PAPERS OF JOHN DELGARNO, ESQ.

Delgarno's papers have been divided, those with a clear bearing on the Heytesbury estate are with the main series of Wills and Settlements, JER/HBY/104-131, and those deriving from his other affairs, including his work as an agent for Captain Charles Hill and Lieutenant Thomas Trusty Trickey are here in this separate section.

The documents are arranged as one bundle in straight-forward date order.

John Delgarno's relationship with the Holmes and Worsley-Holmes families remains somewhat enigmatic. He was a property owner in his own right and this property included shares in the Limerick estate acquired partly by inheritance from his friend, Elizabeth Roberts, JER/HBY/110/2, and partly by purchase. Though a trustee under the settlement of 1808/9, JER/HBY/119/1, he remained unconnected with the family until the marriage of his daughter Anne with Leonard Thomas Worsley Holmes in 1813. On his own death in 1818 his unsettled property, that is to say everything except his shares in the Limerick estate which was settled jointly on his two daughters, was devised to trustees to be sold.