Will'm & John Rigby Label.

Will'm & John Rigby

Gun Manufacturers

24 Suffolk Street

Dublin. 

 The remnants of a William & John Rigby label. Pasted under a replaced partition lid. c. 1835.

                   Please refer to our earlier blogs related to Wm & Jn Rigby:-
   

                                                     11/3/2016
                                                     30/1/2016

                                                     29/1/2016                                              

                                                    10/12/2015

                                                    29/10/2015
                                                    26/10/2015     
                                                    20/10/2015
                                                    16/10/2015
                                                    12/10/2015
                                                     12/9/2015
                                                     30/8/2015

William & John Rigby originally listed by M.S. Dudley Westropp, MRIA. 

Journal Arms & Armour Society, 1957.

Vol.11. No 1.

Dave Stroud. ramrodantiques.co.uk

County Fermanagh. The Irish Registration Act of 1843

The Irish Registration Act of 1843

  Schedule B., 6&7 Vic.,Cap.74,Sec 3.

                                   Licence to Keep Arms.

                                     County Fermanagh

                                         

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 Fermanagh between 1843-1846.

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

Samuel Wallace converted brass barrelled blunderbuss registered (F 7883)

FERMANAGH
F 379	Converted India Pattern Brownbess. 1st C C yn No 84.
F 670	Flk Carbine . E.I.C.
F 1534	Flk India Pattern Brownbess. Also marked for Cork Borough CB 187.
F 1683	Flk India Pattern Brownbess. Marked LOUTH C.22.
F 1982	Flk Coaching Carbine.	Irwin
F 2309	Flk India Pattern Brownbess
F 2613	Military Pattern Carbine. No3 Rev.Loftus Reade
F2627/2628	Flk Coaching Carbines.	Rigby
F2629/2630	Flk Officers Pistols.	Rigby
F 2992	16 bore Flk Carbine.	W & J Rigby
F 3120	Flk Short Land Pattern Brownbess. Dated 1746	Watkin
F 3196	Flk Land pattern Brownbess
F3360/3361	Pair Perc' Silver Mounted Queen Ann Turn off Pistol	Beeton
F 3385	Flk India pattern Brownbess. " Cole 16" dated 1795 . E.I.C.
F 3495	Flk Musket. Dated 1746.	Jordan
F 4388	Backaction.perc'd/b shotgun.	Flanagan
F 5188	Baker Carbine
F 5306	Flk 60 Bore Pistol	Robert Tomlinson
F 5822	India Pattern Brownbess.
F 6206	Percussion Backaction Sporting Gun.35.5"barrel.Marked Butt plate.
F 6598	India Pattern Brownbess.
F 6869	Percussion Backaction 8 bore Goose. 50" Barrel
F 7131	Converted. India Pattern Brownbess.	Tower
F 7547	India Pattern Brownbess. Marked Butt Plate "Cole 7".
F 7883	Blunderbuss. Converted. Brass Barrelled. Spring bayonet.	Wallace
F 8358	11 bore Percussion Carbine	W & J Rigby
F 8417	Bayonet Only for a Brownbess.

Of interest from this batch of registrations are eleven Brownbess muskets. These having been issued to volunteer and militia regiments. Only regular regiments were exempt from the Act. The other five of the "six counties" also have high levels of Brownbess muskets.

                                          Official House of Commons Returns 8th May 1846.

               Check out our earlier blogs related to the 1843 Act. Go to "other posts"

             We are always pleased to know of additional County Fermanagh registered weapons.

                                       Dave Stroud. ramrodantiques.co.uk

Joseph Harris Jun. Merchant.

Joseph Harris Jun'.
Merchant
Meeting-House-Lane
Cork

                             
                             A late 18th century advertisement offering glazed or un-glazed 
                                         casks of gunpowder for "those who sell again".

  The quarries around Cork would have used large amounts of gunpowder for blasting but                      gunmakers would have also been good clients to the likes of Mr Joseph Harris Junior.

We are always interested in any early advertising related to any aspect of the Irish guntrade. 

                                         Dave Stroud. ramrodantiques.co.uk

John Murphy.Barrel Maker.

John Murphy
Barrel Maker
Dublin.

                                          John Murphy Barrel Maker mark "JM".

Trading dates and address

Murphy,John

1808-1835

190 Great Britain Street

John Murphy's first trades directory entry 1809.

	Clarke	Nicholas		35 Capel Street
	Edwards	Thomas		190 Abbey Street
	Fowler	Thomas		18 Capel Street
	Hutchinson	Michael		8 Dame Street
	Mc Dermott	Farrell		2 Abbey Street
	Meredith Charles			5 Smock Alley
	Langston	John		22 Eustace St
	Murphy	John		190 Gt Britain Street. Barrel Maker.
	Pattison	Thomas		143 Capel Street
	Rigby	John		19 Suffolk Street
	Trulock	Thomas		23 Barrack Street

In c.1822 , William Dempsey, gunmaker moved from 12 Swift Row to 192 Gt Britain Street adjacent to Murphys establishment. This being in what is now Parnell Street opposite Jervis Street.

Another "JM" marked barrel can be seen in our blog relating to Obadiah Wisdom dated. 15/1/2015.

                             John Murphy originally listed by H.Ingham.
                                           Notes on Irish Gunsmiths.
                                   Published  by J.A.A.S., Vol.111. 1974.

                                      Dave Stroud.ramrodantiques.co.uk

Charles Weekes & Co.. Dublin.

Charles Weekes & Co..

formerly Weekes & Son.

Gun & Sporting Tackle Manufactory.

Dublin

Charles Weekes & Co., Dublin. 20 bore Cartridge Extractor.

Trading dates & addresses.

Weekes & Son	1859-1877	27 Essex Quay..
Weekes, Charles & Co	1878-1905	27 Essex Quay.20/27 Essex Quay

Weekes & Son first trades directory entry in 1875.

Calderwood	James		24 Sackville Street. Upper
Calderwood	& Son		14 Earl street. N.
Dennis	George		Balbriggan
Dowling	Henry		67 Dame Street
Harris	George		67 Bride Street
Harris	Joseph		9 Dawson Street
Kavanagh	William		12 Dame Street
O'Brien	Robert		11 Charlemont Street
O'Connor	Daniel		12 Parliament Street
Orr	James		Bray
Parkinson	John		17 Arran Quay
Richards	Oliver		21 Ship Street. Gt
Rigby	John & Co		24 Suffolk Street
Trulock & Harriss			9 Dawson Street
Trulock Bros			12 Parliament Street
Weekes & Son			27 Essex Quay

We are always interested in any old gun tools, oil bottles, loading tools, percussion cap tins etc., marked to Irish gunmakers.

Dave Stroud.ramrodantiques.co.uk

Will'm & John Rigby. 24 Suffolk St..

Will'm & John Rigby

Gun Manufacturers

24 Suffolk Street

Dublin

 William & John Rigby utilised this style of label from c.1835. 

                              " 24 Suffolk Street, Nearly Opposite The Royal Arcade".

William & John Rigby moved to the above address in August 1830. Please refer to our earlier blogs.

                                                    10/12/2015                                                 
                                                    29/10/2015
                                                    26/10/2015    
                                                    20/10/2015
                                                    16/10/2015
                                                    12/10/2015
                                                     12/9/2015
                                                     30/8/2015

This size of label is normally associated with long guns but can be found in the larger pistol cases i.e., those made to house target and duelling pistols.

                                          We buy original Irish gunmakers trade cards/labels.                              
                                                   Dave Stroud. ramrodantiques.co.uk

Oliver Wheeler. Gunmaker

Dublin trading dates and addresses	Oliver Wheeler             Gunsmith     Dublin & Kilkenny. Oliver Wheeler is listed as a Freeman in 1771*
1772-1773	Cork Hill/Dame Street
1773-1774	Fade Street
1774-1776	Lower Castle Yard
1799-1803	5 Great Ship Street

Oliver Wheeler Dublin trades directory entry for 1773.

Dalton	Edward		College Green
Gelous	Robert		Francis St
Govers	John		Dame st
Rainsford	James		Dame St
Thorp	Thomas		Darby Sq
Truelock	Thomas		Dame st
Wheeler	Oliver		Dame St

As can be seen for the above data Oliver Wheeler appears not to be listed in Dublin for the period

1777 through to 1799? However, he is officially listed in Kilkenny for the period 1783-1787.

Research ongoing.

Kilkenny

1783-1787                      Rose Inn Street.

       Oliver Wheeler of Kilkenny mentioned as a maker of magazine pistols. "12 shots with one         loading"-  Fin's Leinster Journal 22/8/1787. This reference relates to pistols as made to the specification detailed in our blog of 22/2/2016

Oliver Wheelers Kilkenny business was continued by Thomas Way.

Oliver Wheeler originally listed by M.S. Dudley Westropp, MRIA. 

Journal Arms & Armour Society, 1957.

Vol.11. No 1.

                       *Libraries and Archive: Ancient Freemen of Dublin

Courtesy of 

Dublin City Library & Archive, 138-144 Pearse Street, Dublin 2.

Dave Stroud.  ramrodantiques.co.uk