4th & 88th Regiments - Ireland?

[mjkisxo]

Hi hoping someone could give me a lead in regard to the 4th & 88th Regiments I am presuming Ireland.
I am trying to trace my gr gr grandmother who was a convict but was a widow, I am unsure if she used her maiden or married name when sent to Tasmania in 1848.
On her papers she went by Mary Dwyer , widow, native of Limerick.
Her mother was Bridget ?
Brothers John 4th Rgmt. *
James 88th Rgmt *
Daniel ?
Michael
Sisters Ellen
Margaret
So I was hoping to get some sort of lead of which SURNAME was used if I could trace the regiments maybe.
Hoping someone has an idea, many thanks karen

[keith9351]

The 1st / 4th Foot (Lancaster) King's Own Regiment
1830 England
1831 at sea escorting convicts to Australia
1831 New South Wales

http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~garter1/4thfoot.htm

88th Regiment of Foot (Connaught Rangers)

1838 Ireland, 1840 Malta, 1847 West Indies, 1850 Nova Scotia, 1851 England.

The 4th Foot had 2 John DWYER who stayed in Australia.

Keith

[mjkisxo]

many thanks Keith....karen

[daggers]

The 88th Regiment of Foot became the Connaught Rangers in 1881 and were disbanded in 1922.
Daggers