Joseph Eakins - birth records Kingstown

[shanew147]

found a Medal card for him on ancestry  - it has the same service number as the memorial  - 5576 and the corp is listed as 'R Ir Rif'.  I presume that for copyright reasons I should not post the full cert here but if you PM me you email address I'll send it to you.

details include military terminology that doesn't mean much to me - maybe someone can advise on what the details means..I've included a few below...

British Army WWI Medal Rolls Index Cards, 1914-1920
Name: Joseph Eakins     
Regiment or Corps  : Royal Irish Rifles     
Regimental number: 5/5576

The qualifying date is 5-Dec-1914 and it includes mention of various medals the phrase 'Pres? Dead' in red ink

this appears under action taken :

B.W.4.V.M.retd. (992 K.R. 1923) 8362/Adt.


Shane

[aghadowey]

Any newspaper mention will be unlikely to mention his age. Think census record will be best thing to try.

[gormangenealogy]

Hello Mcvitie,
This may be of help to you
You can search for free, but to view the cert you must pay 5 euro

http://ifhf.brsgenealogy.com/

Church Baptism Aicken Joseph 1824 Co. Down 
 Church Baptism Ekins Joseph 1848 Co. Longford 
 Church Baptism Aickin Joseph 1854 Co. Antrim 
 Church Baptism Ekins Joseph 1858 Co. Louth 
 Church Baptism Eakin Joseph 1861 Co. Tyrone 
 Church Baptism Aicken Joseph 1868 Co. Down 
 Church Baptism Aiken Joseph Moody 1869 Co. Antrim 
 Civil Birth Aiken Joseph Moody 1869 Co. Antrim 
 Civil Birth Aiken Joseph 1874 Co. Tyrone 
  Civil Birth Aiken Joseph 1877 Co. Antrim 
 Church Baptism Aikin Joseph 1877 Co. Antrim 
 Civil Birth Eakins Joseph 1879 Co. Leitrim 
 Church Baptism Aken Joseph 1881 Co. Antrim 
  Civil Birth Aiken Joseph 1884 Co. Antrim 
 Church Baptism Aicken Joseph 1892 Co. Antrim 
 Church Baptism Eakens Josephine Mary 1892 Co. Dublin 
 Civil Birth Aicken Joseph 1898 Co. Antrim 
 Civil Birth Aiken Joseph 1901 Co. Tyrone
 Civil Birth Aikin Joseph Alexander 1904 Co. Tyrone 
 Church Baptism Eakins Josephine(aged 8 Years) 1904 Co. Down 
 Church Baptism Eakins Josephine(aged 8 Years) 1904 Co. Down

Best of luck
Noel Gorman
Dublin, Ire

[McVitie]

Hello to you Noel

Thanks so much for your listing of the Eakins and variations - I never thought to try a different surname variant, but will have a good look at the site you kindly listed.

I'm inclined to go for the post 1870 births, as anything before were presumably mean he was too old in enrolling in the Army. But you may have listed a perfect match for him in County Leitrim (1879) - right age too.
 
I'll find him soon, I'm sure!
Kind regards
Mcvitie

[shanew147]

there are two Joseph Eakins WW1 service records on Ancestry - one looks too young as he is 17 and unmarried. The other initially looked more promising and has about 13 pages of records  - age 35 and married. But his wifes name is Alice and he lived to the end of the war. It looks like he was discharged for being physically injured or unfit in some way.

I believe many of the early army records were destroyed in the Blitz.

(pm sent with link to image of medal card.)



Shane

[McVitie]

Thanks for all your help Wayne - as you say the other Joseph Eakins don't quite fit the profile but I appreciate all your help with this.

I did read somewhere that a lot of the records had been destroyed during the blitz, and I don't hold out for too much other records existing, but never say never....

Thanks for the PM too - very much appreciated.

Mcvitie

[gormangenealogy]

Hello McVitie

I don't know if you have seen this. Copy all of the link and paste it into your browser.

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/search-results.asp?searchtype=powersearch&query=first_name%3djoseph%7clast_name%3deakins&first_date=19140101&last_date=19171231&catid=10&mediaarray=*&pagenumber=1&querytype=1

Regards
Noel

[shanew147]

I think this nationalarchives link may be be another scan of the same medal card we got on ancestry..


Shane

[McVitie]

Hi Noel

Many thanks for the link - it's certiainly Jospeh's MIC which Shane has kindly submitted to me but thanks for your input too.

Regards
Mcvitie