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Newry barracks, 1830s

  • 14-06-2013 12:24am
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    Newstreet
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    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?


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    Waitsian
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    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.


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