Lookup offer for crimea casualty list and indian mutiny

[Kevwood]

hi, will check in the next couple of days for you.

Kev.

[bibbypj]

Hi Kev
A long-shot here but could you have a look for a JAMES BIBBY (or BIBBEY, BIDDY etc.) Not killed but maybe injured in either Crimea or India. Sorry don't have a regiment but born c1827 and listed as a pensioner.

Paul Bibby

[ClazyAunt]

I know this is a long shot but worth a try.

Can you please search for a James Sanders/Saunders.   He is supposed to be with the Royal Artillery.

Thank you.

[Mountainman]

Hi Kev,

Thanks for the offer. This is a very long shot but I'm at a brick wall here and I'll try anything.

I am looking for Abraham King from Shipdham Norfolk. He had a son William Alma Sebastopol King b. Jan. 1854 and his wife Lucy is marked as a widow on the birth certificate. Could he have gone to the Crimea and been killed and she named the son after the engagements he was in?

It would be great if you could help.

Best regards,

David

[rosemay]

Hello Kev

I would really appreciate it if you could look up for me the name of Roger Woods.  His rank I think was as a Sergeant and his was killed defending the Barelli Gates during the Indian Mutiny.  He left a wife, a son called Albert (I think) and a daughter, name unknown.

Regards


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[andreajs]

Hi
is it possible to look up a Dougherty McVeigh who i suspect may have been involved in the Crimean war although he wasn't killed he appears on later census as Chelsea pensioner.
He would have been in the Royal Artilliary
Many thanks in advance
Andrea

[criggy]

Hi Kev

I have a bit of a mystery.

Family tales say that Alfred May's sister & niece used to talk about him being in the Crimea.

I have a photograph of Alfred wearing three medals which, according to someone in the know, appear to be from the Indain Mutiny. Indeed one looks remarkedly like the medal in your link to Recipients of the Indian Mutiny Medal although the photograph is in sepia & you can't see the detail on the medal itself. However he doesn't appear to be listed there.

Another problem is his age. He was baptised in 1846 so he would only have been about 11-13. Could he have lied about his age or have been a drummer boy? How would he have got his medals if he was so young?

His father married three times although I haven't actually found his second marriage to Alfred's mother, Jane Deaves & am beginning to suspect he may not have actually married her.

He did go by the name of Alfred May though throughout his life & was listed in the 1861 census so survived the Mutiny.

I do not know his regiment but I wonder if he got the medals through being injured in battle.

If you can help in any way it would be much appreciated.

Regards

criggy

[M.T.H]

I am looking for Abraham King from Shipdham Norfolk. He had a son William Alma Sebastopol King b. Jan. 1854 and his wife Lucy is marked as a widow on the birth certificate. Could he have gone to the Crimea and been killed and she named the son after the engagements he was in?

Hi David,

Are you sure about the birth year?

If William had been born in January '1855' then I would have thought it very probable that he was named after the Crimean engagements,however, the allied troops didn't land in the Crimea until September 14th 1854 and the battle of the Alma took place on the September 20th 1854.The allied forces then marched to Balaclava on September 26th 1854. The first major attack on Sebastapol was on Oct 17th 1854.


Mick

[Mountainman]

Good morning Mick,

Sorry, my mistake - somehow I put the wrong year down!

His date of birth is 30th January 1855 so it does fit with the Crimean battles.

Best regards,


David