PRIME – John Royal Artillery 11th Battery – Enrolled Pensioner Force WA

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Name	PRIME – John
Regiment (s)	Royal Artillery 11th Battalion
Regiment Number (s)	–
Date/Age/Place/Trade or Profession at Attestation	23rd April 1830 / 18 years / Woodbridge Suffolk England Printer
Description – Height Complexion/Eyes/Hair/Scars	6 Ft 0½ in Fair / Grey / Brown / None
Overseas Service/Duration	Newfoundland – 9 years 4 months
Length of Service	21 years 177 days
Rank/Date/Place of Discharge	Gunner and Driver / 14th October 1851 / Edinburgh Scotland
Campaign Medals	None
Intended Residence at Discharge	Edinburgh Scotland
Pension Districts	1851 2nd Edinburgh 1852-1855 Western Australia 1855-1860 Victoria
Pension Paid	1/0d per diem
Date of Departure and Place England or Ireland	3rd May 1852 Plymouth, England
Ship and Date of Arrival Western Australia	WILLIAM JARDINE 1st August 1852
Date/Place of Birth	c1812 Earsham Norfolk England
Date/Place of Baptism	Not yet known
Father Date/Place of Birth	PRICE John Not yet known
Mother Date/Place of Birth Marriage	UNKNOWN Lydia Not yet known
Siblings	Not yet known
1^st Wife Date of Birth or Baptism	NEEDHAM or MEEHAM Mary c1812 Exeter England
Date/Place of Marriage	Not yet known
Children by 1^st Wife	John B 1842 Woolwich Kent England Frederick George B 1848 Medway Kent England Bap 1st October 1848 Garrison Church Brompton Kent D 1849 Bur 22nd January 1849 Gillingham, St Mary Magdalene Frederick G. B 1851 Gillingham Kent England Bap 11th January1851 Fremantle WA Mary B 1853 Fremantle Western Australia D July 1951 Maldon Victoria Lydia B 1856 Loddon Victoria M PAYNE Harold Morse 1876 Victoria D 1889 Clifton Hill Victoria Thomas Robert B 1858 Maldon Victoria
Father of 1st wife Date/Place of Birth	MEEHAN John
Mother of 1st wife Date/Place of Birth Marriage	McLAUGHLIN Mary
2nd Husband of Wife	SCOTT Robert Bogle Not yet known
Date/Place of Marriage	1862 Victoria
Children by 2^ndHusband	Not yet known
Land Grants Western Australia	None
Occupation after Arrival	1852 Police Constable Fremantle
Newspaper Articles	Adelaide Observer Saturday 17th November 1855 page 4 Passenger list Vivid The Argus Wednesday 22 November 1911 page 9 Death of Mary Scott The Argus Monday 30th July 1951 page 15 Death of Mary Prime
Departure from Western Australia	1st November 1855 to South Australia with wife and three children per “Vivid”
Date/Place of Death/Burial	11th April 1860 Victoria Not yet known
Date/Place of Death/Burial Wife	31st October 1911 Maldon Victoria
Will or Probate	None known
Further Information	British Army Worldwide Index 1841 John Prime Royal Artillery 7th Batt 4th Company location Newfoundland Discharge due to chronic rheumatism and varicose veins left leg. In the 1851 Census John Prime born Earsham Norfolk, age 38 is a gunner with the Royal Artillery located at the Brompton Barracks Kent. His wife Mary is aged 36 and she was born Exeter, Devonshire while their son John age 9 was born Woolwich, Kent and Frederick G was born Gillingham, Kent.