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CSO/RP/1824/221

Letter from Donough O’Brien, secretary, Office of Public Accounts, Dublin, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, acknowledging application of Mary Anne Fitzgerald, widow, for financial support and indicating a certificate of contributions to the Superannuation Fund made by her late husband WR Fitzgerald has been forwarded to the Lords of the Treasury. Encloses memorial from Fitzgerald to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, seeking advance of the final quarter salary earned by her husband and sum of £3 15s paid into the Superannuation Fund and ‘such other Charitable provision…in order to enable your afflicted Memoralists to return to her native Country [England]’. She stresses her poverty of circumstance and claims her husband’s ‘remains were interred at the expense of Strangers’ following a period in Dr Steven’s Hospital in Dublin.

28 Jan 1824-20 Feb 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/222

Letter from Charles Malcolm, Captain of the King’s yacht [‘William and Mary’], Royal Harbour of George IV, Kingstown [Dún Laoghaire], County Dublin, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, enclosing letter from Samuel Raven, captain, ship ‘Essex’, Kingstown, to Malcolm, seeking permission to remove a sunken vessel moored in a location adjacent to the Royal yacht in order that he might occupy that space with the ‘Essex’ which is to be deployed as a convict hulk. He cautions the task must be commenced immediately due to the ‘constant ground swell in this Port, and having her mast standing, she will sink down into the Sand’.

23 Feb 1824-25 Feb 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/223

Letter from Edward Cotter, late soldier, Patrick Street, Waterford, County Waterford, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting government influence to force intervention by Henry Alcock, magistrate, against Mathew Dugan, whom he accuses of committing an act of fornication against his step daughter, Bridget Farrell, a ‘Simple Girl’. Alleging that Dugan, ‘an opulent farmer’, engaged in sex without consent with the girl, who was employed as maid at his dwelling in Bessborough, County Kilkenny, after which she became pregnant and claiming that Dugan attempted to entice her to name ‘an old Simple Country man’ as the father but on her refusal he withdrew his offer of financial support for her yet unborn infant. Also affidavit of Farrell contending that Dugan committed adultery with her and ‘is the father of the Child She is Carrying by which She is incapable of Earning Her Bread By him’, sworn before Alcock. Also affidavit of Mary Cotter [mother of Farrell], reiterating the charge against Dugan and making claim that he promised to pay maintenance towards Farrell's welfare and that of her child. Also note on financial settlement offered to Farrell by Dugan with comment by Alcock, ‘I think this a very fair settlement if agreed on’.

17 Dec 1823-c18 Feb 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/224

Letter from John Longfield, Longueville, Mallow, County Cork, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, seeking a reply to application made to the Lord Lieutenant to take retirement on half salary from post in Board of Works. Also letter from Henry Goulburn, Irish Office, Westminster, London, to Gregory, directing that Longfield be advised that ‘the amount of allowance to be given on retirement is a question undecided’ as the issue of removal of supernumerary commissioners is before the Lords of Treasury.

29 Jan 1824-5 Feb 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/225

Letter from Henry Townsend, secretary, Irish Fishery Office, Dublin, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, enclosing letter from AH Hutchinson, Customs Board, London, tendering his resignation as a commissioner of the Irish Fishery Board. Cites pressure from personal circumstances as principle reason for resignation, making attendance at meetings ‘quite out of the question’.

16 Feb 1824-19 Feb 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/226

Letter from Major Alexander Taylor, Alderman Mark Bloxham and Thomas N Edgworth, Commissioners for Paving, Paving Corporation House, Mary Street, Dublin, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, acknowledging receipt of letter and paper with charges made against their board by the Lord Mayor of Dublin [Drury Jones]. Returning document listing ten charges, covering complaints in relation to removal of manure from streets, condition of paving, condition of public footways, lack of sewers in Cole’s Lane and Drury Lane, failure to pave and clean markets, failure to remove obstructions from certain streets, lack of cleaning and lighting at city outlets, failure to remove heaps of muck after cleaning, lack of gas lighting throughout city and attitude of ‘Great inattention’ to queries raised by public, with ‘observations’ written in response to each by commissioners. Also letter from George Archer, secretary to the Lord Mayer, Mansion House, Dublin, to Gregory, enclosing ‘a Statement respecting the negligence and inattention of the Paving Board’. Also letter from Taylor and Bloxham, to Gregory, complaining of an article published in the ‘Morning Star’ newspaper alleging the paving board behaved in a disrespectful fashion towards the Lord Mayor and gentlemen of the jury, and offering an explanation of events complained of. Also copy of the ‘Morning Star’ with column marked in ink headed ‘Inefficiency of the Paving Board! Insolence of the Commissioners! Their Unmannerly, Offensive, and Daring Demeanour [sic] Towards the Lord Mayer of Dublin, and Twenty Gentlemen of the Market Jury!’, dated 17 February 1824. Also ‘Extracts of correspondence between the Right Hon[oura]ble the Lord Mayer and the Commissioners for Paving’.

30 Oct 1823-6 Mar 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/227

Petition of Michael Lilles, Ennis, County Clare, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting appointment to a post in the police establishment of any county in Ireland. Refers to the loss of property by his father, the termination of his own education in Trinity College, Dublin, and the financial burden of supporting ‘a Sickly Wife and Ten Children’.

13 Feb 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/228

Petition of Patrick Griffin, farmer, Caher, County Limerick, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting compensation due to loss of dwelling and belongings. Complains his ‘house was attacked and levelled [sic] by a party of Insurgents in the month of February 1822 and all his Hay, Corn and other property destroyed’; adds he assisted in the prosecution of the gang leader John Ready, who was tried and subsequently transported. Also note from Mathew Barrington, crown solicitor, Munster circuit, to the Chief Secretary’s Office, Dublin Castle, conforming Griffin’s evidence at the trial of Ready and observing ‘If he made the proper Application at the Assizes he would have obtained a presentment for Damages’.

6 Feb 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/229

Copy petition of Patrick Kelly, Limerick, County Limerick, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting appointment to the post of inspector of game laws for County Limerick or to ‘Situation Connected with the new intended Bridge in this City or in the Custom House’. Claims to have served as a ‘Cornet in the Army and has been in a Yeomanry Cavalry Corps during the [1798] Rebellion’; document signed by John Futhil, high sheriff of County Limerick, and 37 other individuals. [Contains list of names not given in this description]

[1824]

1824

CSO/RP/1824/230

Petition of Austin Foohey, Ballina, County Mayo, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting appointment to a post in the police, as a water guard or in a veteran battalion. Claims to have served for a period of 16 years in the North Mayo Militia, and has the recommendation of Colonel Cuff and Major Jackson; asserts in reference to a previous application for employment as a water guard at Castlebar, ‘I would have been appointed…but it was thrown out by [the] Magistrates who had appointed their own Friends and Followers’.

11 Feb 1824

1824