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CSO/RP/1831/191

Letters from Charles Walsh, [government informer], written from 30 Kildare Street and Ingle’s Hotel, D’Olier Street, [Dublin], to Edward Geoffrey Smith Stanley, Chief Secretary, requesting a measure of financial aid from government to assist with the costs of his removal to [Sherrness, England] where he has been appointed to a post; complaining his attempts to raise much needed capital by a sale of furniture were frustrated by local resistance in the country [Borrisokane, County Tipperary].

20 Jan 1830-24 Jan 1831

1831

CSO/RP/1831/192

Petition of Gerald Quin, 5 Lower Liffey Street, Dublin, to Edward Geoffrey Smith Stanley, Chief Secretary, requesting a post of employment at Dublin Castle or in the Paving Board; alluding to his active service as sergeant in a corps of yeomanry in County Meath during 1798 and complaining of his poverty and the loss of wife.

13 Jan 1831

1831

CSO/RP/1831/193

Petition of John McFadden, Randalstown, County Antrim, to Henry William Paget, Lord Lieutenant, requesting that his creditor Daniel Kenny, an out-pensioner with the Board of Ordnance, be confined in prison until such times as he pays his debt of £6 or makes arrangements to settle in instalments; warning that Kenny, a man in receipt of ‘a yearly salary from Government’, must be compelled to pay his dues.

10 Jan 1831

1831

CSO/RP/1831/194

Letter from George Fortescue O’Flaherty, 24 Henry Street, [Dublin], to Edward Geoffrey Smith Stanley, Chief Secretary, requesting an enquiry into how Sir William Betham [Ulster King of Arms] took possession of the post of Keeper of Parliamentary Records; accuses Bethamof improper behaviour to advance his career and of persecution his mother. Encloses memorial to Henry William Paget, Lord Lieutenant, in which he alleges Betham does not serve the office in a full time capacity, is not impartial, is not properly acquainted with the records and is lacking in experienced with the records of Parliament; reciting the history of the post of Keeper of Parliamentary Records which his father held; and complaining that Betham took possession of the office through ‘misrepresentation’; finally, he advances his own claim to hold that office.

8 Jan 1831

1831

CSO/RP/1831/195

Memorial of Benjamin Bloomfield Thomas, late collector of excise, County Galway, to Henry William Paget, Lord Lieutenant, seeking payment of compensation for the 13 years he spent as collector of excise; alleges George Cuppaidge removed him from office without reason and that upon leaving a balance of salary of £44 3s 4d was owing to him, which remains as yet unpaid. Also letter from Thomas, Galway, to Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary, acknowledging reply recommending application to the commissioners of excise and reiterating his claim for a pension.

23 Jan 1831-7 Feb 1831

1831

CSO/RP/1831/196

Letter from William Abbott, Registrar, House of Industry, [Dublin], to Edward Geoffrey Smith Stanley, Chief Secretary, reporting on placement of Margaret Kavanagh, a mentally ill patient, in the appropriate section of the House of Industry. Encloses letter and copy of same from James Montgomery, Registrar, House of Recovery, Cork Street, [Dublin], to Stanley, requesting removal of Kavanagh to the House of Industry.

4 Jan 1831-20 Jan 1831

1831

CSO/RP/1831/197

Letter from JH MacGuire, 32 Sackville Street, Piccadilly, London, England, to Edward Geoffrey Smith Stanley, Chief Secretary, requesting information on the circumstances of the dismissal of Richard Balmer, late chief constable of police and paymaster; explaining his reason for asking is that he is considering raising a subscription for his family who are in dire need of assistance. Also memorial from Balmer, 3 Hanover Street, [Rotherhithe London], to Sir Henry Hardinge, Chief Secretary, outlining his case and requesting reinstatement to an equivalent position or office; stating that he served for 14 years as a constable of police, but was removed on account of some financial irregularities in a ‘harsh & hasty’ manner. Encloses copy affidavit [marked no 1] of the magistrates of County Limerick, Petty Sessions, Castleconnell, expressing their satisfaction with Balmer over the past eight years and making recommendation for him as he prepares to move overseas, signed by 15 magistrates. Also encloses letter [marked no 2] from Archdeacon Thomas Singleton [private secretary to Hugh Percy, 3rd duke Northumberland], [Phoenix Park, Dublin], to Balmer, stating opinion that the recipient was considered a zealous officer until the appearance of a ‘Certain irregularity’ which brought about his removal from the constabulary; adding that as no further complains have arisen, so therefore no action will not be taken to deprive him of employment on the other side of the water.

10 Jun 1828-17 Jan 1831

1831

CSO/RP/1831/198

Letter from John Peters, 42 Kildare Street, [Dublin], to Edward Geoffrey Smith Stanley, Chief Secretary, referring to his failure to secure an interview at Dublin Castle to bring before government information on ‘an act of oppression and fraud…committed on the Householders of the City of Dublin’; stating he is a householder in the parish of St Anne’s and that he has documents in his hands that will prove the truth of his assertions.

[31] Jan 1831

1831

CSO/RP/1831/199

Letter from John Caillard Erck, [Record Tower, Lower Castle Yard, Dublin, chief clerk of Irish record Commission and editor of 'Irish Ecclesiastical Register'], to an unidentified recipient [but likely the Chief Secretary’s Office], reporting on the Church of Ireland rectories of Ballinadee, Kilgoban, Rathdowlan and Mackloneigh in the treasurership of County Cork; noting the sum of the tithes on Ballinadee and stating it is also a glebe house with land attached.

[1831]

1831

CSO/RP/1831/200

Letter from the Earl of Charlemont, [Francis William Caulfeild, 2nd Earl of Charlemont], 15 Upper Grosvenor Street, [London, England], to an unidentified recipient [but likely the Chief Secretary’s Office], seeking a full copy of evidence given before the court on a serious attack that took place in the village of Maghery in County Armagh. Includes response on back from William Conyngham Plunkett, [Lord Chancellor of Ireland] and additional comment [in pencil] by Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary, referring to the ‘very voluminous’ nature of the evidence in question.

22 Jan 1831

1831