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CSO/RP/1819/59

Letter from John Browne, 3 Stephen Street, Dublin, to Charles Grant, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, requesting a government post to help 'extricate my Family from want'. States that he is a bookkeeper, clerk and land surveyor. Annotation by Dublin Castle official stating it is not in Grant's power to offer him any situation.

27 Jan 1819

1819

CSO/RP/1819/60

Letter from Allen Davis, Ballyroan, Queen's County [County Laois], to Charles Grant, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, on behalf of the inhabitants of the town and vicinity of Ballyroan, concerning the vacant post in their church.

31 Jan 1819

1819

CSO/RP/1819/61

Letter from John Baylor to Chief Secretary's Office, Dublin Castle, requesting permission to add Grant's name to a list of subscribers to Baylor's new poem, entitled 'The Passion', which is about to be published by subscription. Encloses a statement describing the poem as 'A new poem on the sufferings of our Lord and Saviour', and containing 2 testimonies signed by Reverend Frederick Bridge, St. George's parish, Dublin, and Reverend Benjamin William Mathias, Chaplain of Bathesda Chapel, Dorset Street, Dublin, stating that each has read the poem and approve of it.

19 Jan 1819

1819

CSO/RP/1819/62

Letter from Bryan Behan, 9 Granby Row, Dublin, to Charles Grant, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, concerning job of King's messenger, and requesting to be considered for the post, given the ill health of the current messenger, Mr Farina. Behan states that he has held post of supernumerary messenger for 4 years.

9 Feb 1819

1819

CSO/RP/1819/63

File of papers relating to the baptists of Ireland, and their request to be considered for receipt of the regium donum. Includes letter from Thomas Hassell, Baptist minister, Cloughjordan, County Tipperary, to Charles Grant, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, referring to his regular letters to Sir Robert Peel, former Chief Secretary, providing government with information on the state of county Tipperary. Emphasises 'that a more loyal and peaceable class of His Majesty's subjects cannot be found in Ireland than the Baptists', 30 November 1818; letter from John West and Thomas Hassell, Baptist ministers, 39 Usher's Quay, Dublin, to Chief Secretary's Office, Dublin Castle, requesting that the Baptist ministers be granted a regium donum, as the presbyterians enjoy. Emphasises their good work in education across Ireland, and in promoting the peace of country. Encloses list of baptist churches in Ireland, with details of the location and minister of each, 1 December 1818.

30 Nov 1818-1 Dec 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1819/64

Letter from Thomas Dennis, member of Baltinglas [Baltinglass, County Wicklow] Board of Health, and magistrate for counties Wicklow, Carlow and Kildare, 33 St. Stephen's Green, Dublin, to Chief Secretary's Office, Dublin Castle, requesting funds from government to assist in the purchase of supplies for the fever hospital, including blankets and clothing, at the Commissariat auction. Emphasises extent of typhus fever in the Baltinglass district and the 'wretched situation' of the poor.

8 Feb 1819

1819

CSO/RP/1819/65

File of papers relating to the government's practice of requesting military escorts and guards for convicts and convict ships. Includes letter from Sir George Beckwith, Commander of the Forces, Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, Dublin, to Sir Edward Baker Baker, military under secretary, Dublin Castle, confirming that an escort was arranged for the removal of a female convict and 2 male convicts from Castlebar, County Mayo, to Cork. But requests that in future, government inform them of the exact route to be used to move the prisoners, 20 February 1819. Also letter from Beckwith, Royal Hospital, Dublin, to Baker, confirming that he received the government's request to provide a military guard for the 'James and Mary' convict ship, and that the order was carried out. Returns the letters he received along with the request, but asks that in future, at least 24 hours notice be given when military assistance is needed by government, 26 February 1819.

20 Feb 1819-26 Feb 1819

1819

CSO/RP/1819/66

Letter from Lewis Barker, Roscommon, County Roscommon, to William Gregory, Under Secretary, Dublin Castle, requesting that another instalment of the late Margaret Holton's government pension be paid, to cover the expenses of her recent illness and funeral.

21 Feb 1819

1819

CSO/RP/1819/67

Letter from Thomas Boyse, The Grange, Bannow, County Wexford, magistrate for County Wexford, to William Gregory, Under Secretary, Dublin Castle, concerning the distress of the poor in the union of Bannow, owing to the large population and a lack of employment. The moor of Bannow, 'formerly a common, is almost I may say covered with Cabins, inhabited by Paupers'. Adds a 'P.S.' inquiring whether government would assist any Irishmen in emigrating to north America. Encloses petition of the inhabitants of the union of Bannow and Kilkevan, County Wexford, to Lord Talbot, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, highlighting the distress of the poor following the recent failure of the potato crop, and requesting government relief. Notes that the situation is exacerbated by the fact that all the landed proprietors in the area, except one - Samuel Boyse, his father - are absentee. Petition signed by 14 names.

20 Feb 1819

1819

CSO/RP/1819/68

Letter from Francis Johnston, Architect's Office, Castle Yard, Dublin Castle, architect to Board of Works, to William Gregory, Under Secretary, Dublin Castle, enclosing an estimate of the cost of supplying the packing cases requested by Sir Edward Baker Baker for moving his papers to England.

23 Feb 1819

1819