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CSO/RP/1818/681

Letter from John Woulfe, Cork, County Cork, to Charles Grant, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, requesting financial relief from distress arising from business failure. Asks that aid is forwarded to the sheriff, Samuel Lane. Also includes letter from Francis Davies Murphy, Convict Depot, Cork, to Dr Edward Trevor, confirming that Woulfe is now resident in Cove, County Cork, that he was ‘a respectable Merchant…but is now much reduced’; also letter from Captain Richard Sainthill to Alexander Mangin, Dublin Castle, confirming that Woulfe and family are ‘in Great Distress’.

14 Oct 1818-23 Oct 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/682

Letter from James Wallace, Lisburn, County Antrim, to Charles Grant, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, requesting additional financial relief beyond his £20 per year income from the concordatum list. Claims to have suffered loss to business interests due to political instability in the final years of the eighteenth century, for he asserts, ‘In the year 1796 I had a Muslin Manufactory and Cotton Mill wrought by Fire & Steam in the town of Lisburn, and gave Employment to more than eleven hundred men, women & children’.

2 Nov 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/683

Letter from FW Greene, 2 Dawson Street, Dublin, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, enclosing certificate of presentment from Grand Jury of County Wicklow for sub-constables Maurice Hawkins and Mark Weekes, for superannuation. Enclosed certificate indicates that Hawkins, who served in the half barony of Talbotstown, County Wicklow, for upwards of thirty years, is entitled to four pounds a year, and Weekes, who served for twenty years, is to receive six pounds a year.

23 Oct 1818-27 Oct 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/684

Petition of Thomas Walsh, clerk, to Earl Whitworth, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting appointment to post of public employment. States that he occupied office of clerk with ‘the Commissioners appointed to enquire into the Fees, Gratuities etc of the several Public offices in Ireland’, since 1804 but is now out of employment due to the termination of that work; provides thirteen character witnesses from within the body of the Commissioners. Includes two additional copy certificates in support of Walsh, from John Hamilton and William Plunkett, of the Navigation Office.

24 Mar 1814-28 Mar 1814

1814

CSO/RP/1818/685

Petition of Hutchins Thomas Williams, public notary, Dublin, to Earl Talbot, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting grant of license to operate as stock broker. States that he is partner in the firm Messrs Gibbons and Williams, and includes the names of Arthur Hume and Nathaniel Callwell, of Dublin, to act as joint sureties, in application to practice as a stock broker. Document is signed by eight individuals, willing to act as character witnesses to Williams.

1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/686

Petition of James Wilkins, late midshipman, Royal Navy, 117 Abbey Street, Dublin, to Earl Talbot, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting appointment to post of supernumerary gauger or any other position. Claims that he was invalided following a period of service in Jamaica and ‘was thrown as dependent upon a Mother and three Sisters in very straitened circumstances’.

5 Nov 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/687

2 letters from Arthur Meadows, Mayor of Wexford, County Wexford, to Charles Grant, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, with enclosure of memorial from the governors of County Wexford House of Industry, in favour of erection of a lunatic asylum in the county. Encloses memorial, from governors of House of Industry, with claim ‘That on account of the number of insane persons, occupying so great a portion of the house, and the expenses attendant on them; Your Memoralists are compelled to refuse admission, to Paupers and others whom this institution should take under its management and care’. Also includes letter from Dr George Renny, Medical Office, Dublin, recommending that memorial should be sent to the ‘Board lately formed for Superintending the Erection and Estab[lishment] of Lunatic Asylums in Ireland’ requesting a report.

3 Dec 1818-4 Jan 1819

1819

CSO/RP/1818/688

Letter from Robert Gun, Mountkennedy, County Wicklow, to Chief Secretary’s Office, Dublin Castle, expressing alarm at overcrowded conditions in gaol of Wicklow and warning that ‘except the Convicts are immediately removed, it will not be possible to hinder their escape’. Adds as postscript ‘We have no less than 43 Prisoners now in Gaol’.

20 Dec 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/689

Petition of Dr Luke Wall, 10 Stephen’s Green, Dublin, to Earl Talbot, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting that he be appointment ‘one of the Physicians to the Four Hospitals connected with the House of Industry and supported by the bounty of Government’. Refers to 9 years experience in Dr Steeven’s [Steven's] Hospital and claims support for application by Dr Harvey. Also includes draft reply from Dublin Castle, which states ‘I am directed by His Excellency to acquaint you that there is no Vacancy’.

13 Oct 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/690

Certificate of character signed by Augustine Warren, George Rye, Augustus Warren Jr and Basil Orpen of County Cork, making recommendation for William Wall, to the Lord Lieutenant.

10 Dec 1818

1818