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CSO/RP/1830/161

Letter from Lord Doneraile [Hayes St Ledger, 3rd Viscount Doneraile], [London Hotel?], Albemarle Street, [London, England], to Thomas tailor, [clerk, Chief Secretary’s Office, Dublin], enclosing a letter to forward to Mr [Rousekin?], and also asking for information regarding the election of representative peers, believing them to be imminent.

13 Jan 1830

1830

CSO/RP/1830/162

File of documents regarding seven charges of defalcation of public funds brought forward by Constable Owen Smith, Navan, [County Meath], formerly clerk to Lieut John Henderson, Sub-Inspector and pay clerk, Navan, against the same, with memoranda and illustrative accounting documents. Includes correspondence between Sir John Harvey [Inspector General, Kilkenny, County Kilkenny], who calls Smith’s motives ‘vindictive’, William Gregory, Under Secretary, Dublin Castle, John and James Henderson, and attorney W Wilkins whom Smith employs to serve a writ to Henderson for outstanding pay.

29 Jan 1830-9 Feb 1830

1830

CSO/RP/1830/163

Letter from William Kemmis, [crown solicitor], Kildare Street, [Dublin], to William Gregory, Under Secretary, Dublin Castle, returning two memorials to Hugh Percy, 3rd Duke Northumberland [Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Dublin], by Rose Ryan (marked not signed), widow, Nenagh, [County Tipperary], asking for an allowance seeing that she had to stand witness against the Wards in the murder case of her husband Michael Ryan, and by James Morrissey (marked not signed), Nenagh, also witness in the same case against William and Daniel Ward, asking for protection. Kemmis also includes a letter by Maj Samson Carter, Nenagh, [County Tipperary], advising to grant an allowance to both, seeing that they are needed as crown witnesses and might otherwise abscond, ‘be spirited away, or murdered’.

21 Jan 1830-8 Feb 1830

1830

CSO/RP/1830/164

Letter from John Cossart, secretary, Ballast Office, Dublin, on behalf of the Corporation for Preserving and Improving the Port of Dublin, to William Gregory, Under Secretary, Dublin Castle, enclosing a letter from J Herbert, Trinity House, London, approving of the Corporation’s plan for erecting a harbour light on Tarbert rock, River Shannon, and now asking government’s approval.

25 Jan 1830-30 Jan 1830

1830

CSO/RP/1830/165

File of monthly reports by the General Board of Health, [Dublin], to Hugh Percy, 3rd Duke Northumberland [Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Dublin], detailing the admissions of fever patients to Dublin hospitals. All reports detail admissions, deaths, discharges, and vacant beds for the House of Recovery, Cork Street, for the House of Industry hospitals, the Meath Hospital, and the Lying In Hospital. Most reports finish with summarising remarks signed by Dr Francis Barker, secretary, in one instance (October) containing a table of admission numbers for four years. Average mortality is one in 10.7; average daily admissions is 11.

Feb 1830-3 Jan 1831

1831

CSO/RP/1830/166

Draft letter by Sir Francis Leveson Gower, [Chief Secretary], Dublin Castle, to [Henry] Villiers Stuart MP, [County Waterford], regarding memorials by John Ryan, James Magrath and others [regarding the refusal of an assistant barrister to register their freeholds], pointing to their right of appeal, and stating an interference from the Lord Lieutenant would be unjustifiable. [See also CSO/RP/1829/1752, CSO/RP/1830/131.]

[11] Dec 1829

1829

CSO/RP/1830/167

Letter from [Dr] Edward Trevor, [superintendent and medical inspector of convicts], Dublin, to William Gregory, Under Secretary, Dublin Castle, detailing his examination of convicts on the Ship Forth, Cove [Cobh, County Cork], bound for New South Wales, and making a recommendation regarding public funds and the government’s instructions for masters of ships. Includes annotation by Gregory referring to the Navy Board.

28 Jan 1830

1830

CSO/RP/1830/168

Letter from John Killaly, [civil engineer], Dublin, to William Gregory, Under Secretary, Dublin Castle, enclosing a pamphlet [not extant] containing slander on his character by an unnamed ‘undertaker of public works’, also his brother in law; protesting his good character and pointing to public records to disprove the libel. Includes annotations by [Gregory], and [Sir Francis Leveson Gower, Chief Secretary], stating a similar paper was referred to Ireland Navigation, and stressing Killaly’s good character. [See also CSO/RP/1830/938.]

6 Feb 1830

1830

CSO/RP/1830/169

Letter from William Kemmis, [crown solicitor], Kildare Street, [Dublin], to William Gregory, Under Secretary, Dublin Castle, returning memorial by Edward McCaffrey, 22 South King Street, [Dublin], to Hugh Percy, 3rd Duke Northumberland [Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Dublin], having stood crown witness against persons accused of the murder of O’Meara, County Tipperary, asking for the rest of his remuneration; with Kemmis stating that McCaffrey received Stg£20 in April [1829].

9 Feb 1830

1830

CSO/RP/1830/170

Letter from Maj Samson Carter, [magistrate], Nenagh, [County Tipperary], to William Gregory, Under Secretary, Dublin Castle, returning memorial by Julia Fitzpatrick, Eglish, County Tipperary, asking for relief because her husband James has been incapacitated by a police bullet shot during a riot in Borrisokane. Carter confirms details, adding there are two or three widows with family as a result of police interfering at the riot and also mentioning money given by him and by Rev Spain; includes annotations by Gregory and Gower, Chief Secretary, sending Stg£20 to all. Also includes certificates by John [Leshane?], perpetual curate with John Bourke, church warden, Eglish; by five [magistrates], Borrisokane, County Tipperary; by Dr William Heise, Borrisokane, all testifying to Fitzpatrick’s disability. [Contains list of names not given in this description.]

6 Jan 1830-7 Feb 1830

1830