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Soldier in 1876

  • 09-04-2018 11:46am
    #1
    Alicat
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    I have found records pertaining to my gg grandmother’s first husband. On their marriage in Wexford in 1876 and on their child’s birth certificate in 1879, he has listed himself as a ‘soldier’.

    My history knowledge is failing me completely, but does anyone know what an Irish soldier in the 1870s would be doing?


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  • #2
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,103 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    He would be in the Empire's army. There was no Irish army then.

    Was he a local, or a soldier stationed there?


  • #3
    Alicat
    Registered Users Posts: 10,264 ✭✭✭✭Alicat


    Currently unknown! He died when my gg grandmother was 8 months pregnant, in 1879 of TB. On his death cert he is down as a ‘painter’, in Dublin, but on the marriage cert and the child’s birth cert a month later his occupation is ‘Soldier’.

    I haven’t managed to find out where he was from, he gives an address in Wexford (where the bride was from) at the time of the marriage but that doesn’t mean much. I have a fathers name but have yet to find out where he comes from.


  • #4
    tabbey
    Registered Users Posts: 1,943 ✭✭✭tabbey


    Alicat wrote: »
    Currently unknown! He died when my gg grandmother was 8 months pregnant, in 1879 of TB. On his death cert he is down as a ‘painter’, in Dublin, but on the marriage cert and the child’s birth cert a month later his occupation is ‘Soldier’.

    I haven’t managed to find out where he was from, he gives an address in Wexford (where the bride was from) at the time of the marriage but that doesn’t mean much. I have a fathers name but have yet to find out where he comes from.

    Did you try the church records? they often mention the regiment, as they moved from barracks to barracks.

    If you find the regiment you have some hope oftrcing where he was from.


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