Jeremiah King (abt. 1778)

Born about 1778 in Parish of St Mary, Wexford Town, County Wexford, Ireland

Husband of Sarah (Atherlay) King — married about 1824 in England

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My gt gt gt grandfather Jeremiah KING b c 1778 Parish of St Mary, Wexford Town. Some info from his Army discharge paper - WO 97. WO97/665/58 ntbl WO 97/665/58 JEREMIAH KING Born WEXFORD, Wexford Served in 53rd Foot Regiment; 80th Foot Regiment Discharged aged 44 1801-1823 (b abt 1778-1779) - discharged 1823 in Gravesend, Kent aged 44 after 22 years service in India. He was in the 80th Regt till 24 Dec 1816 then the very next day, Christmas day, at Trichinopoly in Madras region, 25 Dec 1816, he signed up for the 53rd Regt of Foot. (Not married while in Army).

British Army Service Records 1760-1913 First name(s): Jeremiah. Last name: KING Calculated year of birth: 1786 (altered to 1778) Parish of birth: St Mary Town of birth: Wexford County of birth: Wexford Age at attestation: (30 years) altered to 36 yrs in Book Attestation date: 25 December 1816 Attestation corps: 80th Regt Of Foot (attested on 4 April 1801 aged 22 years) Attestation soldier number: Discharge rank: Private Discharge corps: 53rd Regt Of Foot Discharge soldier number: The cause of Discharge: By Authority of HRH The Comm. in Chief dated 17 July 1823 at Chatham, Kent, that in consequence of being Worn Out, He is Hereby Discharged. Aged about 44 years at discharge. Jeremiah KING signed this document with his mark (a cross x, so he was illiterate). The Commander of this Regiment was Lt. General Rowland HILL. National Archives reference: WO97/665/59 There are 2 images available for this soldier.

There is a Jeremiah KING, born in Wexford, Wexford, Ireland, listed among the Chelsea Pensioners, which he would have qualified to be. Also showing in the same census a Sarah KING living in London nearby who could be his wife. I think it was the 1851 or 1861 census.

- On his son's marriage certificate Jeremiah's wife is named as Sarah ATHERLAY, but the spelling of the surname is anyone's guess, with an Irish accent. - Place and date of Jeremiah & Sarah's marriage unknown but must be between his 1823 discharge and Oct 1826 when son George was born. It may have been anywhere from Kent to Dublin.

August 2003 My research in my father's mother's line has been interesting - I had left it as too hard but decided to have another go and got into military records. I had only known that my gt grandmother had come to NZ abt 1861 with her parents as a toddler and her father was Sgt KING in the Army and they lived in the Napier Barracks. No first names. Got her death cert and it gave her mother's maiden surname only - no 1st name - hopeless. I went to the Napier Museum Archives room and the Archivist was very helpful. She had a little booklet on the Regiments in NZ and when and where they were at various times. She said only three regiments ever occupied the Napier Barracks, so that narrowed the field somewhat. We worked out from when my gt grandmother was supposed to have been born (at The Curragh, Military Camp outside Dublin), and the movements of the 3 regiments and it seemed as if it must be the 14th Regt to fit in with what little I knew. In London in 1982 I went to the PRO at Kew and looked up the records for the 14th Regiment. As I didn't know the first name of my Sgt KING they let me look at the whole box of actual records for the Regiment. I was amazed as now they only let people see a film or copy of such records. These WO/97 records were in poor condition but in that box were 3 George KINGs but only one of them had the right sounding hair and skin and eye colouring and he was the only one to take his discharge from the Army with the intention of living in Napier, New Zealand, where I grew up. So it had to be him. His name was George and he was born in Dublin in 1826. Now I know why my father's 2nd oldest brother was named George - after his Gt Grandfather. I bought a copy of the military record called a WO / 97 and left it at that for over 10 yrs. Two months ago I had another look at it as it was the least developed line in my ancestry. I had seen a possible marriage in 1859 in the IGI (George KING & Jane HALL) but it was in Stirling, Scotland so I didn't think it was them. A friend was visiting Scotland in 2004 - I asked if she could check this Marriage record while at New Register House in Edinburgh and see if there was anything to identify the George KING in it as mine or to clearly state he was not. She emailed me back a pdf file with the marriage in it straight from the registers and it was Sgt George KING of the 14th Regiment of Foot. So I knew it was my man. George KING married Jane HALL. His parents and her mother were deceased but 3 of them were named. Brilliant. Married 1 January 1859. That record came from www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk<http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk> the pay site for such BMDs. My friend sent it to me as a gift. His father was Jeremiah KING, occupation: Messman, deceased. I thought it sounded as if he was in the Army too so hunted for him in the www.pro.gov.uk <http://www.pro.gov.uk> site (Kew) and there he was and born in County Wexford. So I got his military record - he had over 21 years in the Army, 16 of them in India with the 80th Regt and then with the 53rd Regt. I then Googled for the Regiments and up came a wonderful history of the 80th Regt of Foot telling where and what and when in India.

WO 97/665/58 Jeremiah King Born Wexford Town served in 53rd Foot, 80th Foot. Discharged Aged 44 1801 - 1823. (Age possibly wrong). Born about 1779. Discharged from the 53rd Regt of Foot on 17 July 1823 as worn out. Colonel of the 53rd was Lt General Rowland Lord HILL

Item details: WO 97/665/58 JEREMIAH KING Born WEXFORD, Wexford Served in 53rd Foot Regiment; 80th Foot Regiment Discharged aged 44 1801-1823 Covering dates 1801-1823 Scope and content JEREMIAH KING Born WEXFORD, Wexford Served in 53rd Foot Regiment; 80th Foot Regiment Discharged aged 44 Access conditions Normal Closure before FOI Act: 30 years Closure status Open Document, Open Description Held by The National Archives, Kew

80th Regiment of Foot - South Staffordshire Volunteers 1797-1801 Trincomalee Ceylon 1801-1802 Egypt, Det. Malabar Coast, S.India 1802-1803 Madras <locations.htm>. Det. Poonamalee <locations.htm> 1803-1804 Operations in Southern Mahratta Country <maratha.htm> 1804-1807 Cannanore <locations.htm>, S. India 1805 Operations against Nairs of Wynaud 1807-1809 Seringapatam, S. India 1809-1811 Cannanore<locations.htm> 1811-1813 Seringapatam 1813-1817 Quilon, S. India (George left this regiment on 25 Dec 1816 and joined the 53rd Regiment on 26 Dec 1816 - he probably wanted to remain in India and not return to a UK winter). 1817-1818 Chatham 1818 Colchester. Dets. 1818-1819 Hull. Dets. 1819 Glasgow. Dets. 1819-1820 Aberdeen. Dets 1820 Edinburgh 1821 Gibraltar 1822-1828 Malta

WO/97s for the 80th Regiment of Foot are missing or destroyed.

British rule became established in eastern India around the mid-eighteenth century, and by the early part of the nineteenth century, the British had tightened their grip over considerable portions of the country. The suppression of the Indian revolt of 1857-58 ushered in a period, which lasted ninety years, when India was directly under Crown rule.

History of the 80th Regiment of Foot 1793-1817 South StaffordshireVolunteers - http://members.ozemail.com.au/~clday/80foot.htm

On his son George's marriage certificate, Jeremiah's wife is named as Sarah ATHERLAY. Place and date of Jeremiah & Sarah's marriage unknown but must be between1823 and Oct 1826 when son George was born. Could be anywhere from Kent to Dublin. Their son was George KING b Oct 1826 in Parish of St Thomas, Dublin.

MILITARY_SERVICE The British took over Trichinopoly, India in 1801. Jeremiah KING was in India from 6 Jun 1802 until 1817, then in locations throughout Britain and the Mediterranean until his Discharge on 8 July 1823.

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WO 97/665/58 ** JEREMIAH KING Born WEXFORD, Wexford Served in 53rd Foot Regiment; 80th Foot Regiment Discharged aged 44 1801-1823 ntbl

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