IRELAND - MANUSCRIPT PEDIGREES

Two Manuscript pedigrees of the Bolton family of Mount Bolton, Waterford, late nineteenth-century

(i) Manuscript pedigree of the Bolton family of Mount Bolton, Waterford, and their descendants the Andersons (from Robert Carew) of Grace Dieu, also Wallis of Drishane Castle, Paul of Paulville and Ballyglan, and Perceval, compiled by Charles Newport Bolton (1816-1884), containing extensive notes on their history and pedigree, highlighting notable events (including life of Paul Anderson and death of Sir John Moore, see lots 85 and 88), illustrated throughout with family trees and line drawings of arms, country seats and the medals of Lieutenant-General Paul Anderson, one coloured coat-of-arms, pull-out drawing on tissue paper of the Battle of Alexandria identifying the protagonists, additional notes in pencil, interspersed with autograph free fronts and cut signatures of family members, newspaper clippings, printed matter, etc., c.78 leaves, pen, ink and watercolour, dust-staining, original embossed cloth, label titled 'Memorials of the Bolton Family' in gilt affixed to front board, worn and rubbed, 4to (226 x 176mm.), [nineteenth-century];

(ii) Manuscript pedigree titled "Memorials of the Boltons", dated 1860, seemingly a fair copy or variation of the above, illustrated with family trees, line drawings and manuscript reproductions of autograph free fronts, some sixteen silhouettes of family members affixed, five tinted lithographs of family seats and two printed folding family trees tipped in, 184 numbered pages, ruled, plus c.100 additional leaves of which c.50 blank, contemporary blind stamped calf, red morocco spine label titled 'Bolton Family' in gilt, chipped, g.e., 4to (230 x 190mm.), 1860; held in a custom-made cardboard box, together with three offprints of an article by Julian C. Walton, 'The Boltons of County Waterford', The Irish Genealogist, Vol.7, No.4, 1989, parts I, II and III; and six printed family trees, two rolls for the Bolton family, two rolls describing the Andersons of Grace Dieu and Wester Ardbrake, and two of Perceval with annotations, frayed, small tears, old repairs, sheets 895 x 610mm. and smaller, [early twentieth-century] (quantity)