Genealogy Chat

Hello MB just looking at this thread i was wondering if you could help me, my ggg grandfather was in the Royal Engineers (Royal corp of Sappers and Miners) from 1839 to 1860 so could well have been in the Crimea could you look for me please.
Edwin Hawke born 1818 Gibraltar.and was a Sapper.

Thanks Val

Gerri

I'm sure thought I'd forgotten about this - but fear not. I've been through the Crimea Medal Roll for the RA (700 pages) - the TNA ref for your info is WO 100/22. Unfortunately, no mention of James Chater.

Did you find him on the 41 & 51 censuses? The RA museum The Firepower is located in Woolwich, they have an extensive library (no service records are kept there) but they would be able to tell you where during years x-y the RA 10th Brigade were stationed. If you can get there join as a 'friends of Firepower of £12.50 and you'll get into the library for free). It may help narrow down possibilities of where he'd been.

Have you looked at the Army Marriages and Deaths on Findmypast? may be worth a check - even just to eliminate?

Sorry I could be or more help.
MB

Mummy Bear

Thanks for your kind offer.

This is the man we are looking for.We cant find him anywhere after 1861...


1861 England Census
about James Chater
Name: James Chater
Age: 26
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1835
Gender: Male
Where born: Tynemouth, Northumberland, England

Civil Parish: Portsmouth
Town: Portsmouth
County/Island: Hampshire
Country: England

Street address:

Occupation:

Condition as to marriage: View Image

Registration district: Portsea Island
Sub registration district: Portsmouth Town
ED, institution, or vessel: Royal Artillery Regiment 10th Brigade
Neighbors: View others on page
Household schedule number: 1

Gerri x

Dear Gerri

Great site for Malta: -

website.lineone.net/~stephaniebidmead/index.htm

Best of luck

Maria

There is another thread on similar subject - 1oth RA went from Canada to Malta in 1867.

Peter

Gerri

As Jayne mentions Crimea was 1854 - 1856. If your relation was a soldier in the RA then he could have been anywhere - the Victorians were continuously at war some where in the world.
1857 - 1858 Indian Mutiny
1857 - 1860 Second China War
1860 - 1866 Second Maori War
1867 - 1868 Abyssinian War
1866 - 1870 Canada
etc....
or just stationed in India, Gibraltar, Malta, Ireland or any where 'pink' on the map.

I do have the medal roll for the Crimea I'd be happy to look for you as long as you have the regiment as the roll is over 6,000 pages and split by regiment. If his age is right for the Crimea there's a good chance that he was entitled to a medal - Let me have his name and rank

Thanks
MB

Thanks girls...i was looking for a death of an Englishman in the Royal Artillery Regiment 10th Brigade between 1861 and 1871...just wondered!...if?

Gerri x

From Wikipedia

The Crimean War, also known in Russia as the Eastern War (Russian: Восточная война, Vostochnaya Vojna) (March 1854–February 1856) was fought between the Russian Empire on one side and an alliance of France, the United Kingdom, the Kingdom of Sardinia, and the Ottoman Empire on the other. The war was part of a long-running contest between the major European powers for influence over territories of the declining Ottoman Empire. Most of the conflict took place on the Crimean Peninsula, with additional actions occurring in western Turkey and the Baltic Sea region.

The Crimean War is sometimes considered to be the first "modern" conflict and "introduced technical changes which affected the future course of warfare."[12]

There were 2 parts to it , all googleable, and you can look up where each battalion was fighting, dead interesting ! Then theres the Boer war even more fun, we seemed to be at war everywhere!

When was the Crimean War?