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Armed Forces / Re: 58th Regiment of Foot
« on: Saturday 29 April 23 22:58 BST (UK) »
I'll try to source that book
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Armed Forces / Re: 58th Regiment of Foot
« on: Friday 28 April 23 21:09 BST (UK) »
Hello again thanks for your interest in my questions - I am not sure how to find which ships my ancestor who was in the 58th would have sailed on - from what I've seen as he was only a private, it seems those at that rank aren't always listed by name. I have found all of his pension records on Ancestry from the National Archives UK but if you know of a source for looking into which ships he might have been on that would be great. Many thanks again.
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Armed Forces / Re: 58th Regiment of Foot
« on: Thursday 27 April 23 22:41 BST (UK) »
Thanks for your prompt replies to my query - this all does add up well the Dublin connection with the name of his wife (a very Irish name) appearing much later in Australia on a marriage certificate for a daughter - probably the sibling of my direct ancestor - but I'm yet to verify that. And yes the records for my ancestor's birth may well no longer exist, but I might get lucky! I have another more general question, did wives travel with husbands who were with 58th Regiment of Foot? I guess it is possible my ancestor married in Dublin but his daughter was born at sea - I am unsure of the travel arrangements for wives. Did they usually stay at home? Did they travel with their husband, or later join them and given that this ancestral group all ended up settling in districts to the west of Sydney in Australia, any suggestions as to whether the army was involved in the transporting of families or did they travel as assisted or unassisted migrants making their own way on whatever ship was most convenient? It must have been a very hard life - all that sea travel in those days on board convict transports, several times. No wonder so many were discharged due to medical grounds - my ancestor was described as 'indifferent' in character in his discharge examination - maybe he was just sick and totally worn out!
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Armed Forces / Re: 58th Regiment of Foot
« on: Thursday 27 April 23 14:55 BST (UK) »
Hello I am coming late to the sharing of information about the 58th regiment of foot - an ancestor was a private (a tailor not a so much a fighter). I've got goodish information from Find my past about his pension records but struggling to work out where he was when. He joined in 1833 and was discharged on medical grounds in 1853 (in Sydney), having served in Ceylon, New South Wales and New Zealand. What I really want to find out is where he would have been in 1842 when his daughter (my direct ancestor) was born, I've checked every possible permutation of name in Scotland, Ireland, England, New South Wales and New Zealand for her birth record to no avail and nor have I been able to find a marriage certificate. I've been reading through all the years of discussion about this regiment in the forum - still a little confused about where they were immediately before (in case that is where a marriage took place) and after Edinburgh when a birth took place. Any suggestions would be most gratefully received. Thanks DH
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Antrim / Re: Coastguard - North Antrim
« on: Friday 15 July 22 22:30 BST (UK) »
Thanks Bhoy for your reply - I have been from going in circles trying to trace the right Rose McNeill as there is more than one from around that time and place. The names and dates you've supplied really help, if you have any more names and dates I would be very grateful as I try to piece a few missing links together. Interestingly, I have other Northern Ireland ancestry as Rose's daughter Katherine married a HAMILTON in Australia who had just migrated from Campelltown in Scotland - his mother Emily Mitchell seems to have come from Down, Northern Ireland. Sadly Katherine died quite young along with an infant son, but her son (my direct ancestor) and daughter survived. Katherine's husband married the housekeeper and went on to be very successful (he was a sail maker and there was a great demand for canvas in Australia at that time) and have a second large family.
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Antrim / Re: Coastguard - North Antrim
« on: Sunday 21 November 21 09:04 GMT (UK) »
Hello this is a query 10 years after the last conversation below about William Henry Chard on rootschat. I just searched for William's grave in Cushendall and this rootschat conversation came up in the search. He was my Great great great grandfather and his daughter Katherine Hamilton (nee Chard) who came to Australia was my Great great grandmother and daughter of William and his second wife Rose McNeill. I am very interested to read about his coast guard work and anything else you may know about him. Although Cornish by birth he seems to have had a strong connection to County Antrim and I wondered if his coast guard work took him in that direction? Or did he move from Cornwall to that part of Ireland? I hope to also research the McNeills. Any light you can shed on my ancestors will be gratefully appreciated.
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