DORAN – Bryan / Bernard 3rd and 49th Regiment

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Name	DORAN – Bryan / Bernard
Regiment (s)	3rd and 49th Regiment
Regiment Number (s)	2447 – 3rd Regiment 3686 – 49th Regiment
Date/Age/Place/Trade or Profession at Attestation	8th April 1847 / 18 years / Dublin Ireland
Description – Height Complexion/Eyes/Hair/Scars	Height 5 Ft 7¼ in Fresh / Grey / Brown / Left forearm partially disabled
Overseas Service/Duration	Crimea
Length of Service	8 years 47 days
Rank/Date/Place of Discharge	Private / 10th July 1855 / Chatham Kent England
Campaign Medals	Crimea War Medal with Alma clasp Turkish Crimea Medal
Intended Residence at Discharge	Not stated
Pension Districts	1855 Clonmel 1855 Tullamore 1861 Athlone 1862 Birr 1864 Tilbury 1864-1867 Western Australia 1867 South Australia October 1870–1877 Victoria
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	1837 Kildalkey Meath Ireland
Date/Place of Baptism	Not yet known
Father Date/Place of Birth	DORAN James
Mother Date/Place of Birth Marriage	Not yet known
Siblings	Not yet known
1^st Wife Date of Birth or Baptism	DUNN Sarah (Sally) Not yet known
Date/Place of Marriage	21st April 1860 Tullamore Offaly Ireland (tentative)
Children by 1^st Wife	Edward B 1860 Tullamore Kerry Ireland bap 3rd February 1861 Tullamore Offaly Ireland James B 1862 Tipperary Ireland bap 5th October 1862 Moneygall Offaly Ireland Bernard Bryan B 1864 at sea aboard “Merchantman” en route to Western Australia Stephen B 1866 Western Australia John B 1st June 1868 Willaston South Australia D 1868 Willaston South Australia Bridget B 20th May 1869 Willaston South Australia Thomas B 1873 Williamstown Victoria Richard B 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
Land Grants Western Australia	Not applicable
Occupation after Arrival	Not yet known
Newspaper Articles	Williamstown Chronicle (Vic,: 1856-1954) Saturday 11th January 1873 – page 6 The Argus 24th August 1877 – page 4 (Obit.)
Departure from Western Australia	Not clear when departed or by which ship: arrived in South Australia during 1867
Date/Place of Death/Burial	23rd August 1877 Melbourne Victoria Australia Not yet known
Date/Place of Death/Burial Wife	1887 Victoria (tentative)
Will or Probate	None known
Further Information	British Army Worldwide Index 1851 Bryan Doran 2447 Private 3rd Foot location Birr, Templemore and Cork Ireland Discharge due to left forearm partially disabled by gunshot wound received at Inkerman. Bryan Doran was accompanied on his voyage on the Merchantman by his wife Sarah and children Edward, James and Bernard who was born at sea. The Surgeon Superintendent rated their conduct as being ‘very good.’ VPRS 24 Cons P0000, unit No 361 Inquest into the death of Bernard Doran: Deposition of his widow Sarah Doran dated 23 August 1877, residing at Hanner Street, Williamstown, Victoria My husband Bernard (sic) Doran was taken ill on Saturday night of taking a great shivering. He has been suffering from a bad cough for about a month or nearly so. When he took the shivering he was quite sober he went out and got two or three glasses of whiskey and returned about eight o’clock and went to his bed still complaining of pain all night in his left side and the cough awful. I went to the chemist and got a plaster for him but it did no good. On Monday I sent for Dr Figg and he came about 11 o’clock in the day. He prescribed for him and saw him again at night. The doctor saw him again yesterday about twelve when he found my husband up at the fireside when I said he could not lie down the doctor was angry with him for being up and said he would not give him anything nor see him today but would see him tomorrow and left. When the doctor left my husband went to bed. He …. all day and during the night I lay down and fell asleep when I awake again in a short time I found him nearly gone and died about five o’clock. The doctor gave powders blisters and poultices. The doctor told me he was dangerously ill. I think the doctor might have told me more about him and as to whether he would get better or not. He was 45 years old and had been in the army and received a pension of nine pence a day. He was born in the county of Meath, Ireland. He had been at Swan River two years, in Adelaide about five years and Victoria about six years. He was addicted to drink when he could get it but has been (I may say) a teetotaller for two months. I did not expect him to die so suddenly. Dr Figg gave his deposition and the jury found that Bernard Doran had died from Pneumonia and no blame could be attached to Doctor Figg.