Gefängnisdirektor in Cork über 50 Jahre lang
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Das Gefängnis von Cork im Jahr 1833

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Jeremiah Murphys Nachfolger war JOHN MURPHY

, Governor, Cork County Gaol - (List  29/11/1843) (Report 11/12/1843) 'Mr. John Murphy, the Governor of the County Gaol was opposed by Mr. Scannell, on behalf of Eliza Spencer; and by Mr. Hobbs, on the part of Harman Ellis, confectioner. - Mr. Scannell said his client had advanced the amount of her claim as a loan when the insolvent was in some difficulty, and she opposed now merely for the purpose of obtaining an allocation of his salary. - Mr. M’Nally said the insolvent’s debts were created by his son, a professional gentleman, since deceased. Mr. Murphy had paid upwards of £570 on account of that son. - Mr. Hobbs said the money due to Mr. Ellis was not entirely created through Mr. Murphy’s son – and what to was paid in respect those debts was at the request of the insolvent. The debt amounted to upwards of £180. - Mr. M’Nally said that £14 was paid to Mr. Ellis and that the insolvent was very harshly treated in the transaction. If Mr. Ellis were put on the table and examined, he (Mr. M’Nally) would prove to the Court that he had charged this young man 60 per nt. - The Commissioner – Oh, can you prove he charged above 6 per cent? - Mr. M’Nally – I can prove that he was charged over 40 per nt. - The Commissioner – It this be the case, it is most frightful extortion – such practise are most disgraceful to the city. - Mr. Scannell said that after conference with the Solicitor, he was satisfied on the part of his client to trust to Mr. Murphy’s word for an arrangement with his client – his assurance was as good as the bond of another. - Mr. Hobbs called upon the Court to make an allocation for his client. - The Court would make no allocation and granted the insolvent’s petition. - Several of the professional gentlemen in Court bore testimony to the efficiency, the integrity and the humanity with which Mr. Murphy discharged his duties as Governor of the County Cork Gaol.’
 
From: CORK BANKRUPTS & INSOLVENT DEBTORS 1843 - 1845 (

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Transcribed & Indexed from Cork Newspapers By Anita Sheahan Coraluzzi & Jean Prendergast © 2002 - 2005

Cork City Gaol (1824), a listed building, is an important part of Irish architectural heritage. A fine example of the work of Sir Thomas Deane, it dates from one of the most distinguished periods in Cork's architectural history.
 
It is a wonderful piece of Georgian/ Gothic architecture, with a number of
particularly pleasant and unusual features - in fact, from the outside, it looks more like a castle than a purpose built prison. The classical proportions of the building feature Gothic details such as turreted battlements, dripstones etc.

John Humphreys

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Jeremiah Murphy betrieb "Cork Gaol for more than 50 years, then he must have been at least 70 at the time of his death, and probably older pulling his birth date before 1750. His brother seems to have been called John; they signed themselves "Jeremiah & John Murphy, Keepers, County Gaol Cork" in a letter.
 
And who was the anonymous Mrs Murphy. Jeremiah's wife? One possible name is Ann Davis, listed in the Marriage Licence Bonds for Cork and Ross (I751-1845) in a Bond in 1777. These Marriage licence Bonds were an alternative to having the banns of marriage announced in public; they cost money, to indemnify the Church against some obstacle being found to the marriage, so it was in effect a method of allowing the better-off to purchase privacy (though why they should wish to is not at all clear). The name Ann would match Robert Humphreys' wife, and the time is right, but there is no further proof. The Will for a Mrs Ann Murphy was proved in 1826, which tends to support this suggestion."