ANDERSON – Hugh 73rd and 30th Regiment – Enrolled Pensioner Force WA

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Name	ANDERSON – Hugh
Regiment (s)	73rd and 30th Regiment
Regiment Number (s)	2674 (30th)
Date/Age/Place/Trade or Profession at Attestation	12th March 1847 / 17 years 10 months / Lurgan Armagh Ireland Tailor
Description – Height Complexion/Eyes/Hair/Scars	5 Ft 5 in Fresh / Brown / Brown / None
Overseas Service/Duration	Not stated Crimea
Length of Service	8 years 61 days
Rank/Date/Place of Discharge	Private / 10th July 1855 / Chatham Kent England
Campaign Medals	Crimea with Clasp for Alma Turkish Crimea
Intended Residence at Discharge	Newry Ireland
Pension Districts	August 1855 – May/June 1860 Newry June 1860-61 – 2nd Belfast February 1861 – Woolwich 1864 Tilbury September 1864 – Western Australia January 1869 – New Zealand
Pension Paid	9d per diem
Date of Departure and Place England or Ireland	1st July 1864 Portland Dorset England
Ship and Date of Arrival Western Australia	MERCHANTMAN 12th September 1864
Date/Place of Birth	May 1829 Aughagallon [Aghagallon] Lurgan Antrim Ireland
Date/Place of Baptism	4 May 1829 Aghalee Antrim Ireland
Father Date/Place of Birth	ANDERSON Hugh (Occupation Tailor) 1792 Antrim Ireland
Mother Date/Place of Birth Marriage	UNKNOWN Rebecka 1792 Antrim Ireland 1810 unknown place
Siblings	Robert B 1821 Margaret / Margret Jane B 1822 Elizabeth B 1825 Mary Ann B 1832
1^st Wife Date of Birth or Baptism	UPRICHARD Jane B 1824
Date/Place of Marriage	23 July 1862 Aghalee Antrim Ireland
Children by 1^st Wife	None
Father of 1st wife Date/Place of Birth	UPRICHARD Thomas Not yet known
Mother of 1st wife Date/Place of Birth Marriage	Not yet known
Land Grants Western Australia	None
Occupation after Arrival	Assistant Warder in Western Australia 14th April 1866 to 28th August 1868 Tailor at Kaiapoi New Zealand
Newspaper Articles	Star (NZ) 12th October 1896 page 2 (Obit.)
Departure from Western Australia	3rd November 1868 per Emily Smith for South Australia and subsequently to New Zealand
Date/Place of Death/Burial	11th October 1896 Christchurch New Zealand bur October 1896 Linwood Cemetery Christchurch New Zealand
Date/Place of Death/Burial Wife	8^th November 1905 Christchurch New Zealand
Will or Probate	Hugh Anderson’s will dated 11th October 1896 left his entire estate valued at about1500 pounds to his wife Jane, however she had to apply for Letters of Administration. Available Familysearch “NZ Probate records 1843-1998” images 84-104. Jane Anderson made her will on 10th March 1905 and is available on the Familysearch website “NZ Probate records 1843-1998” images 136-152, (Precis in further information)
Further Information	1851 British Army Worldwide Index 1851 Hugh Anderson Service No: 2674 Rank: Private Regiment or unit: 30th (The Cambridgeshire) Regiment of Foot Location: Walmer, Gosport, Corfu –Ionian Islands Discharge: Unfit for service. Lameness of right lower extremity from a shell wound in the instep ankle received at the battle of Alma Private Hugh Anderson arrived in Western Australia with his wife Jane the Surgeon Superintendent rated their conduct as ‘very good’. After his arrival in Western Australia Hugh Anderson was employed as an assistant warder mainly at Geraldton from 1866 to 1868 when he was dismissed his conduct being found indifferent. After his arrival in New Zealand Hugh set himself up in business as a Tailor and as such is represented in the Electoral rolls 1870. 1881 and 1893. His house and land was valued at 700 pounds. NZ Electoral Rolls: 1870 No 15. Hugh Anderson, 321 Piraki Street, Kaiapoi, freehold home & shop, 1 acre part rural 1881 Name: Hugh Anderson, Occupation: Tailor, Address: 321, 1 acre Piraki Street, Kaiapoi Town. 1893 Name: Hugh Anderson Occupation: Out of business Address: 237 Lower High Street, Christchurch Type: Residential Series 2989 Christchurch Probate File 1855-2003 Code 22386847, Box No 93, Record CH 3165/1896 Images 84-104 Will dated 11 October 1896. Hugh left his entire estate and personal belongings to his wife Jane Anderson. Probate of Jane Anderson 1905. Christchurch Canterbury, New Zealand CAHX, CH 171, 2989, R22389859 Box 149, CH 5421/1905 Jane Anderson of Lower High Street, Christchurch widow of the late Hugh Anderson formerly of Kaiapoi and Christchurch, tailor, left her house and land in Park Lane, Edgeware Road St. Albans to her brother David (?) Uprichard, farmer of County Down, Ireland or his children if he did not survive her. [St. Albans is a suburb of Christchurch.] She left minor legacies to two former employees and the residue she bequeathed to such persons in Lurgan, Ireland under the statute for distribution of Intestate effects in New Zealand who would be entitled thereto had my husband the said Hugh Anderson died possessed thereto unmarried or intestate.[(In other word Hugh’s siblings and their families.] Jane signed her will with a X The executors of her will were her brother James Uprichard of Ashburton and Robert Coup (Cope) of Kaiapoi Island. The estate was worth not more than £1600.0.0 Date of the will 10 March 1905 with a codicil added revoking one of the bequests on the day of her death.