Registration Act Survey 1844-1846. Prominent Gunmakers and their output.


             The Registration Act (Ireland) 1843. 

Registration Act Survey. 1844-1846

Total items in survey 1352

Irish Gunmakers in Survey.

Items Various Arms (some are pairs)

Rigbys                  161

Trulocks                   34

Fowlers                   28

Pattisons           25

Mc Dermotts           24

Kavanaghs          20

N. Clarke          16

Ransford/Rainsford 15

Turners                  15

Alleys                  12

Edwards                  11

Tomlinson         10

Muley                 10

Hutchinson           9

Cole                   9

Anglins                   9

Parkinson           8

Wilsons                   8

Pepper                   7

Morton                   7

  Total               438

UK Gunmakers in Survey

Items

Ketland/Ketland & Co.     20

Mantons / Mantons & Son     17

Wogdons                             16

Durs Egg                             15

Spencers                                     11

Griffin/ Griffin & Tow              8

Nocks                                      8

H.W Mortimer                      7

Theo Richards                      6

J. Richards                              6

Smith                                      6

Barbar                                      5

Bond                                      5

Archer                                      4

Clark                                      4

Patrick                                      4

Twigg                                      3

Bass                                      3

Stanton                                      3

Staples                                         3

              Sub          Total           154

              Total                        592                                               Balance 760

             

NB: The balance (760) includes a further 84 Irish Gunmakers and their output.

112 UK Based Gunmakers and their output.

Plus 20 Foreign Gunmakers output.

The final balance is made up of Tower made arms and miscellaneous items unnamed.

We will be exploring other facts that arise from this snapshot of the Arms trade during this period 1844-1846 in Ireland in due course.

                                              David Stroud. ramrodantiques.co.uk

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