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Cork / Re: Regiments in New Barracks, Fermoy,County Cork,1885.
« on: Monday 20 July 09 19:17 BST (UK)  »
If anyone has a clue as to what Regiments were at Fermoy in circa 1837 I'd love to know, and see who my ancestor Sgt. Nathaniel Gunn, 93rd Highland Rgt of Foot was about with ? By 1850 I believe the 93rd may have had a name change, "Sutherland Highlanders" by then and eventually the A&G Highlanders. Bear in mind that big church in old Fermoy has records on webs. "Maiden names" are not mentioned, as if woment then and there, were 'property'. Troops deployed in 1815'ish from Fermoy to the Battle of Waterloo. Fermoy barracks was built after a scary invasion of Napoleon's forces onto NW Ireland.

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Cork / Re: Regiments in New Barracks, Fermoy,County Cork,1885.
« on: Monday 20 July 09 19:00 BST (UK)  »
WOW ! ITS JULY 19 2009. I was surprised to find this site. In 1837 my ancestor Sgt. Nathaniel Gunn was stationed at Fermoy as a member of the 93rd Highland Regiment of Foot.  He enlisted aged 17 at Truro. He was born at Bower, Caithness in 1808 and was literate.  he married a Welsh girl named Annie at the big church then in Fermoy, 1837 so records there - some of which I found on webs. Annie was born at Llanfaisisgaer, N. Wales.  Suggested here is she may have been daughter of a serving Welsh soldier at Fermoy. Annie and Nath' had a daughter born 1838 and named her Annie Jane Gunn. That year -then corporal Gunn was sent to the West Indies station, likely Barbados etc. for seven years. The 1840's sees him and his wife and child in a Scottish Castle barracks, and he is retired by 1852 from Edinburgh Castle- a Chelsea Pensioner "at large".. He lived and ran a farm in Caernarfonshire, a good retirement. I have a copy of a photo of him at this stage !!and he looks great!

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