HUSTON – Arthur Royal Artillery Invalid Depot

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Name	HUSTON – Arthur
Regiment (s)	Royal Artillery Invalid Depot
Regiment Number (s)	–
Date/Age/Place/Trade or Profession at Attestation	1st February 1832 / 18 years 9 months / Charlemont Armagh Ireland Miner
Description – Height Complexion/Eyes/Hair/Scars	5 Ft 8 ½ in Fair / Grey / Sandy / None
Overseas Service/Duration	Barbados – 3 months Jamaica – 1 year 10 months Halifax Nova Scotia – 6 years
Length of Service	21 years 13 days
Rank/Date/Place of Discharge	Gunner and Driver / 12th April 1853 / Tilbury Fort England
Campaign Medals	None
Intended Residence at Discharge	Discharged directly to Pensioner Guard list on “Phoebe Dunbar”
Pension Districts	1853-1856 Western Australia 1857 South Australia 1860 Victoria 1862-1880 South Australia
Pension Paid	1/0d per diem
Date of Departure and Place England or Ireland	30th May 1853 Tilbury England via Dublin
Ship and Date of Arrival Western Australia	PHOEBE DUNBAR 30th August 1853
Date/Place of Birth	c1814 Drumglass Dungannon Tyrone 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	McGRATH Mary B Cork Ireland
Date/Place of Marriage	6th April 1841 Cobh (Queenstown) Cork Ireland
Children by 1^st Wife	George bap 6th February 1842 St Peter and Paul Clonmel Tipperary Ireland M ATKINS Harriet 26th June 1865 St John’s Adelaide South Australia D 8th August 1928 Malvern Adelaide South Australia bur West Terrace Cemetery Adelaide South Australia John B 18th May 1844 Halifax Nova Scotia Canada Bp 26th May 1844 Halifax Nova Scotia see attachment M CHASE Harriet Emma 28th October 1873 Registrar Office Brighton England D after 1892 (return from Canada) and before 1901 as wife listed as widow in 1901 UK census Jane B 1846 Halifax Nova Scotia Canada D 1849 Lewisham London England Ellen / Helen B 1848 St John New Brunswick Newfoundland Canada M SHEIL John 18th January 1874 Presbyterian Port Adelaide South Australia son of EPG SHEIL Michael 61st Regiment D 24th January 1918 Woodville Port Adelaide South Australia bur Cheltenham Cemetery South Australia Arthur B 1851 Sheppey Kent England M KINGDON Elizabeth 16th April 1876 St Lawrence’s North Adelaide South Australia D 8th July 1903 Frances Hotel Wellington South Australia bur Narracoorte South Australia Francis B 1854 Bunbury West Australia D 5th February 1922 Adelaide South Australia bur West Terrace Cemetery Adelaide South Australia Mary Jane B 1856 Bunbury (Hutton) see attachment Possible Marriage MALEY Thomas 3rd April 1888 Residence of Rev E G Day Adelaide SA
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	Night warder Convict establishment 3 November 1853 Ass Overseer Bunbury 20th April 1854 resigned 20th January 1857
Newspaper Articles	Adelaide Times 21st March 1857 – page 2 and 28th March 1857 – page 3 Passenger list Lochinvar Adelaide Observer 8th September 1866 – page 8 Volunteer Military Force Adelaide Observer 22nd April 1876 – page 2 Marriage of Arthur and Elizabeth Kingdom Express and Telegraph Adelaide 20th February 1874 – page 2 Marriage of Ellen Huston and John Shiel News Adelaide 10th August 1928 – page 18 The Advertiser Saturday 11th August 1928 page 19 Obituary George Huston
Departure from Western Australia	24th February 1857 departed for South Australia with wife and 6 children per “Lochinvar”
Date/Place of Death/Burial	20th March 1880 South Australia 21st March 1880 Catholic section of West Terrace Cemetery Adelaide
Date/Place of Death/Burial Wife	5th February 1922 Adelaide South Australia West Terrace Cemetery Adelaide South Australia
Will or Probate	None known
Further Information	British Army Worldwide index 1841 Arthur Hudson Gunner and driver 6th Battalion RA 4th Co. location Clonmel 1851 Arthur Hudson Gunner and Driver 6th Battalion 5th Co. location Woolwich Discharge due to chronic rheumatism 1851 Census HO 107/1590/59/13 Soldiers cottages Charlton Greenwich Kent Arthur Hudson is living with his wife Mary age 29 born Cork Ireland and their children George age 9 born Tipperary, John age 6 born Halifax Nova Scotia and Ellen age 2 born St John’s New Brunswick North America. Ellen Huston aged 4 was treated for whooping cough on August 11th on-board the Phoebe Dunbar Arthur Huston was admitted to the (Royal) Adelaide Hospital on 8th January 1864 age 50, he said he was a married man, Catholic, living Adelaide, a labourer born Tyrone Ireland and had been 7 years in the Colony arriving on the Lochinvar Son John was also admitted to the hospital on 16th November and 24th November 1864 age 21. He was a Catholic, living MP Barracks, Occupation Police trooper, born Halifax N. America, 10 years in Colony and had arrived in the Lochinvar from Swan River Frank Huston was admitted 3 times to the hospital; firstly 20 March 1873 as an 18 year old. He was a single man, catholic living Adelaide occupation smith , born Western Australia and had arrived in the Phoebe Dunbar The 2nd time was 19th July 1895 age 41. He was a single man RC living in Carrington Street, a blacksmith born WA and had been 39 years in the Colony arriving in the Lochinvar. The 3rd time 13th December 1902 only differs in that he was living at Swinflex street and he was a labourer. Arthur’s son John Huston enlisted in the 2nd Regiment of Dragoons at Fort William on 29th November 1865. He was discharged 7th December 1888 after 21 years 8 days service.