Introduction to the Brookeborough Papers
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The Brookeborough papers comprise around 3,500 documents, around 115 volumes and 6 outsize photographs and formal documents, 1575, 1639 and 1658 to around1975, deriving from the Brooke family of Colebrooke, Brookeborough, Co. Fermanagh, baronets and (from 1952) Viscounts Brookeborough.
D998 is, basically, the Colebrooke Estate Office archive, 1713 to 1951. D3004 also contains some estate material, particularly title deeds and leases, 1575 and 1639-1896 (D3004/A), but its principal and more important component is family and political papers, the majority of them deriving from Sir Basil Stanlake Brooke, 5th Bt, created Viscount Brookeborough in 1952, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, 1943-1963.
Five minor previous deposits have been incorporated in it: D1029, T1358, D1478, D2316 and T2389. Another, larger previous deposit, T1042, has not been incorporated in D3004, although it has been superseded by it.
Effectively, therefore, PRONI's holdings of Brookeborough Papers are now to be found at D998 and D3004.