FARMER – Peter 9th and 98th Regiment – Enrolled Pensioner Force WA

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Name	FARMER – Peter
Regiment (s)	9th and 98th Regiment
Regiment Number (s)	Not yet known / 2726
Date/Age/Place/Trade or Profession at Attestation	14th October 1841 / 18 years 1 month / Dublin Ireland Labourer
Description – Height Complexion/Eyes/Hair/Scars	5 Ft 6½ in Dark / Dark Brown / Black / None
Overseas Service/Duration	East Indies – 15 years 3 months
Length of Service	21 years 20 days
Rank/Date/Place of Discharge	Private / 12th May 1863 / No place given -Inquiry Colchester Essex England
Campaign Medals	Sutlej medal (1845/6) clasps for Ferozeshah and Sobraon: Punjab Medal (1849)
Intended Residence at Discharge	5 Pulford Street Pimlico London England
Pension Districts	1865 2nd West London 1865 Woolwich 1866 Tilbury 1866 – 1877 Western Australia
Pension Paid	9d per diem
Date of Departure and Place England or Ireland	16th October 1866 Portsmouth Hampshire England
Ship and Date of Arrival Western Australia	CORONA 22nd December 1866
Date/Place of Birth	September 1823 St. Andrews Dublin Ireland (WO97) 24th December 1823 St. Peters Dublin Ireland (Civil Service Evidence of age)
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	CANNY (KENNY) (COODY) Eliza or Elizabeth B Kilkenny Ireland (tentative)
Date/Place of Marriage	Not yet known
Children by 1^st Wife	John B 3rd May 1868 Perth Western Australia (RC) Francis B 18th March 1870 Fremantle Western Australia (RC) D 12th March 1873 Fremantle Western Australia
Father of 1st wife Date/Place of Birth	CONEY James
Mother of 1st wife Date/Place of Birth Marriage	GARDINER Mary
2nd Husband of Wife	FITZPATRICK Michael – 103rd Regiment arrived “NORWOOD” 1867
Date/Place of Marriage	8th December 1878 Fremantle Western Australia
Children by 2^ndHusband	MAUD B 1879 Fremantle Western Australia M BARRAN George 1895 Fremantle Western Australia D 26th August 1966 Willagee Western Australia Buried Fremantle Cemetery WA
Land Grants Western Australia	None
Occupation after Arrival	31st October 1867 received 15/0d for services as temporary Assistant Warder 26-28th October 1867 employed intermittedly until dismissed 5th November 1875 (dissatisfied with rate of pay) see Barker Joined the Police Force (served 18th February 1876 to 20th October 1877): Probationary Constable promoted to 2nd Class in 1876
Newspaper Articles	The Herald Saturday 6th January 1877 page 3 Assault on PC Peter Farmer (also Inquirer and West Australian Times) The Daily News Thursday 22nd November 1883 – page 3 Elizabeth assault on stepson Western Mail Thursday 30th December 1920 – page 19 Silver wedding Maud Barron
Departure from Western Australia	Not applicable
Date/Place of Death/Burial	1877 Fremantle Western Australia bur Skinner Street Cemetery Fremantle WA
Date/Place of Death/Burial Wife	Possible death Elizabeth Fitzpatrick 2nd September 1918 age 91 years, buried Fremantle Cemetery
Will or Probate	None known
Further Information	British Army Worldwide Index 1851 Peter Farmer 2726 Private 98th Foot location Peshawar 1861 As above location Canterbury Discharge: At own request After 21 years, service In the 1861 Census RG09/519/199/53 St. Mary’s Northgate Canterbury Kent England Peter Farmer is a single man serving with his regiment. On the 4th January 1877 George Johnston, George Cook and George Barker were “…indicted with having on the 9th December last, assaulted one Peter Farmer a policeman, thereby occasioning actual bodily harm.” Barker was found guilty and sentenced to 6 months hard labour, the others were acquitted. Maud Barran’s registration of death said her mother was Elizabeth Peters although the newspaper Silver Wedding notice said she was the daughter of Michael and Elizabeth Fitzpatrick of Kilkenny.