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CSO/RP/1827/331

Original report and duplicate copy of fever patients received in Dublin hospitals for the month ended 28 February 1827. Details numbers of patients admitted, rejected, discharged and died, as well as the number of vacant beds, for 7 hospitals: House of Recovery, Cork Street; hospitals of the houses of industry; Meath Hospital; Kevin Street Hospital; Sir Patrick’s Dunn’s Hospital; Steevens’ Hospital; and New Witworth Hospital. Also contains remarks on report signed by Dr Francis Barker, secretary of the General Board of Health, including a table depicting the numbers of monthly admissions, comparative mortality rate and average daily admissions for the months September 1826 to February 1827. Annotation on reverse signed by Richard Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, stating ‘send to Mr [Robert] Peel’.

28 Feb 1827-6 Mar 1827

CSO/RP/1827/332

Memorial of John Kennedy, Castledermot, [County Kildare], formerly of Borris, County Carlow, to Alderman Smith, Maj [Thomas Newcomen] Edgeworth, and William Gregory, Under Secretary, seeking employment. States he cannot return to his home county of Carlow as he provided evidence in a case against an ‘assassin and an armed Bantitti [Banditti] that had it in contemplation the Destruction of lives and Property’. Signed by Robert [Moore] Fisbourne, stating that he knew the stated facts to be true. Also includes letter and certificate from magistrate Thomas Kavanagh, [], testifying to Kennedy’s character and his role in the conviction of ‘a formidable gang to which he himself belonged in the years 1818 and 19’.

24 Feb 1827-5 Mar 1827

1827

CSO/RP/1827/333

Memorial of Henry Rooke, attorney at law, Molesworth Street, Dublin, to Richard Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, seeking letters of administration for Johann Jacob Lallau and Juliana Sophia Lallau, lawful nephew and niece of deceased merchant Jacob Rawitz of Danzig, Prussia, to enable them to access the bank account of Rawitz’s debtor, Johanna Concordia Kracaw, who had since also died intestate. Also report by William Plunket, Attorney General, agreeing with the observations made in Rooke’s memorial and recommending that the king [George IV] renounce any claim over Kracaw’s estate in favour of the Lallaus.

[?10] October 1826-13 Dec 1826

1826

CSO/RP/1827/334

Letter from [James William] Cusack, secretary to the Commissioners for the Erection and Superintendence of Lunatic Asylums in Ireland, Dublin, to William Gregory, Under Secretary, enclosing accounts for alterations to be made to Limerick Lunatic Asylum [not present].

6 Mar 1827

1827

CSO/RP/1827/335

Letter from SH Decluzeau, chief constable of County Louth, Ardee, to William Gregory, Under Secretary, enclosing letter he sent to Maj Parnell, relating to memorial of [Mr] Stacy, Clonroche, County Wexford, to [Richard Wellesley], Lord Lieutenant, demanding money from him, and drawing his attention to Parnell’s reply on the reverse.

5 Mar 1827-10 Mar 1827

1827

CSO/RP/1827/336

Letter from Thomas Sherrard, Blessington Street, Dublin, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, thanking [Richard Wellesley], Lord Lieutenant, for appointing him as a Commissioner for the New Valuation of Dublin, but owing to the subsequent increase in workload ‘at this advanced period of [his] life’, seeking permission to resign his post at the end of the current quarter. Annotations on reverse indicate note from William Gregory, Under Secretary, [?to Goulburn], stating that Sherrard had promised him not to mention his resignation to anyone until he returned, and note [?from Goulburn] to Gregory, asking him to find a suitable replacement for him.

27 Feb 1826

1827

CSO/RP/1827/337

File of 3 memorials submitted in consequence of attacks on police barracks in counties Limerick and Cork. Memorials of widows Elizabeth Colgan and Bridget Dunlap, [Cork], to [Richard Wellesley], Lord Lieutenant, seeking relief following the murder of their husbands Hugh Colgan and Benjamin Dunlap, policemen, in an attack on their barracks in Churchtown by a group of Whiteboys on the night of 31 January 1822. Also memorial of William Regan and his sister, Mary Regan, Doneraile, Cork, to [Richard Wellesley], Lord Lieutenant, seeking protection and remuneration for their testimonies which led to the conviction of 14 men for an attack on the police barracks at Glenosheen, Limerick, in April 1823. All 4 memorialists state that they have been under the protection of Maj [Samson] Carter since the incident in question, and refer to him as referee.

[1827]

[1827]

CSO/RP/1827/338

Letter from Robert Ward, Bangor, [County Down], to William Gregory, Under Secretary, relating to recent controversy and ‘mischief’ stirred in the parish of Bangor by the arrival of James Rose Clealand, who encouraged religious debate, distributed pamphlets and called public meetings with a view to petition parliament. States current population of the parish as 9000: exclusive of the militia, consisting of approximately 20 families from the Established Church, 3 from the Roman Catholic, and the remainder being dissenters of the Church of Scotland. Encloses copy of orders written by Clealand, calling a meeting at the School House, Castle Street, on 8 February 1827. Annotation on reverse by Richard Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, stating ‘this is a very amusing letter, I wish for a copy of it’, and instructing that it be referred to [William Plunket], Attorney General. [For copy of both documents, see CSO/RP/1827/2079].

5 Feb 1827-11 Feb 1827

1827

CSO/RP/1827/339

Memorial of Thomas Slow, second clerk in the warehouse of Stamped Goods, Stamp Office, [Dublin], to [Richard] Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, seeking an increase in salary following his promotion to first clerk. States he was first employed in the department since 1805.

[?4] Mar 1827

1827

CSO/RP/1827/340

Letter from The Magistrates of the Head Office of Police, Dublin, to William Gregory, Under Secretary, enclosing a copy of a report by officer James McCartney and related certificate signed by 3 magistrates of West Rising, Yorkshire, [England] – Matthew Wilson, [John Nicholas] Coulthurst and [Anthony] Marsden – relating to the discharge of Roger Murphy, from Armagh Gaol to Yorkshire. Annotation on reverse giving legal opinion of Richard W Greene.

27 Feb 1827-8 Mar 1827

1827