JOHN McCLUGGAGE

Remembering the service of my great great great uncle John McCluggage who died in 1890 at Glynn.

17347 John McCluggage.

Protestant.

5 foot 8 1/8.

Aged 20 on joining the Royal Irish Constabulary on 16 July 1853.

(Discharged 27 July 1853 - rejected by surgeon - this is struck out and 'still in the force' written in).

Previously a weaver.

Recommended by J. Wilford JP.

Assigned to County Louth. Promoted to 1st Sub Constable 1 February 1854; Reduced to 2nd Sub Constable 1 May 1857 for 12 months.

Looks like one favourable, three unfavourable reports (details no longer survive).

Pensioned 21 October 1883. Pension paid Belfast.

Died 2 November 1890.

Last payment to Margaret McFerren, his sister.

As regards stations he served in, he appears in the Petty Sessions registers as a Sub Constable in 1862 in Hackballscross; 1865 in Castletown; Bridge Street Dundalk in 1873.

His sister Margaret's marriage to Robert McFerran gives their father as John, a weaver.