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1707 Arrears of Rent Dundalk and Drogheda

 

1761 Louth Militia Officers

 

1767 Petition against Thomas Hughes, Inn-keeper, Dundalk

 

1794 Blaney Balfour Approbation

 

1798 Justices of the Peace

 

1804 Louth Subscribers to Rev Neilson's Book of Greek Exercises 1804

 

1815 Louth Convicts Awaiting Transportation Summer

 

1837 Drogheda & Dundalk Spirit Licence Holders

 

1890 Dulargy New Schools

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                1767 Petition to Stephen Sibthorpe, Co. Louth Parliamentarian

 

                1795 Ralph Smyth (Drogheda) Approbation

1891 Lady Constance Bellingham Memorial Subscription

 

1922 Louth County Councillors

 

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 1767 (Stephen Sibthorpe)

              

 

To STEPHEN SIBTHORPE, Esq: one of the Knights of the Shire of the County of Lowth.

 

We, the free and independent Electors of the County of Lowth, take this early Opportunity of congratulating you on your this Day being chosen by so large a Majority, to the important Trust of representing us in Parliament in the Room of your Brother-in-law, our late worthy Representative, Lord Chief Baron Forster, and to express our Happiness in the Confidence which we have from our long acquaintance with your upright and steady Conduct, that your utmost Zeal will be exerted as eminently as his was, in promoting the Welfare and Prosperity of our Country.

 

After your public Declaration, and our private Knowledge of your Sentiments, in Favour of the Bill now depending, for limiting the Duration of Parliaments, we are confident that you will use every constitutional Means to procure for this Kingdom, a Law so essential to the Protestant Interest, the Support of our Liberty, and the ancient, legal, and unrepealed Right of all his Majesty's Subjects of Ireland.

 

You may be assured, that your Exertion in Parliament to acquire this long wished-for Support to our happy Constitution, will be the most pleasing Return you can make to your Constituents for the high Favour they have this Day conferred on you.

 

Dundalk Nov. 18, 1767.

 

Geo. Adams

Peter Adams

Wm. Adams

Charles Aston

Robert Aston

Robert Aston, jun.

John Babe

Hugh Bailie

John Bailie

Robert Bailie

Rob. Bale

Wm. Batt

Dan. Blackwell

Hen. Blackwell

Henry Blackwell

Monro Blackwell

Richardson Blackwell

John Brush

Edward Caldwell

John Clerke

Henry Coddington

Alex. Craig

John Craig

Arthur Craven

Andrew de la Cour

Rob. Dickie

Francis Donagh

Philip Donagh

Walter Eccleston

Wm. Eccleston

Tho. Ferguson

Alex. Filgate

John Filgate

Tho. Filgate

William Filgate

William Filgate, jun.

Charles Fleetwood

Andrew Forster

Nicholas Forster

John Foster

Robert Foster

Tho. Foster

Wm. Foster

Rich. Gaynor

John Gibson

Thomas Green

Wm. Green

Edward Gunnele

John Hale

Wm. Hale

Wm. Holmes

Tho. Hopkins

Tho. Hughes

Robert Leavens

Walter Lindsay

Matthew Lorrinar

Charles Lyster

Anthony Marshall

John Marshall

John McLintock

Wm. Mead

Squire Moneypenny

Brent Moore

Henry Moore

John Ogle

Wm. Ogle

John Orson

John Page

Tho. Palmer

Phillip Pendleton

Adam Pepper

Andrew Pepper

Tho. Pepper

Edward Pilkington

Rob. Richardson

Stephen Romford

John Ruxton

Cha. Sallary

James Sheils

Rob. Sibthorpe

Richard Sketton

Alexander Smart

Ephraim Stannus

Ephraim Stannus

Trevor Stannus

Peter Terrile

John Tisdale

Tho. Tisdall

Tho. Turner

Laurence Tydiman

Garrett Tyrrill

Wm. Tyrrill

John Williams

Roger Williamson

Richard Workman

Rob. Wynne

 

 

STEPHEN SIBTHORPE, Esqr's Answer to the Gentlemen, clergy, and Freeholders, the free and independent Electors of the County of Lowth.

 

Your kind Congratulations, so early expressed, add largely to the Happiness I feel on being chosen by so respectable a Majority, to the important Trust of representing you in Parliament, the Septennial Bill has ever had my warmest Wishes, and I shall use my utmost Endeavours to procure it's being passed into a Law, satisfied, that a Limitation of Parliament is our ancient, legal Right, and shall be the most effectual Means of strengthening the Protestant Interest of this Kingdom.

 

Your Acquainting me thus early with your Commands, is a pleasing Mark of the Confidence you repose in me, and be assured, that on every Occasion, I shall be extremely happy in receiving the Orders of my Constituents, which I shall most cheerfully obey.

 

I am, Gentleman,

With much Gratitude,

And Respect,

Your most obliged, faithful

And Obedient Servant,

STEPHEN SIBTHORPE

 

Dundalk, Nov 19, 1767

 

 

(Freeman's Journal, 21 November 1767)

 

 

                1795

Corporation of Glovers and Skinners of Drogheda: Ralph Smyth Approbation

[ Freeman's Journal, Thursday, 08 Oct 1795]

 

Town of Drogheda

 

At a numerous and respectable meeting of the Corporation of Glovers and Skinners, of the County of the Town of Drogheda, in Common Hall assembled, on Friday the 2d of October, it was unanimously Resolved that the Freedom of the said Corporation be presented to Ralph Smyth, Esqr., our late worthy Mayor, together with the following address:

 

We the Master, Wardens and Brethren of the Corporation of Glovers and Skinners of the County of the Town of Drogheda, sensible of the many advantages which have arisen to this Town and its vicinity from your unremitted attention to every department of office as Chief Magistrate, think it a duty incumbent on us to return you our warmest acknowledgments; and we sincerely hope, that your assiduity and impartiality in the administration of justice, may stimulate your successors to imitate that conduct which has so justly met our approbation.

 

William Gibbons               Master

George Jones                }  Wardens

William Cleapem            }

 

Oct. 2, 1795.

 

Ordered, that the above address, together with Mr. Smyth’s Answer, be published three times in the Drogheda, Freeman, Dublin, and Hibernian Journals.

 

 

 

 

To The Masters, Wardens, and Brethren of the Corporation of Glovers and Skinners, of the County of the Town of Drogheda

 

Gentleman,

 

The approbation which your loyal Corporation has been pleased to express of my conduct in the office of Chief Magistrate, demands my most sincere Thanks. I am highly flattered in the honour you have done me, in conferring on me the Freedom of your respectable body. My gratitude for these favours will call upon me in every situation of life, to show with what sincere esteem I remain,

 

Gentlemen, your very obliged Servant

 

Ralph Smyth.

 

Drogheda, Oct 2, 1795

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1891

 

The Lady Constance Bellingham Memorial Subscription Fund

 

 

[From The Dundalk Democrat 25 July 1891] 'For the above purposes the sums appearing opposite their names have been contributed by the undermentioned. As the list will shortly be closed all others desirous of contributing are kindly invited to send on their subscriptions soon to Dr. O'Hagan, Castlebellingham, the treasurer, or to either of the secretaries (Michael Meade and Gerald Patrick Doyle) Castlebellingham.'

 

In another comment in the newspaper is the following: -

 

'The Late Lady Constance Bellingham

 

We publish in another column a list of subscriptions received by the committee towards the erection of a memorial to the late Lady Constance Bellingham. We are glad to know that the movement promises to be very successful, and that the result will be worthy of the memory of this good and charitable lady.'

 

[Note: Constance Julia Eleanor Georgina Noel (daughter of Charles George Noel and Adelaide Harriet Augusta Hay) was born on 19 Oct 1847 at Marylebone, London.    She married Sir Alan Henry Bellingham on 13 Jan 1874.   She died on 8 Apr 1891 at Castlebellingham.]

 

[Names are in surname order and not as in the original newspaper report]

 

Title

First Name

Surname

2nd Title*

Profession*

Address

Amount

Mr.

James

Bannon

 

 

Maine

1/-

The Hon.

B.C.

Bellew

 

 

Barmeath Castle, Dunleer

£5

Miss

 

Boden

 

 

Stabannon

2/6

Mr.

P.

Brannigan

 

 

Castlebellingham

1/6

Miss

 

Brennan

 

 

Drumcashel

2/6

Mr.

Stephen

Butterly

 

 

Castlebellingham

10/-

Mr.

John

Callan

 

PLG

Shamrock

2/6

Mr.

P.D.

Caraher

 

PLG

Maine

£1

Mr.

W.

Carroll

 

 

Castlebellingham

2/6

Mr.

J.

Cassidy

 

 

Mansfieldstown

4/-

 

Finley

Chester

Esq.

J.P.

Williamstown

£1

Mr.

J.

Collum

 

 

Castlebellingham

8/-

Mr.

W.

Connaughton

 

 

Castlebellingham

1/6

Mr.

John

Connolly

 

 

Maine

1/-

Mr.

Patrick

Cooper

 

 

Castlebellingham

4/-

Mr.

Peter

Cooper

 

 

Castlebellingham

1/-

Mr.

Howard

Donnan

 

 

Castlebellingham

5/6

Mr.

Joseph

Dowdall

 

 

Castlebellingham

2/6

Mr.

Gerald P.

Doyle

 

Inland Revenue

Castlebellingham

£1

Mr.

P.

Durnin

 

 

Roodstown

10/-

Mr.

Patrick

Feehan

 

 

Bragginstown

£1

Mr.

N.

Flanagan

 

 

Castlebellingham

1/6

Mr.

James

Gannon

 

Merchant

Castlebellingham

£2

Mr.

Laurence

Gerraghty

 

 

Stabannon

4/-

Mr.

Owen

Grimes

 

 

Castlebellingham

5/-

Mrs.

Ellen

Hand

 

 

Castlebellingham

5/-

Miss

 

Hardy

 

 

Roodstown

2/4

Mr.

Patrick

Harlin

 

 

Seabank

4/-

Mr.

James

Harlin

 

 

Clonmore

10/-

Mr.

James

Hoey

 

PLG

Williamstown

10/-

Mr.

John

Hoey

 

Coal Merchant

Annagassan

£2

Mr.

H.

Hoey

 

 

Castlebellingham

1/6

Mr.

Patrick

Hughes

 

 

Seabank

10/-

Mr.

Stephen

Kelliher

 

CPS

Castlebellingham

5/-

Mr.

S.

Kelly

 

 

Castlebellingham

4/-

Mr.

Charles D.

King

 

Coal and Corn Merchant

Annagassan

£1

Mr.

 

Little

 

 

Dundalk

£1

Mr.

T.

Magee

 

 

Roodstown

10/-

Rev.

J.P.

Maguire

C.C.

 

Kilsaran

£1

Miss

 

Matthews

 

 

Maine

£1

Mr.

Thomas

McCartney

 

 

Roodstown

2/-

Mr.

Hugh

McKeone

 

Merchant

Seabank

£1

Mr.

Patrick

McKeone

 

Merchant

Castlebellingham

5/-

Mr.

Michael

McKeone

 

 

Seabank

10/-

Mr.

Thomas

McShane

 

 

Castlebellingham

10/-

Mr.

M.

Meade

 

 

Castlebellingham

£2

Mrs.

 

Morgan

sen.

 

Castlebellingham

5/-

Mr.

J.

Nicholson

 

 

Castlebellingham

4/-

Mr.

Wm.

O'Gorman

 

Merchant

Castlebellingham

£1

Dr.

 

O'Hagan

 

 

Castlebellingham

£1

Rev.

Peter

Pentony

P.P.

 

Kilsaran

£3

Mr.

J.

Plunket

 

 

Stabannon

4/-

Mr.

T.

Plunket

 

 

Stabannon

4/-

Mr.

L.

Potter

 

 

Ardee

4/-

Rev. Father

 

Powderly

P.P.

 

Togher

£3

Mrs.

 

Seagrave

 

 

Dunaney

£1

Rev.

Patrick

Seagrave

C.C.

 

Drogheda

£1

Rev. Father

 

Smith

C.C.

 

Togher

£2

Mr.

N.

Stokes

 

 

Castlebellingham

1/6

Mr.

J.

Stokes

 

 

Castlebellingham

1/6

Mr.

J.

Toole

 

 

Castlebellingham

1/10

Mr.

 

Wilson

 

Postmaster

Castlebellingham

10/-

Major-General

O'Brien Bellingham

Woolsey

 

D.L.

Milesdown

£2

 

*Profession/Title

C.C. - Catholic Curate

CPS - Castlebellingham Petty Sessions

D.L. - Deputy Lieutenant

J.P. - Justice of the Peace

P.P. - Parish Priest

PLG - Poor Law Guardian

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The Irish Year Book – Leabhar na hEireann 1922

Louth – Co. Lugbhaidh

 

County Council and Chief Officials

 

Chairman – Alderman James E. Murphy, 86 West Street, Drogheda

 

Vice Chairman – Alderman Philip Monahan, James Street, Drogheda

 

Councillors

Peter J. Butterly, Castletown Mullary, Dunleer