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 13^th February 1847

Information courtesy of The British Newspaper Archive.

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