GEORGE BROOKS

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
SURNAME:Brooks
FORENAMES:George
BORN:c1808
Cx. 15 11 1807 Pattingham Staffordshire
AT:Pattingham Staffordshire
OCCUPATION[S]:Labourer
RELIGION/DENOMINATION:.
FATHER:John Brooks
MOTHER:Mary
SIBLINGS:.
OTHER RELATIONS:.
NOTES:.
1st REGIMENT NO:535
2nd REGIMENT NO:.
ENLISTED:15 08 1827 Birmingham
ATTESTED:.
HEIGHT AT ENLISTMENT:.
TROOP NO:1828: Troop 8
1831: Troop 8
TROOP CAPTAIN:1831: Captain Alexander Houstoun
RANK:1828: Private
1831: Private
1833: Private
PROMOTIONS:.
REDUCTIONS: .
DESERTIONS:.
COURT MARTIALS:.
GIVEN UP TO:.
GOOD CONDUCT BADGES:.
MEDALS:.
EMBARKATIONS:18 02 1828 Duchess of Atholl England
27 01 1833 Bombay India
DISEMBARKATIONS:01 06 1828 Duchess of Atholl Bombay India
CAMPAIGNS:.
OTHER DUTIES:.
TRANSFERRED FROM:.
TRANSFERRED TO:.
DISCHARGED:1833
DISCHARGED BY PURCHASE:.
FREE DISCHARGE:.
DISCHARGED ON REDUCTION:.
DISCHARGED WITH IGNOMINY:.
DISCHARGED UNFIT:.
COMPLETED LIMITED SERVICE:.
POST DISCHARGE MILITARY SERVICE:.
POST DISCHARGE OCCUPATION[S]:.
DIED:.
BURIED:.
WILL:.
BENEFICIARY:.
NEXT OF KIN:.
PRIZE MONEY:.
NOTES:.
1st WIFE:Mary Charlotte Jordan née ?
MARRIED:25 12 1830 at Poona after banns by Minister Randall Ward, Chaplain.
Witnesses James Dyke, Ellen Smith, John Swanson Chaplain's clerk
NOTES:Widow of Private Thomas Jordan 4LD who died at Kirkee India and was buried 29 09 1830.
Could be the wife of the other George Brooks, 18__-1839 but this one seems more likely.
Possible entry for Mary Charlotte Brooks in 1851 census: HO/107/1513
TNA SOURCES:WO/12/637-638
WO/12/641
WO/12/642
WO/97/23/59
BL SOURCES:IOR/N/3/9
OTHER SOURCES:IGI
FIBIS
LINKS:.

1851 Census:
Middlesex, Holborn, St. Andrew, St George, District 5H
16 Fulwood Rents
Mary Charlotte BROOKS, Head, Mar, 38, Seamstress, Middlesex St Andrew
Elizabeth C BROOKS, Dau, 8, Middlesex Clerkenwell
Charles BROOKS, Son, 11 months, Middlesex St Andrew
Sarah BROOKS, Mother-in-law, Widow, 65, Middlesex Clerkenwell



4th Light Dragoons Index

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