Introduction to the Perceval-Maxwell Papers
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This is a document summarising some of the most interesting and significant content within the Perceval-Maxwell archive (T1023, D1556, D2480, D3244, D3817 and D4218) held in PRONI.
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The Perceval-Maxwell papers include around 15,500 documents and around 200 volumes, 1606 to 1969, on the Maxwell, later Perceval-Maxwell, family of Finnebrogue, Downpatrick, Co. Down, and Groomsport House, Bangor, in the same county, and to the Moore, later Perceval-Maxwell, family of Moore Hill and Saperton, both near Tallow, Co. Waterford, and to their estates, mainly in Down and Waterford but also in Cos Cork, Londonderry, Monaghan, Tyrone, Tipperary, Waterford and Wexford, in London and in Canada (the whole of Amherst Island, Ontario).