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CSO/RP/1830/21

File of correspondence between Edward Tierney, [crown solicitor of the North West circuit], 15 Fitzwilliam Street, [Dublin], Sir Francis Leveson Gower, [Chief Secretary], Dublin Castle, and William Gregory, Under Secretary, Dublin Castle, regarding costs of the defence of William Deward and William Barry, and for the defence of John Gibson, all members of the Ballyjamesduff yeomanry, and all acquitted in murder cases in the Cavan assizes. Also including letter from Sergt Robert Morrow, Ballyjamesduff Yeomanry, [County Cavan], to Tierney, regarding Gibson; and letter from Tierney to Gregory, stating that defences for first two soldiers were paid by the Lord Lieutenant.

8 Jan 1830-20 Apr 1830

1830

CSO/RP/1830/22

File of documents concerning Henry Marks, sub-constable, Ballybracken, County of Kings [County Offaly], who claimed at the petty sessions in Monasterevin, County Kildare, to have been attacked by six men when escorting a prisoner, John Maher to Athy, County Kildare, while meeting the counter-claim from Maher that he escaped unobstructed because Marks was drunk. Including witness statements from both men, statements from local magistrates Rev Charles Moore, Monasterevin and John Bagot, Nurney, [County Kildare], and a letter from Sir John Harvey, [Inspector General], Kilkenny, County Kilkenny], to Sir Francis Leveson Gower, [Chief Secretary], Dublin Castle, with Harvey’s opinion that Marks must be dismissed and tried for perjury.

26 Dec 1829-6 Jan 1830

1830

CSO/RP/1830/23

File of documents regarding the application by Rev Thomas O’Keeffe, parish priest, St Finbar’s, 4 Brown Street, Cork, to ‘My Lord’ [Sir Francis Leveson Gower, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle], for the Catholic chaplaincy of the ‘convict depot’ (Penitentiary House), Cork, which his predecessor Rev Dr Collins held before him. Including recommendation for O’Keeffe from Catholic Bishop of Cork John Murphy, Cork, to John Trevor, Cove, [Cobh, County Cork], and the latter’s recommendation to Gower to instate him in the chaplaincy.

22 Dec 1829-2 Jan 1830

1830

CSO/RP/1830/24

Letter from Frederick Darley, [alderman], Head Office of Police, [Dublin], to William Gregory, Under Secretary, Dublin Castle, reporting how he came to dismiss the late sub-constable Thomas Norton, [Dublin] from service because of drunkenness and insubordination; Norton was previously fined for same by Lucan petty sessions, [County Dublin].

13 Jan 1830

1830

CSO/RP/1830/25

Letter from James Stars, Trillick, County Tyrone, previously sub-constable, Connacht, under command of Inspector General Warburton, to Hugh Percy, 3rd Duke Northumberland [Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Dublin]; having been injured while on duty, he was eventually forced to resign; asking for a pension.

1 Jan 1830

1830

CSO/RP/1830/26

Letter from WH [William H] Pearce, [chief constable], Clonmel, [County Tipperary], to Maj [William] Miller, Inspector General, Fermoy, [County Cork], reporting on a riot in Clonmel when several hundred people refused to pay the toll and where both police and military were deployed to restore peace; mentioning Mr [William] Chaytor [mayor of Clonmel], Capt Partridge of the 77th Regiment, Mr Tydd [constable]. Includes annotation by Richard W Greene [legal advisor], stating the police oath not be employed in eh collection of tolls, but in restoring the peace on the occasion of a riot.

6 Jan 1830

1830

CSO/RP/1830/27

Letter from Michael Lidwill, [magistrate], Thurles, [County Tipperary], to ‘My Lord’ [likely Sir Francis Leveson Gower, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle], in reply to a letter. Reporting he will collect the arms given to the Thurles association, currently in possession of shopkeepers and pensioners in the town ‘some of whom I had frequently out in pursuit of murderers. Also stating that he awaits directions from the Earl of Llandaff [Francis James Mathew, 2nd Earl Llandaff] regarding the outlaw Kirby.

5 Jan 1830

1830

CSO/RP/1830/28

File of letters from Mary Anne Barnes, 1 Pembroke Court, Baggot Street, [Dublin], to William Gregory, Under Secretary, Dublin Castle, acknowledging a few gifts of money from him towards her family’s great poverty; asking for money towards setting up a small business and settling a debt, or for work for her eldest son or husband.

19 Jan1830-11 Aug 1830

1830

CSO/RP/1830/29

File of letters regarding a petition by Patrick Corcoran, 17 Sycamore Alley, Dublin, to Sir Francis Leveson Gower, [Chief Secretary], Dublin Castle, for compensation for his having stood crown witness at the Clonmel assizes in 1828 in a burglary case against the convicted Fogarty, Carney, Callow and Gleeson (eventually transported), an act committed in his employer Mr Bartholomew Molloy’s house, [County Tipperary]. Including letter from Corcoran to Mr O’Doherty, Stephen’s Green, [Dublin], whom he also petitions, and correspondence between Gower and [William] Kemmis, [crown solicitor], Kildare Street, [Dublin], the latter advising to grant Corcoran the passage to America which he asks. Also mentioning Mr [Michael] Farrell, [Chief Constable, head police office, Dublin] who first promised Corcoran more compensation.

11 Dec 1829-18 Jan1830

1830

CSO/RP/1830/30

Letter from Thomas Flanagan, Lamb Alley Hotel, Dublin, to Sir Francis Leveson Gower, [Chief Secretary], Dublin Castle, endorsing an application by Mr Luka Wall for a pawnbroker’s licence; enclosing copy letter from Henry Cole and James Blacker, [police magistrates], Rotunda Division of police, 8 Henry Street, [Dublin], to ‘Gentlemen’, testifying to Wall’s practice and stating he is entitled to a licence.

23 Jul 1829-9 Jan 1830

1830