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CSO/RP/1822/832

Petition of Alleyn Roche, Skibbereen, County Cork, formerly a superannuated tidewaiter at port of Cork, to Richard Wellesley, 1st marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting retrial of charge of drunkeness which resulted in his dismissal from post of tidewaiter; provides detailed account in reply to allegation brought by Mr Hicks, inspector of tide duty, that he was unfit to be in charge of the vessel Ann, which was bound for New York, in United States of America; petition certified by Richard White, 1st earl of Bantry, in support of Roche's character.

15 Jun 1822

1822

CSO/RP/1822/1080

Letter from Richard Clarke, late ordnance storekeeper, Bantry, County Cork, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, requesting appointment to a situation of employment under Government: pleads for relief from his ‘melancholy state’ and claims to ‘have a knowledge of business and understand[s] keeping any description of books’; includes copy memorial from Clarke to His Majesty George IV seeking an extension of the Royal bounty as support for himself, ‘his wife and ten Children together with the four orphan Children of his deceased brother’: refers to family misfortunes, discontinuation of position as storekeeper and absence of business; includes copy letter from T Venables, secretary to Lord Sidmouth [Henry Addington], to Clarke, indicating that his petition was presented to the King and has been referred ‘for the Consideration of the Irish Government'.

31 Aug 1821-19 Jan 1822

1822

CSO/RP/1822/1227

Petition of Robert Bird Jr, Bantry, County Cork, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting appointment to post of chief constable of police: emphasises family loyalty and indicates his father John Bird previously held post of chief constable, also states he ‘had been a Volunteer in the Attack made on the White Boys near Macroom’.

[1822]

1822

CSO/RP/1822/1231

Letter from James Morgan Cooke, late lieutenant, Royal Cork City Regiment, Walcot Lodge, Killarney, County Kerry, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, enclosing memorial to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting appointment to post of chief constable of police in any barony in Ireland: makes reference to support of the Earl of Bantry [Richard White] and includes certificate overleaf signed by Lord Headley [Charles Allanson-Winn] and six other persons.

30 Sep 1822

1822

CSO/RP/1822/1269

Letter from David Kirby, half pay, North Cork Regiment of Militia, Bantry, County Cork, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, requesting appointment to post of baronial constable in the police establishment: refers to earlier memorial for situation and describes his ‘trifling freehold property’ in county Cork, as being ‘very inadequate to our maintenance’.

1 Oct 1822

1822

CSO/RP/1822/1277

Petition of Joseph Mills, lieutenant Royal Navy, 47 Lower Gardiner Street, Dublin, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting appointment to post of inspector of fisheries at Bantry, County Cork: refers to his father, Daniel, who served as high sheriff for County Wicklow and was ‘an Active and useful Magistrate’ for many years; includes document with copy certificates offering recommendations for Mills from captains Philip Browne, Colin Campbell, C Upton, WH Percy, Henry Forbes, James Leach, Thomas Richard Toker, Thomas Briggs, Andrew Mitchell, R Saumeray and AB Bingham.

18 Sep 1822

1822

CSO/RP/1822/1780

Letter from Thomas St Lawrence, Church of Ireland Bishop of Cork and Ross, Bishop’s Palace, Cork, to Chief Secretary’s Office, Dublin Castle, commenting upon the deficiencies of church's place of worship at Kilmacomogue, ‘a glaring disgrace to the Protestant establishment’: refers to financial difficulties and faulty state of building which is without complete roof, flooring or pews, and appears a great local spectacle ‘situated as it is in a R[oman] Catholic district & in which splendid mass Houses are every day rising’; encloses memorial from the minister, church wardens and parishioners of parish of Kilmacomogue, barony of Bantry, County Cork, requesting advance of grant of £500 to enable completion of parish church, which has lain in an incomplete state due to insufficient funds for purpose: mentions initial loan from Board of First Fruits and legal impediment to securing an additional sum, signed by James McCheane, curate.

5 Oct 1822

1822

CSO/RP/1822/1890

Letter from Richard White, 1st Earl of Bantry, Bantry House, Bantry, County Cork, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, requesting appointment to the Linen Board as replacement for Lord Frankfort [Lodge Evans de Montmorency] who has died.

28 Sep 1822

1822

CSO/RP/1822/2209

Petition of Mary Johnson, Limerick Post Office, County Limerick, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting a situation of employment for her grandson, Thomas Johnson, as means of support and escape from poverty: asserts she is widow of Francis Johnson, who served as high constable, collector, and billet master in Cork city, and refers to his loyalty to Government in the 1798 Rebellion: claims ‘at the time the French were in Bantry bay and the Guard House in Blackpool unroofed by the storm he made a Guard House of his own House’.

1822

1822

CSO/RP/1822/2357

Letter from Viscount Ennismore, Convamore, County Cork, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, making case for elevation of Lord Bantry [Richard White] to fill vacancy in Irish representative peerage, following death of holder, Lord Mountcashel [Stephen Moore]: emphasises Bantry’s political loyalty and activity in region to suppress insubordination and outrage.

30 Oct 1822

1822