Charles Edward Healy - RSM, Bristols Own Pals regiment - searching for records

[ewontner]

Hi there, I am currently researching a Charles Edward Healy who was a Regimental Sergeant Major in the Bristols Own Pals regiment (12th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment). I am trying to locate more details about his parents. I believe his father was Samuel Edwin Healy (who died prior to 1903/birth date unknown). I think Charles was born in about 1870 in Bristol but can't find a birth record or indeed I can't find him in a census record until 1911 when he is married (having married to Mary Marlow in 1903).
There is a record on Fold 3 of a Charles Healy enlisting in the army aged 18. Does anyone have access to this record? I hope that might provide more details. Fingers crossed.
Here are details of what I know about Charles Edward Healy so far - https://www.ancestry.co.uk/family-tree/person/tree/116702037/person/390178749972/facts
Thanks in advance for any help.

[ShaunJ]

Here the link to his 1888-1909 army file on FindMyPast: https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=GBM%2FWO97%2F5087%2F012%2F001&parentid=GBM%2FWO97%2F5087%2F826840

Mother Emily Healy, 23 Trenchard Street, St Michael's, Bristol.

[ShaunJ]

I'm suspecting a change of surname.

One possibility is Charles  Edward Hitchin baptised at St Augustine's in 1871, mother Emily, father Samuel. In the 1881 census as Hitchings with siblings Ada, 8, and Sarah,2.

[Capetown]

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When Charles Edward HEALY married in 1903, - his father is given as Samuel Edwin HEALY (deceased) occupation: Cabinet Maker ....  same occupation as Charles, whose signature looks 'educated'


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On the 1901 census, St Philip & St Jacob, Gloucestershire (where Charles married) there is

Edwin HEALY - Head married, age 69, occupation: Cabinet Maker - born Bristol

[ShaunJ]

Charles was a labourer when he joined the army in 1888, if we have the right fellow.