Hello All:
This is my first post & I hope that I have done it correctly.
I am in urgent need of some help in confirming a casualty of the Crimean War. The chap's name is:
2584 Pte. Goodburn Mason, 30th Regiment.
I have several of 2/Rifle Brigade muster rolls, and on one he is listed as 'hospital' and then as 'dead'.
I have scoured every source that I know for Crimean casualties, and have come up empty. As a matter of fact I cannot find him on any British census at all.
I did find a William Henry Goodburn Mason on the 1851 census but cannot connect him to my man in any way at all.
The 2 bars on his medal, ALMA & INKERMANN are also confirmed.
Any help would be most honestly appreciated.
Sincere thanks,
Marty
Marty
It looks as if you have posted on this man in a number of places.
I wonder if you have seen the following which refers to William Henry Goodburn MASON as a printseller in Brighton, Sussex:
At the time of the 1841 census, William Lane was working as a servant in the King's Road premises of William Henry Goodburn Mason (1810-1879), the well known Printseller of Brighton. W. H. Mason was the publisher of the popular coloured print "The Brighton Panorama" (1833) and was later to gain attention for producing the famous coloured print "Cricket Match played between Sussex and Kent, 1849" created by the artists William Drummond and Charles J. Basebe. W. H. Mason was the proprietor of Brighton's Repository of Arts and exhibited engravings, lithographs, aquatints and other works of art at his business premises. During his employment with W. H. Mason, William Lane would have had regular contact with artists - he was living in the same household as William Drummond, the portrait painter, when the 1841 census was taken - and this might explain Lane's later interest in picture framing and portrait photography *. (
http://www.photohistory-sussex.co.uk/BTN-LaneWm.htm)
Given the rarity of the name (or at least the names Goodburn AND Mason together), I wonder if you have considered the possibility that the medal holder was related to William H G Mason in Brighton? It might be worth looking to see if he is in the same household at the time of the 1841 Census referred to above.
The National Portrait Gallery website has the following information about William Henry G Mason on its website:
William Mason, Repository of Arts, 1 Ship St, Brighton by 1832-1838, 81 King's Road 1839-1846 or later, 80 King's Road 1850, 108 King's Road by 1851-1871 or later. Carver and gilder, printseller and publisher.
William Henry G. Mason was born in London in about 1811. He was listed in Pigot's Sussex Directory for 1832-4, and as William Henry Mason, printseller, in 1839 and subsequently. In the 1861 census he was recorded as a printseller, age 50, with wife, Mary, age 46, and son, William H., photographic artist, age 21, and other children; he was similarly listed in 1871 census. The business had an account with Roberson, 1832-62 (Woodcock 1997), trading as W.H. Mason from Ship St, 1 Kings Road and 108 Kings Road, Brighton. Mason's printed label is recorded, c.1828-35
It looks as if W H G Mason married in Pancras in the March Quarter of 1838, so if they are related, then this marriage certificate would give WHG's father's name and carry you back a further generation.
I assume you have seen the fact that a medal and two bars (Inkerman and Alma) is for sale from Aberdeen Medals with the following notation:
Crimea Medal & 2 clasps 'Alma' & 'Inkermann' (Goodburn Mason, 30th Regt) The naming on the medal is officially impressed. The recipient joined the 30th Foot in 1847 and subsequently died in the Crimea in early 1855. These details confirmed from copies of the respective muster rolls of the period, copies of which will accompany the medal. Condition: Several edge/rim nicks and light surface scratches hence GF
Yours sincerely
Philip Candy
