73rd regiment of foot

[gymea mal]

Thank you Majm for a quick reply, but I am still looking it appears that if he was an officer that reams would of been written about him but as an in listed man nothing.
I am in Sydney and have looked every place that I can think of I have a muster sheet with Mary Kelly being the daughter of Mathew I also have the marriage of Mary to a George Piper (I think off the top of my head ). I also have a letter to the Colonial Sectary asking permission for her mother Ellinor Sullivan to move to Windsor. Like yourself I can"t find her birth ...MAL

[majm]

Hi MAL,

Have you checked the actual record for the following index at NSW Col Sec's papers
SULLIVAN, Elinor  1819 Apr 14 Petition to the Female Orphan Institution Committee rejected (Reel 6040; 4/403 p.26) (my regiment chap's wife was noted on all the NSW musters under her maiden name and not her married name even though she came free and she married shortly after arriving in NSW, finally on the 1828 census she's there under her married name)
 
ALSO
UK National Archives has musters and pay lists for this particular era ...I think WO 10 to WO 13 are the series numbers and yes that's only the general file numbers and not the fine detail which you may need to find the 73rd 

The National Archives http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ and http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/research-guides/army-muster-1730-1898.htm  here's a couple of snips from that link: 

1. All soldiers Muster rolls and pay lists give the enlistment date, movements and discharge date of all soldiers in the British Army. They can be used to trace the service of soldiers who were not discharged to pension. However, to trace a man's movements by way of the musters, you do have to know his regiment. 
and also
It provides a comprehensive means of establishing dates of enlistment, movements throughout the world, and of discharge or death

Fingers crossed, as these records are in UK  and not exactly easy to go through  or to get to...

Cheers, JM

[illumina]

Hi

Have you done a search of LDS Church , Family History website, using the family name search. If you get a hit there, you can request the microfolm, to be sent to your nearest Mormon Church Family History Centre, where you can go to view the film & get copies made, if the find your ancestor's records. They do this for a nominal fee, I & many others, have used this service frequently.

Kevin

Hi Kevin, I use the LDS website on an almost daily basis! However without knowing where he was born I can't say for certain if any of the Samuel Rowley's that come up are the right one.

[illumina]

Here is a photo from the Birmingham baptism register - shows his name, the place his daughter was born (Ceylon) and his status at the time as 'Sarjeant' (sic) 73rd Regt Foot.

[New Zealand Enquirer]

I am researching William Crowe Kenny of 73rd Regiment as the father of the boy with first names William Henry, born to Alice Granger in Port Dalrymple. Who was Alice Granger?  Was she the daughter or wife of John Granger of 73rd who drowned in Port Dalrymple 1808?  Captain W.C.K. went on to Ceylon 'with son' .  What happened then to the son when W.C.K. moved on to England before he, William Henry Kenny, joined 73rd as ensign and rose to colonel and took the Fencibles to New Zealand 1847.  What happened to Alice and William Henry's twin sister?
robin.mcconnell.nz@gmail.com

[Webster 47]

I am trying to confirm that a Matthew Kelly served in the 73rd Regiment 1810-1814 in NSW?
He apparently died in Ceylon around 1827 but I have no confirmation of this.

[majm]

Welcome Webster,

RootsChat is a great place for help with family history.

If you are based in New South Wales, and can get to the NSW State Library, their holdings include excellent resources re the 73rd Regiment. 

From my resources I can confirm that there was indeed a Matthew KELLY of that regiment :

December 1809 NSW General Muster.
Matthew KELLY, Private 73rd Regiment, in the following companies 9, then 4, then 8
Arrived NSW as part of the garrison force for penal settlement …. Arriving per Dromedary or Hindostan 28 December 1809.
Departed per Earl Spencer 25 January 1814 for  Ceylon. 

There are many NSW resources for Penal era, particularly the Macquarie decade.   Here's a live link to the NSW Col. Secretary's papers 1788-1825.
http://colsec.records.nsw.gov.au/ 
So, check under "Seventy-third Regiment" and their officers for additional information.

There's also a free to search index that is becoming quite popular as it gathers more and more information and databases.   Biographical Database of Australia .... there's a nominal annual subscription for access to the full database, but the index is freely available. 

Under their sources are many headings.   Free to search     on heading is "Military"  and under there, again, free to search .... 73rd Regiment on Foot .... eight pages of quality info.
http://www.bda-online.org.au/

JM

[Webster 47]

Hi JM

Thanks for the quick reply, very impressed.
The first breakthrough I have had on Matthew Kelly many questions to follow.

Regards
webster

[km1971]

The 73rd left Ceylon in 1821. Not to return until the 1860s. You will need to research the muster books in Kew. His first and last entries give the best chance of additional information such as age and place of birth. If there were more than one man of that name the Paymaster will record next to them their trade and place of birth. Regimental numbers were not used until the late 1820s.

If he died in service they would not have kept his record. So the musters are probably the only military source.

The musters will tell you where he was month by month. You can then check church records for a marriage and births of children as confirmation, as it is a common name.

Ken