Thursday 2 May 2019

Wm & Jn Rigby. Employees Charitable Donation. 1847.




Central Relief Committee for all Ireland
Office 36 College Green
Dublin.


Charitable donations made by the tradesman of the gun industry are given here and not only acknowledge their benevolence but also notes a full list of the employees working within the William & John Rigby organisation in 1847.

William & John Rigby, 24 Suffolk Street, gunmakers;

Thomas Pattison
William Richards
Richard Collins
John Aston           
John Flynn
Robert Pattison 
John Booth
Joseph Anglin       
Frederick Shepherd
Samuel Cheatam (sic) (Cheetham)  Barrel Maker
Donated  10s each.  (50p).

William Norman
Donated 6s ( 30p)

James Garvey
Edward Mc Loughlin
William Evans
Edward Smith
John Byrne
Charles Tandy
Patrick Sarsfield
Donated 5s each. ( 25p)

Robert Pattison jun
Thomas Magin
Henry Roach
4s each (20p)


Oliver Richards 3s (15p)

Michael Preston 2s.6d. ( 12.5p)

William Walsh 2s. ( 10p)

Edward Swift 1s ( 5p)

Total donation: £8.1s.6d.

Wm & Jn Rigby agreed to equal the above payments and therefore deposited £16.3.0 into the Bank of Ball & Co..

Taking global inflation into account the above employees donated the equivalent £240 ($310) in today’s money.  Wm & Jn Rigby matching this. Total (£480).
  
The Freemans Journal 13th February 1847
Information courtesy of The British Newspaper Archive.

Dave Stroud ramrodantiques.co.uk

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