Help please,Dublin cop

[onamission]

I'm looking for a John Pearce, constable from Dublin ,his daughters born approx 1850 came to NZ in 1866, so he would have been a constable around this time. there are 3 Pearce's  listed in a search i saw but no names or dates.Can any body help please?

[eadaoin]

I'd ask the mods to move this to Dublin - you'd probably get some help there!

There are records in both Kew and Dublin of RIC people - probably DMP too.

eadaoin

[mcmahongg]

Hi

I've checked the standard reference works:

(1)
Jim Herlihy, The Dublin Metropolitan Police: A complete Alphabetical List of Officers and Men , 1836-1925.
Noting found for John Pearce or similar

(2)
Jim Herlihy, The Royal Irish Constabulary: A complete Alphabetical List of Officers and Men , 1816-1922.
Entries found:
John Pearce, Service No. 75456
William John Pearse, Service No. 69886

The service no. for John Pearce corresponds to an entry date to the force of Oct-Dec 1920 - much too late for the man of interest. The Pearse entry corresponds to Feb-Apr 1920.

Not promising, unfortunately. Perhaps he was a constable in England ?

regards

Gerry

[deevla]

Hi gerry

Could you help me please, would you be able to  tell me the entry date to the force of John Phelan, DMP 8648, born 1856, Raheen, Queen's County, died 1911

Regards
Deevla

[mcmahongg]

Hi Deevla

Unfortunately the Herlihy index reference give no more information than you have already - it doesn't give the date of entry to the force - you need to look up the actual records to get that.

However, Appendix 1 of the book gives a correlation between Service Numbers and Date of Appointment which ties down the period in which a man joined:

Service No. 8564; 1 Jan 1880
Service No. 8674; 1 Jan 1881

So, it would seem that John Phelan joined the force in late 1880.

best regards

Gerry

[shanew147]

Hi gerry

Could you help me please, would you be able to  tell me the entry date to the force of John Phelan, DMP 8648, born 1856, Raheen, Queen's County, died 1911

Regards
Deevla

there's a John Phelan listed as a station sergeant at C-Division, Store Street station in Dublin (DMP) in 1889. There's no service number mentioned - but he could be the same one..

The other sergeants at the station are at that time are Thomas Lawler and John Cooke

[csso]

Hi gerry

Could you help me please, would you be able to  tell me the entry date to the force of John Phelan, DMP 8648, born 1856, Raheen, Queen's County, died 1911

Regards
Deevla

I see that this post is from quite some time ago but I am looking to trace relatives of the late John Phelan, Dublin Metropolitan Police Office referred to by Deevla above.  I was wondering if Deevla could possibly contact me as I am aware of another direct descendant of John Phelan and I am hoping to get some more information on his descendants.
Thank you,
Mairead

[dublin1850]

Just for completeness, John Phelan DMP 8648 was assigned to Division F on 12 November 1880.
DMP General Register is here: https://digital.ucd.ie/view/ucdlib:53467
It's not searchable, but once you get the man's service number you can browse the images to find him.