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CSO/RP/1831/61

Petition of Elizabeth Caswell, widow, Killaloe, [County Clare], to Henry William Paget, Lord Lieutenant, seeking a free passage to North America for herself and family of four.Adding her husband Samuel Caswell, served as yeoman during the 1798 Uprising, and that she cannot survive by working the ‘few acres’ for which she pays a very heavy rent. Mentioning also she has two sons now in the 6th Dragoon Guards and another son who left for Upper Canada. Also three certificates of support appended to base, one in the hand of Rev John Galwey, church of Ireland rector of parish of Kismastulla, County Tipperary.

1 Jan 1831

1831

CSO/RP/1831/62

Letter from Maj Alexander Armstrong, Dundalk, [County Louth], to Edward Geoffrey Smith Stanley, Chief Secretary, offering some reflections on the status of the magistrates in Collon in County Louth; seeking to have some anomalies corrected by the intervention of government with immediate effect.

5 Jan 1831

1831

CSO/RP/1831/63

Letter from Darcy Mahon, inspector general of stamp duties at stamp office, 7 Talbot Street, Dublin, to Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary, requesting to learn if a letter [subject unspecified] written on the 6 January was received by Henry William Paget, Lord Lieutenant.

18 Jan 1831

1831

CSO/RP/1831/64

Letter from Molesworth Greene and George Archer, Town Clerks Office, [Session House, Green Street, Dublin], seeking to obtain the date of the Lord Lieutenant’s sanction on improvements made by the Commissioners of Wide Streets in accordance with a recent act of Parliament; also they seek to have information on the ‘particular improvements’ to which he gave his assent.

18 Jan 1831

1831

CSO/RP/1831/65

File of documents concerning request by Thomas Whitley, inspector of fisheries for the county of Limerick and Clare, Limerick, for an investigation following his incarceration in jail for 11 days at the behest of the police of Limerick. Includes letter from George W Drought, Chief Magistrate of Police, Limerick, to the Chief Secretary’s Office, pointing out that Whitley has been antagonising the owners of small fishing weirs on the River Shannon and that he had spoken to him about the same, 3 March 1829. Also copy of small printed handbill seeking 1000 men for the protection of the Shannon fisheries, 7 May 1929. Also letter from Mr Hunt, magistrate of Limerick, to Francis Leveson Gower, Chief Secretary, complaining of the actions of Whitley, whom he accuses of going out on the Shannon ‘with a party of armed men’ to confront those along the banks engaged in keeping weirs; warns of potential ‘loss of life’ if Whitley’s actions are not curtailed, 12 May 1829. Includes petition from Whitley to Henry William Paget, Lord Lieutenant, complaining of the behaviour of the chief magistrates of police in Limerick. Explaining that despite application he was given no protection in performance of duty by the constabulary: on 29 April 1829, whilst returning from duty on the River Shannon, he complains he, ‘was waylaid by upwards of five hundred men in Arms’ who followed him ‘for six miles firing Ball Cartridge’; argues that rather than having the co-operation of the police, he found a warrant enforcedagainst him by George W Drought, Chief Magistrate of Police, committing him to Limerick County Gaol for 11 days, c26 February 1831.

2 May 1829-9 Mar 1831

1831

CSO/RP/1831/66

Letter from William Peter Mathews, secretary, Board of Charitable Donations and Bequests, Lower Castle Yard, [Dublin], to Edward Geoffrey Smith Stanley, Chief Secretary, requesting to have all official correspondence made exempt from postal charges; referring to the type of bodies or institutions communicated with and seeking a restoration of the privilege of free postage.

22 Jan 1831

1831

CSO/RP/1831/67

Letter from William Murphy, [?], to Henry William Paget, Lord Lieutenant, seeking transmission of a portion of financial aid. Alluding to the loss of his father, Michael Murphy, during a military engagement in County Wexford and referring to a pension of £15 per annum granted by [Charles] Cornwallis, [1st Marquess Cornwallis, Lord Lieutenant].

22 Jan 1831

1831

CSO/RP/1831/68

Letter from Rev Anthony Thomas, rector of Connemara, Clifden, [County Galway], to Edward Geoffrey Smith Stanley, Chief Secretary, stressing the utility of a full set of legal references being available to the magistrates sitting at petty sessions and requesting supply of same.

7 Jan 1831

1831

CSO/RP/1831/69

Letter from John Armstrong, James Wood and Thomas Fenton, [magistrates], Chaffpool, Ballymote, [County Sligo], to Edward Geoffrey Smith Stanley, Chief Secretary, reporting on action taken to prevent a large gathering of people meeting near Tobbercurry to call for a reduction in rents and tithes; stressing they had the co-operation of neighbouring magistrates, the constabulary and a section of the yeomanry.

19 Jan 1831

1831

CSO/RP/1831/70

Memorial of Peter Doyle, sub-constable, [Ballysize] Barracks Blessington, County Wicklow, to Henry William Paget, Lord Lieutenant, seeking a position of employment for his son Alexander in the police constabulary or similar; also mentions another two younger sons whom he claims are fit to bear arms; complains of the great difficulty in raising a large family on his small salary.

[?19] Jan 1831

1831