What regiment was Samuel in?

[Tinker]

I'm chasing up some research for a family friend, and I have a Manchester-born Samuel Boardman who joined the Army circa 1871. He appears in that year's census as a Private, aged 19, stationed in the '100 Regiment, Wellington Barracks, Bolton Road, Elton, Bury.' He marries in County Tipperary, Ireland, in 1876, and has a daughter there in 1878, before returning to Lancashire to live with his family in Salford. Presumably he was posted to Ireland while still in the Army, so can anyone use this info to help to identify the full title of the regiment he was with? I'd be most grateful!

[keith9351]

Bury was Training Depots No. 17. 20th Regiment.

1858.03.26 2nd Battalion, 20th (The East Devonshire) Regiment of Foot
re-formed in Ireland
1858 Ireland
1861 England
1863 India
1863 China: Hong Kong
1864 Japan served as field artillery
1866 Hong Kong
1867 Cape Colony
1870 Mauritius
1872 Ireland
1874 England
1879 Ireland
1881.07.01 2nd Battalion, The Lancashire Fusiliers

The only 100th Regiment I can find for that time is

100th (Prince of Wales's Royal Canadian) Regiment of Foot
raised in Canada
1858.06 Canada: Quebec
1858 England
1863 Gibraltar
Malta
1877 India: Bengal

Keith

[Tinker]

Thank you very much, Keith!
It looks very much as if Samuel was actually in the East Devonshires, as the dates the regiment were in Ireland tally with what I know about his movements. His wife was born in Woolwich, and they married in Ireland, so we think she must have been a soldier's daughter. He mustn't have stayed in the Army long, though, as he was back in Salford by the time of the 1881 census, living with his parents, and working as a packer in a warehouse. Would he have bought himself out, or could he have just been a volunteer?

[keith9351]

"Would he have bought himself out, or could he have just been a volunteer?"

My GGrandfather join the Grenadier Guards in 1876, he signed for 12 years which was 6 years with the Colours and 6 years with the Army Reserves. Your friends relative could have been back home after just 6 years.

Keith

[Tinker]

Thank you, Keith. I had always assumed that a soldier had to join up for at least twenty years. I found some info on the barracks at Clonmel, (which is where I presume Samuel was posted, as his daughter was born in that town) and it sounded pretty grim. The married quarters were only built in 1878, so prior to that, the wives had to share living quarters with not only their husbands, but all the other men as well, and cooking, heating and washing facilities were very basic!

[Corey]

I'm chasing up some research for a family friend, and I have a Manchester-born Samuel Boardman who joined the Army circa 1871. He appears in that year's census as a Private, aged 19, stationed in the '100 Regiment, Wellington Barracks, Bolton Road, Elton, Bury.' He marries in County Tipperary, Ireland, in 1876, and has a daughter there in 1878, before returning to Lancashire to live with his family in Salford. Presumably he was posted to Ireland while still in the Army, so can anyone use this info to help to identify the full title of the regiment he was with? I'd be most grateful!

Hi, Samuel Boardman is my GG uncle and I have been researching the family tree for a couple of years. I have traced his daughters Civil Birth Record which shows their address in Clonmel as Quay Street. Mary's maiden name is shown as Cartin. Perhaps you could pass this info onto your friend?

Thanks.

[Tinker]

Hi Corey
I'm so sorry to have taken so long to get back to you. We've recently moved county and only just got reconnected to the internet yesterday, after a veeeerrrry long wait |blush|! I will dig out my friend's email addy from somewhere in the depths of our boxes and pass on your info...she'll be pretty excited to hear from you, I think. If it's O.K with her (and you), I could pass on her email addy via a P.M to you so she could correspond directly with you and compare notes.

[Corey]

Hi Tinker,

Yes, that would be great! Lokking forward to hearing from your friend!