48th Regiment of foot Northamptonshire

[ev]

no English or Irish death records

I did see this -
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2NFB-HQ2


ev

[findingdenis]

Hi Ev,

Thank you, the last record I have is January 1852.   He then disappears !  So this is very helpful, thank you very much   Michael

[tazzie]

Hi... Following Heywoods find ....
 
  forces war records web site has ...

 Denis Hessian private 2375    48th regiment of foot.

 Crimea service period 1853-1856.
 Tazzie

[ShaunJ]

Denis Hessian private 2375    48th regiment of foot.

 Crimea service period 1853-1856.

I'm not seeing any record linking a Denis Hessian to service in the Crimea. Or any other soldier of the 48th with that regimental number.

[findingdenis]

Hi

Denis Hessian private 2375    48th regiment of foot.    I'm pretty sure this is correct as is his barracks at Weedon in 1851/52.   After that ??

Thanks to you all   Michael 

[ShaunJ]

The 48th Regiment went to Corfu in early 1853 and from there to the Crimea in 1855. Your man didn't go to the Crimea so perhaps he died in Corfu. The answer may lie in the regimental muster books and paylists at The National Archives.

[findingdenis]

Shaun J.    Thank you, that would indeed solve the puzzle !!

Many thanks   Michael

[FROGSMILE]

Hello, my GGG Grandfather was Denis Hessian (ion) Born Co Mayo in 1829. Joined 48th Reg of foot in Weedon Barracks, I have WO12 records for 1851.  No 2375.  And that's it!  Why no more WO records, no reference to going to the Crimea, in 1855 and  no English or Irish death records.
He married in Weedon in 1852, to Esther Shaw.  Joseph James Merry Hessian was born in 1855, but there is NO fathers name.  Where was he between 1852 and now !!!
Esther married again in 1859, stating she was a widow.     Any help will be gratefully received.

Perhaps he died on passage to the Crimea.  If so he could have been buried at sea.  Another possibility might be on Malta, where several reinforcement depots were set up to continuously drip feed drafts of reinforcements to the front line.  There was also a large hospitals complex set up there where many soldiers died from wounds or disease.

[findingdenis]

Hi Frogsmile, thank you for those ideas, very possible indeed.  Cheers, Michael