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Title: William Calwell - Private in HM's 63rd Regiment
Post by: squawki11 on Sunday 11 February 18 06:31 GMT (UK)
I'm attempting to find out a bit more about the Calwell family and have managed to trace some of them to Cork in both 1901 & 1911 census records wherein his wife Kate/Kathrine appears with two daughters born in East India/Bengal/Punjab when WC was a Private in HM's 63rd Regiment. By 1901 census, Kate was already a Widow with another 2 children born 1883 & 1885 in Cork. I can't find anything further about WC or Kate's maiden name. Can anyone help with such things as his dob/dod, marriage date & place and Kate's place & dod, please? Anything about the two older daughters wouldn't go amiss. The son, William (Bookbinder) moved to London area, married and had at least 3 children; the youngest daughter, Rosanna, died in 1905.
Title: Re: William Calwell - Private in HM's 63rd Regiment
Post by: hallmark on Sunday 11 February 18 06:50 GMT (UK)
I'm attempting to find out a bit more about the Calwell family and have managed to trace some of them to Cork in both 1901 & 1911 census records wherein his wife Kate/Kathrine appears with two daughters born in East India/Bengal/Punjab when WC was a Private in HM's 63rd Regiment. By 1901 census, Kate was already a Widow with another 2 children born 1883 & 1885 in Cork. I can't find anything further about WC or Kate's maiden name. Can anyone help with such things as his dob/dod, marriage date & place and Kate's place & dod, please? Anything about the two older daughters wouldn't go amiss. The son, William (Bookbinder) moved to London area, married and had at least 3 children; the youngest daughter, Rosanna, died in 1905.


Have you Links to them on Census?
Title: Re: William Calwell - Private in HM's 63rd Regiment
Post by: hallmark on Sunday 11 February 18 07:06 GMT (UK)
Name     WILLIAM CALWELL
Date of Birth   1883
Group Registration ID   11275787
SR District/Reg Area   Cork

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1883/02718/2000158.pdf

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Title: Re: William Calwell - Private in HM's 63rd Regiment
Post by: hallmark on Sunday 11 February 18 07:10 GMT (UK)
 C Reg  Birth, Marriage and Death results for Calwell of Cork

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Title: Re: William Calwell - Private in HM's 63rd Regiment
Post by: hallmark on Sunday 11 February 18 07:12 GMT (UK)
Name   ROSANNA CALWELL
Year of Death   1905
Group Registration ID   4769191
SR District/Reg Area   Cork
Deceased Age at Death   19

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1905/05590/4570707.pdf
Title: Re: William Calwell - Private in HM's 63rd Regiment
Post by: hallmark on Sunday 11 February 18 07:15 GMT (UK)
Name   Catherine CALWELL
Year of Death   1933
Group Registration ID   1979086
SR District/Reg Area   Cork
Deceased Age at Death   75

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1933/04855/4310366.pdf
Title: Re: William Calwell - Private in HM's 63rd Regiment
Post by: hallmark on Sunday 11 February 18 07:18 GMT (UK)
Name   ROSANNA CALDWELL
Date of Birth   1885
Group Registration ID   10917001

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1885/02619/1966776.pdf

Father in Canada.

Mother's maiden name Martin
Title: Re: William Calwell - Private in HM's 63rd Regiment
Post by: hallmark on Sunday 11 February 18 07:22 GMT (UK)
There are others there too and some people really enjoy making their own discoveries so not posted everything!!   ;D
Title: Re: William Calwell - Private in HM's 63rd Regiment
Post by: dathai on Sunday 11 February 18 10:21 GMT (UK)
William Colwell son of Hugh a Quarryman to Catherine Martin a minor dtr of William Martin a servant   Oct 3rd 1870 St Lukes,Cork
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1870/11406/8188292.pdf
Title: Re: William Calwell - Private in HM's 63rd Regiment
Post by: dathai on Sunday 11 February 18 13:37 GMT (UK)
Elizabeth to Alfred Meakins 1917
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1917/09740/5534350.pdf

https://www.nam.ac.uk/soldiers-records/persons?page=15
Title: Re: William Calwell - Private in HM's 63rd Regiment
Post by: squawki11 on Monday 12 February 18 07:37 GMT (UK)
Many thanks for all those pointers. From Catherine's age of 75 it appears she may have married aged 12...possibly she was born earlier and that's another thing to discover, although their mc states she was a minor and what age range might that cover? Census returns suggest she was born Waterford c.1855 and that might indicate 1854 as a possibility and she'd still be a minor marrying at 16, wouldn't she? Another small snippet from her daughter Annie's mc suggest William Calwell senior was a soldier in 1st Manchester Regiment in 1909.Yet another possibility despite his wife declaring her widowhood by 1901! All those helpful suggestions have taken me to parts/sources previously unknown so thanks again.
Title: Re: William Calwell - Private in HM's 63rd Regiment
Post by: hallmark on Monday 12 February 18 07:59 GMT (UK)
You have to make allowances for age. Many did not know how old someone was when they died, etc..
Title: Re: William Calwell - Private in HM's 63rd Regiment
Post by: dathai on Monday 12 February 18 10:34 GMT (UK)
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=479909.0
Title: Re: William Calwell - Private in HM's 63rd Regiment
Post by: ShaunJ on Monday 12 February 18 11:03 GMT (UK)
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Father in Canada.

FindMyPast has some army pension payment records for William Callwell of 63rd Regiment, pension paid at Kinsale and/or Cork. A couple are annotated "To Halifax Nova Scotia"

FindMyPast also has Army discharge papers for William Callwell of 63rd Regiment, born in the parish of "Loughcorr" near Ballycastle, Antrim. Nearly 21 years in India with the 77th and 63rd regiments. Discharged in June 1881 aged 40 years and 7 months.

Also on FindMyPast are baptisms for son Hugh Alexander (Hazaribaugh 1873)   daughters Annie (Meean Meer 1877), Margaret (Jullundur 1879)  and Elizabeth Jane (Jalandhar 1881). There's a boy William John born Hazaribaugh in 1872 but the parents are recorded as William and Jane - possibly an error.


Title: Re: William Calwell - Private in HM's 63rd Regiment
Post by: ShaunJ on Monday 12 February 18 11:07 GMT (UK)
William Callwell arrived Halifax Nova Scotia in 1882 aged 41, on the Sarmatian

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-62PS-4BD?i=4&wc=36TR-B6S%3A981999201%2C981999202%2C981994301%3Fcc%3D1823240&cc=1823240