Introduction to the Clanmorris Papers
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This is a document summarising some of the most interesting and significant content within the Clanmorris archive (D4216) held in PRONI.
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The Ward Papers include around 3,725 documents and around 85 volumes, 1604 to around 1950, on the Ward family of Castle Ward, Strangford, Co. Down, who were created Barons Bangor in 1770 and Viscounts Bangor in 1781, and to the Hamilton family of Bangor, Co. Down, whose co-heiress they married in 1709, to the junior branch of the Ward family who succeeded to part of the Hamilton estate and in the 19th and early 20th centuries lived in Bangor Castle, and to estate affairs, social life, politics, mainly in Co. Down.