George McPARTLAND (We are trying to find any information about his parents and siblings)
Born: Belturbet, County of Cavan, IRELAND
Enlisted in the 49th Regiment of Foot on the 17 Jul 1834 at Enniskillen, County of Fermanagh, IRELAND.
Age: 18 years 6 months
Served in:
East Indies 4 years 10 months.
Eastern Expedition China 2 Years 10 months.
Ionian Islands & Malta 3 years 1 month.
Discharged at Fermoy, County of Cork, IRELAND as medically unfit on the 10 May 1855 aged 39.
A total of 20 years 307 days.
He received 4 good conduct badges, 1 Jan 1846, 16Dec 1846, 7 Jul 1849, 9 Jul 1854.
He is supposed to have married a 16 year old girl he met on the boat back from his overseas duty.
They immigrated to NZ on the "Indian Queen" 31 Jan 1857.
Sunday 10th Jul 2016, 09:22AM
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mazfaz7:
Welcome to ireland Reaching Out!
You don't mention the religious denomination for the family. If it was RC, records for Belturbet RC parish do not start until 1845. The C of I reocrds go back to around 1800 and there are on Roots Ireland but I got no record for my search.
Roger McDonnell
Castlemore Roscommon, IrelandXO Volunteer ☘
Sunday 10th Jul 2016, 02:44PM -
Roger, thankyou very much for trying, we are at a loss trying to get information.
Don
Friday 30th Dec 2016, 09:16PM