attested to 88th regiement Limerick

[t mo]

hi mareith
so glad to hear your pleased with gt grandads service record there,s one more thing i,ve just found you may already know about it , if you do a google search for joseph price british army then scroll down the page and the piece second from bottom may interest you go have a look !!.
regards
trevor

[bowman]

Hi, you might like to read this book, you can download it, it is free, on the left just click on the 2nd line down, PDF and it will download to your PC so you can read it at your leisure.

http://archive.org/details/withconnaughtran00maxwrich

http://archive.org/details/recordsof90threg00delarich

Happy hunting Bowman

[t mo]

thanks for those bowman .
regards
trevor

[moony]

hello. Trevor and Roger
i am being very cheeck i wonder if you could look for a William Price he was in the 90th reg in the Peninsular war
i am clutching at straws here but Josephs father was named William and he was a military person
i wondered if Joseph followed his father into service
also could you possibly explain for me how Josephs record ended a good while before he died
but on his obituary he had a military funeral and was a barracks sergeant
hope you do not mind me asking but you have been so helpful in the past
best regards Mareith

[t mo]

hello mareith
the only william price in the 90th with a birth in the 1700,s is this one
william price born 1796  parish killone  town koolarney co sligo
age at att 15  att date 30 mar 1811
90th regt of light infantry  discharge soldier no 169
service length , 28 mar 1814 -  22 apr 1835 = 21 yrs 26 days [ the difference between the att date of 1811 and service date of 1814 is that he was underage when he originally joined up so his service time only counts from the age of 18 ]
served 8 yrs in the Mediterranean
discharged due to pulmonary disease and general debility due to service conditions .
on discharge he was 39 yrs old  5 foot 6 and 3qtrs  brown hair grey eyes and a sallow complexion
he must have missed out on waterloo as no wm price,s in the 90th are mentioned in waterloo medal roll .

as to joseph i can only surmise that after discharge they kept him on in a civillian capacity as barrack sgt , it would be interesting to know the duties of such a post it could be he did the day to day running of the barracks and with such a distinguished career a military funeral was the least they couldfor him .
best wishes
trevor

[moony]

trevor thank you so much for the information
he must (i mean )Joseph have been kept on in a civilian capacity
i have no idea what his duty was in this post .
i think he must have worked hard on his death certificate one of the causes of death is stated as exhaustion
i was just clutching at straws re William  i found a William Price  in the 90th as was his son i just wondered if son followed father
i have no info on William apart from he was in the army.
i do not think he married in the same place his son Joseph was baptised as i have searched the parish records and several Williams but none married a rebecca
sorry if i have rambled on
regards Mareith

[t mo]

hi mareith
sorry i,m a bit confused re william and rebecca as she hasn,t come into my part of this before , so i,m presuming william married a rebecca ? who had joseph , as to parishes and places of birth don,t get bogged down by looking in specific places if you don,t find something or someone where you feel they should be start moving out in a circumference around that area , but always be prepared to think outside the box and never take census records as gospel some folk lied through there teeth i should think and told the enumerators any old rubbish at the time so again treat everything with caution until you can back it up with cast iron facts .
now that,s rambling on  .
if i can be of any other help please feel free to ask as always glad to be of assistance .
best wishes
trevor

[moony]

Trevor. sorry yes Rebecca is named as Joseph Prices mother on the copy of the church record  as his mother with William as his father
i cannot use census records or copies of birth certificates as it is to far back birth certificates start later
census records do not hold any information for me to locate anybody as so far back the info on them is limited
i searched church records and found Joseph Price .right fathers name right place of birth right age .going forwards i can easely trace his family up to date so know i am right
but i have searched marriage records in the same location and found a few marriages for a William Price but not a William who married a Rebecca
so i suppose they must have married some where else.
i have found Rebeccas death certificate in the same location as her son Josephs birth
have a copy of this and she is described as the widow of a military pensioner desceased
as this is the ony Rebecca Price i can find and know her husband William has died by the time the son Joseph married in England
on Josephs marriage cert his father is described as military pensioner deceased
the marriage is proving very hard to find as you say i have to look further afield
for it
but hopefully i will locate it at some time
fortunatly for me Price was not a very common name in Ireland around this period
well thanks for all the help you have given very gratfull
regards Mareith