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CSO/RP/1830/11

Letter from [Gen Sir Frederick Stovin], Military Secretary, Royal Hospital, Dublin, to Sir Francis Leveson Gower, [Chief Secretary], Dublin Castle, regarding the need for a proper police force in the town of Galway. Enclosing correspondence from Maj Gen Sir Thomas Arbuthnot, [assistant adjutant general], Athlone, [County Westmeath], and from Lieut Col William Sutherland, Galway, citing recent cases where the military was deployed for civil uses and providing copies of such requisitions, and with Sutherland stressing the current disturbed state of the town.

2 Jan 1830- Jan 1830

1830

CSO/RP/1830/12

File of letters from John Joyce, army contractor, 42 William Street, [Dublin], to the governor of the House of Industry, to Sir Francis Leveson Gower, [Chief Secretary], Dublin Castle, and to William Gregory, Under Secretary, [Dublin Castle], complaining about the contract system in both the House of Industry [Dublin], and the Richmond Lunatic Asylum; also that his own tender for provisions to the House of Industry was disregarded. Also letter from [William Abbott], registrar, House of Industry, [Dublin], to Gower, explaining why they chose other contractors over Joyce, and a reply by Gower to Joyce stating that all business in the House of Industry has been settled in a way advantageous to the institution. [See also CSO/RP/1830/223]

28 Dec 1829-26 Feb 1830

1830

CSO/RP/1830/13

File of letters from William Ormsby, Marshall Hall, marshal of Four Courts Marshalsea, [Dublin], to Sir Francis Leveson Gower, [Chief Secretary], Dublin Castle, and to William Gregory, Under Secretary, Dublin Castle, regretting the fact he was asked to apply for superannuation allowance after 40 years’ service, and to propose his deputy; proposed Mr Mills. Annotations indicate that the Inspector General for Prisons cannot grant the allowance.

7 Jan 1830-24 Mar 1830

1830

CSO/RP/1830/14

File of letters from John Wright, chief constable for the baronies of Ibrickan and Corcomroe, County Clare, 135 Mecklenburgh Street, [Dublin], to Hugh Percy, 3rd Duke Northumberland [Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Dublin], and to William Gregory, Under Secretary, Dublin Castle, regarding his recent illness, applying for promotion to stipendiary magistrate, and subsequently applying for pecuniary help with expenses. Also including copy letters from Sir Francis Leveson Gower, [Chief Secretary], Dublin Castle; a letter from [Archdeacon] Thomas Singleton, [private secretary to Hugh Percy, 3rd Duke Northumberland, Dublin], to Gregory, asking what can be done for Wright; a note from the Yeomanry Office, and an unsigned note saying that there is no fund from which an advance could be paid.

4 Jan 1830-24 Mar 1830

1830

CSO/RP/1830/15

Memorial from Thomas Falkiner, Nenagh, [County Tipperary], precentor of Killaloe, County Clare, to Hugh Percy, 3rd Duke Northumberland [Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Dublin], complaining that the vicarage of Kilmurry, barony Ibrickane, County Clare has not paid him the tithe since 1827; that threats and the disturbed state of that area prevent him from going to the law; asking for protection.

7 January 1830

1830

CSO/RP/1830/16

File of correspondence by Lieut DeCourcey, Ballylongford, County Kerry, to ‘My Lord’ [likely Sir Francis Leveson Gower, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle], complaining about collusion whereby Chief Constable Lambert imposed the green wax process twice on DeCourcey’s tenant; also including correspondence between sub-constables James Williams and John Shnell, Ballylongford, County Kerry, [Cap] Matthew Singleton, sub inspector, Tralee, County Kerry, and Sir Francis Leveson Gower, [Chief Secretary], Dublin Castle, eventually showing that the second payment was due to an omission by sub sheriff O’Sullivan, and that the tenant has since received a partial refund.

12 Oct 1829-5 Jan 1830

1830

CSO/RP/1830/17

Letter and petition by William Smyth, 157 James Street, [Dublin], formerly of Aughrim, County Galway, to Sir Francis Leveson Gower, [Chief Secretary], Dublin Castle, and Hugh Percy, 3rd Duke Northumberland [Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Dublin], applying first to Percy [not dated], then to Gower for a disability pension; detailing how he sustained his injury while a member of the Revenue Police in Dunfanaghy, County Donegal.

7 January 1830

1830

CSO/RP/1830/18

File of correspondence between the Commissioners for Building the Bridewell at Tuam, County Galway, William Gregory, Under Secretary, Dublin Castle, and the Church of Ireland Archbishop [Power le Poer Trench] of Tuam, member of the Commission, regarding the fact that the second instalment for the building has not been paid yet, with Gregory making it dependent on receipt of an affidavit from the contractor.

4 Jan 1830-30 Jan 1830

1830

CSO/RP/1830/19

Letter from James Saurin, Henry R Paine, and John Radcliffe, [Directors General of Inland Navigation], Navigation Office, [Dublin], to Hugh Percy, 3rd Duke Northumberland [Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Dublin], proposing to accept the resignation of Mr William Harding, senior clerk; to promote his juniors Mr Corneille, Mr Lyster; to appoint Mr William Harding junior in that office; and to pay Corneille as senior clerk a lower salary per annum.

11 Jan 1830

1830

CSO/RP/1830/20

Petitions from Henry Mitchell (Protestant), Limerick, formerly sub-constable at O’Briensbridge, County Clare, to Hugh Percy, 3rd Duke Northumberland [Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Dublin], regarding his dismissal following a fight with fellow soldier Bryan Carr (Catholic), following an investigation by chief constables Bindon and Coffey, asking for his reinstatement. Also letters from [Maj] George Warburton, [Inspector General], Castlegar, [County Galway], to William Gregory, Under Secretary, Dublin Castle, finding that Mitchell and Carr had ‘a scandalous battle on the road about religion’ and that both deserved being dismissed.

16 Dec 1829-26 Jan 1830

1830