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| Name | HAYES / HAYS – Joseph |
|---|---|
| Regiment (s) | Honourable East India Company 2nd Bombay European Light Infantry |
| Regiment Number (s) | Discharge No. 305 |
| Date/Age/Place/Trade or Profession at Attestation | 4th December 1839 / 18 years / London Labourer |
| Description – Height Complexion/Eyes/Hair/Scars | 5 Ft 8½ or 9½ in Fresh / Grey / Light Brown / Wound on right arm |
| Overseas Service/Duration | 3rd February 1840 embarked from England for India per “Thetis” |
| Length of Service | 9 years 3 months |
| Rank/Date/Place of Discharge | Private / 29th August 1849 / Not yet known |
| Campaign Medals | Not yet known |
| Intended Residence at Discharge | St Mary’s Axe London England |
| Pension Districts | 1849 1st East London 1853-1854 Western Australia |
| Pension Paid | 9d per diem |
| Date of Departure and Place England or Ireland | 22nd November 1852 London England |
| Ship and Date of Arrival Western Australia | DUDBROOK 7th February 1853 |
| Date/Place of Birth | c1822 St Cuthbert’s Somerset England |
| 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 |
| 1st Wife Date of Birth or Baptism | BRADY Elizabeth c1821 Ireland |
| Date/Place of Marriage | Not yet known |
| Children by 1st Wife | Phoebe B 1847 Ireland D Not yet known Joseph B 1851 registered September Quarter 1851 West Ham England D 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 | 31st December 1853 allocated 3 acres at Port Gregory |
| Occupation after Arrival | Warder at Lynton Convict Depot Port Gregory Western Australia |
| Newspaper Articles | Not yet known |
| Departure from Western Australia | Not applicable |
| Date/Place of Death/Burial | 22nd June 1854 Port Gregory Western Australia Port Gregory Western Australia |
| Date/Place of Death/Burial Wife | Not yet known |
| Will or Probate | None known |
| Further Information | Admitted to out-pension due to chronic hepititis, bronchitis and wound to right arm from matchlock ball. Surgeon’s Log for “Dudbrook” states wife delivered a stillborn female child 18th November 1852: “About midnight 18th Nov 1852 being called to the wife of Joseph Hayes a Pensioner, I found without any assistance she had delivered of a female child, in which life was extinct, the natural warmth was absent and on examination by aid of a lamp the position did not appear to have been dangerous to life, the whole body was in a seemingly macerated state and the funis much shrunken and contracted, when divided, perfectly bloodless and there was a slight mottled appearance generally over the surface of the infant. The mother said she had not perceived any signs of life during labour, which had advanced more rapidly than she supposed would have been the case. As there was a moderate but continued hemorrhaging from the uterus by retention of the placenta and the woman’s condition become exhausted it was once necessary that the placenta should be removed by the introduction of the hand and arm, when firm adhesion to the whole of the fingers to break down these thorny attachments. When brought away by the hand it was discovered to be of diminished size to that usually met with. Large masses of coagula followed it’s removal. The woman was given liq.opu sid:Mxxx which produced response and early in the morning she had OI.Bicini 3vi. The lacteal was but sparing her progress to recovery was very favourable assisted by the liberal supply of ‘medicinal comforts’, she became convalescent and firthright and was able to move to the upper deck for benefit of the air on the 18th day after delivery. This woman on the previous evening about 8 o’clock, when on the upper deck described to me some apprehension of her condition not being favourable as she had for two of those days experienced frequent chills and a sensation of cold weight within the brim of her pelvis which in her 3 former pregnancies were not present and that her period gestation had been expected; there were then, nor had there been any vaginal discharge but I directed her at once to occupy the barrack hospital, which she did and to relieve the the sense of chill I gave her some warm gin and water. On my afterwards reproving her for delaying to call those to assistance who were in readiness to attend her, the only reason she gave was her reluctance to disturb them or myself in the night until she thought it necessary.” Pensioner Joseph Hayes age 30, Phoebe age 4 and Joseph age 2 ½ also received medical treatment aboard the Dudbrook. On 26th April 1853 a detachment of Pensioner Guards was sent north to Port Gregory Convict Depot per the coaster “William Pope”. After much suffering by the pensioners with inadequate accommodation (tents), food and medical supplies in an inhospitable area adjacent to a salt lake it was with some relief the pensioners were withdrawn in 1856 and the ‘Ticket of Leave’ depot at Lynton (Port Gregory) was closed. The remaining guards were transferred to Greenough and received grants in that area. An Eliza Hayes marries William Morris in Fremantle 1855 |
