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- Arthur is the son of Geo. Walsh, Esq., of Dublin, Ireland.
. 1813 April 13. Royal West India Rangers, Arthur Walsh, Gent. to be ensign, without purchase.
Royal Military Chronicle, British officers monthly, Vol. 6.
. London Gazette, War Office, May 8, 1840. Memorandum - Lieut. A B Walsh, upon half-pay of the Royal West India Rangers, has been allowed to retire from the service, by the sale of his Lieutenancy, he being about to become a settler in North America.
Ref: The Colonial magazine & commercial-maritime journal, Volume 2, By Robert Montgomery Martin.
Ensign with Royal West India Rangers 27 Apr 1813, without purchased, aged 20 years;
Lieut. W RWIR 1 Feb 1816 (source: Army list)
Lieutenant Arthur Blaney Walsh, Half-Pay 1837 1 Feb, rank in the Army 16
Placed on half-pay 25 Aug., Rank 19.
Ref: A list of the officers of the army & of the corps of royal marines, By Great Britain. War Office.
Senior officer among the Rangers who in 1819 accepted land in the Military Settlement Commissariat at Presqu'Isle book containing abstracts & returns of provisions, fuel, stores & lists of military settlers in New Brunswick to whom supplies were issued. The settlers were from the 74th, 98th & 104th Regiments, the 4th Royal Veterans Battalion & the Royal West India Rangers, 1818-1819.
With the others may have stayed at Presqu'Ile military post through the winter of 1819-20 (E.C. Clarke, "Military Settlement"). The Arthur Nicholson family had a 205 acre land grant south of the military post. His Land Grant #1949 Kent Parish, York Co., NB, was west of the post & of the Nicholson land & formed part of a boundary of Simmonds parish in Carleton County.
Justice of the Peace, Arthur B. Walsh,
. 1831 Nov 24, Henry Skedgel married Mary Hathaway of Kent, Witness: William & Eleanor Nicholson.
. Monument reads: Arthur B Walsh Esq, Died Oct 24, 1842, Age 49 yrs.,
Son of George Walsh Esq. of Dublin Ireland."
Lieut. Walsh's gravestone: Behind the former Presqu'Ile Military Post in Carleton Co. are 10 gravestones in a small privately-owned graveyard. Many thanks to Mike McCatten & a relative picking up RWIR Lieutenant Walsh's gravestone off the forest floor for a photograph Saturday, 5 May, 2007.
Obituary
. 1841 Nov 6, Arthur Walsh, died 24th ult., at his residence in Wakefield, Carleton Co., Arthur Blaney WALSH, Esq., age 48, Lt. H.M. Royal West India Rangers & Major 2nd Batt. Carleton County Militia, Magistrate, left widow."
Note: This 1841 is a coping error. Monument reads 1842 - PJA.
Ref: New Brunswick Courier, Saint John.
The West Indian Rangers remained solely in the West Indies, taking part in the campaigns in St. Kitts, Antigua, Barbados & also saw action on the island of Guadeloupe before embarking for Canada & eventual disbandment at Saint John, New Brunswick. They landed in Saint John on 1819, June 10 & many men accepted lands in Ranger Settlement on the Saint John River. The RWIR numbered 530 men besides women & children. Some of soldiers were stationed at Presque Island.
The parish of Wakefield as constituted in 1803 included the present parishes of Wilmot, Simonds & Wakefield.
RWIR military uniform: Jacket was Green with red collar, shoulder straps & cuffs, buttons.
Research & transcriptions by PJ Ahlberg. Thank you. - - -
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1793 - 1842 (49 years)