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General => Armed Forces => Topic started by: George Ryan on Wednesday 17 February 21 22:12 GMT (UK)
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I cannot find any information about John Perrin on National Archives, Ancestry, Findmypast or Familysearch websites.
Details of his movements are as follows :
Date Barracks Rank
July, 1882 Carrick-on-Suir Colour Sergeant
February, 1885 Cork Quarter Master C & D Corps
December, 1886 Cork Quarter Master C & F Corps
April, 1893 Monaghan Barracks Master
September, 1898 Limerick 1st Class Barrack Warden
In the marriage certificate of his daughter, in 1907, he is recorded as "War Officer A. S. B."
Where might I get his army records?
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Colour Sergeant Perrin has been transferred from 1st Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment to the Commissariat and Transport Corps for the purpose of serving in the Barrack Section at Cork.
Irish Times, also the Northern Whig, 26 July 1883
Colour Sergeant J Perrin, of the Northamptonshire Regiment, stationed here, has received a medal for good conduct and long service.
Dublin Daily Express, 24 November 1883
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His army file is viewable on FindMyPast: https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=GBM%2FWO97%2F3642%2F067%2F001&parentid=GBM%2FWO97%2F3642%2F168263
and Fold3: https://www.fold3.com/image/586520930?xid=1022&_ga=2.142268155.813730474.1613637523-473458950.1601478184
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From London Gazette?
Irish Times, 26 Oct.1888: The Northamptonshire Sergeant Joseph Perrin to be Quartermaster, with honorary rank of Lieutenant.
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Not the Hampshire Regiment. It was the Northamptonshire Regiment. His marriage record has it as "Northhampshire": https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1882/10978/8013321.pdf
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Not really military details but may be worth checking out if you've not already seen it-
Irish Times, 16 Jan.1914: INTERESTING WILL CASE. ... an Italian subject marriage, whether there was an intestacy. The children of her deceased brother, Captain Joseph Perrin, who was in the Northamptonshire Regiment, claimed probate of the documents. Counsel for the defendants said Madame Bonnefoi’s [spelling?] father was a labourer and small innkeeper in Cambridgeshire. While a child she was adopted by Mr. Foster, bank_ ...
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Thanks, ShaunJ.
I was thrown by the marriage cert reference to North Hampshire Regiment, and barking up the wrong tree completely.
Great to have his details at long last.
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I think I have found his widowed mother Mary A Perrin (nee Gaffey) and some of his siblings in Dover in the 1871 census.