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CSO/RP/1824/1841

Letter from Reverend John Sherrard, Lamb's Island, Waringstown, County Down, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, requesting a subordinate situation in the police establishment for his son. Expresses disappointment over misunderstanding in a previous application, stressing his object was not connected with ‘any intention of solliciting [sic] an improper favour from his Lordship’. Also letter from Sherrard to Goulburn, reiterating application for a post in the police for his son, a boy who has no inclination to find employment among the lower orders but hopes for ‘some office superior to that of a foot soldier’.

6 Dec 1824-15 Dec 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/1842

Letter from Isaac D'Olier, 18 Baggot Street, Dublin, secretary to the Board of First Fruits, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, referring to response to application from the parishioners of Skull, County Cork, and indicating that ‘due consideration’ will be given to any future memorial, 21 August 1824. Returns memorial from the Protestant parishioners of the eastern part of the parish of Skull, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, complaining of inconvenience and hardship of attending the nearest Church of Ireland place of worship and requesting sanction for erection of a new church or chapel of ease in their locality. Refers to application to the Lord Bishop of Cork and Ross [Thomas St Lawrence] for aid and observe they have witnessed ‘a lamentable coldness and indifference to the duties and precepts of Religion and cannot but attribute to the same cause the relapse of several into the errors of Popery’. Signed by 62 parishioners. Also encloses copy letter from St Lawrence, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England, to D'Olier, commenting upon efforts to date to provide for the parishioners of the eastern part of the parish of Skull. States that difficulties have been experienced in finding a suitable locality in the parish to build a place of worship, difficulties in getting an appropriate site, and difficulties in organisation accommodation for a glebe house. Concluded the parish should be divided into two separate benefices, an act that would require sanction from the Lord Lieutenant as well as cooperation from the existing incumbent. [Contains list of names not given in this description]

18 Aug 1824-21 Aug 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/1843

Petition of William Conner, stonecutter, 78 New Street, Dublin, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, seeking advance of some annual relief or pension following laborious career. Refers to serious accident and permanent injury to leg following a fall from scaffolding while employed on the Custom House of Dublin, and complains that a promised allowance of 20 guineas per year was not paid to him. States he returned to work, though suffering from lameness, but met with further misfortune due to an outbreak of spotted fever, which afflicted his family in 1819.

c18 Nov 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/1844

Letter from Peggy Hanlon, widow, 35 Upper Kevin Street, Dublin, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, requesting advance of some measure of financial aid to support herself and small family. Solicits ‘some relief’ in order to ‘earn bread for a poor distress [sic] family’. Adds on base of letter additional detail of address, stating she is resident in a ‘Back Room’, two doors off New Street.

[1824]

1824

CSO/RP/1824/1845

Petition of Henry Sury, John Banon [Bannon], Patrick Scollon, Robert Keenan and Joseph McCreery, Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, complaining of aggression by a gang of Protestant outlaws known as the ‘Lisbellaw Peelers’ and seeking protection. They protest there is no police station for the protection of Roman Catholic subjects in either Lisbellaw or Maguiresbridge and claims the gang carried out attacks on various households between Enniskillen and Lisbellaw on the 16 November, and again on the night of 25 November they discharged gun shots into the house of Margaret Burns.

1 Dec 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/1846

Copy letter from Charles Todd, secretary, head office of police, Dublin, to Berry Norris, post master, Lurga, Mohill, County Leitrim, conveying that the quota of ‘Hue and Cry’ [a police gazette] produced at the press will not permit of any further extension of copies to County Leitrim. Also letter from Norris to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, stressing that application was made to the police magistrates of Dublin seeking to secure to each magistrate of County Leitrim a copy of ‘Hue and Cry’. Notes that the number of resident magistrates in the county is below 30.

10 May 1824-17 Nov 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/1847

Letter from Sir Nicholas Conway Colthurst, MP for Cork city, Macroom, County Cork, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary of Ireland, enclosing letter from Richard Parker, Waterview, Passage West, County Cork, to Colthurst, indicating his son has made the trip to New South Wales, Australia, and seeking a recommendation for both sons [John and William] from the Chief Secretary of Ireland to his brother, Major Frederick Goulburn, who is colonial secretary and registrar of the records for New South Wales. Also additional letter from Parker to Colthurst, seeking intervention from the Chief Secretary in procuring leave for his son John to depart for New South Wales by sea on one of the convict transportation vessels. Observes that Major Goulburn has been especially helpful to his son William, who is already living at the colony.

6 Oct 1824-16 Nov 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/1848

Letter from Major James Sullivan, magistrate, Chesterfield, near Newcastle West, County Limerick, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary of Ireland, bringing to attention the plight of the parishioners of Killeedy [Killeely], County Limerick, who seek a loan to settle a demand of £1,524. Encloses memorial from the magistrates, gentlemen and landholders of the parish of Killeedy, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, seeking a loan of £1,524 in order to meet compensation costs awarded in court to Reverend Edward Geratty, Church of Ireland incumbent of parish, following destruction of his glebe house in February 1822 by an act of agrarian violence. Document signed by Bryan K Sheehy and 11 other persons. [Contains list of names not given in this description]

12 Nov 1824-13 Nov 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/1849

Petition of Peter Nesdal [Nesdale], Killesandra [Killeshandra], County Cavan, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, complaining of the conduct of Mr Reymond, constable of the police establishment, who has brought him before the magistrates of the town ‘for no cause whatever’ and seeking redress. Hints that sectarianism is the source of the problem for he complains ‘how can the state of the country be in tranquillity when an appointed peace officer continus [sic] to be the protector and Head of a disorderly, vicious and revengeful party’.

10 Dec 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/1850

Letter from Sir Edward Smith Lees, secretary, General Post Office, Dublin, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, reporting the robbery of mail yesterday morning from the post boy on route between Carrackmacross and Ballybay, County Monaghan. Adds that the thieves got away with all the mail including that from Dublin and that from Carrackmacross addressed to Ballybay and vicinity.

15 Nov 1824

1824