Extracts from "From Praties to Paddymelons" on the Clare library site:
http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/genealogy/don_tran/fam_his/from_praties_to_paddymelons.pdf"Charlotte (Murphy) ’s father Daniel had married Mary Coyle, the daughter of the last surviving Waterloo veteran Richard Coyle, and the couple migrated to Australia in the 1860s."
"Mary was the youngest child of Richard and Charlotte Coyle. The name Coyle originated from the family name of St Colinkele. Mary’s mother Charlotte was the daughter of Francis Sloane who married a Miss Morrow and was an only child.
Francis Sloane was a man of property as he owned two linen mills and nearly all the Town Lands of the village of Glenevery in Northern Ireland. However by joining in a rebellion which failed in its purpose, all his property was confiscated and he had to flee to England.
Presumably, his wife and daughter accompanied him.
Charlotte probably met Richard Coyle, an army officer, in England at wherever his Regiment
was located. The Regiment was located at Bath when his last child Mary, was born there on
19th April, 1834.
Richard Coyle fought in the Peninsular Wars in Spain and at the Battle of Waterloo under the
Duke of Wellington and was the last Waterloo veteran to die. Richard had two brothers, one
in India, possibly also a soldier, while the other held some very good position on the Estate of
the Marquis of Londonderry at Mount Stewart in Ireland."
"We learn that Charlotte Sloane, Mary Coyle’s mother, was born at Glenevery, Northern Ireland, where Francis Sloane, Charlotte’s father owned two mills and nearly all the Town Lands of the village before fleeing to England after the Irish Rebellion. Mary herself was born at Bath on 19th April, 1834, at 16 Upper Bristol Road, Bath, and died at her home in Neutral Bay, Sydney, in 1915.
We have learned also that Charlotte Dowling also possessed a Waterloo Button souvenir belonging to Richard Coyle."
