Claud
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Oct 1864 The 61st (Sth Gloucestershire Rgmt) were at Curragh until Mar 1865 and again from Mar 1866 to Sept 1866.
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Macker_Irl
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Hi Mick_Dolan
My name is Matt McNamara and look after the Curragh History web site. www.curragh.info I would be very interested in putting your information on the site as it is a vital piece of Curragh History. well done on all the work Matt
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Macker_Irl
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Hi Mick
I got your message thank you very much.
Matt
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Macker_Irl
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Hi
For anybody who is interested, the following link is to my web site and shows the list of CWGC type headstones in The Curragh cemetery. My son and I went to The Curragh yesterday and took the attached photographs of the graves. There are other types but I am afraid the condition is not good and hard to read. The CWGC headstones seem to stand the test of time.
http://www.curragh.info/articles/militarygraves.htm
I do hope that this is of some use to some people and if anybody would like a copy of any of the headstones in High Resolution I can forward them on.
Matt
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lesleypaters0n
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Hi Matt!
On behalf of all of us with an interest in this topic - "thank you" for your effort and commitment.
Happy New Year,
Lesley
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Macker_Irl
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Hi
I have just updated The Curragh Cemetery list as transcribed by Mick Dolan. This list will give anybody researching their military roots to Regiments stationed at The Curragh from 1860 to 1922. Again this all this hard work is down to Mick Dolan who took time out to transcribe this information back in 2003.
The web page can be found at http://www.curragh.info/cemetery.htm
If anybody has any more information on The Curragh History, please e-mail me at (*)
Regards
Matt McNamara
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Both my grandfather and his eldest brother were at Curragh Camp with the 19th Hussars in the early 1900s. Something odd must have happened around 1906 as my grandfather was discharged as unfit, but getting hold of the Regulations of the time, it seems he was unfit due to being mentally ill and a danger to himself or others. He was discharged to an asylum, but was only there for 6 weeks  and married a year later. It has been suggested that he faked his illness. I was given an Army term for this but can't remember it at the moment.
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BENSON- Dalton in Furness (Ulverston) and Hull
BETTISON - Derbys
BOULTON - Dalton-in-Furness and surrounding areas
BRAND - Lincs
COCKETT - Lincs, Yorks, Lancs
DA COSTA (or variants) - Spain or Portugal, London (Middx), ?Hull
GILCHRIST - Scotland, Lincs
HINGLEY - Derbys/Yorks
MANN - Sussex, Kent, Herts
MUMBY - Lincolnshire and Hull
PEMBERTON - Ches, Lancashire
STANTON - Lincs
ROBINSON - Lincs
WHITTAKER/WHITAKER - Ches/Lancs
WRIGHT- Bethnal Green
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lesleypaters0n
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Thank you everyone for all this valuable information.
In the mid 1800's when a soldier was posted was a spouse able to join him in the local barracks ?
I have a soldier with the 26th reg in the Channel Islands (1851), but the birth certificates for his children were all provided by the 59th of foot. 2 children born in Ireland 1846,1848 and one in Wales 1851.
Does anyone have any explanation for this ?
In the mid 19th century a small percentage of soldiers were allowed marry and have their wives and children live in barracks. Incredibly they frequently lived in the same rooms as the single soldiers. I have an 1867 report from Clonmel that states that there was no married quarters in the barracks which accomodated 196 men over and above the accomodation space available and there were also 28 women living in the men's rooms. Inevitably there must have been several children living there also. The women also shared the ablutions and toilet facilities with the lads. Your lad might have transferred from the 59th to the 26th or possibly left the army and re-enlisted.
Just to restate something I posted earlier - my grandfather was born in 1887 at Naas Military Barracks - I was led to believe this was 'On the Curragh'. He was one of 6 children born to the Quarter Master Sergeant's wife between 1879 & 1889. The QMS (Royal Dublin Fusiliers) and his wife were married in India in 1873 although she was from Dublin.
Was the Naas Barracks a different place? Would they too have lived with the soldiers?
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Mick_Dolan86
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I would say that by about 1880 they'd have had married quarters. A Senior NCO wouldn't have lived in a barrack room anyway. In addition there was a major reform of the army in the 1870s and 1880s. They were called the Cardwell reforms. The report I mentioned earlier was probably part of that process. AFAIK every barracks in Ireland was inspected so a report exists for Naas someplace. The married quarters in Clonmel were built in 1879 for instance (the building still stands and is now local authority apartments). But you would need to talk to a local historian in Naas with an interest in military history who might be able to tell you when the buildings in the barracks were erected. The Army magazine (An Cosantoir) ran a series of articles on military posts back in the 60s. If you wrote to Military Archives, Cathal Brugha Barracks, Dublin they might be able to send you a photocopy of the article on Naas.
I wouldn't say Naas was on the Curragh though.
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Thnak you!
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