MULDOON – Owen Honourable East India Company 2nd Bengal European Regiment

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Honourable East India Company – Painting of Battle of Ferozeshah 1845

Name	MULDOON – Owen
Regiment (s)	Honourable East India Company 2nd Bengal European Regiment
Regiment Number (s)	Discharge No. 536
Date/Age/Place/Trade or Profession at Attestation	9th April 1841 / 18 years / Dublin Ireland
Description – Height Complexion/Eyes/Hair/Scars	5 Ft 5 in Fresh / Grey / Fair / None known
Overseas Service/Duration	Embarked England 31st July 1841 per “Warrior’ for India
Length of Service	9 years 4 months
Rank/Date/Place of Discharge	Private / 6th August 1851 / Not yet known
Campaign Medals	Punjab Medal with clasp
Intended Residence at Discharge	Drogheda Louth Ireland
Pension Districts	1851 Drogheda 1851 Dublin 1st 1855 Plymouth 1856 Western Australia 1857 Adelaide South Australia
Pension Paid	9d per diem
Date of Departure and Place England or Ireland	5th January 1856 Plymouth Devon England
Ship and Date of Arrival Western Australia	WILLIAM HAMMOND 29th March 1856
Date/Place of Birth	B 1824 Enniskeane 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	DEEGAN/DEACON Rosanna B 1842
Date/Place of Marriage	Not yet known
Children by 1^st Wife	William Patrick B 1849 or 1856 Dublin Ireland D 28 September 1929 Bur West terrace Cemetery Catholic Old Area Grid C9 Site 92 Patrick –this is possibly William Patrick Mary B 1858 Adelaide SA D 27 August 1908 Adelaide SA Bur Catholic Old Cemetery Area Grid C0 Site C9 Ann B 4 January 1860 Arkaba Adelaide SA D 11th October 1938 Adelaide SA Bur West Terrace Catholic Old Area Grid C9 Site 92 Thomas Henry B 18th May 1869 Adelaide SA D 18th November 1941 Adelaide SA Bur West terrace Catholic Old Area Grid C9 Site 92
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	Shepherd South Australia
Newspaper Articles	Adelaide Observer Saturday 7 March 1859 page 5 Passenger list New Perseverance South Australian Weekly Chronicle Saturday 8th April 1865 page 2 Working as a shepherd. Evening Journal Tuesday 4 June 1878 page 2 Inquest into death of Rosanna The Express and Telegraph Tuesday 26th July 1892 page 2 Death notice Owen The Register Friday 28th August 1908 page 6 Inquiry into death of Mary Muldoon The Advertiser Friday 28 August 1908 page 2 Funeral Notice Mary Muldoon The Advertiser Tuesday 11 October 1938 page 12 Funeral Notice Annie Muldoon News (Adelaide) Monday 24th November 1941 page 5 Inquest into death of Thomas Henry
Departure from Western Australia	28th January 1857 departed for South Australia per Perseverance: pension paid in South Australia from 1857
Date/Place of Death/Burial	22nd July 1892 Gilbert Street West Adelaide South Australia Bur West Terrace Catholic Old Area Grid C9 Site 92
Date/Place of Death/Burial Wife	3 June 1878 Adelaide SA Bur West Terrace Catholic Old Area Grid C9 Site 92
Will or Probate	None known
Further Information	In 1841 Owen Muldoon was a recruit at the District Depot Dublin Discharge due to wound in right leg sustained in action Pension stopped for payment of £20-2-0 for cost of shipping passages for family to South Australia 30th April 1896 F.J. Botting was authorised by the trustees to sell on behalf of the estate of Owen Muldoon 2 cottages. No1 A three roomed cottage at Gilbert street Adelaide (near to the Duke of Brunswick Hotel ) No 2 A five roomed cottage at Leonard Street North Adelaide. A William Muldoon age 22 born Dublin was admitted to the Royal Adelaide Hospital 29 June 1878 at the time he was residing in Gilbert Street and had been 20 years in the colony (no ship recorded) his occupation was driver he was probably William Patrick who according to his death was born in 1849. An Inquest was held into the death of Rosanna and it was found she died of apoplexy. Of the four children of this family none appear to have married and the whole family is buried in the same grave at West Terrace Cemetery.