82nd foor soldiers 2nd Battalion

[Collins1907]

My 2nd gt. grandfather Robert Kay enlisted with the 82 Foot Soldiers 2nd Battalion in 1808. He had a daughter Elizabeth born March 1809 in Lowton, Lancashire and he is listed on the Baptism. I do know that his wife Dinah had a daughter Emma born in 1814 to an unknown father so suspect he died between 1809 and 1814. Are there any records of the 2nd Battalion that I can look at to check for his death.

[ShaunJ]

There is a Corporal Robert Kay on the muster roll of 1st Battalion 82nd Foot in q/e 24 March 1814

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/60546/records/344558

[ShaunJ]

Killed in action at Fort Erie, 17 September 1814.

https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=GBM%2FCASUALTY%2F1812%2F1677&tab=this

[Andy J2022]

The second battalion of the 82nd Foot had been disbanded in 1789 and its men were absorbed into the 1st Battalion at Gibraltar. Following the build up to the start of the Napoleonic War, the 2nd Battalion was reformed at Horsham in Sussex in August 1804 and remained there, serving as the depot and reserve for the 1st Battalion. Hence Robert Kay will have joined the 2nd Battalion initially before going to the 1st Battalion where Shaun has found him.
He probably joined the 1st Battalion in Portugal in late 1808. The remainder of the battalion's activities in this period are set out in this Wikipedia article

The official history of the regiment can be found on the Internet Archive here: https://archive.org/details/historicalrecor00jarvgoog The battle of Lake Erie is described on page 60 (page 82 of the pdf version) onwards. "The British loss on this occasion was some six hundred in killed, wounded, and missing, while the 82nd alone lost Captain Wright and Ensign Langford, two sergeants, three corporals, and six men killed; Captain Marshall, Lieutenants Pigot, Latham, Mason, Harman, and seven men wounded."