The Dublin City Assembly Rolls record the Minutes of the Dublin City Assembly (council) from 1441 to 1841. Transcriptions of these rolls exist as the ‘Calendar of Ancient Records of Dublin’. The calendars record a lot of the history of Dublin city, construction of the Bull Wall, the various prisons. Names given are not just those of the councilmen (aldermen, Sheriffs etc) but of ordinary people. Petitions were made to the council for monetary support. The index on this page lists the surnames found on the various abstracts on this web site and the manuscript number as given in the calendar transcription. Abstracts from a number of years are covered and it is hoped that more will be added to this web site.

Article: “Names mentioned 1740-1741

1740 October 17th, Third Friday after the 29th of September.

Lord Mayor Samuel Cooke: Sheriffs: James Dunn and Benjamin Hunt.

Lewis Jones, clerk to the Right Hon. Lord Mayor
Mary Kennedy, widow
Mary Kennedy
George Kennedy, Taghdow, Co. Kildare
Mary Pepyat
Alfred Howard, clerk of commons
Rose Whittwell & Elinor Whittwell – Daughter Nathaniel Whittwell, deceased

Jane Joy widow, John Joy
Augustine Thwaites & Richard Rickisson, water bailiffs
Thomas Smith, keeper of Newgate
William O’Neill, ?serjeant at Mace

Arthur O’Neill, serjeant at mace
William Coleman, serjent at mace

Samuel Cooke – James Dunn – Benjamin Hunt – Daniel Falkiner – Thomas How – David Tew – Percival Hunt – William Aldrich – John Walker – Daniel Cooke – Robert Ross.

Doctor Edward Wettenhall
Mrs. Richardson
Alderman Pearson
Alderman William Walker
Aldwerman Tew
Alderman White

Thomas Baker
George Ribton
Joseph Weld
Joseph West
James Fitzgerald
James Conran
Thomas Welsh
Michael Welsh
8 of the Commons

Samuel Cooke – James Dunn – Benjamin Hunt – Daniel Falkiner – Thomas How – David Tew – Percival Hunt – William Aldrich – John Walker – Daniel Cooke – Robert Ross. EH

Mr. Scanlan”

Comment: Taken from “The Calendar of the Assembly Rolls of the Corporation of the City of Dublin, is continued, in this ninth volume from October 1740 to October 1751 inclusive. “