County Westmeath. Irish Registration Act 1843.

The Irish Registration Act of 1843

  Schedule B.,6&7 Vic.,Cap.74,Sec 3.

Licence to Keep Arms.

                                        

                                       County Westmeath

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 Westmeath between 1843-1846.

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

    Weapons found registered in County Westmeath.

WM 130 S/B Sporting Gun. J. Manton & Son WM 409 Perc' Pistol. Captive ramrod. Overcoat size. W& J Rigby WM 438 Flk Blunderbuss..Wicklow Police" Rigby WM 669 Flk Blunderbuss.Brass Barrel. WM 1877 Converted Composite Brass Barrelled Blunderbuss Langston WM 2222 Pair Perc' D/B Turnover Pistols. Kavanagh WM 2315 140 Bore Boxlock all steel 3 barrelled perc' pistol. Rigby WM 2360 Flk Brass Barrelled Blunderbuss. Rigby WM 2410/2411 Flk Brass Barrelled Blunderbuss Pistols. J.Waters WM 2649/2651 Flk Brass Barrelled Pistols Harcourt WM 2874/2875 Pair Flk Overcoat Pistols. Birmingham Proof. Clark WM 3413 Flk Blunderbuss.Brass Barrel. H. Pickfatt

(Arms Ireland)
Return of Number of Notices for Application for Licenses to Keep Arms in Ireland.
Our thanks to the Southampton Library Digitisation Unit.

Our appreciation to Leslie Martin for bringing this document to our attention.

          Entries given for Westmeath County. House of Commons 8th May 1846.    
Totals returned     Qty 4466                      

   In future blogs we will detail the findings from this very important document.

We are always interested in weapons registered in County Westmeath.

Dave Stroud. ramrodantiques.co.uk