UPTON – Denis 16th and 87th Regiment – Enrolled Pensioner Force WA

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Name	UPTON – Denis
Regiment (s)	16th and 87th Regiment
Regiment Number (s)	1408 – 16th Regiment 2840 – 87th Regiment
Date/Age/Place/Trade or Profession at Attestation	6th December 1839 / 18 years / Rathkeale Limerick Ireland
Description – Height Complexion/Eyes/Hair/Scars	5 Ft 8 in Fresh / Blue / Light Brown / None
Overseas Service/Duration	East Indies – 9 years 306 days
Length of Service	21 years 35 days
Rank/Date/Place of Discharge	Private / 8th January 1861 / no place given, Inquiry Buttevant, Ireland
Campaign Medals	Indian Mutiny Medal 1857-59
Intended Residence at Discharge	Limerick Ireland
Pension Districts	1861 Ennis 1863 Tilbury 1863-1878 Western Australia 1878-1879 South Australia
Pension Paid	11d per diem 4th June 1878 Increased to 1/5d per diem for service in Enrolled Force Western Australia
Date of Departure and Place England or Ireland	23rd September 1863 Portland Dorset England
Ship and Date of Arrival Western Australia	LORD DALHOUSIE 28th December 1863
Date/Place of Birth	1821 Newcastle Limerick 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	UNKNOWN Margaret B 1813 unknown location
Date/Place of Marriage	Not yet known
Children by 1^st Wife	George B 22nd September 1851 Bp 28th September 1851 Ferozepore India D 24th June 1854 Rawal Pindi India Michael B 1853 Not yet known M SCANLON Catherine 7th November 1878 St Patrick’s Adelaide South Australia D Not yet known
Father of 1st wife Date/Place of Birth	Not yet known
Mother of 1st wife Date/Place of Birth Marriage	Not yet known
2nd Wife	McGAREY Anne nee DONNELLY Father John DONNELLY B 1847 (deduced)
Date/Place of Marriage	31st October 1889 St Patrick’s Church Adelaide South Australia
Children by 2^nd Wife	Not yet known
1st Husband of Wife	McGAREY Unknown
Date/Place of Marriage	Not yet known
Children by 1^stHusband	Not yet known
Land Grants Western Australia	Grant already allotted to Denis Upton 87th who has gone to Adelaide. John CONNELLY wants the grant at Koojee no. 14 (SROWA ACC 31)
Occupation after Arrival	Worked at Fremantle Prison presumably as a warder
Newspaper Articles	Perth Gazette & West Australian Times 5th September 1873 – page 3 Inquirer & Commercial News 15 May 1878 – page 1 The Express and Telegraph 3rd March 1883 – page 2 The Register Friday 3rd March 1916 page 7 Death of Annie Upton
Departure from Western Australia	21st April 1878 Denis Upton and wife departed for South Australia per “Rob Roy”
Date/Place of Death/Burial	22nd August 1894 Adelaide South Australia Not yet known
Date/Place of Death/Burial 1st Wife	3rd March 1883 Adelaide South Australia Not yet known
Date/Place of Death/Burial 2nd Wife	2nd March 1916 Adelaide South Australia Not yet known
Will or Probate	None known
Further Information	British Army Worldwide Index 1841 Private Denis Upton 1408 Location Canterbury Kent 1851 Private Denis Upton 2840 Location Ferozepore India Discharge: At own request having served upwards of 21 years 18th October 1873 Lt. Col. Harvest objects to the case of Enrolled Pensioner Denis UPTON 87th Regiment, charged with giving money to a convict being tried in a Civil Court not a Military one (Cons 36 CSR Vol 745 Folio 234) His wife Margaret, a married woman age 60, was admitted to the (Royal) Adelaide Hospital on 23rd June 1881 age 60. She was a Roman Catholic living at Norman Street. She had been born in Ireland and had been 3 years in the Colony. She was again admitted on 25th January 1883 although this time she gave the ship of arrival as the Dalhousie having been in the Colony for 14 years.