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SeanC3
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Only just registered on here, and I'm finding out stuff already!
This thread caught my eye as I recently discovered my grandmother's baptism record in Kilcummin, Oughterard and it lists her father's occupation as "Constable" in at the time (1893). The point about police constables being moved about could ring true in my case too as my granny was buried in Kildare in a family grave with no apparent connection to her parents (that we know of). This "ancestry site" mentioned in earlier posts....can anyone give me the full website address as I'm in a bit of a cul-de-sac on my great grandfather, what with no more than his occupation in 1893 (and his wifes name) to go on.
Cheers,
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spof
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Hi
Its Ancestry.co.uk. If you dont have a subscription I could look for you, if you can give me details. Ancestry just gives the name, age and place of birth if you have those I will take a peak. If you are lucky, and you find him, then the best thing to do is order the film from the nearest Latter Day Saints Centre, the index to the film is on Ancestry.
Hi Sean
Welcome to Rootschat.
The London LDS centre has the film in so if you can provide a name/s I'll ve checking one or two people on it tomorrow and will look out for yours.
Glen
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Bezant (London/Suffolk), West (London/Essex), Walker (Yorkshire), Phillips (West Country - believed Bristol area), Tibbetts (Warwickshire), Armstrong (Co Fermanagh), Harvison (Co Wexford), Neeb (Germany), Becker (Germany), Jakobsson (Finland). Kanneworff (Germany and Denmark)
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SeanC3
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Thanks for the offer Jacqui, you're very good. Only problem is I'm only at the stage of having his name. Place of birth & age are still great imponderables I'm afraid.
Cheers to you too Glen. I'll throw his name to you. If it comes to somethin', well great. If not, no harm done.
His name is Charles Lewis. I'm only guessing his base would've been in Kilcummin, Oughterard in 1893 (the year his daughter and my gran was born, and the place where she has been recorded as having been baptised)....
Good luck & thanks again to you both for the offer of help.
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spof
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Sean
Ancestry has a Charles Lewis enlisting at age 20 in 1871. H was born in Kildare and there is a reference to a marriage or some other comment.
Would an 1851 birth sound right if you have any other info? Anyway, it will only take a few minutes to scribble down some details.
Glen
PS A big thank you to Jacqui as well as I'd never really looked at the RIC lists and to find they are LDS films was a very welcome surprise.
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Bezant (London/Suffolk), West (London/Essex), Walker (Yorkshire), Phillips (West Country - believed Bristol area), Tibbetts (Warwickshire), Armstrong (Co Fermanagh), Harvison (Co Wexford), Neeb (Germany), Becker (Germany), Jakobsson (Finland). Kanneworff (Germany and Denmark)
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spof
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Glen, where have you been all my life? 
Err...ummm...ah...how about hiding in the LDS Family History Centre? 
I've found his record and it's a good 'un even if the clerks all seemed to be in a competition to write the most with the smallest possible writing.  What I couldn't read is marked with a ?
It is record number 37852 (wonder if that's also his badge number?) and as the index said, he was a native of Kildare and was 20 when he joined. He was a tall lad at 6' 1 1/4" which was very tall for that time given the quality of food most people ate.
He was married and the record lists the date and which county the wife was from so we have:
Marriage 1- 3 Sept 1885 to a Kerry girl.
Marriage 2 - 15 Sept 1890 to someone from Clare so this would be your gran's mother
Marriage 3 - 27 Nov 1900 to someone from Galway WR (no idea what the WR means)
He was introduced to the Constabulary by Sub Inspector Power. There is text which straddles 2 columns but I think the reference MAyo SR refers to the Inspector and he was a laborer prior to joining on his appointment date of 7 June 871
As others have posted, he never actually served in his native Kildare but was posted to the following locations
Londonderry 13 Dec 1871
Reserve 18 April 1878
Tyrone 31 March 1880
Reserve 31 May 1880
Kerry 1 August 1883
Blake 10 Feb 1888
Galway WR 23 May 1891
Promotions
Promoted to AG1 August ??
Promoted to Sargeant 1 Jan 1887
Reduced to Constable 6 Dec 1890 (naughty boy!)
Rewards
Twenty something years 27 April 1887
Sub ?ec 29 June 1887
Punishments
Admd 19 Oct 1880
Fight (I think) 7 Sept 1881
Hn Rec 29 July 1889
And he took a pension on 1 January 1903 with a final comment seeming to read Comd in Wicklow
So there you go. Any questions are probably best posted to the Ireland - General board to get a wider audience. As for the marriage details, the LDs are setting up a new version of Familsearch here
http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=0
and the Irish BMD indexes should be online in the, hopefully, not too distant future.
Cheers
Glen
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SeanC3
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 Glen my man, you are a diamond. You must be my "beginners luck" on rootschat!
I'm astonished. Lots of info there to take in at once.....including 3 marriages (my aunt may have a fit when she hears that!). Talk about sailors having a girl in every port, eh? 
It's amazing to think that this man born in the east of the island was sent to serve north, south & west, at a time when transport links would've been a touch more basic than they are now. Guess it's another example of what Brian1 stated about the practice of posting members outside of their own area. Plus the fact he appears to have re-married after my gran was born could be another reason why the info we had on him was so scarce.
Thanks a million again. Hope you found as much info on the one or two people you were tracing.
That's what I call a result!
Sean.
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SeanC3
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Hi Sean Hope you do get some information let us know what you find. If you google "Royal Irish constabulary" there is a very interesting site and forum. the guy on the forum has been a great help to me in the past. At the moment I am trying to find my G G grandfathers records his name is Charles Clark unfortunately the Charles Clarks on Ancestry are too young  Hope you find lots of info Jacqui
Cheers for the lead Jacqui. As you can see, Glen has pulled a decent sized rabbit out of a hat with lots of info! There is a Clarke wing in my family, but it's all Kildare based, I'm afraid, and I haven't managed to make too much progress there myself.
I'm sure another piece of your jigsaw is just around the corner. The search continues for us all.....
Greetz,
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