PORTLAW & FIDDOWN in 1881

PLACES OF WORSHIP and their ministers:

PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH, Portlaw. Rev. Richard B. Neville, incumbent;

Rev. George H. Ford, curate.

ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, Portlaw -

Rev. Michael M’Grath, P.P;  Rev. – Gough, curate.

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, Portlaw – Rev. David Ferguson.

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Constabulary Barrack, Portlaw – Murtagh O’Bryen, sub-inspector.

Constabulary Barrack, Fiddown - - Hoeg, constable.

Dispensary, Portlaw – James Martin, medical officer

and registrar of births, deaths & marriages.

Market Place & Public Weighing Machine, Portlaw -

William R. Caldbeck, keeper.

Petty Sessions Court, held the first Wednesday in every month –

William Bowesman, clerk.

Reading & Billiard Room, Portlaw –

Job Humphreys, keeper & librarian. 

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Spelling as on the original document.

In two cases the Christian name was not shown, but indicated by a dash or hyphen.