HOBBS – Abraham 76th Regiment – Enrolled Pensioner Force WA

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Name	HOBBS – Abraham
Regiment (s)	76th Regiment
Regiment Number (s)	2097
Date/Age/Place/Trade or Profession at Attestation	9th January 1843 / 18 years /Cork Cork Ireland Labourer
Description – Height Complexion/Eyes/Hair/Scars	5 Ft 7¾ in Fresh / Grey / Light Brown
Overseas Service/Duration	Mediterranean – 5 Years North America – 4 years 6 months
Length of Service	16 Years 345 days
Rank/Date/Place of Discharge	Corporal / 27th February 1860 / possibly Dublin Ireland
Campaign Medals	Not yet known
Intended Residence at Discharge	Cork Ireland
Pension Districts	1860 1st Cork 1860 2nd Dublin 1861 Carlow 1861 2nd Dublin 1862 Tilbury 1862-1874 Western Australia 1874 Victoria 1876-1878 Western Australia 1878-1881 Victoria 1881-1882 New South Wales (Transferred to Sydney 7th January 1881) 1882-1884 New South Wales (Transferred to Cork 1st February 1882) 1884-1887 Victoria (Transferred to Cork 20th January 1887) 1887 Cork 1890-1891 Victoria 1891-1892 Brisbane Queensland (Transferred to Brisbane 11th April 1891) 1891-1892 Cork, Ireland (Transferred to Cork Ireland 12th July 1892)
Pension Paid	10d per diem 1878 Increased to 1/2d per diem service in Enrolled Force Western Australia
Date of Departure and Place England or Ireland	8th October 1862 Portland England
Ship and Date of Arrival Western Australia	YORK 31st December 1862
Date/Place of Birth	1825 Millstreet Cork 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	FLOOD Rosanna Not yet known
Date/Place of Marriage	8th March 1859 Curragh Camp Kildare Ireland
Children by 1^st Wife	Thomas (HOPS) B 9th January 1861 St. Nicholas Without Dublin City Ireland James B 6th June 1862 St Nicholas Without Dublin City Ireland Abraham Thomas B 8th January 1864 Perth Western Australia D 15th March 1865 Fremantle Western Australia bur St. Patrick’s Cemetery Skinner Street Fremantle Western Australia Helen / Ellen B 29th June 1865 Perth Western Australia Rose Ann B 1867 Western Australia Deborah B 29th July 1869 Fremantle Western Australia
Father of 1st wife Date/Place of Birth	Not yet known
Mother of 1st wife Date/Place of Birth Marriage	Not yet known
2nd Husband of Wife	Rosanna HOBBS married bigamously Maurice A. E. STEPHANE (aka Otto Stephan / Thomas Stevens) (SROWA)
Date/Place of Marriage	1872 Fremantle Western Australia
Children by 2^ndHusband	Possibly Twins: Adeline and Alphonse Eugene B 1873 Fremantle (father given as Alphonse Eugene STEPHANE and mother as Rosanna Flood) Adeline STEPHANE m TURNER Arthur Emmanuel. Fremantle 1892 D 1893 age 20 Fremantle WA
Land Grants Western Australia	Not applicable
Occupation after Arrival	Not yet known
Newspaper Articles	The Herald Saturday 1st April 1876 page 2 Albyn’s Isle passengers page 2 The Herald Saturday 23rd February 1878 – page 2 – HOBBS to Port Augusta Inquirer 19th December 1890 – page 5 – Rosanna STEPHANE charged The West Australian Friday 8th December 1893 – page 3 – STEPHENE’s charged disorderly conduct Daily News 1st December 1897 – page3 – STEPHENE’s charged disorderly conduct. There are many mentions of an Abraham Hobbs in the Victorian Newspapers but none identify him with being a pensioner – there was another man of the same name who died in Victoria in 1899
Departure from Western Australia	He left WA in 1874 and returned 1876 on the Albyn’s Isle 24th March 1876 before departing 17th February 1878 on the Bessie for Victoria
Date/Place of Death/Burial	28th September 1904 Kilmainham Barracks Dublin Ireland Not yet known
Date/Place of Death/Burial Wife	25th November 1910 Claremont Western Australia Roman Catholic Section Fremantle Cemetery Western Australia (as STEPHANE)
Will or Probate	None known
Further Information	SROWA has several entries on the family 1851 British Army World Wide Index has Abraham with the 76th Regiment at Corfu, Ionian Islands and Malta. 1851 British Army Worldwide Index has Abraham with the 76th Regiment at Corfu, Ionian Islands and Malta. Discharge: “Corporal Abraham Hobbs of the 76th Regt labourers under defective vision of both eyes which renders him unfit for service. The disability was first noticed in 1856 while stationed at Camp at Halifax, Nova Scotia, and appears to arise from Constitutional infirmity. It therefore cannot be justly attributed to intentional neglect, vice, or misconduct on his part”. 2 April 1873 Edward D. Harvest requested to be informed whether the wife and children of Pensioner A. Hobbs (77th Foot, 10d pension) were still being supported by the Local Government as H(is)E(xcellency) can authorise that a stoppage of 1/3 of Hobbs pension be made to his wife who he had left destitute and 1/3 for the children. In 1874 Abraham Hobbs left Western Australia for Victoria returning in 1876 28 August 1876. ABRAHAM HOBBS charged Rosanna Hobbs alias Stephane, married woman, with feloniously marrying one John Stephane on the 20th May 1872 her former husband ABRAHAM HOBBS being the above, remanded 8 days. 4 September 1876 Remanded 8 days. 11 October 1876 Memorandum: W. Dale Officer in Charge of Poor House. Re the return of Archibald Hobbs to the Colony was now employed on the night Duty Force being in a position where he could maintain his children one of whom was in the Poor House and 2 were in the RC Orphanage. 13 October 1876 Colonel Harvest replied: “As soon as he could he would employ Hobbs on the Day Force to entitle him to quarters and rations in the Barracks and would enable him to support the children and sent them to school”. “He is unfortunately situated as his wife is married to another man in Fremantle and the charge of bigamy which he bought against her has fallen through from want of Coincidental proof that she was the woman to whom he was married at the Curragh in 1859”.