Chelsea Pensioners

[sheena58]

There are record books of the pensions paid to Chelsea Out-Pensioers . They state the amount paid and at which place it was collected.. this together with the dates enabled me to track my out-pensioner from Halifax to Accrington, and was a good reference for other info I had.  


charlotte

Hi Charlotte,
Any idea how I can search these records? My 3x great grandfather Kenneth M(a)cKay was a Chelsea Pensioner in Inverness. He died some time between December 1843 and December 1846 I believe. Of course there are no death records on line but I think his wife C/Katherine continued to recieve his pension as a Chelsea Pension Widow. I presume you could find out from these records when he died. I know very little about his family and, being a MacKay doesn't help! I have been unable to find any trace of a marriage for him or birth for his daughter Helen/Ellen who, according to the 1851 census was born in Johnshaven. Her age varies wildly on the census so she could have been born anywhere between about 1800-25. I can't find any registers for Johnshaven on Scotlands People so I'm guessing there aren't any. 

[charlotteCH]

Hi sheena58,   It's more than 10 years ago I worked thru the Chelsea Out pensioners film at the LDS and traced my Jonasso the detail of how I got the film is hazy.
 
I asked about it at the LDS Family History Centre and then ordered the film. I knew he'd died in 1846 so was looking at the peiood beteen discharge in 1825 and 1846.  It gave the daily rate and named the pension Offices where he wished to collect it- this enabled me to track him.

I suggest you go to your nearest LDS FHCentre and ask them to help you get the film-
sorry not to be more help but the detail escapes me-maybe you can look the film # up on the LDS website.

charlotte

[sheena58]

Thanks Charlotte,
I will try to find out where my nearest LDS centre is. I am not actually too far from Kew but more than a day-trip away if I'm to spend any time there and the local B&Bs are only too aware of the monpoly they have on us hapless researchers so it makes for a very expensive trip!
Sheena

[farah]

Re Chelsea Pensioners
Having one ancestor who was an out Chelsea pensioner living in Johnshaven I found that he received a pension of 1 shilling and sixpence per week and which was later reduced to 1 shilling per week. My ancestor was a corporal in what was first described as the Scotch Regiment then became the 94 Reg of Foot which later formed part of the Connaught Rangers. The aforesaid was in the Peninsular Wars and Queen Victoria later issued a medal in the 1840s to those pensioners  still living

[charlotteCH]

Hi farah... and welcome to rootschat

Lucky you getting the medal...y chap died in 1846, too eraly for the issue of the Peninsular.  It sure took them a ling while to get arou nd to issuing that medal!

charlotte

[farah]

Regarding my previous entry It may be of interest to those who have pensioners listed in their tree and from the east coast.
I found that my ancestor and his two brothers who were originally from Ellon in Aberdeenshire had enlisted in the Aberdeen and Kincardineshire Militia and were in 1802 stationed at the Barracks in Montrose  prior to entering the Scotch Regiment
The battle clasps on the medal which was the Military General Service Medal issued 1840 showed that the regiment, 94th Regiment of Foot had fought in the following battles of the Penninsular War viz:-Pyrenees, Victoria,Nivelle,Nive, Orthes and ToulouseHope the aforesaid may point you in the right direction for research The lists of names in the Militia can be got on the internet I was mistaken in the pension it was 1 shilling and threepence and may have been per day and not per week I am not sure on that

[charlotteCH]

I think the rates were daily...not weekly.

My RSM got 2/6 per day which seems quite a decent amount.

charlotte

[gordonrgw]

hi,

I also have a relative, william esson/easson (1785-1866)  from the 94th, stationed in india in 1804, then in the peninsular wars 'til 1814.

He is living in fordoun in 1841 as a chelsea pensioner.

farah, you mention militia lists online for aberdeen/kincardineshire, can I ask you where I might find them?

best wishes

gordon

[farah]

Regarding the list of pensioners ,to be honest it was such a long time ago that I forget whether it was off the internet or from the local library in Bervie
I will look through my bundle of handwritten records of which there are stacks and see if I can find the list which I had in print.
Will get back to you on that. What I do remember was that a Col.or Cpt Ogilvie was in charge of the section which had the three brothers Fotheringham.