Wednesday, 20 January 2016

East Cork: 1843 Registration Act.

The Irish Registration Act of 1843

  Schedule B.,6&7 Vic.,Cap.74,Sec 3.

                                   Licence to Keep Arms.

                                       County East Cork.


The following entries have been collected over a number years by myself, fellow collectors and dealers. In total over 1100 registrations from the 40 areas have been collated which is a very small sample of the 300.000 weapons the authorities had calculated were in circulation in private hands
at this time.

The list below gives all those weapons found registered in County East Cork between 1843-1846.

Listed are the county prefix, licence number, description of weapon/s and where possible the maker/retailer.


EC 72
Pair Duelling Pistols
Wogdon
EC 91
Pocket pistol. Converted to Perc'
Bryan
EC 112
Pair Flk Duelling Pistols
Whitney
EC 175
Converted Boarding Pistol.Spring Bayonet.
Bennett
EC 177
Flk Pistol
Griffin
EC 184
Flk Blunderbuss. Brass barrel
Henry Nock
EC 220
Flk Blunderbuss. 3 stage barrel.
T Hughes
EC 262
Flk Brass Barrelled Blunderbuss
Ketland & Co
EC 286
Flk Blunderbuss. Brass barrel
Whitney
EC 336
Perc' 4 Barrelled. Rotary Hammer Pistol.
M & J Pattison
EC 423
Flk 16 bore Duelling Pistols
P Whitney
EC 423
Dutch/Irish Brass Barrelled Blunderbuss

EC 482
Flk Duelling Pistols. 24 Bore.
Blackwell
EC 508
Percussion Officers Pistol
D.Egg
EC 641
Perc' Travelling Pistol. No Lock. PCBassett.

EC 736
40 bore perc'boxlock sidehammer pistol

EC 792
Percussion Pistol
Bachman
EC 884
Perc' Trav' Pistol
Hutchinson
EC 914
Converted Pkt Pistol.
Bryan
EC 945
Pair Silver Mounted Holster Pistols
Edwards
EC 947
Flk 18 bore Pocket Pistol.
Bryan
EC 1001
Cased Pair Duelling/Holster Pistols
Mc Dermott
EC 1069
Flk Duelling /Holster Pistols.Cased
Theo Richards
EC 1150
Flk Pistol.
Prosser
EC 1166/1167
Flk Cannon Barrelled Pistols
T Hughes
EC 1207
Flk Travelling Pistol
Fowler
EC 1211
Flk Cannon Barrelled Holster Pistol
T. Hughes
EC 1216
Flk Duelling Pistol. With shortened barrel.
Mills
EC 1220
Brass Barrelled Blunderbuss
Whitney
EC 1225
Flk Duelling Pistol. 10.5/8" barrel. TH on barrel.
P.Whitney
EC 1225
25 Bore Duelling Pistol. H.Hayes. Vernon mt JR. 54 Strand.
J Richards
EC 1242
Flk Brass Barrelled Blunderbuss. Cork No2 Mail.
Bryan
EC 1260
Flk Blunderbuss..
Hall
EC 1272
Flk Blunderbuss. Brass lock. 2 stage barrel.
Westerman
EC 1273
Flk Repeating Pistol
Lorenzoni
EC 1282
Flk Blunderbuss
Ketland
EC 1282
Flk Brass Barrelled Blunderbuss..
Edwards
EC 1332
Flk Heavy Calvary Pistol. 10 Bore. Birmingham Proof 1813.
Tower
EC 1536
Percussion Pistol.
Connel & Co
EC 1621
Perc' Travelling Pistol. ( Conversion). 16 bore. 4.5" Barrel
Tyner?
EC 1717
Pair Perc' Turnover Pocket Pistols. Birm.Proof.
Allport
EC 1717
Flk Light Dragoon Pistol. 9" Barrel.

EC 2057
28 Bore Miquelet Rifle

EC 2210
Flk Pistol . Silver Mounts.
Bourdiec
EC 2339
Flk Converted Caplock. D/B Shotgun
Manton
EC 2344
Flk Converted Caplock. D/B Shotgun
J Manton & Son
EC 2399
Cased Pair Perc' Duelling Pistols 1988. Now reconverted
Durs Egg
EC 2416
Pair Flk Holster Pistols
Harrison
EC 2466
Flk Light Dragoon Pistol.
Ketland
EC 2789
Flk Blunderbuss pistol. Steel Barrel. 10"
T.Hughes
EC 2925
Flk Silver Mounted Holster Pistol. 1777
Wilson
EC 2892
Pair Flk Belt Pistols. 
Bass
EC 3675
Perc'Boxlock Pkt Pistol
Westley Richards



                             


          A pair of Bass belt pistols both marked  EC- 2892
                             Authors photography


As will be seen through these lists the majority of pairs of pistols are consecutively numbered. 
There was considerable confusion and many anomalies exist within the marking of weapons but these are normally easily explained.  County Louth did appear to have a number of issues and weapons  have been found marked "DR" (Drogheda). In another instance four different weapons were issued with the same licence number viz.  LH 1257. We will deal with other instances in later blogs.
                                          
                                   Official House of Commons Returns 8th May 1846. 




We are always pleased to know of other weapons registered in East Cork or any of the other 39 areas
under this Act.

Dave Stroud. ramrodantiques.co.uk

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