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CSO/RP/1829/271

Letter from Sir John Harvey, Inspector General of Police [for Leinster], Portarlington, [County Laois], to William Gregory, Under Secretary, informing him that [Capt John] Burke has been discontinued as a chief constable in County Wexford as of 10 March 1829 [See also CSO/RP/1829/92, CSO/RP/1829/160 and CSO/RP/1829/254]. Also reminds him that Chief Constable Donelan, previously of King’s County [County Offaly] has now been made supernumerary, following a reduction of the force in the province.

14 Mar 1829

1829

CSO/RP/1829/272

Memorial of Williams Gray, Baltinglass, [County Wicklow], to Hugh Percy, Lord Lieutenant, seeking employment in any suitable situation, in light of his previous service as Lieutenant with the 6th Regiment of Foot, with enclosed letter of reference from AH Gordon, Lieutenant Colonel of the 5th Dragoon Guards, Ballinrobe, [County Mayo]. Claims his father was also an ‘old Officer’ in the army, and that his brother, Lt Col Grey of the 30th Regiment ‘gloriously fell at the Storming of Badajos [Badajoz, Spain, 1812]’.

5 Feb 1829-10 Mar 1829

1829

CSO/RP/1829/273

Petition of Philip Duffy, [Newbliss, County Monaghan], to Hugh Percy, Lord Lieutenant, seeking protection following his service as a crown witness against those responsible for the ‘raising of David Burk [master of the Drumnan Orange Lodge, County Antrim] out of his silent grave and hanging him to a tree exposed to publick view for malises porpase’, and ‘rob[bing] him of his dead cloths’, on 13 February 1829, with enclosed statement outlining account of same, with list of c20 names. [Contains list of names not given in this description]

22 Feb 1828-[c23] Mar 1829

1829

CSO/RP/1829/274

Letter from Francis Despard, Dublin, to William Gregory, Under Secretary, recommending Daniel Butler to receive an allocation of land in America, ‘for his peculiar exemplary conduct during the five years he was engaged in the Prosecution of the Burners of the Sheas’.

24 Mar 1829

1829

CSO/RP/1829/275

Petition of Denis Gannon, Claremorris, County Mayo, to Hugh Percy, Lord Lieutenant, stating that he is 60 years old and that he is ‘always anoyed by his Son Edward Gannon with violence and very often and always a [?Hurted] Head’, and requesting that the local magistrates be ordered to arrest him.

20 Mar 1829-21 Mar 1829

1829

CSO/RP/1829/276

File of papers relating to memorial of John Farrell, constable in the Limerick police, to Hugh Percy, Lord Lieutenant, seeking promotion to position of chief constable in light of 3 current vacancies. Includes supporting letters from: William Smith [Subinspector and Pay Clerk of County Limerick], Rathkeale, to Maj William Miller, Inspector General of Police in Munster, Fermoy, [County Cork], informing him that Farrell has been recommended for the position by his uncle Chief Constable Farrell in Dublin; and Miller to William Gregory, Under Secretary, stating that since he last wrote, Farrell ‘has still more recommended himself to my good opinion’.

9 Mar 1829-11 Mar 1829

1829

CSO/RP/1829/277

Letter from James Cuming, [steward and providore of the] House of Industry, [Dublin], to William Gregory, Under Secretary, requesting that he and his wife [Catherine Cuming, housekeeper of the institution] be moved to a more suitable situation in the country. Encloses copy of letter he wrote to [Maj] Thomas Newcomen Edgeworth, Governor, suggesting that they be moved to the new Lunatic Asylum at Belfast [County Antrim], and outlining his reasons for his request, ‘the Physicians… have given it as their opinion that a change of air from Dublin to the country is now absolutely necessary to the hopes of a continuance of good health to me, after my severe and long sufferings from indisposition at the House of Industry, where I have served Fourteen years frequently exposed to Fever, and contagion, in all its forms’. Additional private letter from Edgeworth to unnamed recipient, requesting that Mr Mullen be appointed to Belfast instead of Cuming, stating ‘in doing so believe me I have no object but a wish that the new asylum should be made useful in its fullest extent’.

24 Mar 1829-26 Mar 1829

1829

CSO/RP/1829/278

Letter from Maj William Miller, Inspector General of Police [in Munster], Fermoy, [County Cork], to William Gregory, Under Secretary, forwarding opinion of Dr Pitcairn, Medical Office, Cork, relating to the state of health of 4 chief constables in the county, and recommending their discharge in light of same. Also copies of 2 letters from Gregory to Miller, requesting if a number of chief constables in counties Cork, Waterford and Kerry who are unfit for duty are entitled to a retirement allowance, and informing him that if they make an application for same, ‘directions will be given for their Examination by a Medical Officer’. [Contains list of names not given in this description]

6 Mar 1829-[c19 May] 1829

1829

CSO/RP/1829/279

Memorial of Daniel Rogers Tydd, Newcomen Bridge, North Strand, [Dublin], to Hugh Percy, Lord Lieutenant, outlining his distressed circumstances and requesting relief from the concordatum fund, in light of 30 years’ governmental service.

20 Mar 1829

1829

CSO/RP/1829/280

Memorial of John Longworth, 40 Montgomery Street, [Dublin], to Hugh Percy, Lord Lieutenant, seeking appointment as Messenger to the Stamp Office and Deputy Park Keeper of the Phoenix Park, following the death of Mr Cummins. Claims 11 years’ active service with the 31st Regiment during the Peninsular Wars, when he was wounded, and that he is now an out pensioner of the Royal Hospital Kilmainham with the 12th Royal Veteran Battalion.

21 Mar 1829

1829