Hi kargil !
While looking for something else .... I came across this .......... and remembered this post!! ..... but after the search for it ..... I've just realised that this is older than I thought - and you probably have this information already ....... but I'll post it just in case ............
Royal Hospital Kilmainham
A magnificent late 17th Century Classical building with Chapel - Great Hall - formal Gardens - burial grounds and artists studios - now home to Irish and International visual art.
http://www.irish-architecture.com/buildings_ireland/dublin/kilmainham/rhk.htmlThis may give you some ideas for maybe finding some extra information regarding family ..... ( though I don't know that for sure - but it's worth a shot !!
) - you can check the national archives !
Pension records from the 17th century soldiers who had completed their agreed term of service and those who were wounded were entitled to pensions - they were known as Chelsea Pensioners after the Royal Hospital at Chelsea - which opened in 1692 - although most of them were ‘out-pensioners' who lived at home. Entries in the pension records are by order of precedence of regiment or corps in the British army and then chronological - so you need to know roughly the date of discharge in order to consult them. At the PRO the soldiers' pension records are held in four series ........
WO 116, 1715-1913 - medical
WO 117, 1823-1913 - long service
WO 120, 1715-1857 - registers of pensioners
WO 121, 1782-1887 - certificates of pensioners' service
There are also registers for soldiers discharged to Kilmainham near Dublin these are held in WO 118 and WO 119 An index of Chelsea Pensioners for 1806-38 is available on microfiche from the Manchester and Lancashire Family History Society.
Annie