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Help with a Kerrisk - Thimotheus) Kerrisk, birth circa 1827
« on: Sunday 14 August 11 10:34 BST (UK) »
Hi Rootschatters,

Just after some help in finding a particular type of record.

My g g g grandfather was a prison warder at Ireland Island, Bermuda in the 1850's and 60's.

He was Irish.

I would like to find the record of him joining that prison service.

His name was Timothy (Thimotheus) Kerrisk, birth circa 1827.  Most of the Kerrisks seem to come from County Kerry.
I have no accurate birth date for him but have a marriage record for him in Bermuda marrying a Bermuda born woman named Sarah Olive. Her father William, was also in the prison service.

I think that there was something called Colonial Services but I can't find it anywhere.

I am trying to find his place of birth and parents. Also the Olive family who were  originally Irish, possibly from Dublin.

Hope someone can help :)

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Timothy Kerrisk c.1830 Castleisland, Kerry, Eire.Died in Bermuda c.1890

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Re: Help with a Kerrisk.
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 14 August 11 10:45 BST (UK) »
Hi Croquet player
Found this on the familysearch website:

Eva Kerisk, died 2 June 1890, Wheeling, Ohio, West Virginia
age 18 yrs 26 days
born c.1872 Bermuda
Father: Thimatheas, b. Bermudas
Mother: Sarah T, b. Bermudas
Cemetery: Mt Calvory

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Re: Help with a Kerrisk.
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 14 August 11 10:54 BST (UK) »


Hi Dazey,

Thanks. BTW that was fast!!!!

 I knew they went to America to live in Orange County New York sometime around then, after Timothy Kerrisk died. This must be another child of theirs.

I might see if they have pictures of graves there.

Julie
Walter Blythe -  Houghton, Stanwix, Cumberland. UK.

Timothy Kerrisk c.1830 Castleisland, Kerry, Eire.Died in Bermuda c.1890

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Re: Help with a Kerrisk.
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 14 August 11 11:00 BST (UK) »
2 June 1890
EMMA daughter of T and Sarah Kerrisk. Requiem mass at the Cathedral , internment private

http://www.lindapages.com/wags-ohio/wobitsk.htm


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Re: Help with a Kerrisk.
« Reply #4 on: Sunday 14 August 11 11:56 BST (UK) »


here is some info on that prison that I just found


  Specific research into prison hulks has received very
  little archaeological attention. The Dromedary project
  is the only work cited here which utilizes prison hulks
  as an archaeological resource (Addams & Davis, 1998;
  Addams & Newell, 1999). The Dromedary, (formerly a
  New Zealand service ship), was one of the eight known
  hulks to be moored on Ireland Island, Bermuda in 1826.
  Initiated in the early 1980s, the Dromedary archeological
  project has excavated a series of trenches immediately
  below the site of the hulk in the Bermuda Dockyard.
  From these excavations, a significant artefact assemblage
  has been collected. Including horse and beef bones,
  buttons, jewellery, bone utensils, clay pipes and carved
  limestone figures, the analysis of which has given insight
  into the material culture of the prison hulk.


     Julie
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Timothy Kerrisk c.1830 Castleisland, Kerry, Eire.Died in Bermuda c.1890

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Re: Help with a Kerrisk.
« Reply #5 on: Sunday 14 August 11 12:01 BST (UK) »
Hiya....Familysearch.org - search - Familysearch Record Pilot
timothy kerrisk
babtism
kerry

found this...very close to your request....of course we don`t know if it is your Timothy , but closest I could find

christening 10th october 1828 Timothy Kerrisk , Roman Catholic , Castle Island . Kerry ...parents
Andrew Kerrisk
Mary Horgan

does Castle Island,Kerry appear in your research ?
allan
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Re: Help with a Kerrisk.
« Reply #6 on: Sunday 14 August 11 12:47 BST (UK) »


    Hi Allan,

Yes Castleisland does come up in Timothy's will. He leaves something to his niece who lives in Castleisland.

I also think that this may be him but until I can see his records for the Colonial and War Office to check his details, I can't be sure.

I've just been on UK Archives but I can't see anything remotely resembling induction records to the service.
He is listed there as an assistant warden in correspondence from Bermuda.

It seems like the kind of record that would be kept. Like soldiers who served there as guards. I can look at them but not the wardens.

Very frustrating!  I'm sure that they are somewhere!!! ::)

Julie
Walter Blythe -  Houghton, Stanwix, Cumberland. UK.

Timothy Kerrisk c.1830 Castleisland, Kerry, Eire.Died in Bermuda c.1890

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Re: Help with a Kerrisk.
« Reply #7 on: Wednesday 02 September 15 09:54 BST (UK) »
Away sorting out DNA matches... I may be gone for some time many years!

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Re: Help with a Kerrisk - Thimotheus) Kerrisk, birth circa 1827
« Reply #8 on: Wednesday 02 September 15 10:39 BST (UK) »
Thanks for the Link aghadowey, sadly we have not been able to contact Croquetplayer as the email they had been using is no longer working  :'(

I have done a search with the details they registered with, nothing....

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