Appendix: Notes on the Tokens and their Issuers 1154
William Begg, chandler, 91 Marlborough street. 1155
William Frederick Bentley & Co, pawnbrokers and later auctioneers, Bishop street. In 1798 William Binns, an ironmonger, rebuilt what is now 25 and 26 St. Stephen's Green as a house with a toy and fancy goods shop, at the back of which, in Kildare Street, he erected a tower with 'gazebo' on top. The business ceased in 1816, when the stock and contents of the shop were auctioned. The whole premises, known as the Pantheon Phusitechnikon, was later demolished (ex. inf. National Gallery of Ireland). 1156
John Brewer, wine and spirit dealer. 1157
Flynn, grocer, 11 Hammond lane, not shown in the 1801 trade directories. Talbot Fyan (not Talbort), grocer, 17 Poolbeg street. 1158
Maxwell Hutton, 101 James street. Lloyd & Ridley, button manufacturers, 36 Castle street and Harold’s cross. Benjamin O’Brien, master of the House of Industry. 1159-62
M. Murphy, grocer and tea dealer, described as of 8 Wood street; not in the 1801 directories, which however give a Patrick Murphy, grocer and whiskey factor, at 7 Wood quay. 1163-6 T. O’Bryen, grocer and tea dealer, Church street. 1167
John Ord, tanner, 115-16 Cork street. William Parker, ironmonger, The Old Birmingham Warehouse, 4 Kennedy’s lane. 1170
The official dispensation of charity in the city at the time was from 168 St James’s gate, 44 Lower Kevin street, 55 Upper Coombe and 23 Barrack street. 1196-7
Charles William Bury, Viscount Charleville (1764-1835), landowner, one of the post-1800 representative peers for Ireland; he and his wife, Catherine Maria Tisdall (née Dawson, †1851) divided their time between their country estates, centred on Charleville Castle, Tullamore, and a London residence. A landowning acquaintance, the architect Frederick Trench (1746-1836), of Heywood House, Ballinakill, co Laois, who by the tense of his letter to Matthew Boulton in April 1802 quoted by Doty (CTCJ September 2000, p.14) must have issued his own tokens (though these seem now unknown), put Boulton in touch with the Viscount. At least one die was engraved by J.G. Hancock Sr in 1802 and an initial batch of tokens sent to Ireland in February 1803; a second order was despatched in July 1804. 1198-9
Robert Woodcock, banker, thought to have been a Quaker, registered his business on 14 September 1799 (Doty, 2011, p.153); his tokens from Boulton, thought to subsume an earlier, possibly Irish-made issue, were despatched in two tranches in February 1801 (Doty, CTCJ June 2000, pp.74-8). 1201-11
In 1786 the Hibernian Mine Co moved the centre of their operations from Cronebane, on the eastern bank of the Avoca river, to Ballymurtagh, on the western bank adjacent to Tigroney, selling the lease of the Cronebane mine to Charles Roe’s new subsidiary, the Associated Irish Mine Co. The sale proved somewhat premature as in 1788 a rich seam of high grade copper ore was discovered at Cronebane which was to provide extremely lucrative revenue to the AIMC for many years. Intense rivalry between the Irish-owned HMC, founded
by John Howard Kyan, who ran the business with Turner Camac (1751-1830) as the chairman and his brother James Camac, and the English-controlled Cronebane mines was to become a dominant theme in their two close-knit histories. No doubt the bad feelings between the two companies, and their ethnically different workforces, reached a peak during the civil unrest in Ireland which led up to the abortive Irish Rebellion of 1798; in the event Kyan himself died penniless. A contemporary report on the company said that, compared to the AIMC, it used antiquated methods of production. Turner Camac, who lived at Greenmount Lodge, Kilsaran, co Louth, was high sheriff of co Louth in 1789 and a founder and director of the Grand Canal Co in Dublin in 1791. Subsequent to his marriage to an American, Sarah Masters, he emigrated to Woodvale, Philadelphia, in 1804 and served as a volunteer sergeant in the 1812 War of Independence. 1218-21
The Associated Irish Mine Co, a subsidiary of Roe & Co, acquired the mining rights at Cronebane and Tigroney on the east side of the Avoca river from the Hibernian Mine Co (q.v.) in May 1787. By July of that year the mine employed about 100 men, mainly from the company’s Anglesey operation, who were paid 10d a day in summer and 8d a day in winter; ore was transported 16 miles to Wicklow for shipment onward to Macclesfield. The discovery of the rich vein of high grade copper at Cronebane in 1788 led to a vast increase in production and a need for tokens, which were struck by Matthew Boulton, as a sub-contractor for John Westwood, in the months prior to September 1789, at the same time as Roe & Co’s Macclesfield pieces (Doty, CTCJ November 1996, pp.16-21; Smith, CTCJ Spring 2002, pp.19-25).
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