Call Number:

SC.009

Repository:

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Extent:

.1 linear ft. (.1 linear feet (4 folders.))

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College, Ernest H. Bennis Papers, 1930-1946.

Date:

1930-1946 (inclusive)

Creator:

Bennis, Ernest H. (Ernest Henry), Malcomson, Alexander, and Jenkins, Charles Francis, 1865-1951

Abstract:

Genealogical and Historical manuscripts, clippings and photographs relating to Quaker families in Ireland, particularly in Limerick, Dublin and Waterford. One manuscript on the Malcomson family was co-written by Alexander Malcomson. Includes information on industries in which Quakers were involved as well as Quaker aid during the famine and the Fenian Rebellion. Also contains correspondence with Charles Francis Jenkins in which Bennis requests that his writings be passed on to the Friends Historical Library.

Ernest H. Bennis, a birthright member of Limerick Monthly Meeting, was an amateur Irish Quaker historian. The eldest child of Joseph Fisher Bennis, a grocer, and Emilia Frances Carrol, he married Helen Margaret Pike, a member of Limerick Monthly Meeting, in 1901.