Misc: Homicides 1848-1870 *********************************************** Ireland Genealogy Projects Archives Westmeath Index Copyright ************************************************ File contributed by: C.Hunt HOMICIDES FROM 1848 - 1870 IN COUNTY WESTMEATH 1848 COOK, John murdered in a field. FLANAGAN, James age 16. WILLIAMS, Lowden M. soldier, died of a beating received. 1849 CURLEY, James shot in his own house; an agrarian quarrel amongst relatives. CONNER, Pat gardener was stabbed to death, for supposed fidelity to his master. FLYNN, Thomas shot dead while attempting to take possession of disputed property. 1850 NORTH, Roger Esq.J.P., shot dead near his own residence. About to evict tenants. 1851 CAREY, James shot. DYRE, Walter labourer, fatally assaulted while walking with a woman. 1852 MURTAGH or Murdoch shot and buried in a bog. COONEY, Thomas waylaid, robbed and beaten to death. LYONS, John labourer (stranger) beaten to death. REGNEY, Mich. skull fractured from a blow of a stone, of which he died. Drunken quarrel. 1853 FARRELL, Thomas shot dead in his own house: an agrarian outrage. KERRY, Thomas beaten to death; a fruit of the Ribbon Society. 1856 CAREY, James beaten to death by three or four men who had attacked his son to whose assistance he had come. KERR, James labourer, killed by the blow of a hammer on the head. KELLY, Mrs. Sarah a lady of wealth, shot dead while walking with nephew George STEVENS who was a suspect. (Kelly, Sarah - in Moate in 1856. Local suspicion was that a GORRY and CARBERRY commited the murder because they left for America at the time. Story in 'Moate County Westmeath' by Liam Cox pg 129. Printed Athlone 1981. Contributed by Frank McGonigal Ont.Canada) McLAUGHLEN, Owen waylaid and beaten to death. 1858 KELLY, Edward respectable farmer, waylaid & shot dead. GAVAGAN, Mary labourer's wife, who lived on bad terms with her husband, was found dead with skull fractured. 1859 JESSOP, Thomas farmer, shot dead; he had taken a farm in connection with which EDWARD KELLY had been shot (above). GERAGHTY, Thomas labourer, murdered and thrown into a bog hold; a drunken quarrel. LYONS, Pat labourer, died from injuries on the head inflicted by to mavvies. BOYLAN, James labourer, died from a stab in the abdomen recd. when returning from a funeral. KELLY, Lawrence farmer, shot dead while sitting at his dinner. 1861 SULLIVAN, Owen labourer, died from an injury recd. on the head. 1862 BANNON, Michael farmer, murdered in a field near his own house. Was a family disupute over property. 1863 FIELDING, Peter farmer, was returning home at night, and recd. a blow to the head. CROSBY, Christopher labourer, stabbed in the thigh and died soon afterwards. CONNER, Pat. carpenter, waylaid and beaten to death. He had given information to the magistrates and was supposed to be unpopular. 1864 WALSH, Peter farmer, died from injuries recd. when attacked by an armed party. 1865 AULEY, Pat, M. labourer, died from a stab in the abdomen; a drunken quarrel. 1868 FETHERSTON, James Howard Haugh, Esq., J.P., shot dead at midnight, returning from Dublin.. had raised rents. 1869 ANKETELL, Thomas station master at Mullingar, shot; died shortly afterwards. TARLETON, Capt. Rowland of the Kings County Militia, was shot deat by some persons unknown. 1870 KERIGAN, Michael farmer, died from the effects of a gunshot wound. Person fired into his dwelling at night. HINEY, James - farmer, died from the effects of a blow on the head in a drunken quarrel. DOWLING, Francis an army pensioner, steward to Messrs. Perry, of Ballingore MILLS. Shot dead. WATERS, Thomas process server, found by a police patrol...shot dead. source: Report from the Select Committee on Westmeath, &c. (Unlawful Combinations); Ribbon Society, a society in Ireland, founded in the early part of the 19th century in antagonism to the Orangemen. It afterwards became an organization of tennant farmers banded together to prevent eviction by landlords. It took its name from the green ribbon worn by members as a badge. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)