Gunner William Perrin RM
Excited to receive from National Archives the Attestation Papers of my 2x-Great-Grandfather William Perrin. I have know for some time that prior to his joining the Berkshire police he had served with the Royal Marines, for 13 years it was said. More than that I knew not.
He enlisted for “unlimited service” (ie life) on 3rd January 1842 at Portsmouth (his Attestation Papers being signed on 5th January) for which he received a bounty of ‘three pounds seventeen and sixpence’. He served until 12 July 1851, when he bought himself out “at his own request having paid the sum of £15″, a remarkable amount I would have thought.
He served on Retribution, Penelope, Spiteful, Blenheim and either (probably) Constance or Centaur. The doubt as to this last is frustrating as it was his longest period of service on any ship – 2 years 5 months and 26 days, leaving the Marines just 11 days after his return to England - but the records show the name of both ships for the exact same period. Looking at the ships’ records, it seems William may have seen action off the West African coast, chasing Brazilian slavers.
His Attestation record says he was 23, 6 feet tall, with hazel eyes and dark brown hair.
The house in Napanee – a Miller home?
What follows is a posting on the community forum of Greater Napanee, a few moments ago.
Is there a resident of Napanee who can help solve a family history puzzle for a visitor to this Forum from Sheffield, England? Read more
William Cooksey’s first family
Tidying the desk for Christmas, I came upon a folder of miscellaneous documents. One of the these was a record of the Monumental Inscription on a headstone in the graveyard of Christchurch, West Bromwich, Staffordshire. Listed are Sarah (died 1836 aged 45), wife of William Cooksey, their son, William Mallin (died 1845 aged 30) and a daughter, Marie Louisa (died 1850 aged 35). Read more
Catherine W Bishop – her family
The Bishops appear to have been quite a large family of mainly agricultural labourers, living at Rousham, Oxfordshire before William Perrin married Sarah Howse in 1770 and still living there after the last Perrin had left.
I have begun inputting BMD data for Catherine W Bishop, who married my G-G-Grandfather William Perrin: her parents, her brothers and sisters and the husband (Charles French) and children of her elder sister, Elizabeth. One of these children was Charles Owen French who became Vicar of Pudsey in Yorkshire around the start of WW1. The eldest child of these children had a curious middle name: Charlotte Agnes Besloh Owen. I wonder why?
William Mallin (1796) added
Just now added Hannah Mallin’s brother William to the family. Had to do it by creating an “Unknown Mallin” father for Hannah and then entering William as his son; which is a rather cumbersome way about it, though I could see no other way of adding William, otherwise. I also added two marriages for William – to Susannah Smith in 1829 and to Miriam Briscoe in 1833. I’m taking a chance on these two – deductions from marriage records, rather than proven. From the same source, there is some suggestion of other brothers and sisters – but no clear evidence. Nor of parents. Nor of Hannah’s christening.