RING – Mark 40th and 28th Regiment – Enrolled Pensioner Force WA

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28th Regiment North Gloucestershire Colour

Name	RING – Mark
Regiment (s)	40th and 28th Regiment
Regiment Number (s)	40th Regiment – 659 28th Regiment – 2375
Date/Age/Place/Trade or Profession at Attestation	2nd November 1833 / 22 years / Kilkenny Kilkenny Ireland Labourer
Description – Height Complexion/Eyes/Hair/Scars	5 Ft 9 in Fresh / Grey / Light Brown / None
Overseas Service/Duration	East Indies – 11 years
Length of Service	13 years 41 days
Rank/Date/Place of Discharge	Private / 11th December 1846 / Chatham Kent England
Campaign Medals	Not yet known
Intended Residence at Discharge	Kilkenny Ireland
Pension Districts	1847 Kilkenny 1849-1858 Falkland islands 1859-1869 Western Australia
Pension Paid	6d per diem
Date of Departure and Place England or Ireland	26th May 1859 Plymouth Devon England
Ship and Date of Arrival Western Australia	SULTANA 19th August 1859
Date/Place of Birth	1811 Danes Fort Kilkenny Kilkenny 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	HOYNE Mary B 1834 (deduced)
Date/Place of Marriage	9th August 1847 St Patrick’s Kilkenny Ireland witness Patrick Hoyne possibly Mary’s brother
Children by 1^st Wife	John Baptised 16th June 1850 Falkland Islands M 1) Sarah Robins – No marriage found 1 birth registered 1875 for son Ernest John M 2) Mary Morrison – No marriage or children found in WA Registers M 3) Jane Nuricup 1876 Beverley, Western Australia, Jane was Indigenous 2 children’s births registered 1876 and 1886 D 21st February 1929 Old Men’s Home Claremont Western Australia William B 7th April 1852 Falkland islands Baptised 9th May 1852 Falkland Islands M McGARVIE Mary Ann 1873 Perth Western Australia daughter of EPG Bernard McGarvie D 16th August 1938 Bassendean Western Australia Michael B 13th July 1853 Falkland Islands Baptised 11th October 1853 13th July 1853 Falkland Islands M Karinan (Caroline) unknown date and location D 30th October 1901 Katanning Western Australia Mary B 21st July 1854 Falkland Islands Baptised 20th April 1855 Falkland Islands D 1st June 1855 Falkland Islands Mark B 7th February 1856 Falkland Islands M CLAFFEY Mary 1880 Perth Western Australia daughter of EPG Patrick Claffey D 8th-10th February 1933 Nyabing Western Australia Mary B 1861 Western Australia D 30th August 1863 Western Australia bur Roman Catholic Section East Perth Cemeteries Western Australia Margaret B 1863 Perth Western Australia M JACKSON Thomas Joseph D 4th April 1937, Bellevue Western Australia
Father of 1st wife Date/Place of Birth	HOYNE John
Mother of 1st wife Date/Place of Birth Marriage	Not yet known
2nd Husband of Wife	M McDERMOTT William – 67th Regiment arrived per the Hougoumont 1868
Date/Place of Marriage	16th April 1870 Western Australia
Children by 2^ndHusband	None known
Land Grants Western Australia	July 1867 granted Lot Y115 of 3 roods on the corner of Hardinge Fitzgerald and Roe Streets West Perth
Occupation after Arrival	Not yet known
Newspaper Articles	The Perth Gazette and Independent Journal of Politics and News 2nd September 1864 page 2 Death of daughter Mary Gnowangerup Star and Tambellup-Ongerup Gazette Saturday 25th February 1933 page 2 Death of Mark Ring
Departure from Western Australia	Not applicable
Date/Place of Death/Burial	13th April 1869 Perth Western Australia Roman Catholic Section East Perth Cemeteries Western Australia with daughter Mary
Date/Place of Death/Burial Wife	15th May 1879 Western Australia East Perth Cemeteries Western Australia
Will or Probate	Will dated 7 April 1869 available State Records Office WA Cons 3403/1879/587 The date of death for Mary McDermott formerly Ring 15/5/1879 explains the delay in proving the will of Mark Ring. SROWA Cons 3403/1879/587 Mark left the whole of his estate and effects to his wife Mary Ring on the proviso that if she should remarry the property should be used for the sole benefit of his children John, William, Michael, Mark and Margaret but should any of them marry during the period of his wife’s widowhood without her consent it would be a bar against them receiving any profit from the property. He lists the assets as: a cottage and grant in the Perth Pensioner Village. Sundry cattle, horses, a cart and harness. Staff Sergeant Major John Gorman & pensioner William White were the executors and pensioners William Armitage and John Flynn the witnesses. Will Dated 7 April 1869.
Further Information	1841 British Army World Wide Index Mark Ring 40th Foot # 659 Location Quettah, Bombay, IndiaIn 1850 thirty married Chelsea Pensioners went to the Falkland Island with thirty kit houses to form a permanent garrison and Police force, however in 1857 disillusioned with the quality of the land grants and the inclement weather conditions, Mark and Mary Ring together with another 6 of the remaining pensioners returned to the UK at the Government’s expense.See Home – Archives (nationalarchives.gov.fk) For further information on the pensioners at the Falkland IslandsCons 1496/ 1901/ 1840/ 07: Hand Written letter to the Premier from Mary Ring regarding the termination of her employment as a cleaner of Government officers.They answered that her employment was of a temporary manner and she had given them good reasons to dismiss her. In a memo from the Public Works it said she had been ‘deficit in sobriety and had a contentious disposition to quarrel with the Superintendent of female cleaners’ despite cautions of which she took little heed. Given the letter is from the Premier it seems this is most likely to Mark Ring Jr’s wife Mary nee Claffey,