County Fermanagh. The Irish Registration Act of 1843

The Irish Registration Act of 1843

  Schedule B., 6&7 Vic.,Cap.74,Sec 3.

                                   Licence to Keep Arms.

                                     County Fermanagh

                                         

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 Fermanagh between 1843-1846.

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

Samuel Wallace converted brass barrelled blunderbuss registered (F 7883)

FERMANAGH
F 379	Converted India Pattern Brownbess. 1st C C yn No 84.
F 670	Flk Carbine . E.I.C.
F 1534	Flk India Pattern Brownbess. Also marked for Cork Borough CB 187.
F 1683	Flk India Pattern Brownbess. Marked LOUTH C.22.
F 1982	Flk Coaching Carbine.	Irwin
F 2309	Flk India Pattern Brownbess
F 2613	Military Pattern Carbine. No3 Rev.Loftus Reade
F2627/2628	Flk Coaching Carbines.	Rigby
F2629/2630	Flk Officers Pistols.	Rigby
F 2992	16 bore Flk Carbine.	W & J Rigby
F 3120	Flk Short Land Pattern Brownbess. Dated 1746	Watkin
F 3196	Flk Land pattern Brownbess
F3360/3361	Pair Perc' Silver Mounted Queen Ann Turn off Pistol	Beeton
F 3385	Flk India pattern Brownbess. " Cole 16" dated 1795 . E.I.C.
F 3495	Flk Musket. Dated 1746.	Jordan
F 4388	Backaction.perc'd/b shotgun.	Flanagan
F 5188	Baker Carbine
F 5306	Flk 60 Bore Pistol	Robert Tomlinson
F 5822	India Pattern Brownbess.
F 6206	Percussion Backaction Sporting Gun.35.5"barrel.Marked Butt plate.
F 6598	India Pattern Brownbess.
F 6869	Percussion Backaction 8 bore Goose. 50" Barrel
F 7131	Converted. India Pattern Brownbess.	Tower
F 7547	India Pattern Brownbess. Marked Butt Plate "Cole 7".
F 7883	Blunderbuss. Converted. Brass Barrelled. Spring bayonet.	Wallace
F 8358	11 bore Percussion Carbine	W & J Rigby
F 8417	Bayonet Only for a Brownbess.

Of interest from this batch of registrations are eleven Brownbess muskets. These having been issued to volunteer and militia regiments. Only regular regiments were exempt from the Act. The other five of the "six counties" also have high levels of Brownbess muskets.

                                          Official House of Commons Returns 8th May 1846.

               Check out our earlier blogs related to the 1843 Act. Go to "other posts"

             We are always pleased to know of additional County Fermanagh registered weapons.

                                       Dave Stroud. ramrodantiques.co.uk