MASH / MARSH / MUSH – John 4th Regiment – Enrolled Pensioner Force WA

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Name	MASH / MARSH / MUSH – John
Regiment (s)	4th Regiment
Regiment Number (s)	344
Date/Age/Place/Trade or Profession at Attestation	6th May 1826 / 18 years / Bury St Edmunds England Labourer
Description – Height Complexion/Eyes/Hair/Scars	5 Ft 9½ in Swarthy / Grey / Grey / None
Overseas Service/Duration	Portugal – 1 year 3 months New South Wales – 6 years 5 months East Indies – 8 years 6 months
Length of Service	21 years 92 days
Rank/Date/Place of Discharge	Private / 24th August 1847 / Chatham Kent England
Campaign Medals	None
Intended Residence at Discharge	Linton Cambridgeshire England
Pension Districts	1847 Cambridge 1855-1856 Western Australia 1856-1879 South Australia
Pension Paid	1/0d per diem
Date of Departure and Place England or Ireland	5th February 1855 Plymouth England via Cape of Good Hope
Ship and Date of Arrival Western Australia	STAG 23rd May 1855
Date/Place of Birth	c1808 Shudy-Camps near Linton Cambridgeshire England
Date/Place of Baptism	Not yet known
Father Date/Place of Birth	UNKNOWN Robert Not yet known
Mother Date/Place of Birth Marriage	UNKNOWN Sarah Not yet known 1781 Suffolk England
Siblings	Not yet known
1^st Wife Date of Birth or Baptism	STINTON Susan 1831 Horseheath Cambridgeshire England
Date/Place of Marriage	by banns 15th October 1847 Horseheath Cambridgeshire England
Children by 1^st Wife	Not yet known
Father of 1st wife Date/Place of Birth	STINTON Thomas 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	Not yet known
Departure from Western Australia	Not yet known
Date/Place of Death/Burial	21st June 1891 Meadows Strathalbyn South Australia Not yet known
Date/Place of Death/Burial Wife	14th May 1860 Meadows Strathalbyn South Australia Not yet known
Will or Probate	None known
Further Information	Discharge due to general debility and impaired constitution. 1851 Census HO 107/1761/337 Shudy Camps, Linton, Cambridgeshire Northfield End John Marsh (sic) Head, Married, 42, Pensioner, Born Shuddy Camps, Cambridgeshire, England. Susan Marsh, Wife, Married, 20, born Horseheath Cambridgeshire Sarah Marsh, Mother, widow, 70, formerly servant, born Suffolk, (Talloutwatling?) John Marsh, nephew, 21, single, Ag labourer, born Shudy Camps, Cambridgeshire, England Marriage transcript John Marsh (sic) married 15 October 1847 at Horseheath, bachelor, soldier of Castle Camps, father Robert, a labourer, to Susan Stinton, a minor, of this parish, father Thomas, labourer, by banns. WO22/250 South Australia 1854-1862 £12/17/2 owing for wife’s passage. AJCP reel 466/87 part 2 Folio 233 Proceedings of a Court of Inquiry into complaints by the wives of the Pensioner Guard on the Stag into the conduct of the Super Intendent Surgeon Caldwell. Mrs Susan Mash gave evidence that she was one of the women who objected to being examined by Surgeon Caldwell. She also gave evidence re the treatment of Mrs Brown. John Mash also gave testimony re the state of their marriage.