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Title: Shorncliffe camp
Post by: Jardiner on Tuesday 18 October 11 17:26 BST (UK)

In  the 1881 cenus my great grandfather Michael Alfred King was listed as a soldier. On checking the Chelsea pension record site there is no mention of him. I was told that Shorncliff was used as a recruiting / training / holding area for many soldiers and for this reason he could have be asigned to any regiment. ( as he's from Whitehaven I thought the border regiment- but no sign of him there).
So I don't know when he joined ( although possibily 1881), when he fought or when he left. I do know that he comes back onto the radar in 1886 in Bessbrook,Ireland to marry and remains on Irish soil until his death.
All documentation from then lists him as an engineer and as he came from a family of cabinet makers and guilders it's likely he learned this trade in the army.

Any thoughts?

Regards

jardiner

Title: Re: Shorncliffe camp
Post by: gortonboy on Tuesday 18 October 11 18:32 BST (UK)

hi,,when and where was he born?  who did he marry?  ;)

Title: Re: Shorncliffe camp
Post by: Jardiner on Tuesday 18 October 11 19:49 BST (UK)

Hi gortonboy

Michael Alfred King was born in 1858 in Whitehaven,Cumberland.

He married Margaret Edgar in 1886 in Bessbrook,Ireland


Regards

jardiner

Title: Re: Shorncliffe camp
Post by: AskAnExpert on Wednesday 19 October 11 16:09 BST (UK)

“Stations of the British Army” published in newspapers about a week after census night, 1881, has the following at Shorncliffe:

3rd Regt of Foot, 1st Bn.
55th Regt. of Foot.
Also the depots of 12th Regt. of Foot, 17th Regt. of Foot, and 7th Hussars.

No others that I can see.

Askan

Title: Re: Shorncliffe camp
Post by: Gilly52 on Wednesday 19 October 11 16:47 BST (UK)

Thank you for that AskAnExpert.
 

regards

jardiner.