Frank Wolfe wrote: >Could some sks inform me if an index of persons who were Justices Of >The Peace in Ireland in 1853, would be available on line, please. >My reason for asking is, that my ggrandfather was recommended for a >job in the Royal Irish Constabulary by a JP named W.G.Sands. >Some time ago I had a search done by an Irish genealogy researcher and >he concluded that the name would have been spelled Sandes, even though >his name was written as W.G.Sands on my grandfather's Police service >records. I wish to know if either or maybe both W.G.Sandes and W.G >Sands, were JP.s in 1853. It's highly unlikely that there would have been two JPs called W.G. Sand(e)s. The spelling of the name in the Irish Constabulary records is no guarantee that the man in question spelt his name that way. I very much doubt that there is a list of Irish magistrates for any year on line. However, the (Thom's) Dublin Directory for 1853 has an alphabetical list of all JPs as well as a county by county list giving their addresses. Hope this helps, Paul Gorry What's What in Irish Genealogy http://indigo.ie/~gorry