Saturday, 20 February 2016

County Donegal:1843 Registration Act.



The Irish Registration Act of 1843

  Schedule B.,6&7 Vic.,Cap.74,Sec 3.

                                   Licence to Keep Arms.

                                         County Donegal.



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 Donegal between 1843-1846.

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


DONEGAL
DL 614 Flk 24 Bore Pistol Gabbitas?
DL 746/747 Pair Duelling Pistols Wogdon

DL 1004/1005

Blunderbuss with Skeleton Stocks Hutchinson
DL 1050 Flk Greatcoat Pistol S & C Smith
DL 1098 Flk Boxlock Pocket Pistol. Folding Trigger. Robert Tomlinson
DL 1623 Flk Military Pistol. 
DL 2061 Perc' D/B Pkt Pistol. 3 Bents to Lock. Captive ramrod S.Nock.
DL 2234 Flk Sword Pistol. Cir 1650
DL 2384 Flk Blunderbuss. Steel Barrel Hall & Powell
DL 2669/2670 Flk Overcoat Pistols.Dated 1802.Silver Mounts. T Pattison & Co
DL 3525 Flk Sporting Gun 32" Barrel. Platinum Breech Plug.  Cavanagh
DL 3546 Flk Blunderbuss. Brass barrel. Cavanagh
DL 3900/3901 Flk Pkt Pistols  H.W Mortimer
DL 4932 Flk Tower
DL 790-/7573 Details N/A..


Of interest in this batch of registrations are the two weapons by Cavanagh. These weapons being registered possibly on the same day?  We wrote an article relating to the Kavanagh family for the MLAGB and this can be found on the following link;-

                    http://www.mlagb.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/201201_cavanagh.pdf

                                                     Our thanks to the above link.
               
                                               Official House of Commons Returns 8th May 1846.







                                 Kavanaghs originally listed by M.S. Dudley Westropp, MRIA. 
Journal Arms & Armour Society, 1957.
Vol.11. No 1.

                              We are always pleased to know of other weapons registered in this county.

                                                          Dave Stroud. ramrodantiques.co.uk


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