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Offline Dan Culp

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Thomas McCarthy of the Royal Horse Artillery
« on: Sunday 19 May 19 23:21 BST (UK) »
My great great great grandmother's brother Thomas McCarthy, originally from Lixnaw, Kerry, was a member of the Royal Horse Artillery.  He was born 1865.  By 1911, he was a pensioner in Dublin.

Can anybody perhaps do a lookup for his pension/service records?  I understand such things are available on findmypast, to which I don't have access.  Can anybody do a lookup?  Thanks!

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Re: Thomas McCarthy of the Royal Horse Artillery
« Reply #1 on: Monday 20 May 19 14:55 BST (UK) »
Nothing appears that can be identified as him.  A man only received a pension if he was discharged with a disability or had served a full term (21 years) of service. Discharge papers for men with no pension were destroyed.  Those discharge papers that are on Ancestry are in Fold3, an extra site which requires additional subscription which I don't have.

Does the 1911 record say he is an army pensioner and do you have any earlier census information?

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Re: Thomas McCarthy of the Royal Horse Artillery
« Reply #2 on: Monday 20 May 19 16:23 BST (UK) »
Is this him in 1911?  " Pensioner from Royal Horse Artillery Now Official Messenger Chancery Div Superior Court of Judicature Ireland"
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Re: Thomas McCarthy of the Royal Horse Artillery
« Reply #3 on: Monday 20 May 19 17:53 BST (UK) »
I think this is the daughter Kathleen May's birth registration in Tralee in 1902. MMN is Lawlor which ties in with births registered in UK for sons John Joseph (Wandworth, 1898) and Thomas Patrick (Wandsworth, 1900). It shows Thomas as a labourer in 1902.

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1902/01895/1736341.pdf
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Re: Thomas McCarthy of the Royal Horse Artillery
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 22 May 19 03:57 BST (UK) »
Quote from: ShaunJ on Monday 20 May 19 17:53 BST (UK)
I think this is the daughter Kathleen May's birth registration in Tralee in 1902. MMN is Lawlor which ties in with births registered in UK for sons John Joseph (Wandworth, 1898) and Thomas Patrick (Wandsworth, 1900). It shows Thomas as a labourer in 1902.

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1902/01895/1736341.pdf
Yep all of that is him. I got all the births of his children, and several of their marriages, deaths, and burials figured out over on the Kerry board.  At this point, I'm just hoping for a lookup on the pension records, and maybe an obit lookup in Dublin newspapers if I'm so lucky.

I wasn't able to find him specifically in 1901, but his wife and kids are lodgers with family friends (possibly also cousins) in Lixnaw in that census.  The man of the house (his brother's godson Michael Sullivan) is also apparently staying elsewhere at the time.  I thought perhaps one or both of those absences might be military-related, though I have no information about Sullivan being in the military.  Thomas's mother also had just died in Lixnaw about 6 weeks before.

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