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Title

Richard and Anna Purefoy Jervoise

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MS. Mabel FitzGerald 88

Summary

Diaries and notebooks belonging to Mabel FitzGerald's paternal grandmother Sarah Anna Elizabeth FitzGerald's parents Richard Purefoy Jervoise and Anna Victoria Purefoy Jervoise, nee Story:

Folder 1: Diary Richard Purefoy Jervoise, Aug 1809-Aug 1810, with notes on Spain and 'A Description of Lisbon, Portugal, as I found it on our arrival there from Ireland in September 1809'/ 'A Second visit to Lisbon Feb. 10th to 23rd 1810'; list 'Marches in Portugal', Dec 1809-1810 [Peninsular War, Portugal]. Also includes a letter Anna Purefoy Jervoise to Richard Purefoy Jervoise in Portugal, 5 Aug 1810.

Folder 2: Two notebooks Richard Purefoy Jervoise containing military memoranda, 1809-1810, and expenses/accounts, 1809-1811. [Peninsular War, Portugal]

Folder 3: 'Pocket ledger for the Year 1811' [diary, accounts] Richard Purefoy Jervoise [Peninsular War, Portugal], 1811.

Folder 4: 'Executorship Account under the will of the late Major Richard Purefoy Jervoise deceased 1811, 1811-1830.

Folder 5: Notebook/scrapbook Anna Victoria Purefoy Jervoise, c. 1811-1819.