CROWE – James 38th and 97th Regiment – Enrolled Pensioner Force WA

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Name	CROWE – James
Regiment (s)	38th and 97th Regiment
Regiment Number (s)	1984 – 38th Regiment 1872 – 97th Regiment
Date/Age/Place/Trade or Profession at Attestation	22nd July 1840 / 19 years / Limerick Ireland Labourer
Description – Height Complexion/Eyes/Hair/Scars	5 Ft 9 in Fresh / Hazel / Dark Brown / None
Overseas Service/Duration	Ionian Isles and Malta – 5 years 2 months Jamaica – 3 years 3 months America – 1 year 10 months Greece and Crimea – 2 years 1 month India – 2 years 3 months
Length of Service	21 years 23 days
Rank/Date/Place of Discharge	Corporal / 13th August 1861 / Colchester Essex England
Campaign Medals	Crimea War Medal with Sebastopol clasp Turkish Crimea Medal Indian Mutiny Medal with Lucknow clasp
Intended Residence at Discharge	Limerick Ireland
Pension Districts	1861 Limerick 1863 Tilbury 1863 – December 1867 Western Australia 1868-1908 South Australia
Pension Paid	1/3d 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	c1819 Cappaghwhite Tipperary Ireland
Date/Place of Baptism	27 Jul 1819 Cappaghwhite Tipperary Ireland
Father Date/Place of Birth	CROWE Edmund Not yet known
Mother Date/Place of Birth Marriage	BRADSHAW Margaret Not yet known Not yet known
Siblings	Not yet known
1^st Wife Date of Birth or Baptism	MAY Ann 1828 Nova Scotia Canada
Date/Place of Marriage	3rd November 1852 St Mary’s Roman Catholic Church Halifax Nova Scotia Canada (possible)
Children by 1^st Wife	George Edmund B 5th December 1862 Limerick Ireland Bp 16th December 1862St. Michael’s Limerick City Limerick Ireland M 1st FAHY Katie 29th June 1885 South Australia M 2nd CULLEN Mary 26th September 1910 South Australia D 3rd January 1931 East Brunswick Victoria Australia
Father of 1st wife Date/Place of Birth	Not yet known
Mother of 1st wife Date/Place of Birth Marriage	UNKNOWN Ann
Land Grants Western Australia	None
Occupation after Arrival	Warder at Mt Gambier Gaol (South Australia) Member of South Australia Corps of Commissionaires
Newspaper Articles	Inquirer Wednesday 18th December 1867 – page 2 South Australian Register and Evening Journal 26th July 1897 (attended Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee Celebrations) The Advertiser Adelaide Monday 15th June 1908 – page 9 The Herald Melbourne Wednesday 21 December 1921 page 1 Obituary Ann Crowe
Departure from Western Australia	13th December 1867 departed to South Australia with wife and son per “Midas”
Date/Place of Death/Burial	13th June 1908 Adelaide South Australia Roman Catholic Section West Terrace Cemetery Adelaide South Australia buried with full military honours
Date/Place of Death/Burial Wife	20th December 1921 Elsternwick Melbourne Victoria Brighton Cemetery Melbourne Victoria
Will or Probate	None known
Further Information	British Army Worldwide Index 1841 James Crowe Private 1984 38th regiment location Depot Kinsale 1851 1861 James Crowe 1872 Corporal 97th Foot location Colchester Discharge at own request having served 21 years In the 1861 Census James Crowe age 40, head of the family an Army Corporal , born Ireland is living at St. Botolph (Barracks) Colchester, Essex with his wife Ann who was aged 32 and born Nova Scotia. In 1871 he was directed to report every 2 years to be identified by the C. Treasurer or if not by a magistrate, postmaster or other local authority. In the obituary notice for Ann Crowe it said she assisted Florence Nightingale nursing wounded soldiers during the Crimea War 5th December 1901 George Edmunds(sic) Crowe was admitted to the Royal Adelaide Hospital. At the time he was a married man age 38, Roman Catholic born Ireland, living 110 Halifax Street, his occupation was saddler and he had been in the colony for 37 years, no ship of arrival mentioned.