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CSO/RP/1831/3961

File composed mainly of certificates of competence in drilling for yeomanry sergeants, drummers and buglers in counties Westmeath, Meath, Louth and King's County [County Offaly]; accumulated by Brig Maj Alexander Armstrong, commander of yeomanry. [Contains list of names not given in this description].

29 Jun 1831-12 Jul 1831

1831

CSO/RP/1831/3962

Letter from Brig Maj [Alexander] Armstrong, [inspector of yeomanry], 42 Lower Gardiner Street, Dublin, to the Under Secretary [Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset], enclosing a ‘Return of Permanent Sergeants of Yeomanry Corps’, chiefly in counties Westmeath, Meath, Louth and part of King's County [County Offaly]; returns are recorded in a table under the following heads: name of corps, name of sergeant, age, length of service, competency and remarks; drawing attention in his letter to the declining health of some of the men, especially [Joseph] Knox of Moate, Sgt Evans of Tullamore and Sgt Parker of the Mountain Rangers yeomanry of Birr [Parsonstown]. [Contains list of names not given in this description].

8 Mar 1831

1831

CSO/RP/1831/3963

Form for grant of leave of absence issued by Dublin Castle to Brig Maj [Alexander] Armstrong, [inspector of yeomanry]. Not completed.

1834

1834

CSO/RP/1831/3964

File of documents accumulated by Brig Maj [Robert] Bushe, inspector of yeomanry for counties Kilkenny, Wexford and Queen’s County [County Laois; Leix], primarily in connection with the replacement or recruitment of permanent sergeants to the yeomanry corps in his region; includes certificates of competence in drilling and letters of recommendation. Includes letter from Bushe, Bushy Park, Leighlinbridge, [County Carlow], to Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary, concerning a recommendation for John Atkin to get the post of permanent sergeant to the yeomanry corps of Shelmalier in County Wexford; observing the holder, Richard Kinsela, ‘in consequence of Insanity is totally incapable of Doing Duty’. Also enclosing a ‘Return of Permanent Sergeants of Yeomanry Corps’, chiefly in counties Wexford and Queens County [County Laois; Leix]; returns are recorded in a table under the following heads: name of corps, name of sergeant and age; with ‘Observations’ column filled out by Bushe. [Contains list of names not given in this description].

29 Jan 1831-8 Aug 1831

1831

CSO/RP/1831/3965

File of documents accumulated by Brig Maj Ninian Crawford, inspector of yeomanry for counties Mayo, Galway and Sligo, covering chiefly the topic of the recruitment of a permanent sergeant to the yeomanry corps of Ballina [County Mayo]. Includes memorial of John Bourns, formerly of North Mayo Militia, Ballina, to Henry William Paget, Lord Lieutenant, requesting appointment to the post of permanent sergeant of the yeomanry corps in the town of Ballina; stressing he ‘was not idle for more than twenty years in serving King and Country’. Also includes memorial of Robert Phibbs, Rathlacken, to Paget, seeking appointment to the excise police following the disbandment of the Castlelackan Yeomanry Corps, in which he acted as bugler. Also includes memorial of Sgt George Mostyn, Crossmolina, to Paget, requesting a retirement allowance on account of his past service and declining physical health; provides a brief outline of his earlier yeomanry service, stressing in particular his part in the suppression of such outrages as the Thrashing, Ribbon and Steel systems; also claiming to have been instrumental in the capture of a sizable number of ‘Infamous Characters’. Also includes letter from Lieut [William] Atkinson, Ballina yeomanry, Rehins, to Crawford, giving a recommendation for Thomas Atkinson to fill the position of permanent sergeant at Ballina; adding his late father occupied that distinction for a period of about fifteen years. Also enclosing a return of the ‘Permanent Sergeants of Yeomanry Corps’ in counties Mayo and Sligo; returns are recorded in a table under the following heads: name of sergeant, name of corps, age and remarks. [Contains list of names not given in this description].

25 Mar 1831-29 Nov 1831

1831

CSO/RP/1831/3966

File of documents accumulated by Brig Maj William Cosby, inspector of yeomanry for counties Dublin, Wicklow, Carlow and Kildare, primarily in connection with the replacement or recruitment of permanent sergeants and buglers to the yeomanry corps in his region. Includes letter from Robert Gun Cuninghame, Newtownmountkennedy, County Wicklow, to Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary, expressing his strong support for William Evans as a man suitable to act in the position of [permanent] sergeant to the local yeomanry corps; admitting that Evans does not have a military background but enjoys the ‘confidence and good will of the corps’. Also includes letter from Cosby, Belvedere Place, Dublin, to Gosset, reflecting on the failure of the bugler of the company of yeomanry at Athy [County Kildare] to report for duty; adding the permanent sergeant of the same place is unable to drill and has not yet been replaced. [Contains list of names not given in this description].

28 Mar 1831-7 Jul 1831

1831

CSO/RP/1831/3967

Letter from Thomas Bruce, yeoman, Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, to the military secretary, Dublin Castle, stating he has apprehended two deserters from the 52nd Yeomanry who go by the names of Egleton and Samson; indicating he presented the men before William Gabbett, magistrate, on the 31st of October; asking for issue of payment for his services.

20 Nov 1831

1831

CSO/RP/1831/3968

Incomplete draft letter from Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary, to the Deputy Adjutant General, for use in cases involving deserters from the yeomanry or army [sections left blank within].

1831

1831

CSO/RP/1831/3969

Letter from John Butcher and William Booth, Office of Ordnance, Dublin, to Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary, indicating that authority is given the storekeeper at Pidgeon House, Dublin, to receive into his hands a quantity of munitions being submitted by Lieut [Hugh Boyd] Wray, Sub-inspector of the Queen’s County.

1 Dec 1831

1831

CSO/RP/1831/3970

File of documents accumulated by Brig Maj John Dillon Croker, inspector of yeomanry for counties Clare, Limerick, Tipperary and part of Queen’s County [County Laois; Leix], primarily in connection with the replacement or recruitment of permanent sergeants to the yeomanry corps in his region. Includes letter from Capt [Michael] Martin, Killaloe Yeomanry, Killaloe, County Clare, to Croker, indicating he has received the resignation of the permanent sergeant of his yeomanry; recommending a person named John Winnell as a suitable replacement being ‘an active intelligent young man and an excellent clerk’. Also includes letter from Capt James French Rolleston, Dunkerrin Yeomanry Corps, Frenchfort Castle, to an unnamed recipient, referring to the necessity of having the permanent sergeant at Birr [Parsonstown] trained in the new technique of drilling; also proposing that a copy of a publication on field exercises, produced by the office of the adjutant general, Horse Guards, London [England], be obtained. Also includes letter from Capt [Michael] D’Alton, Ross Castle Yeomanry Corps, Milltown Malbay, [County Clare], to Croker, reporting on a refusal to obey orders by the permanent sergeant and drummer of his corps; claiming the men went to the city of Limerick but failed to await his instructions upon completion of business there; observing the drummer, John O’Bierne, is ‘quite useless’ and asking that he be removed from the company. [Contains list of names not given in this description].

12 Feb 1831-17 Sep 1831

1831