Newry barracks, 1830s

Newstreet

I am on the trail of a 3rd great grandfather, Peter Martin. The oldest verified record of his name is on his son's 1865 marriage certificate, along with Peter's wife, Marie Levy.

A marriage appears for a Peter Martin to a Mary Levy in 1815 in Dublin, some fifty years before his son's marriage. His son Francis would appear possibly to have been baptised in Newry in 1833, though there is nothing yet to verify either the Newry baptism, or the 1815 Dublin marriage.

A suggestion was made elsewhere that if Peter had a military career, he may have been posted to a large military barracks in Newry, and hence a son's possible baptism there.

It's all just speculation, and a handful of uncorroborated and possibly unrelated early records. Where would I find out more about this barracks? I suppose no military records from the 1830s survive, for either Dublin or Newry?

Peter Martin was a carpenter. Would this give me any leads?

Waitsian

Newstreet wrote: »

I am on the trail of a 3rd great grandfather, Peter Martin. The oldest verified record of his name is on his son's 1865 marriage certificate, along with Peter's wife, Marie Levy.

A marriage appears for a Peter Martin to a Mary Levy in 1815 in Dublin, some fifty years before his son's marriage. His son Francis would appear possibly to have been baptised in Newry in 1833, though there is nothing yet to verify either the Newry baptism, or the 1815 Dublin marriage.

A suggestion was made elsewhere that if Peter had a military career, he may have been posted to a large military barracks in Newry, and hence a son's possible baptism there.

It's all just speculation, and a handful of uncorroborated and possibly unrelated early records. Where would I find out more about this barracks? I suppose no military records from the 1830s survive, for either Dublin or Newry?

Peter Martin was a carpenter. Would this give me any leads?

http://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/92022/14A5D8F0A543C14DF2ACE984DBB2892E901B11CF.html

http://www.newryjournal.co.uk/2005/01/10/newry-military-barracks/

http://findwyerspodcast.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/newry.jpg

Army units stationed in Newry 1803- 1819 according to marriages in Newry Church of Ireland Registers in LDS Library Film #259218 (Gordon Rose FTM 8/2005 p68):


31st Regiment 1799
6th Dragoons 1799
30th Regiment of Foot 1802
93rd Regiment of Foot 1803
82nd Regiment 1802, 1803, 1804
Aberdeenshire Fencibles 1803
18th Regiment 1803
97th Regiment 1804
The Queens Regiment Kildare Militia 1804, 1805
17th Light Dragoons 1805
Royal Horse Artillery 1805
Downshire Miltia 1805, 1806
76th Regiment of Foot 1806
8th Regiment 1807
21st Regiment 1807
Derry Militia 1807
1st Royals 1807, 1808
45th Regiment 1808
74th Regiment 1809
89th Regiment 1809
59th Regiment 1810
2nd Battalion, 61st Regiment 1811
18th Royal Irish Regiment 1811
7th Dragoons 1812
Northhampton Militia 1812
23rd Dragoons 1814
22 Regiment 1813
5th Regiment 1813
North York Militia 1814
79th Regiment of Foot 1815
61st Regiment of Foot 1815
93rd Regiment of Foot 1815
51st Regiment of Foot 1816
3rd Regiment 1819
Buffs or 3rd Regiment 1819

http://www.bagenalscastle.com/ancestry/03_church/01_chur.htm


Hope some of this helps. Military records for the time indicated are held in Kew, London (http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/) and can be accessed on site or through a paid researcher. Some pay-to-view sites allow access to military records, Findmypast being one.