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Re: Edward Fabian Shield in India
« Reply #9 on: Thursday 26 June 25 09:15 BST (UK) »
Thank you.  This is getting confusing!  I thought he was in the Indian Civil Service, not the army.
And how does it square with him being a chaplain's clerk, and possibly a schoolmaster?
Bagwell of Kilmore & Lisronagh, Co. Tipperary;  Beatty from Enniskillen;  Brown from Preston, Lancs.;  Burke of Ballydugan, Co. Galway;  Casement in the IoM and Co. Antrim;  Davison of Knockboy, Broughshane;  Frobisher;  Guillemard;  Harrison in Co. Antrim and Dublin;  Jones around Burton Pedwardine, Lincs.;  Lindesay of Loughry;  Newcomen of Camlagh, Co. Roscommon;  Shield;  Watson from Kidderminster;  Wilkinson from Leeds

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Re: Edward Fabian Shield in India
« Reply #10 on: Thursday 26 June 25 09:17 BST (UK) »
Quote from: HughC on Thursday 26 June 25 07:48 BST (UK)
Thank you.  I'd found that, and wonder whether he was packed off to India to keep him out of further trouble at home.

Indeed. Judgement respited and under column headed "How Disposed of" it reads "To sea 28 Jan (1834)"

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Re: Edward Fabian Shield in India
« Reply #11 on: Thursday 26 June 25 09:33 BST (UK) »
I think the schoolmaster was Moses Sheels/Sheils

 "Moses Sheels was the Line Sahib , and like many warrant officers he became an old resident . Mr. Sheels or Sheils kept a School for European children ."

(Fatehgarh Camp, 1777-1857 - Page 15) per Google Books 

See also https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_East_India_Company_s_Arsenals_Manufa/XE8MAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=moses+sheels+fatehgarh&pg=PA177&printsec=frontcover
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Re: Edward Fabian Shield in India
« Reply #12 on: Thursday 26 June 25 09:48 BST (UK) »
Thank you, Shaun.  That does explain the mystery of how Shield supposedly became Sheils,
but we still don't know what happened to Edward and family.
I think I'm just going to have to learn to talk to the dead!
Bagwell of Kilmore & Lisronagh, Co. Tipperary;  Beatty from Enniskillen;  Brown from Preston, Lancs.;  Burke of Ballydugan, Co. Galway;  Casement in the IoM and Co. Antrim;  Davison of Knockboy, Broughshane;  Frobisher;  Guillemard;  Harrison in Co. Antrim and Dublin;  Jones around Burton Pedwardine, Lincs.;  Lindesay of Loughry;  Newcomen of Camlagh, Co. Roscommon;  Shield;  Watson from Kidderminster;  Wilkinson from Leeds

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Re: Edward Fabian Shield in India
« Reply #13 on: Thursday 26 June 25 09:53 BST (UK) »
This explains the family's fate - I screen searched for "shiels"
https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.81088/2015.81088.Fatehgarh-And-The-Mutiny_djvu.txt

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Re: Edward Fabian Shield in India
« Reply #14 on: Thursday 26 June 25 11:35 BST (UK) »
Moses Sheels was in his sixties and unlikely to have young children. I wonder if those reporting casualties confused him with Edward Shield. 
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Re: Edward Fabian Shield in India
« Reply #15 on: Thursday 26 June 25 19:11 BST (UK) »
Do you consider the "Mr Shiels" at reply 13 to be "Moses"?
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