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CSO/RP/1824/1921

Petition from Robert Webster, late acting chief constable of police, barony of Inishowen, County Donegal, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting redress against alleged misrepresentations from his past superintendent officer, Major Thomas D’Arcy, inspector general of police for province of Ulster. Recounts past special relationship with D’Arcy, having an invitation to his house and table, and mentions unfulfilled promises made by D’Arcy to have his position in the police made permanent. Also alludes to 2 letters that he claims demonstrates D’Arcy’s animosity towards him [not present].

13 Dec 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/1922

File of material relating to proposals to incorporate the National Assurance Company of Ireland. Includes ‘Report of the Attorney General [William Conyngham Plunket] and Solicitor General [Henry Joy], as to Granting a Charter for Incorporating “National Assurance Company of Ireland”’, 31 December 1824. Also includes letter from James Ferrier and John Todhunter, directors, National Assurance Company Office, 3 College Green, Dublin, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary of Ireland, outlining their case for grant of a charter and offering reassurance over privileges and public security, 7 April 1826.

31 Dec 1824-26 Oct 1826

1826

CSO/RP/1824/1923

Letter from Richard Willcocks, inspector general of police, Cashel, County Tipperary, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary of Ireland, reporting that charges preferred by Eusebius McGillycuddy Jr against Mr Thompson, chief constable of police, barony of Dunkerrin, County Kerry, are ‘frivolous, groundless, and malicious’. Remarks that the accuser McGillycuddy is ‘one of the worst Characters in the County of Kerry’, a military deserter, vagrant, and ‘wholly undeserving of attention, or credit, in any instance whatsoever’. Returns letter from McGillycuddy, Milltown, County Kerry, to Goulburn, alleging that Thompson failed to execute a capias writ against a man for murder, that he is inattentive to duty ‘being allways [sic] employed in either hunting or fishing’, that he lent police horses for use of local huntsmen and permits his constables to engage in night time fishing with nets.

26 Sep 1824-1 Dec 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/1924

Letter from John Palliser, Ballymena, County Antrim, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, acknowledging reply to earlier memorial of 29 December 1824 and reiterating application for appointment as a sub constable of police. Claims he has first hand knowledge of police duties having spent a couple of months with his brother who is a constable at Cratloe Cross, County Clare, and also refers to family difficulty in securing rights to an estate in [Rathfarnham, County Dublin].

1 Jan 1825

1825

CSO/RP/1824/1925

Petition from Patrick Fallon, Rusky [Roosky], County Roscommon, late acting troop sergeant major, 25th Regiment [of Foot]f light dragoons, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting appointment to a post in the police establishment of Ireland. Mentions 17 years service in the military and claims his pension of 5d per day is insufficient to support his family.

25 Dec 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/1926

Letter from Thomas Frankland Lewis, commissioner, Commission of Education Inquiry, Upper Merrion Street, Dublin, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary of Ireland, acknowledging communication respecting staff at the school at Castledermot, County Kildare. Returns letter from James Adamson, secretary of the Incorporated Society for promoting English Protestant schools in Ireland, Incorporated Society’s House, 55 Aungier Street, Dublin, to Goulburn, stating the general board’s determination to accept the resignation of Lucius Harvey, school master of Castledermot, and to proceed with the appointment of a replacement master and new mistress; also conveys the official appointment of a catechist awaits the sanction of William Magee, Archbishop of Dublin.

22 Dec 1824-7 Jan 1825

1825

CSO/RP/1824/1927

Petition from Samuel Clark, late officer of customs, Letterkenny, County Donegal, [in Ballyraine [Donegal], district of County Londonderry], to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting appointment as lieutenant in the revenue excise police of County Tyrone or elsewhere in Ireland. Refers to period of employment for 30 years with customs service which came to an end due to a reduction in staff at the port; also mentions having served for 16 years in the Letterkenny yeomanry corps. Indicates that character references on his behalf may be obtained from Sir James Stewart of Portstewart and through Colonel Hill of Derry.

23 Dec 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/1928

Letter from Mary Anne O'Connor, 24 Mountjoy Street, Dublin, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary of Ireland, seeking a commission for her son in a regiment being enlisted for military service in India. Expresses appreciation for earlier communication and stresses her own need for support and that of her children.

6 Jan 1825

1825

CSO/RP/1824/1929

Letter from Rebecca O’Neill, Killorglin Glebe, Milltown, County Kerry, to the Chief Secretary’s Office, Dublin Castle, requesting appointment of her son to the police establishment or another position under government. Stresses he has an ‘active disposition’ and earnings from his labour will be a crucial support to his sisters and wider family. Refers also to the disappointment experienced by her husband Reverend Conolly O’Neill, over failure to succeed to the parish of Kilbarron, County Donegal, in the diocese of Raphoe.

28 Dec 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/1930

Letter from Colonel James Crosbie, MP for County Kerry, Ballyheigue Castle, Tralee, County Kerry, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary of Ireland, requesting in the event of changes in the revenue department on River Shannon that Mr Bland [likely Francis Christopher Bland, revenue officer of County Kerry] be retained in his present post. Remarks he is an industrious officer of good family connections and ‘very much attached to the present Government’. Annotation on base from CSO emphasises that the Lord Lieutenant has no power to intervene, the determination of such matters of employment resting with the general board of customs under the treasury.

28 Dec 1824

1824