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Loan 96 RLF 1/998
Mr John O’Neill, and Mrs Ann O’Neill, his widow

Mr John O'Neill

Applications

8 (7 successful)

Date period

May 1840-16 Mar 1858

Awards

  • 5 May 1840 (£5)
  • 4 Jan 1843 (£10)
  • 7 Mar 1845 (£10)
  • 30 Jan 1847 (-)
  • 31 Jan 1853 (£20)
  • 6 Feb 1855 (£10)
  • 3 Mar 1857 (£10)
  • 28 Feb 1858 (£10 - to Ann O'Neill)

Other author name(s)

 - 

Author's career

  • Shoemaker

Author's works published

Poetry : also Non-Fiction, Memoir, Fiction, Drama

Also named in file

Mrs Ann O'Neill (dependent)

Timeline

1840

John O’Neill to the Committee of the Literary Fund

[May 1840]
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John O’Neill to Octavian Blewitt

5 May 1840
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John Havers to the Committee of the Literary Fund – medical certificate

May 1840
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Peter Cosgreave to the Committee of the Literary Fund

May 1840
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Richard Chater to the Committee of the Literary Fund

22 Apr 1840
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W Rogers to the Committee of the Literary Fund

30 Apr 1840
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Henry J Townsend to the Committee of the Literary Fund

2 May 1840
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[illegible] to the [com](Committee of the Literary Fund)

5 May 1840
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Receipt, signed John O’Neill

18 May 1840
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John O’Neill to Octavian Blewitt

21 May 1840
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1843

Application Form, John O’Neill – endorsed by Samuel Carter Hall, Anna Maria Hall, William Eagar and Daniel Percival

4 Jan 1843
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John O’Neill to the Committee of the Literary Fund

3 Jan 1843
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1842

Samuel Carter Hall and Anna Maria Hall to the Committee of the Literary Fund

29 Dec 1842
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1843

William Eagar to the Committee of the Literary Fund

2 Jan 1843
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Daniel Percival to the Secretary of the Literary Fund

3 Jan 1843
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1842

Balance sheet for Tilt & Bogue for The Drunkard, by John O’Neill

30 Jun 1842
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1843

Receipt, signed John O’Neill

13 Jan 1843
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John O’Neill to Octavian Blewitt

14 Jan 1843
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1845

Application Form, John O’Neill – endorsed by W R Rogers, P Martyn, Charles Roach Smith and Charles Crippen

7 Mar 1845
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John O’Neill to Octavian Blewitt

6 Mar 1845
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Charles Roach Smith to the Committee of the Literary Fund

8 Mar 1845
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Charles Crippen to the Committee of the Literary Fund

8 Mar 1845
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P Martyn to the Committee of the Literary Fund

8 Mar 1845
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Receipt, signed John O’Neill

14 Mar 1845
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John O’Neill to Octavian Blewitt

17 Mar 1845
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1847

Application Form, John O’Neill – endorsed by Musgrave Lewthwaite Watson, Walter T Fawcett, Richard Chater and Charles J Browne

30 Jan 1847
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Charles J Browne to the Committee of the Literary Fund

19 Jan 1847
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Musgrave Lewthwaite Watson to the Committee of the Literary Fund

22 Jan 1847
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Walter T Fawcett to the Committee of the Literary Fund

30 Jan 1847
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Richard Chater to the Committee of the Literary Fund

1 Feb 1847
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1853

Application Form, John O’Neill – endorsed by Samuel Carter Hall, Charles Roach Smith, W R Rogers and George Foggo

31 Jan 1853
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John O’Neill to Octavian Blewitt

1 Feb 1853
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Charles Roach Smith to Octavian Blewitt

24 Jan 1853
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W R Rogers to the Committee of the Literary Fund

29 Jan 1853
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George Foggo to Octavian Blewitt

31 Jan 1853
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Samuel Carter Hall to Octavian Blewitt

24 Jan 1853
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Advertisement seeking subscriptions to aid John O’Neill

1853
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John O’Neill to Octavian Blewitt

12 Feb 1853
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Schedule of payments to John O’Neill

10 Feb 1853-13 Oct 1853
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1855

Application Form, John O’Neill – endorsed by Samuel Carter Hall, W R Rogers, P Martyn and F W Fairholt

6 Feb 1855
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John O’Neill to Octavian Blewitt

6 Feb 1855
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W R Rogers to Octavian Blewitt

5 Feb 1855
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Receipt, signed Ann O’Neill for John O’Neill

16 Feb 1855
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John O’Neill to Octavian Blewitt

26 Feb 1855
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1857

Application Form, John O’Neill – endorsed by Samuel Carter Hall, P Martyn and W R Rogers

3 Mar 1857
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John O’Neill to Octavian Blewitt, including poem – ‘On Entering My Eighty-First Year’

3 Feb 1857
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W R Rogers to the Committee of the Literary Fund

25 Feb 1857
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Advertisement for subscribers for Facts and Fictions: with Early Recollections of Ireland, by John O’Neill

1857
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Prospectus for Struggles Through Life; or, Fifty Years’ Experience of an Old Irish Shoemaker in London, by John O’Neill

1857
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Receipt, signed Ann O’Neill for John O’Neill

12 Mar 1857
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John O’Neill to Octavian Blewitt

16 Mar 1857
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1858

Application Form, Ann O’Neill, with newspaper clipping of John O’ Neill’s ‘Last Birth-Day Verses’

28 Feb 1858
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Ann O’Neill to the Committee of the Literary Fund

Feb 1858
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Samuel Carter Hall to Octavian Blewitt

Feb 1858
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W R Rogers to the Committee of the Literary Fund

1 Mar 1858
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Copy of the marriage certificate for John O’Neill and Ann O’Neill (née Lester), dated 30 Jan 1824

24 Feb 1858
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Receipt, signed Ann O’Neill

11 Mar 1858
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Ann O’Neill to the Committee of the Literary Fund

16 Mar 1858
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