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POSTAGE and PACKING RATES UNCHANGED SINCE 2000 (EXCEPT LARGE ITEMS/COLLECTIONS)
Entire Letter ex MILLBROOK HOUSE to TUAM: TIPPERARY 100 Milage
1824 Attractive Entire Letter ex 'MILLBROOK HOUSE' addressed to 'Richard Eaton, Tuam'
Finr 'TIPPERARY/100' Mileage Mark
Manuscript '1/1'
Dublin date-stamp verso
Correspondence written on 'Superfine' Paper, Embossed with 'HARP'
The forebears of the Greenes of Millbrook House in the far south of County Kildare lived at Kilmanaghan Castle and Moorestown Castle in County Tipperary. A great grandson of the family patriarch Captain Godfrey Greene moved up to settle near Carlow. William Nassau Greene (1714-1781) was a businessman and magistrate, and built a residence known as Kilkea Lodge (c. 1740) adjacent to the ancient Fitzgerald seat at Kilkea Castle, where his descendants are still resident. A younger son, John (1751-1819), who became High Sheriff of Kildare and Captain of the Castledermot Yeomanry, built a neighbouring house at Millbrook with the help of his father. It was completed in 1776 with its attendant mill and millrace off the River Griese, which had replaced an earlier mill in the nearby Kilkea Castle demesne. The house passed through generations of the family until finally the mill ceased operating under Thomas Greene (1843-1900), a poet and author who was made High Sheriff of Kildare in 1895. '
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An attractive Wrapper, archive folds, small stain top edge, small tear bottom edge.
The continuation of an interesting and varied collection of material from the British Commonwealth, Europe, Rest of the World and Great Britain (Pre-stamp, Queen Victoria, the Four Kings (Edward VII, George V, Edward VIII, King George V and Queen Elizabeth II.
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