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Armed Forces / Re: 63rd Regiment of Foot (1830, Tasmania) - Sgt MACKIE/MACKEY
« on: Friday 27 October 23 03:00 BST (UK)  »
I am so sorry to have taken so long to get back here to this Forum and specifically, this thread.
I lost a lot of my access information due to a computer failure, and have only just now worked my way down to this site!   I am sooooooo slack!!!

In any case, an UPDATE TO Sgt MACKIE/MACKEY !!!!

In 2016 I spent 5 months in the UK (I live in Sydney, Australia) and spent a lot of time with the War Office records for the 63rd Regiment, specifically my 3rd Great Grandfather Edward Mackey.

During my time at Kew in The National Archives (TNA) speaking with the staff there, I found out that the only WO records available digitally or online have come from similar researchers visiting Kew and transcribing records specific to their requirements who have posted the data on their own databases as sources or blog entries, etc.

I came away from Kew with over 100 images taken from the 63rd Regiment Muster Rolls. I have created a timeline of the Regimental movements and also discovered the date my 3GGF left India for England.

It was such a worth-while visit to Kew!!!!

Megan in Sydney Australia

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Dublin / South Dublin Workhouse - Admissions form 6 - Disability Codes
« on: Friday 27 December 19 00:55 GMT (UK)  »
I am researching the DOWLING family who entered the South Dublin Workhouse on 19-APR-1847 - the attached is an excerpt from "Form 6":
- 2134 - father RICHARD 50 widower,
- 2135 - daughter MARY 13,
- 2136 - son MICHAEL 10

Column 8 is headed "If disabled, the description of disability" and down the list are various entries for others stating "No 1", "No 5", "No 6", "No 7", etc.
The Dowlings are all 3 shown as "No 7".

The list of columns is as follows:
1   Number
2   Names and Surnames of Paupers
3   Sex
4   Age
5   If Adult, whether Single, Married, Widower, Widow; if Child, whether Orphan, Deserted or Bastard
6   Employment or Calling
7   Religious Denominations
8   If disabled, the description of disability
9   Name of Wife or Husband
10   Number of Children
11   Observations on Condition of Pauper when admitted
12   Electoral Division and Townland in which resident
13   Date when admitted or when Born in the Workhouse
14   Date when died, or left the Workhouse

Does anyone have any explanation for these "DISABILITY CODES", please?
Bearing in mind this is for SOUTH DUBLIN, the Workhouse.org site does not assist in this case!!!

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Oooh!  I love Time Team, Regorian - thank you so much for reminding me - though I must admit I have no remembrance of seeing the Episode on the POW dig... I shall immediately view it.

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I agree, ShaunJ - the word Victualler does usually mean Innkeeper - but in this case it more probably means "supplying food, beverages and other provisions for the crew of a vessel at sea."

That definition would fit in to Victualling the Norman Cross POW Depot as it was being run under the auspices of The Royal Navy Transport Board .

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Thanks, MaxD - just trolling through the lists right now.... hopefully, something will jump out at me!

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Found the link a different way:

https://www.ancestry.com/boards/topics.Military.french/139.1.1.1/mb.ashx

Obviously a change to the URL due to the RootsWeb outage in 2017...

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Thank you, solidrock.

Sadly the link didn't complete ("Error retrieving message"). Is the URL complete?

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Armed Forces Resources / Norman Cross POW Depot, Yaxley, Huntingdonshire 1796-1815
« on: Sunday 28 October 18 01:37 GMT (UK)  »
Has anyone found any information regarding the Norman Cross POW Depot, near Yaxley, Huntingdonshire during 1796-1815?

I have found:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Cross
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/43487/43487-0.txt
https://archive.org/details/depotforprisoner00walkuoft/page/n9


but little else (as yet) on the Internet.

Norman Cross was built in late 1796 and was managed by the "Royal Navy Transport Board".

I am specifically trying to determine a possible "VICTUALLER" to the Depot and I am starting to think that this research will come to nought.

My ancestor was John TOWNSEND, thought to have been connected with the Royal Navy and was reported in Census and other sources as a Victualler. He married in Yaxley in 1804.

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I've just discovered that it is possible that one of my ancestors:
 1. Could have been in the British Army and
 2. Could have been stationed in Huntingdonshire in/around Yaxley during the period 1800-1810

Is there any way to determine which Regiments were located in that area during that period of time?

Living in Australia, it is a bit hard to pop into Kew to browse the WOs!!!!

Thanks!

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