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CSO/RP/1824/1911

Petition of George Duffy, late police constable, Newcastle West, County Limerick, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, seeking an investigation of circumstances which led to the wounding of John Lee and his own dismissal from the police. Claims he intervened in an argument between [constable] Cleary and Lee [landlord] at the barracks at Ballyshane, and in the struggle Cleary’s carbine [gun] went off and hit Lee in the arm; as a result of the injury Lee's arm required amputation. Insists he did not receive fair consideration prior to dismissal and refers to his loyal service in the police establishment of Limerick.

4 Dec 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/1912

Petition from the gentlemen resident on the banks of the lower River Shannon, County Limerick, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting that police aid be refused to Mr Kelly as he allegedly used force to destroy the property of several local persons in an unjust enforcement of the fishery laws. Mentions an application published in Limerick newspapers seeking police aid for Kelly, but denounces him as ‘a self appointed Inspector subject to no official control’. Emphasises the fishing rights of property owners resident along the river and proposes an assimilation of Irish fishing laws with those of England and Scotland. Signed by John Ormsby Vandaleur and 15 other persons. [Contains list of names not given in this description]

19 Nov 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/1913

Anonymous letter from a Church of Ireland parishioner to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, protesting at treatment of the assistant curate of Union of Wicklow, County Wicklow, Reverend Robert Porter, under recent legislation to reform the Church of Ireland [Bill to consolidate and amend Laws for enforcing Residence of Spiritual Persons on Benefices, and for Support and Maintenance of Stipendiary Curates in Ireland]. Points out that a young curate has been lately appointed to the union on the same salary as Porter, despite the latter having more than 30 years experience in the church and a wife and family to support.

Dec 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/1914

Letter from Major Thomas Powell, Corkagh, Rathcoole, County Dublin, inspector general of the Leinster constabulary, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary of Ireland, reporting that police constable Abraham Wardlesworth has been suspended from duty on account of his being intoxicated while on duty. Recommends Wardlesworth be dismissed the force since the County Westmeath constabulary have seen in recent times a number of ‘disgraceful’ incidents involving police personnel which ‘call for most severe examples’, 8 December 1824. Returns decision of magistrates of Mullingar, County Westmeath, indicating that Wardlesworth is found guilty of being drunk in the town of Mullingar on the night of 11 November 1824 and imposing a fine of 20 shillings to be deducted from his salary, 18 November 1824; signed by John Charles Lyons, chairman.

18 Nov 1824-8 Dec 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/1915

Letter from Edward Wilson, Thurles, County Tipperary, chief police magistrate of County Tipperary, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary of Ireland, reporting on investigation of removal of arms from John Kane, special constable of barony of Owney and Arra, County Tipperary, and indicating determination of local magistrates not to return the arms to him. Returns memorial from Kane, Newport, County Tipperary, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, complaining of unlawful confiscation of his arms and of refusal of the chief constable to give them up. Notes the nature of the arms which include a blunderbuss and a powder horn and states they were purchased by auction on Sackville [O’Connell] Street, Dublin.

9 Nov 1824-26 Nov 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/1916

Letter from James Martin, Outerarde [Oughterard], County Galway, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, seeking to learn whether his application for the post of chief constable of police has met with success. Refers to earlier attempt to procure appointment as a gauger through Robert Peel [Chief Secretary of Ireland, 1812-1818], and to Peel’s referral of his application and later certificate signed by 9 magistrates.

8 Nov 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/1917

Petition from Elizabeth Dunn, widow, Cork, County Cork, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting measure of relief or financial aid following loss of husband. States her husband George Dunn, was employed in the military accounts office, Dublin, for a period of near 23 years, and died following a deterioration of health. Observes should reference be made to the military accounts office, an appropriate report of her husband’s labours will be forthcoming, which will provide evidence of the validity of her claim to aid for herself and her only child. With annotation overleaf from CSO indicating that funds at the disposal of the Lord Lieutenant are ‘too limited’ to extend to such an application.

18 Oct 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/1918

Letter from Sir Edward Smith Lees, secretary, General Post Office, Dublin, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary of Ireland, reporting the robbery of mail from the post boy on route between Kingscourt, County Cavan and Carrickmacross, County Monaghan by 2 assailants, resulting in loss of the entire mail. Annotation written on top in pencil by Chief Secretary: ‘This is the third offence of the same kind within a short period’.

24 Nov 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/1919

Copy petition from Catherine Ann Graves, 10 Upper Mount Street, Dublin, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting grant of aid from the concordatum fund. Refers to financial hardship that followed the death of her husband, Reverent John Graves, in April 1822. Remarks his fiscal affairs were left in a poor state, his property being encumbered with debt. Also letter from Dr Stopford to Graves expressing opinion that her memorial is unlikely to produce a positive reaction since only those who are ‘destitute of friends’ are eligible for aid; observes that Mrs Graves, who has ‘respectable connections’ does not fall into this category. Also letter from William Magee, Archbishop of Dublin, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary of Ireland, in support of Graves’s case.

cDec 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/1920

Letter from Charles Bury, 1st Earl of Charleville, Charleville Forest Castle, Tullamore, King's County [County Offaly], to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary of Ireland, enclosing letter from Francis Bury and memorial from the magistrates, gentry and inhabitants of town of Tullamore to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting a military escort for the mail boy conveying post between the towns of Kilbeggan, County Westmeath and Tullamore as previously provided. Emphasises the growing mercantile trade of Tullamore and remarks that the mail boy was robbed of his mail on 9 November 1824.

15 Nov 1824-23 Nov 1824

1824