RICKEY – Walter 63rd Regiment – Enrolled Pensioner Force WA

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Wooden Headstone at York Residency Museum

Name	RICKEY – Walter
Regiment (s)	63rd Regiment
Regiment Number (s)	659
Date/Age/Place/Trade or Profession at Attestation	14th September 1827 / 18 years / Cootehill Cavan Ireland Labourer
Description – Height Complexion/Eyes/Hair/Scars	5 Ft 8½ in Sallow / Grey / Brown / None
Overseas Service/Duration	New South Wales – 5 years East Indies – 13 Years
Length of Service	20 years 332 days
Rank/Date/Place of Discharge	Private / 8th August 1848 / Chatham Kent England
Campaign Medals	Not yet known
Intended Residence at Discharge	Cootehill Ireland
Pension Districts	1848 Cavan 1853 Tilbury Fort 1855-1875 Western Australia
Pension Paid	1/0d per diem
Date of Departure and Place England or Ireland	26th April 1853 London England via Cork and Rio de Janeieo
Ship and Date of Arrival Western Australia	ROBERT SMALL 18th August 1853
Date/Place of Birth	c1809 Knackbride Parish Cootehill Cavan Ireland
Date/Place of Baptism	Not yet known
Father Date/Place of Birth	RICKEY Walter (senior) B1763 Clones Parish Monaghan Ireland He joined Army and later became a military pensioner, retiring to a farm in Kilridd Townland, near Clones
Mother Date/Place of Birth Marriage	UNKNOWN Jane (tentative) Not yet known
Siblings	Joseph B c1794 Clones Ireland D 23rd January 1858 Cavan Ireland Jeremiah B Not yet known
1^st Wife Date of Birth or Baptism	KENNEDY Maria c1830 in Drumgoon Parish Cavan Ireland
Date/Place of Marriage	11th April 1849 Church of Ireland, Dernakesh Townland, Cootehill Ireland
Children by 1^st Wife	Anna Maria B 5th December 1850 Dernakesh Townland near Cootehill (tentative) Drumgoon Parish Cavan Ireland M 1st THOMAS Henry 4th September 1868 York Western Australia M 2nd WEDGEWOOD William 16th December 1874 York Western Australia M 3rd LAWRENCE Horace “Horrie” York Western Australia 1928 (Possibly William AR Lawrence ) D 1st November 1937 York Western Australia bur York Cemetery Mary Jane B 9th May 1853 on board ROBERT SMALL M 1st STEVENS John 25th January 1869 York Western Australia M 2nd JENKINS Robert Henry 1903 Western Australia D 9th May 1915 Subiaco Western Australia Bur Fremantle Cemetery Walter B 1855 York, Western Australia D 1874 bur York Western AustraliaJoseph George B 3rd April 1857 York Western Australia M MacKAY Sarah 29th November 1886 Holy Trinity Anglican Church York Western Australia D 22nd November 1909 bur 25th November 1909 Northam Western Australia Alexander B 1859 York Western Australia D 1860 York Western Australia John William B 1860 York Western Australia M MacKAY Margaret 19th January 1882 York Western Australia D 17th October 1914 in hospital York Western Australia bur 18th October 1914 York Western Australia Margaret B 1862 Phoebe B 1865 York Western Australia M STONE James George 10th June 1889 York Western Australia D 20th April 1938 York Western Australia bur 22nd April 1938 York Western Australia Susan B 23rd April 1867 York Western Australia M MURRAY William 12th June 1889 Anglican Church York Western Australia D 14th March 1953 East Fremantle Western Australia bur 16th March 1953 Congregational Section Fremantle Cemetery Western Australia Emily Elizabeth B 1870 York Western Australia M JOHNSON William 11th April 1888 York Western Australia D 10th April 1934 York Western Australia bur April 1934 York Western Australia
Father of 1st wife Date/Place of Birth	KENNEDY Joseph
Mother of 1st wife Date/Place of Birth Marriage	Not yet known
Land Grants Western Australia	York Lot P8 – 4-0-0 acres Assigned 31st December 1857 Title Application 7th July 1862 Title Deed 1882 Purchased York Lot 272 5-2-36 acres for £ 5-14-6 25th January 1861
Occupation after Arrival	Not yet known
Newspaper Articles	The West Australian Friday 19th March 1886 page 2 Regarding P8 allotment Eastern Districts Chronicle Saturday 21st April 1888 page 7 Sale of P8 Poole Street York Eastern Districts Chronicle Friday 26 January 1917 page 3 Death of Maria Hancock formerly Rickey
Departure from Western Australia	Not applicable
Date/Place of Death/Burial	28th April 1875 York Western Australia Old Pioneers’ Cemetery York
Date/Place of Death/Burial Wife	22 January 1917 York Western Australia
Will or Probate	None known
Further Information	British Army Worldwide Index 1841 659 63rd foot location Moulmein Discharge: Health quite broken down In 1853 Maria Rickey signed a letter of thanks to the Surgeon Superintendent Dr. Morris of the Robert Small Subscriber to the Pensioners Benevolent Society Maria’s obituary said her father was colour and pay sergeant Joseph Kennedy When Maria died it was as Maria Hancock but no marriage has been found on the WA BMDs. The Bi-Centennial dictionary said Thomas Hancock Married Maria Hickey (sic) daughter of Joseph Kennedy 5 October 1875 York C of E Obituary coy about her second husband. The Bicentennial Dictionary thinks he was an expiree. His death is also unknown.