Carlow County: 1843 Registration Act.

The Irish Registration Act of 1843

                          Schedule B.,6&7 Vic.,Cap.74,Sec 3.
                                    Licence to Keep Arms.

                                         County Carlow.

     

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 Carlow between 1843-1846.
Listed are the county prefix, licence number, description of weapon/s and where possible the maker/retailer.


Registrations found for County Carlow.

CW 57/58	Cased Duelling Pistols	Wogdon
CW 165/166	Percussion Pocket Pistol	Calderwood
CW 239	Cased D/B Turnover Pistol	Rigby
CW 240	Percussion Turnover Vender Pistol	W&J Rigby
CW 307	Early 18th century Flk Holster Pistol
CW 310	Flk Steel Barrelled Blunderbuss	Gray
CW 487	Perc' Pocket Pistol	D.Egg
CW 716	Cased 6 Shot Pepperbox	W & J Rigby
CW 863	Flk 16 Bore Carbine. Dublin Castle
CW 1009	Flk D/B Shotgun	Manton
CW 1250	Flk Brass Barrelled Blunderbuss.	Ketland & Co
CW 1094/1095	Flk Manstopper/Travelling Pistol	Goggin
CW 1922	Flk Steel Barrelled Blunderbuss
CW 2071	Flk Steel Barrelled Blunderbuss	Fowler
CW 2792/2793	Pair Greatcoat Pistols	Rogers
CW 3010/3011	Cased Pair of Flk Duellers.	W & J Rigby
CW 3724	Pistol issued and licenced to Samuel Thorpe. 3rd April 1846*

NB: Licence only.No description of weapon. *The interesting fact in this batch of registrations is that Licence  CW 3724 was issued in April 1846. This being the year the Act was repealed. Therefore, we can assume this was one of he final registrations in this county. This indicating that less than 4000 licences were issued in this county for the whole 3 year period. In April 1846 the Act would have been running for two and a half years. Indicating that each month on average the Petty Session were issuing approximately 120 licences. Once the paperwork had been raised the owner could then attend the police barracks where his weapon/weapons could be duly "Branded". No doubt when the Act commenced in 1843 there would have been a large amount of registrations to administer and this would have gradually trailed off. Please refer to our previous blogs related to this Act listed below: 21/12/2015 15/12/2015 28/11/2015 18/11/2015 21/10/2015  10/9/2015                         Official House of Commons Returns 8th May 1846.                                                                                                                                                       3470    We are always pleased to know of any weapons registered in this county or any of the other 38 areas. Dave Stroud. ramrodantiques.co.uk