DOYLE Joseph / Royal Canadian Rifles, 25th, 42nd and 30th Foot

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Name	Doyle Joseph
Regiment (s)	Royal Canadian Rifles, 25th, 42nd and 30th Foot
Regiment Number (s)	1333
Date/Age/Place/Trade or Profession at Attestation	19th January 1844 / 14 years / London, Middlesex, England Labourer
Description – Height Complexion/Eyes/Hair/Scars	5 feet 7 inches Fresh / Grey / Brown / None
Overseas Service/Duration	East Indies – 15 years Canada – 7 years 3 months
Length of Service	21 years 40 days plus 4 years 4 months underage. Total 25 years 4 months: 25th Foot – 13 years 10 months including under age 42nd Foot – 4 years 1 month 30th Foot – 2 years 3 months Royal Canadian Rifles – 5 years 2 months
Rank/Date/Place of Discharge	Corporal / 29 June 1869 Admitted to pension Birmingham
Campaign Medals	None
Intended Residence at Discharge	London, England
Pension Districts	1869 Birmingham 1870 2nd East London 1871 – 1875 Western Australia (WO WO23_65_00116)
Pension Paid	1 shilling 3 1/2 pence per diem
Date of Departure and Place England or Ireland	6th October 1870 London, England
Ship and Date of Arrival Western Australia	STRATHMORE 29th January 1871
Date/Place of Birth	1830 Marylebone, London, England
Date/Place of Baptism	Not yet known
Father Date/Place of Birth	DOYLE Joseph
Mother Date/Place of Birth Marriage	Not yet known
Siblings	Not yet known
1^st Wife Date of Birth or Baptism	UNKNOWN
2^nd Wife Date of Birth or Baptism	BONELL Ann previously married to George Macbeth 1841 Birmingham, Warwickshire
Date/Place of Marriage	5 Jan 1870 Birmingham, Warwickshire
Children by 2^nd Wife	Harriet b 8 August 1879, Portland, Port Adelaide, South Australia D 22 Oct 1879, Portland, Port Adelaide, South Australia Joseph Thomas b 8 August 1879, Portland, Port Adelaide, South Australia D 29 Oct 1879, Portland, Port Adelaide, South Australia
1^st Husband of Wife Date of Birth or Baptism	MACBETH George Innes B 12 June 1831 London, England D October1868 Kensington, London, England
Date/Place of Marriage	22 May 1864 Christ Church, Marylebone, London
Children by 1^st Husband of Wife	Ann Hannah Macbeth B 29 October 1864 Marylebone, London, England M GOLD James 24 Nov 1891 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia D 17 May 1937 • North Kensington, South Australia, Australia George John Innes Macbeth B July 1866 Marylebone, London, England M CAIN Edith Mary, 26 Mar 1891 Holy Trinity, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia D 26 April 1938 Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia Joseph Thomas Macbeth B September Quarter 1868 Marylebone, London, England D December Quarter 1868 Birmingham, Warwickshire, England
3^rd Husband of Wife Date of Birth or Baptism	APPLEBY Henry M 1887 Adelaide, Australia D 1908 in Adelaide
Father of 2^nd wife Date/Place of Birth	BONELL Cornelius 1815 Birmingham, Warwickshire
Mother of 2^nd wife Date/Place of Birth Marriage	WOOLFORD Hannah Maria B about 1814 Birmingham, Warwickshire M 30 Aug 1835 St Bartholomew, Edgbaston, Warwickshire, England
Land Grants Western Australia	None
Occupation after Arrival	Not yet known
Newspaper Articles	Perth Gazette 3 February 1871 – Shipping Intelligence from newspaper 3rd February 1871 states “Corporal Doyle and wife and family (2)” arrived The Adelaide Advertiser 8 April 1915, death of Annie Appleby formerly DOYLE nee BONELL
Departure from Western Australia	About 1879 aboard the Rob Roy
Date/Place of Death/Burial	30 November 1883 Adelaide, South Australia
Date/Place of Death/Burial 2^ndWife	7 April 1915 North Kensington, Adelaide, South Australia Funeral cortege leaves her daughters house – Mrs Annie Gold
Will or Probate	Not yet known
Further Information	1841 Census possibly at St Marylebone Workhouse, St Marylebone, Marylebone, London & Middlesex, England – 10 year old pauper 1869 Discharge – Conduct has been good, in possession of 4 Good Conduct Badges. Six times entered into the Regimental defaulters Book and once court-martialled. Discharge proceedings held Kingston, Ontario, Canada Discharge at own request after 21 years service 1870 11th June declares in Birmingham for “British Civil Service Evidence Of Age” he was born February 1830 as “produced as part of small book or ledger of age at enlistment for 30th Regiment of Foot” 1879 Pension increased for service in the Enrolled Force 11th June, amount not known 1880 The above letter of pension increase returned by Post Office 16 April “Not Known” 6th February 1883 Joseph Doyle age 52 was admitted to the (Royal) Adelaide hospital. At the time he was a married man living at Port Adelaide and had been in the Colony (SA) for 4 years arriving on the Rob Roy. His religion was Church of England.