CONLON / CONLAN – Michael 77th Regiment – Enrolled Pensioner Force WA

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Name	CONLON / CONLAN – Michael
Regiment (s)	77th Regiment
Regiment Number (s)	1051
Date/Age/Place/Trade or Profession at Attestation	17th July 1839 / 18 years / Dublin Ireland Tailor
Description – Height Complexion/Eyes/Hair/Scars	5 Ft 9 in Sallow / Grey / Brown / None
Overseas Service/Duration	Mediterranean Turkey and Crimea – 5 years 1 month West Indies and North America – 5 years 5 months Australia and East Indies – 2 years 1 month
Length of Service	22 years 28 days
Rank/Date/Place of Discharge	Sergeant / 23rd August 1859 / Chatham Kent England
Campaign Medals	Crimea War Medal Turkish Crimea Medal
Intended Residence at Discharge	Glasgow Scotland
Pension Districts	1859 2nd Glasgow 1861-1866 Western Australia 1866-1869 Otago New Zealand 1869 -1899 Sydney New South Wales
Pension Paid	1/8d per diem
Date of Departure and Place England or Ireland	10th November 1860 Portland Dorset England
Ship and Date of Arrival Western Australia	PALMERSTON 11th February 1861
Date/Place of Birth	July 1819 Rathfarnham Dublin 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	TIERNEY Mary c1828 Belfast Ireland
Date/Place of Marriage	M c1842 – see further information
Children by 1^st Wife	William B 1844 Port Royal (Kingston) Jamaica (WO97 said he was born ‘at sea.’) M CRISP Harriett 1875 Weymouth Dorset England D 1910 Camberwell London England Jane B 1845 Maroon Town (Falmouth) Jamaica M CORNELL George 1869 Victoria (tentative) D Not yet known Michael B 1849 Montreal Canada D Not yet known Patrick B 1850 Carmarthan Wales D Not yet known Henry B Glasgow Scotland 1853 D Not yet known Maryan B Parkhurst 1855 Bp 22nd October 1855 Newport Hampshire England D Not yet known Henry B 1858 Dum Dum India D Not yet known Patrick Miles B 1861 Fremantle Western Australia D aged 11 weeks bur 2nd February 1862 St Patrick’s, Skinner Street Cemetery Fremantle Western Australia Mary B Fremantle 1862 D Not yet known Thomas Patrick B 1864 Western Australia (Bi-Centennial Dictionary) D Not yet known Patrick J B 1869 Paddington New South Wales Australia D Not yet known John no date of birth found and may refer to Patrick J. (Funeral Notice for Mary)
Father of 1st wife Date/Place of Birth	TIERNEY Myles (Ref: Rookwood Cemetery, Sydney New South Wales) Not yet known
Mother of 1st wife Date/Place of Birth Marriage	Not yet known
Land Grants Western Australia	None
Occupation after Arrival	Not yet known
Newspaper Articles	Adelaide Observer Saturday 8th September 1866 – page 5 The Adelaide Express 7th September 1866 – page 2 Sydney Morning Herald Tuesday 13th February 1894 – page 8 Sydney Morning Herald Monday 19th June 1899 – page 10 Sydney Morning Herald Thursday 14th August 1902 – page 10
Departure from Western Australia	12th August 1866 per “Emily Smith” to Adelaide South Australia 6th September 1866 per “Coorong” from Adelaide to Melbourne
Date/Place of Death/Burial	17th June 1899 Sydney New South Wales Rookwood Old Catholic Mortuary (Section GG Row 18 plot 361)
Date/Place of Death/Burial Wife	11th February 1894 Newtown Sydney Rookwood Old Catholic Mortuary (Section GG row 18 plot 361)
Will or Probate	None known
Further Information	British Army Worldwide Index 1841 Michael Conlan 1051 was stationed with the 77th Regiment at Malta as was Miles Tierney 164 also of the 77th regiment. It looks as if Michael and Mary Tierney were married at Malta although the regiment went to Corfu in 1842 and they may have been married there. 1851 Corporal Michael Conlan 1051 77th Regiment location Newport Wales Discharge due to chronic dysentery and failing in health and activity caused by climate and long service. The first son William Conlan born 1844 at sea and baptised Jamaica followed in his father’s footsteps in that he was attested for the 77th regiment on 31 December 1856 age 14 years and 2 months. He served in the 77th for 18 years 182 days and was discharged on 30 April 1879. He married Harriett Crisp in 1875 at Weymouth, Dorset, England. The couple had 4 living children and 5 deceased in the 1911 Census. The family lived at 71 Victoria Road Camberwell, London from 1891 to 1911. He was discharged from the army as a musician and is described as that in the 1891 Census, although in the 1901 census he is a commissionaire. William died 1910.