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caroline kennedy
« on: Tuesday 26 August 14 13:58 BST (UK) »
Hi, I have hit a brick wall so hope you can help me please, I am hoping to get a b c for a child who was born 1872 in Ireland ,name Caroline Kennedy born in a army camp to parents Daniel and Theresa Kennedy. He was a sergt in the 1/8th regt. Daniel was born in Ireland in 1841.i know about their life in Malta but it is Caroline birth I would like to find out about please. thank you     

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Re: caroline kennedy
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 26 August 14 14:03 BST (UK) »
Do you know what county in Ireland Caroline was born in? When did they relocate to Malta? There are seven Caroline Kennedys born in Ireland in the 1870s, although none registered in 1872. More information would help us find the right one.

edit: sorry just realised you posted this on Tipperary board so assume she was born there. Can't find any in Tipperary. Do you know what parish or townland she was from?

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Re: caroline kennedy
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 26 August 14 15:05 BST (UK) »
hello, sorry that's all I know about her early life, her father was born in Tipperary and I know that he was   in the army in Malta in 1868 when he got married there. and in 1891 was  in Malta when Caroline got married at age 17. but this time he was a Prison Warder. think he had retired from the army by this time. I have just been looking at Caroline's marriage cert and underneath her name it has Irish and that is why I think she must have been born on the army base. Her father was in 1/8th Regt     

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Re: caroline kennedy
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 26 August 14 15:15 BST (UK) »
The army had it's own registration of births, think it's on Find My Past.
Not sure of the dates it covers.

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It's called The Regimental birth index.

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Re: caroline kennedy
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 26 August 14 15:21 BST (UK) »
Hello,

If she married in 1891 at 17 yrs of age, her birth would be more likely 1874.
I also wonder if 'Irish' means parentage rather than place of birth.
This article http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/8th_(The_King's)_Regiment_of_Foot. has the 1st Battalion returning to the sub-continent from Malta in 1868 for a decade.
Are there any other children besides Caroline? Do you have their births? She may well have been born in India. Unless her father was already retired, in which case she may be born in Malta.

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Re: caroline kennedy
« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 26 August 14 16:14 BST (UK) »
hi Heywood, just reading your reply I could of been barking up the wrong tree, I have f m p so I will try India see what I can come up with, thank you 

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Re: caroline kennedy
« Reply #6 on: Tuesday 26 August 14 16:38 BST (UK) »
Do you have Daniel's record of service? That might be on FindMyPast?
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