JOSEPH STOCKHAM GRIGG
| SURNAME: | Grigg | FORENAMES: | Joseph Stockham | BORN: | 24 08 1825 | AT: | Exeter | OCCUPATION[S]: | Groom | RELIGION/DENOMINATION: | . | FATHER: | A clerk | MOTHER: | . | SIBLINGS: | . | OTHER RELATIONS: | . | NOTES: | . | 1st REGIMENT NO: | 1180 [4LD] | 2nd REGIMENT NO: | 954 [5th Lancers] | ENLISTED: | 21 10 1843 Exeter HQ aged 18 years 4 months [4LD] 19 06 1861 Aldershot aged 35 years [5th Lancers] |
ATTESTED: | . | HEIGHT AT ENLISTMENT: | 5' 8" | TROOP NO: | . | TROOP CAPTAIN: | . | RANK: | 1843: Private 1854-1855: Private 1860: Private 186_: Sergeant [5th Lancers] |
PROMOTIONS: | . | REDUCTIONS: | . | DESERTIONS: | . | COURT MARTIALS: | Once [5th Lancers?] and entered five times in the Regimental Defaulter's Book | GIVEN UP TO: | . | GOOD CONDUCT BADGES: | Four | MEDALS: | Crimean: Balaklava, Inkerman, Sebastopol Turkish Crimean Sold at Sotherbys on 21 06 1906 Sold at Glendinings on 11 12 1985 for £1300 |
EMBARKATIONS: | . | DISEMBARKATIONS: | . | CAMPAIGNS: | . | OTHER DUTIES: | 04 10 1854 From Scutari 04 04 1855 to 11 05 1855 At Scutari |
TRANSFERRED FROM: | . | TRANSFERRED TO: | . | FREE DISCHARGE: | 19 12 1860 Dublin [4LD] 31 05 1869 Canterbury `at own request, free, with pension' [5th Lancers] |
SERVICE: | 24 years 362 days | POST DISCHARGE MILITARY SERVICE: | . | POST DISCHARGE OCCUPATION[S]: | Prison Warder, St Augustine's Prison, Canterbury 1871: Prison Warder, Canterbury Jail of 1 Notley Street, Northgate, Canterbury 1881: Warder of Prison and Chelsea Pensioner, late Sergeant 5th Lancers of 23 Alma Street, Canterbury |
NOTES: | Left Canterbury on 25 04 1882 to walk to Exeter [his birthplace] where he arrived on 15 07 1882
Appeared on 1879 Commemoration List Attended the Balaklava Dinner in Birmingham in 1895 Attended T.H. Roberts Jubilee celebrations in Fleet Street Signed an Illuminated Address to T.H. Roberts dated 25 10 1897 |
DIED: | Friday 19 02 1904 aged 78 years, of senility, at Herne Workhouse Formerly of 58, Whitstable Road Described as an `Army Pensioner of St Dunstan.' |
BURIED: | 24 02 1904 aged 80 years, at St Dunstan's church, London Road, Canterbury, by Mr. W.G. Evill, officiating minister | WILL: | £33 | BENEFICIARY: | Son, Ernest Grigg, granted 07 05 1904 | NEXT OF KIN: | . | PRIZE MONEY: | . | NOTES: | . | 1ST WIFE: | Harriett Emma Sharratt, daughter of a coach builder | MARRIED: | 11 12 1859 St Matthews Manchester | NOTES: | . | 1ST CHILD: | Harry Grigg | BORN: | 03 09 1860 | NOTES: | Enlisted in the 4th Hussars on 18 10 1873 at Canterbury aged 13 years | 2ND CHILD: | William Grigg | BORN: | 12 12 1865 | NOTES: | . | 3RD CHILD: | Elizabeth Sharratt Grigg | BORN: | 28 06 1868 | NOTES: | . | 4TH CHILD: | Joseph Stockham Grigg | BORN: | 01 02 1870 | NOTES: | . | 5TH CHILD: | Fanny Harriett Grigg | BORN: | 26 10 1871. | NOTES: | . | 6TH CHILD: | Jessie Grigg | BORN: | 28 09 1874 | NOTES: | . | 7TH CHILD: | Ellen Grigg | BORN: | 03 04 1876 | NOTES: | . | 2ND WIFE: | Elizabeth Percy née Blackman of Crediton | MARRIED: | 03 02 1890 Canterbury Register Office Joseph Grigg, 61 years, Bachelor, Army Pensioner of No 7, St. Radigunds Street, Canterbury Elizabeth Percy, 42 years, Widow of No 7, St. Radigunds Street, Canterbury |
DIED: | Prior to 1901 | NOTES: | . | 8TH CHILD: | Harriett Grigg | BORN: | c1882 near Exeter | NOTES: | . | 9TH CHILD: | Ernest Grigg | BORN: | 20 12 1884 Pinhoe, Exeter | NOTES: | Father a retired groom, Mother Elizabeth Grigg formerly Percy Trumpeter, 5th Royal Irish Lancers |
10TH CHILD: | Emma Grigg | BORN: | 1886 near Exeter | NOTES: | . | 11TH CHILD: | Charles Grigg | BORN: | 1887 near Exeter | NOTES: | . | 12TH CHILD: | Gertrude Mary `Dolly' Grigg | BORN: | 20 05 1891 7, Myrtle Terrace, Black Griffin Lane, Canterbury | NOTES: | Father a General Labourer | 13TH CHILD: | Anne Grigg | BORN: | 07 03 1894, 29, Ruttington Lane | DIED: | 30 08 1894, of `debility from birth,' 1, Whitstable Road, St Dunstan | NOTES: | Father an Army Pensioner | TNA SOURCES: | WO/12/653 WO/12/659-660 WO/12/665 |
BL SOURCES: | . | OTHER SOURCES: | Honour the Light Brigade The War Correspondent, Journal of the Crimean War Research Society Vol. 28, No. 3, Oct 2010: Joseph Grigg: From Prison Warden to the Workhouse by Chris Poole Told from the Ranks: Recollections of Service by Privates and Non-Commissioned Officers of the British Army 1843-1901 by E. Milton Small, pub. 1901 |
LINKS: | . |
`The Charge of the 600 Hundred' by Joseph Grigg, 4LD
4th Light Dragoons Index