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 Soldiers Pension Details - 1896

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Date transcribed2009-00-00
Transcribed byPeter Rogers
CommentThe following data were taken in 1896 as a 'snapshot' of Pensioners who were formerly in service in India with the East India Company's Armies and/of the Indian Army. These data are transcribed from IOR/L/MIL/14/214

Note that many of the entries were made by persons with lack of knowledge of placenames or other details unfamiliar to better education. Accordingly, some of the spelling is not 'standard'!

IOR Reference  L/MIL/14/214 f.47/48    
Surname  Brown    
First Name(s)  Thomas    
Record Date  10-Aug    
Record Year  1896    
Address  See Notes for details of this Man.    
Notes  Letter From Coolmore,Thomastown,Ireland. - Sir, In forwarding Medical Certificate and Memorandum I beg to inform you that the Pensioner Thomas Brown is totally blind and to a great extent bedridden and suffers occassionally from Epileptic fits. It is therefore impossible that he can present himself either for identification or for signing the usual application for pension and it is necessary that he should be visited in his house. As he resides several miles from any town and in a very remote and wild location it is not easy to visit him. For some time back his application for pension has been taken and completed by the Roman Catholic Curate of his Parish who sometimes visits him, and I would suggest that if any Certification similar to that enclosed be required on any future occassion that the Parish Clergyman may be permitted to give it. I may add that owing to the pensioners advanced age and helpless state that it is not impossible that his memory may fail altogether - He had 2 sons in the Army, one of whom is dead and the other in a Lunatic Asylum and his care is a piteable one in many aspects. Yours Obediently,J $ Cornllean.Major retired JP.    
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In 1896 the Military Pension authorities determined to take a 'snapshot' of ex-soldiers of the EIC & Indian Armies who were receiving a pension in Europe. This snapshot provides very interesting details of the careers of each soldier and each widow receiving a pension.
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