SKILLEN / SKILLING – John 5th Regiment – Enrolled Pensioner Force WA

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Skinner St Cemetery and Church of England Registers April 2012 EPG Gazette

Death by Suicide Perth Gazette 21st February 1851

Name	SKILLEN / SKILLING – John
Regiment (s)	5th Regiment
Regiment Number (s)	271
Date/Age/Place/Trade or Profession at Attestation	7th August 1824 / 18 years /Newry Down Ireland Labourer
Description – Height Complexion/Eyes/Hair/Scars	5 Ft 10 in Dark / Blue /Black / None
Overseas Service/Duration	West Indies – 1 year 2 months Gibraltar – 3 years 11 months Malta – 2 years 5 months Ionian Islands – 5 years
Length of Service	21 years 337 days
Rank/Date/Place of Discharge	Private / 12th February 1847 / Chatham Kent England
Campaign Medals	None
Intended Residence at Discharge	Armagh Ireland
Pension Districts	1847 1st Manchester District 1847 Armagh 1848 Belfast 1850 1st Manchester District 1850-1851 Western Australia
Pension Paid	1/0d per diem
Date of Departure and Place England or Ireland	4th March 1850 Portsmouth Hampshire England
Ship and Date of Arrival Western Australia	SCINDIAN 1st June 1850
Date/Place of Birth	c1806 Newry Down Ireland
Date/Place of Baptism	Not yet known
Father Date/Place of Birth	Not yet known
Mother Date/Place of Birth Marriage	Not yet known
Siblings	Not yet known
1^st Wife Date of Birth or Baptism	UNKNOWN Mary Ann (Possible) Not yet known Mary Ann Skillen M HILL William in Wexcombe (Midland Western Australia) 1854
Date/Place of Marriage	Not yet known
Children by 1^st Wife	Unknown child B Not yet known
Father of 1st wife Date/Place of Birth	Not yet known
Mother of 1st wife Date/Place of Birth Marriage	Not yet known
Land Grants Western Australia	Not applicable
Occupation after Arrival	12th August 1850 appointed night warder Convict Establishment 1st November 1850 Gate Keeper Left 17th February 1851
Newspaper Articles	Perth Gazette 14th January 1850 Perth Gazette 21st February 1851
Departure from Western Australia	Not applicable
Date/Place of Death/Burial	February 1851 Fremantle Western Australia Skinner St Cemetery
Date/Place of Death/Burial Wife	Not yet known
Will or Probate	None known
Further Information	British army Worldwide Index 1841 John Skillen 271 Sergeant 5th Foot location Catalonia and Vido Discharge due to varicose veins left leg making him unfit for further service In 1849 John Skillen was convicted of a felony and had his pension suspended (Belfast) restored after release from prison After the arrival of the Scindian at Fremantle Captain Henderson wrote a report listing the rank name, trade or calling, rate of pension, date of enlistment for 5 months service, marital status, and number of children for each pensioner. Sometimes the trade of calling differed from that recorded at the time of attestation: Private john Skillen, farm labourer, 1/-, 21st January married 1 child Death by suicide hanging himself with a handkerchief from the limb of a tree near the old Fremantle Ferry and found by children. Cause believed to be his discharge from the Convict Establishment for drunkenness and ill treatment of his wife.