Richard Douglas boy soldier

[christanel]

Hi
This is where you can order birth certificates for overseasbirths
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Christina

[wimsey]

Richard's brother William Douglas also married in Plymouth, August 1859, to Mary Ann May

William Douglas "serjeant 10th regiment" - father William James Douglas "serjeant 10th regiment". witness Richard Douglas. Mary's father Samuel Hoskin May "serjeant 29th regiment".

[gortonboy]

I don't know if any sort of certificate can be ordered from this :

First name(s) RICHARD
Last name DOUGLAS
Birth year 1818-64
Place CORFU
Country GREECE
Volume 11
Page 219
Record source GRO Ionian Islands Chaplains Returns Births (1818-1864)


First name(s) WILLIAM
Last name DOUGLAS
Birth year 1818-64
Place ZANTE
Country GREECE
Volume 11
Page 30
Record source GRO Ionian Islands Chaplains Returns Births (1818-1864)

These are GRO records and so can be ordered from the GRO.

[gortonboy]

Could this be William? Sergeant in 10TH FOOT,, Born in Galway c 1802 A Schoolmaster,,served in the Mediteranean and India.

[christanel]

Hi
I have moved this thread from the Introduce Yourself forum to the Military - Army forum as it is much more than an introduction, I have given it the title Richard Douglas boy soldier but if you want it moved elsewhere with a different title just let me know Richard.
Christina

[gortonboy]

First name(s) William
Last name Douglas
Birth year 1804
Birth parish Galway
Birth town Galway
Birth county Galway
Birth country Ireland
Service number 96
Rank SERJEANT
Regiment Lincolnshire Regiment - 10th Foot
Year 1822
Attestation date 31 May 1822
Attestation age years 18
Discharge corps 10th Regt Of Foot
Discharge service number 96
Document type Discharge
Series Wo 97 - Chelsea Pensioners British Army Service Records 1760-1913

[wimsey]

just read this timeline for the 10th regiment

1817 - embarked for the Ionian Islands
1819 - re-embarked for Malta
1821 - embarked for England
1823 - embarked for Ireland
1826 - embarked for Portugal
1828 - embarked for Corfu
1837 - returned to Ireland
1839 - embarked for England
1841 - proceeded to Scotland
1842 - removed from Scotland, embarked for India
1845 - proceeded to Meerut
1846 - joined the army on the Sutlej, battle of Sobraon

taken from an 1847 book by Richard Cannon "Historical Record of the Tenth"

[wimsey]

the book I just referred to says that the 10th left Chatham for Cork on 28th May 1823 then proceeded to Fermoy. According to the service record for Serjeant Daniel Douglas of the 10th, service number 1002, he was born in Fermoy in 1824.

pages 65-66 of that book (available at archive.org) give details of movements in Corfu and Zante in the 1830's.

https://archive.org/stream/cihm_4834.../n111/mode/2up

[wimsey]

Robert Douglas - Service Number 2417

his service record gives number 2497. born Liverpool c. 1828. a butcher by trade. He's on that 1861 census at Aldershot.

[wimsey]

Richard's brother William Douglas also married in Plymouth, August 1859, to Mary Ann May

this William (if he is a brother of Richard) is on the 1881 census in Whitehaven, Cumbria, aged 51, with his wife and 8 children. William down as a musician born on the Ionian island of Zante. On the 1871 he is in barracks at Whitehaven as "drum major Royal Cumberland Militia", born Zante, Ionian Islands.