JOHNSON / JOHNSTON – Benjamin Rifle Brigade 1st Battalion

Click on images to view (if available) a larger image. Use your browser’s Back button to return to site.

Name	JOHNSON / JOHNSTON – Benjamin
Regiment (s)	Rifle Brigade 1st Battalion
Regiment Number (s)	1073
Date/Age/Place/Trade or Profession at Attestation	23rd November 1832 / 18 years 6 months / Dover Kent England Bricklayer
Description – Height Complexion/Eyes/Hair/Scars	5 Ft 7¼ in Fresh / Hazel / Brown / None
Overseas Service/Duration	Malta and Ionian Islands – 5 years 7 months Cape of Good Hope – 3 years 8 months
Length of Service	21 years 5 days
Rank/Date/Place of Discharge	Private / 22nd November 1853 / Chatham Kent England
Campaign Medals	South African (2nd and 3rd Kaffir) War Medal 1846-1853
Intended Residence at Discharge	Pimlico London England
Pension Districts	1854 2nd West London 1855-1856 Western Australia 1856-1858 South Australia 1858-1868 Victoria (See further Information) 1868-1902 New South Wales
Pension Paid	1/0d per diem
Date of Departure and Place England or Ireland	5th February 1855 Plymouth England via Cape of Good Hope
Ship and Date of Arrival Western Australia	STAG 23rd May 1855
Date/Place of Birth	1814 All Saints Hereford Herefordshire England
Date/Place of Baptism	Not yet known
Father Date/Place of Birth	JOHNSON Benjamin Not yet known
Mother Date/Place of Birth Marriage	UNKNOWN Hannah Not yet known
Siblings	Not yet known
1^st Wife Date of Birth or Baptism	Not yet known
Date/Place of Marriage	Not yet known
Children by 1^st Wife	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
2nd Wife	WARDROP Rebecca (Father William T.) B 1834 unknown location
Date/Place of Marriage	1864 Bathurst New South Wales
Children by 2^nd Wife	Benjamin B 1865 New South Wales D 1867 Bathurst New South Wales Joseph B 1868 Bathurst New South Wales M McLENNAN Catherine 1889 Bathurst New South Wales D August 1935 Sans Souci (Kogarah) New South Wales Frederick B. B 1870 New South Wales D 1871 Bathurst New South Wales Hannah B 1871 Bathurst New South Wales Emily Maud B 1874 Bathurst New South Wales Edith May B 11th October 1876 New South Wales bap 5th November 1876 All Saints Cathedral Bathurst New South Wales M LAYCOCK John 1894 Bathurst New South Wales D July 1896 Bathurst New South Wales
Land Grants Western Australia	None
Occupation after Arrival	Not yet known
Newspaper Articles	Adelaide Times Saturday 25th October 1856 – page 2 Passenger list Francis ( B. Johnson and wife) National Advocate (Bathurst, NSW: 1889-1954) /Saturday 11 July 1896 page 3 Death Edith Laycock Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal Friday 24th October 1902 – page 2
Departure from Western Australia	12th October 1856 to South Australia on board “Francis”.
Date/Place of Death/Burial	23rd October 1902 Seymour Street Bathurst New South Wales Wesleyan Old Cemetery
Date/Place of Death/Burial 1st Wife	Not yet known
Date/Place of Death/Burial 2nd Wife	1905 Bathurst New South Wales Wesleyan Old Cemetery
Will or Probate	None known
Further Information	Discharge due to chronic rheumatism occasioned by exposure during the Kaffir War. British Army, Worldwide Index 1841 Benjamin Johnson, Private 1st Battalion Rifle Brigade, 1073, Location Malta WO12/10074 British Army, Worldwide Index 1851 As above Location Dover. WO12/10083 1851 Census HO107/1632/227/17 Dover Castle Benjamin Johnson, Soldier, unmarried, Private soldier 91st Rifles, born Hereford, All Saints. AJCP reel 466/87 part 2 Folio 233 Proceedings of a Court of Inquiry into complaints by the wives of the Pensioner Guard on the Stag into the conduct of the Super Intendent Surgeon Caldwell. Mrs Johnstone (sic) mentioned.