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CSO/RP/1824/581

Letter from Colonel John O’Neill, Tullymore Lodge, Broughshane, County Antrim, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, enclosing memorial from Reverend Thomas Carmichael, minister, 1st Presbyterian seceding congregation of Ahoghill, County Antrim, seeking a grant from fund of £200 [regium donum] for maintenance of his family. Laments his wife is suffering from ‘mental derangement’ and emphasises her need for financial support.

9 Aug 1824-10 Aug 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/582

Petition of Thomas Fleming and the inhabitants of town of Ballinagh, County Cavan, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, complaining of the conduct of the police stationed in the town and seeking redress. Fleming protests he ‘Cannot keep a Pigg [sic] or cow even to be milked on the road’ without interference from the police; he emphasises the ‘tranquil and quiet’ nature of the people ever ‘since the year 1794’.

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1824

CSO/RP/1824/583

Letter from JA Gibson, brevet major, Dungiven, County Derry [Londonderry], to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, requesting appointment to the post of superintendent magistrate of the police establishment of County Derry. Claims to be ‘tolerably well acquainted with the Northern Counties’ and expresses a hope his labour as county magistrate has been ‘attended with some advantage to the community’.

14 Aug 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/584

File of papers relating to an application from John McEnery for pecuniary aid for services in prosecution of the Whiteboys of County Limerick. Includes memorial from McEnery, late 1st battalion of rifle brigade, 149 James Street, Dublin, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, seeking advance of ‘pecuniary Compensation or Employment’ for services to the crown and to facilitate his departure to a safe place; claims to have played a significant part in the prosecution of Whiteboys Patrick Kelly, John Kelly, David Kelly and Thomas Duhigg at the assizes of Limerick; he contends ‘his person, property, & family, were Several times attacked, by the Maranders [sic] in that Wicked disturbed part’; encloses certificate of commendation in favour of McEnery signed by a colonel of the Rifle Brigade, Royal Barracks, Dublin, plus printed certificate of discharge from the army, 26 July 1824. Also includes letter from Mathew Barrington, crown solicitor [Munster circuit], to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, recommending McEnery ‘should be paid a Sum of Ten pounds to enable him to go to some other Country’, 26 August 1824. Also includes memorial from McEnery to Wellesley, requesting assistance from government for himself and family; he relates details of an attack on him while in lodgings on Barrack Street, Dublin, by John Gleeson, who stabbed him with a bayonet ‘Uttering these Words, you B[lood]y Informer I Understand you are Come from Limerick to do mischief in Dublin’, 20 November 1824. Also includes letter from McEnery to Goulburn, conveying his inability to take up an offer of a post with the police of Belfast due to a delay in the trial of Gleeson and requesting payment of ‘some further Gratuity’, 2 December 1824.

5 Jul 1824-2 Dec 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/585

Petition of Henry Bourke and James Bourke, 14 Dame Street, Dublin, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, seeking redress on account of the failure of Rodolphus Bourke to honour a ‘written’ agreement to pay a portion of income flowing from the post of auctioneer of the workhouse division. Indicates the compact was agreed by Rodolphus Bourke with their father, John Bourke, upon his resignation from office; adds that through resort to law proceedings they secured payment of 20 guineas per annum, a fraction of the income of post which they estimate at around £300 per year.

28 Aug 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/586

Letter from George Gibbs, [deputy clerk of the crown for County Mayo], 39 York Street, [Dublin], to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, reporting on the case of Elizabeth Garvin who he claims is not guilty of a ‘charge against her of exposing an infant’. Encloses copy affidavit of Garvin, Ballina, County Mayo, admitting to having left an ‘infant about three weeks old’ outside ‘on a path way’ at Scurmore in the vicinity of the dwelling of Reverend James Burrowes, magistrate, Enniscrone, County Sligo. Claims she remained ‘to watch at a distance lest any accident would happen to it’ and reveals she was followed by two men who detained her and brought her before Burrowes; indicates she was given the task of conveying the child by William Goodwing and the mother of baby is Nelly Gaughan, a maid servant from Ballina; testimony given before Michael Fenton, magistrate. Also encloses copy joint affidavit from James Shea and Martin Best, with account of proceedings surrounding Garvin and the abandoned child; alleges she ‘exposed her Breasts…to prove to them she was not the Child’s mother’, testimony given before Burrowes. Also letter from James Beatty, gaoler, Sligo Prison, to the Chief Secretary’s Office, Dublin Castle, reporting the reason for the discharge of Gavon [Garvin] from prison was the absence of her name on ‘the Calendar to the Sheriff by the Clerk of the Crown’. Also letter from ‘A Friend to Humanity’, Ballina, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, urging enquiry into the circumstances surrounding the discarded child and making accusation that ‘Betty Gavon' was promised 'She would be well Rewarded if she would destroy the child’; also alleges ‘the father of the Child that was to be destroyed is the Son of a Magistrate of the County of Mayo’.

21 Jul 1824-10 Sep 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/587

Letter from Thomas Spring Rice, MP for Limerick city, County Limerick, to the Chief Secretary’s Office, Dublin Castle, enclosing on behalf of the Commissioners of Limerick bridge, a copy letter from Alexander Nimmo, civil engineer, to Mr Arthur, secretary, recommending laying of the foundation stone for the new bridge in Limerick ‘during any of the Spring Tides’ of September. Also encloses text taken from minutes of proceedings of the Commissioners of Limerick bridge, reciting Nimmo’s letter and resolving to send a copy of the same to the Lord Lieutenant. Also draft letter from Dublin Castle to Arthur, conveying that due to ‘unexpected circumstances’ the Lord Lieutenant is unable to attend the proposed laying of the foundation stone of Limerick bridge.

24 Aug 1824-8 Sep 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/588

Petition of John Bergin, sub constable of police, Johnstown, County Kilkenny, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, seeking restitution against James Nowlan, Chelsea pensioner, 62nd Regiment of Foot, whom he alleges owes him arrears of £1 2s 2d for beef. Explains the sum is owed to butcher Michael Ryan of Johnstown, and he seeks an order for reimbursement of the money. Also certificate from Robert Neville, magistrate, County Kilkenny, recording that Bergin has made a declaration in person that Nowlan is ‘Lawfully Indebted’ to him for the sum stated.

28 Jul 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/589

Letter from John Ormsby Vandeleur, foreman of County Clare grand jury, Kilrush, County Clare, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, referring to a communication from [William] Vesey Fitzgerald, MP for County Clare, relating to the nomination of his brother, Reverend William Vandeleur, to succeed to the parish of Old Connell [Oldconnell, County Kildare]; also notes the terms of a ‘declaration’ required by Lord Lieutenant in connection with same. Also declaration signed by William Vandeleur, stating ‘there is no pecuniary transaction between me’ and Reverend Charles Eustace ‘connected with the resignation of the Living of Old Connell’; also includes similar declaration given by Eustace.

7 Jul 1824-26 Jul 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/590

Letter from Ralph Westropp, president, Chamber of Commerce, Limerick, County Limerick, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, expressing appreciation and seeking copy of formal instrument under which he was appointed ‘Mayor of the Staple of Merchants of this city’, with Joseph Massy Harvey and John Kelly elected to act as constables of same body. Also copy of decree conferring appointments on Westropp, Harvey and Kelly, with proviso to allow replacement officers in event of their not filling the positions.

1 Sep 1824

1824