Introduction to the Porter Papers
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The papers of the Porter family of Belleisle, Lisbellaw, County Fermanagh, and Clogher Park, Clogher, County Tyrone, 1828 to 1950, derive from four different sources:
The Porter section of the Falls & Hanna of Enniskillen solicitor's archive comprises c.900 documents and volumes 1830 to 1950, but mainly around 1880 to 1950
John Grey Vesey Porter's (incomplete) set of his own newspaper, The Lisbellaw Gazette, comprises 16 volumes (including one from a different provenance), 1879-1885, 1887, 1889 to 1899 and 1901
The Irish Land Commission sale papers from the Land Registry archive (LRI) on the Porter estates, in Tyrone as well as Fermanagh, include c.500 documents and volumes, 1828 to around 1940
Eight rentals of the County Fermanagh estate of Thomas S. Porter and John Porter-Porter, 1895, 1900, 1902, 1904 to 1905, 1910, 1915 and 1920