Memorial of Harriet Powell, Roscrea, County Tipperary, seeking free passage for her son, Nathaniel, to travel to New South Wales

Memorial of Harriet Powell, Roscrea, County Tipperary, to Henry William Paget, Lord Lieutenant, seeking free passage for her son, Nathaniel, to travel to New South Wales, [Australia] to join her brother, Capt Allman who is a settler there; noting that she is the widow of the late Dr Nathaniel Powell who died of fever while working as a dispensary physician during the typhus epidemic in Roscrea in 1817 and adding that he son, also a physician, died of the same disease in 1825; includes endorsement signed by eight magistrates. Also letters from Horace Twiss, Downing Street, [London], to Francis Leveson Gower, Chief Secretary, regretting that free passage can only be granted to those who have received official appointments. 3 items; 7pp