WEBB – Henry 96th and 8th Regiment 2nd Battalion

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Name	WEBB – Henry
Regiment (s)	96th and 8th Regiment 2nd Battalion
Regiment Number (s)	2 – 8th Regiment 2nd Battalion 1153 – 96th Regiment
Date/Age/Place/Trade or Profession at Attestation	5th October 1838 / 17 years / Baldock Hertfordshire England Labourer
Description – Height Complexion/Eyes/Hair/Scars	5 Ft 9 in Fair / Grey / Light and grey / None
Overseas Service/Duration	Van Diemans Land – 7 years 3 months East Indies – 6 years Gibraltar – 2 years 10 months
Length of Service	21 years 33 days
Rank/Date/Place of Discharge	Corporal / 13th November 1860 / Approved Adjutant General’s Office Dublin Ireland
Campaign Medals	None
Intended Residence at Discharge	Limerick Ireland
Pension Districts	1860 Limerick 1862 1st East London 1863 Tilbury 18631865 Western Australia
Pension Paid	1/2½d per diem
Date of Departure and Place England or Ireland	15th March 1863 Portland Dorset England
Ship and Date of Arrival Western Australia	CLYDE 29th May 1863
Date/Place of Birth	c 1821 Norton Baldock Hertfordshire
Date/Place of Baptism	Bp 21st October 1821 Norton Hertfordshire England
Father Date/Place of Birth	WEBB Thomas C 1796 Hertfordshire England
Mother Date/Place of Birth Marriage	ANDERSON Anne b c 1801 16th January 1819 Norton Hertfordshire
Siblings	William Bp 24 October 1819 Norton Hertfordshire Joseph 18th April 1824 Norton Hertfordshire Mary 18th October 1828 Norton Hertfordshire
1^st Wife Date of Birth or Baptism	RYLS Mary B Not yet known
Date/Place of Marriage	Prior to 1863 England
Children by 1^st Wife	Stillborn child B 8th May 1863 at sea aboard the “Clyde”
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	BOGUE Teresa B 1844
Date/Place of Marriage	5th October 1863 Perth Western Australia
Children by 2^nd Wife	Louisa Mary Jane B 1864 Western Australia D 1865 aged 2 months Western Australia
Father of 2nd wife Date/Place of Birth	BOGUE Thomas – 96th Regiment served in Western Australia, Went to pension WA
Mother of 2nd wife Date/Place of Birth Marriage	O’BRIAN Mary
2nd Husband of 2nd Wife Date/Place of Birth	LOUGHLAN William (83rd Regiment Lord Dalhousie) Not yet known
Date/Place of Marriage	6th January 1866 Guildford Western Australia D 1886 Western Australia
Children by 2nd Husband	LOUGHLIN (sic) Edmund Thomas B 1866 died aged 5 days 1866
3rd Husband of 2nd Wife Date/Place of Birth Date/Place of Death	GAUNT William (Pensioner 31st Foot Minden) Refer above link
Date/Place of Marriage	1886 Perth Western Australia
Children by 3rd Husband	Not yet known
4th Husband of 2nd Wife Date/Place of Birth	LEEDER George B 1834 Perth WA son of William Leeder (arrived ship Rockingham 1830)
Date/Place of Marriage	1893 Perth Western Australia
Children by 4th Husband	Not yet known
Land Grants Western Australia	None
Occupation after Arrival	Not yet known
Newspaper Articles	Daily News Perth Friday 27th October 1922 – page 11 (Teresa’s death)
Departure from Western Australia	Not applicable
Date/Place of Death/Burial	29th March 1865 Perth Western Australia
Date/Place of Death/Burial 1st Wife	9th May 1863 at sea aboard “Clyde”
Date/Place of Death/Burial 2nd Wife	26th October 1922 Perth Public Hospital Western Australia Roman Catholic Section Karrakatta Cemetery Western Australia (Theresa Leeder)
Will or Probate	None known
Further Information	British Army Worldwide Index 1841 Henry Webbe (sic) 1153 Private 96th Foot depot location Chatham Kent 1851 As above location Lahore India Discharge at own request having served 21 years. Clyde Surgeon’s report On the 5th April Corporal Webb was down rated for allowing a convict undergoing punishment to be without surveillance , Matthew Ritchie made Corporal in his place. 8th May 1863 “At 5 o’clock yesterday afternoon Mrs Webb, wife of one of the pensioners was admitted into the Military Hospital about to be confined. She was very ill and most dangerous symptoms were shown until 4am, when signs of the extinction of vital powers became evinced and she gradually got worse and all measures we had recourse to without effect, when death occurred at a quarter past 3pm.” In 1885 Ann Kelly (Mary RYLS sister) was asking about the whereabouts of pensioner Henry Webb (20 years deceased)