James Rainsford
Gunsmith
Dublin
Photography courtesy of Alan Ware.
This pair of pistols with brass lockplates, Spanish form brass barrels were registered under the 1843 Registration Act in County Kerry (KE 233). Barrels engraved "Ransford" (sic). Roller frizzens.
James Rainsford trading dates and addresses:
Noted as a Freeman in 1757.*
1757-1759?
Rainsford,James
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1760-1761
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Rainsford,James
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1761-1774
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Rainsford,James
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1775-1782
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Rainsford,James
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1783- d.1790
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**£4-10-0 paid to James Rainsford for a blunderbuss and case of pistols for the Dublin Society
3rd April 1788.
*Libraries and Archive: Ancient Freemen of Dublin
Courtesy of
Dublin City Library & Archive, 138-144 Pearse Street, Dublin 2.
** James Rainsford originally listed by M.S. Dudley Westropp, MRIA.
Journal Arms & Armour Society, 1957.
Vol.11. No 1.
Dave Stroud. ramrodantiques.co.uk
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