HEVERAN / HEVERON / HEVERAM – John 80th Regiment

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Sutlej Medal Moodkee clasps Ferozeshuhur Sobraon

Indian General Service Medal w Pegu Clasp

Name	HEVERAN / HEVERON / HEVERAM – John
Regiment (s)	80th Regiment
Regiment Number (s)	1196
Date/Age/Place/Trade or Profession at Attestation	23rd June 1835 / 18 years 6 months /Midlothian Scotland Labourer
Description – Height Complexion/Eyes/Hair/Scars	5 Ft 6½ in Swarthy / Grey / Light brown / Wound on left leg
Overseas Service/Duration	New South Wales – 7 years 6 months East Indies – 9 years 5 months
Length of Service	21 years 223 days
Rank/Date/Place of Discharge	Corporal / 6th April 1858 / Chatham Kent England
Campaign Medals	Sutlej Medal with Moodkee Ferozeshuhur and Sobraon clasps Indian General Service Medal with Pegu clasp
Intended Residence at Discharge	Belfast Antrim
Pension Districts	1858 2nd Belfast District 1858 Armagh 1862 Tilbury 1862-1864 Western Australia 1864-1870 South Australia
Pension Paid	1/1½d per diem
Date of Departure and Place England or Ireland	16th March 1862 Portland Dorset England
Ship and Date of Arrival Western Australia	NORWOOD 9th June 1862
Date/Place of Birth	1817 St Mary’s Athlone West Meath Ireland
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	UNKNOWN Sophia Paris France
Date/Place of Marriage	Not yet known
Children by 1^st Wife	None 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	None
Occupation after Arrival	Not yet known
Newspaper Articles	Relate to wife Sophia: 16th March 1875 Adelaide Observer Theft of jacket worth 4 pounds 15 shilling 1877/78/82 Evening Journal larceny 1877/78 Express and Telegraph thefts 1884 –SA Gaol Register Northern Argus South Australian Register Thursday 5th June 1884 page 3 Death of Sophia Heveran
Departure from Western Australia	Pension paid in Western Australia until 30th September 1864: departed by unknown ship: commenced in South Australia in October 1864 and paid until March 1870
Date/Place of Death/Burial	26th March 1870 Adelaide Hospital Adelaide South Australia 26th/28th March 1870 West Terrace Road Adelaide South Australia
Date/Place of Death/Burial Wife	3rd June 1884 Adelaide Gaol Adelaide South Australia
Will or Probate	None known
Further Information	British Army, Worldwide Index 1841 location Parramatta, New South Wales 1851 Location Dinapore, India Discharge worn out and had been severely wounded, left leg, at Sobraon 10th February 1846. John Heveron (Sic)was admitted to the Royal Adelaide Hospital on 7th February 1870 aged 52, he was a married man protestant living in Adelaide a labourer born in Armagh and had been 8 years in the Colony he died at the hospital on 26th March 1870. (No ship of arrival) Sophia was also admitted to the hospital firstly on 30th July 1878 age 60, she was a Roman Catholic and was admitted from the Adelaide Gaol. The second time 8th March 1881 she was aged 66, a widow born Paris living at Norwood and working as a servant. She had been 26 years in the Colony and had arrived on the Northway. The 3rd time was on 16th October 1883 age 66 still living Norwood and once again been living in the Colony for 26 years but the ship of arrival was recorded as the Norway After John’s death Sophia applied to the War Office for prize money for John’s involvement in the campaign at Pegu. It appears Sophia had no way of supporting herself and from 1875 had a long history of being gaoled for a series of thefts mainly of clothing but on one occasion of a silver-plated teapot. She pawned the article for around 4 shillings and then sold on the pawn ticket. She was usually gaoled for between 2 and 6 months although in 1882 it was for 2 years – all with hard labour. She died a prisoner at the Adelaide Gaol, the Inquest found from heart disease.