball.

Two Manuscript Notebooks of Reverend William Handcock and his son, Robert Ball Handcock. The Notebook of William Handcock is titled: “Letters & Addresses on various subjects by Revd. William Handcock” and are of special interest since he had the habit of transcribing in it complete letters he sent and received from noteworthy people in Ireland during the Famine – years 1842 (February) – 1854. These letters are often meaningful appeals to newspapers, church administrators or clergymen like William Baillie Kirkpatrick (1802 – 1882), Irish Peers (e.g. William Trench, 3rd Earl of Clancarty) etc./ The Manuscript Notebook of William’s son, Robert Ball Handscock, was started in June of 1846 (in Maynooth) and is simply a manuscript scrapbook with poetry and stories of favourite poets of the time (including an Index).

Maynooth / Radanstown (Meath) / Cole Hill (Longford) etc., 1841-1854. Octavo. 181 pages [Diary of William Handcock] / 140 pages plus 4 pages of Index [Diary of Robert Ball Handcock]. Hardcover / Original 19th century half-leather with paper-covered boards. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

Letters and Petitions and Addresses transcribed in this Manuscript – Diary of William Handcock include many Letters he wrote himself to authorities or Newspapers at the Time, Letters he received as Rector of Clontarf, Rector of Radanstown (Meath) and Rector of Kilnagross (Diocese of Ross), Friends, Colleagues etc. but William Handcock also included transcriptions of Letters of contemporaries , colleagues and people who had written to Newspapers or the Crown, which he found interesting.

Letters and Addresses include for example:

1. Address from the Roman Catholic Inhabitants of Clontarf to the Revd. William Handcock (page 117 – 119)

2. Letter to the Maynooth Grand Diocese of Meath – To the Reverend Samuel Magee – [Rector of] Rathmolyon Glebe (Maynooth, June 1848? / Page 107 – 110)

3. Letter “To the Rent Charge – To the Landed Proprietors of Ireland – Maynooth Dec.15 / 1848” (page 102 – 106)

4. Letter from a Lady to Revd. W. Handcock on…..the Right of Private Judgment in Matters of Religion – Clifton Vale, April 12 – 1841
(Page 73 – 77 and followed by the long answer of the Reverend William Hancock on Pages 77 – 86)

And many more !!!


Biographical Information on Reverend William Handcock (1795-1873)

Rev. William Handcock was born on 22 December 1795 in Dublin, Ireland. He was the son of Rev Robert Handcock D D and Jane Bryanton.
William matriculated at Trinity College, Dublin, on 1 July 1811. William Handcock, pensioner (Mr Fea), aged 15, son of Robert, clericus, born Dublin. William late Rector of Kilgariffe, Diocese of Ross, co. Cork; Leslie states: priest 1820 (Dromore), Vicar choral St Patrick’s Cathedral 1819-21; Curate Ardee (Armagh) 1820, Prebend and Vicar Ballisodare (Achonry) 1821-9, exchanged with Charles Mulloy for Rector of Clontarf 1829-40; Rector Radanstown (Meath) 1840-52; Rector Kilnagross (Ross) 1852-8; resigned. Succeeded to his father’s estate at Cole Hill, co. Longford between 1820 and 1858. Rev William Handcock married Sarah Coddington on 6 January 1821. He owned an estate of just over 500 acres in the parish of Aughrim, barony and county of Roscommon in the 1850s. In the 1870s Mrs Sarah Handcock of Ballyknockan House, Ballypatrick, county Tipperary, owned 515 acres in county Roscommon.
William died on 3 January 1873 aged 77. (Source: Linley & Jim Hooper’s family history: “The genealogy of George A A Hooper, his wife Linley Maree McKenzie & her half sister Jennifer Anne Dunbar (Daniels) of Melbourne, Australia”)

• Keywords: Catalogue Irish History Three – From Famine to Free State · Catalogue Irish History Two – Origins of Irish Identity · Clifton Vale · Cole Hill (County Longford) · County Cork · County Meath · Irish History in the 19th century · Kilnagross (Diocese of Ross in County Cork) · Manuscript · Manuscript / Autograph – Rare · Manuscript History Rare · Manuscript Irish · Radanstown (County Meath)
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 31857AB

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