Introduction to the Howard Bury Papers
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The Howard Bury papers copied by PRONI include 500 documents and 3 volumes 1702 to 1919, deriving from the late Lt-Colonel Charles Kenneth Howard Bury (1883 to 1963), of Charleville Forest, Tullamore, King's County, and Belvedere, Mullingar, Co. Westmeath.
These two properties and estates merged, for the first time, in him; and the arrangement of the archive reflects their separate history before his inheritance of Charleville through his mother, the heiress of the Bury family, Earls of Charleville, in 1931, and his inheritance of Belvedere from his exceedingly remote kinsman (by the half blood), Charles Brinsley Marlay, in 1912. Of the two, Charleville and the Burys are more fully documented than Belvedere and its successive owners.